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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Large files
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:55:57 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvfa3y7o7.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12453.1105473332.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

>> On 32bit systems, the maximum file size in Emacs-21.3 is 128MB.
> how about disk file editing?

Emacs does not know how to do that.
Someone could try to write an elisp package that does it somewhat
transparently, but clearly, the needed hasn't ben strong enough for anyone
to sit down and actually do it.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-11 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.12423.1105469022.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-01-11 18:59 ` Large files Stefan Monnier
2005-01-11 19:22   ` Carsten Weinberg
2005-01-11 20:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-11 20:27       ` cweinberg
2005-01-12 10:07     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]   ` <mailman.12453.1105473332.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-01-11 21:50     ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-01-11 21:55     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-01-11 22:25       ` cweinberg
     [not found]       ` <mailman.12503.1105483628.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-01-11 23:21         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-11 18:24 Rathnaprabhu Rajendran

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