From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cweinberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Large files Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:25:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105482964 13409 80.91.229.6 (11 Jan 2005 22:36:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 11 23:35:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CoUcF-0008Au-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:35:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CoUno-0000LT-HZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CoUmz-0008TZ-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:47:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CoUms-0008Q9-V9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CoUms-0008Ml-7W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:46:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.97.50.132] (helo=mout1.freenet.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CoUSQ-0004fw-Oj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.97.50.135] (helo=mx2.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1CoUSP-00075f-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:25:45 +0100 Original-Received: from p50811507.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([80.129.21.7] helo=mx.freenet.de) by mx2.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID cweinberg@freenet.de) (Exim 4.43 #13) id 1CoUSP-0001AR-8g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:25:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:55:57 GMT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Warning: freenet.de is listed at abuse.rfc-ignorant.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23284 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23284 All the professional text editors known to me are disk oriented. I always wondered that emacs isn't. Anyway, emacs can't, and today in days large memory systems are less expensive, disk oriented editing appears to be less important - but only at the first glance, because modern emacs features like auto-revert-tail mode, making viewing (not editing) logfiles easy, which really can be extremely large. Or loading a large number of java classes may also cause a memory consumption which is significant larger than that of Windows text editors like UE. Therefore I support Stefans proposal that someone could try to write an elisp package that does disk oriented editing. -- Regards -Carsten