From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Gidde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded Date: 05 May 2004 07:53:04 +0200 Organization: Linux Private Site Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7iekpzljjq.fsf@neoscale.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083736979 29328 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 06:02:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 06:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 08:02:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLFUY-00061u-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 08:02:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLFT0-0000UX-Ix for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 02:01:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.tiscali.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p83.129.98.104.tisdip.tiscali.de Original-X-Trace: ulysses.news.tiscali.de 1083736127 18601 83.129.98.104 (5 May 2004 05:48:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 05:48:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122971 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18258 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18258 Harish Narayanan writes: > I do things like that when I need to edit the last or first few > lines. What if the portions I need edited are at some arbitrary line > numbers in the middle? I don't always know exactly where they will be. I was in the same situation a few days ago, a large file with more than 200MB. It's sad, but vim did the job without complaining. It took a while to open the file, but after that everything was fine. Searching the specific strings, editing them, saving the file and done. Marco