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 21:27:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <41E42784.6020002@freenet.de> <01c4f818$Blat.v2.2.2$d9851e60@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105475838 27677 80.91.229.6 (11 Jan 2005 20:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 11 21:37:13 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 1CoSlM-000671-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:37:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CoSwv-0003Tp-UV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CoSqc-00018f-Vw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:42:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CoSqW-00015I-W2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:42:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CoSqV-00011i-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:42:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.97.50.155] (helo=mout2.freenet.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CoSba-0007nj-FD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.97.50.144] (helo=mx1.freenet.de) by mout2.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1CoSbZ-0001tD-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:27:05 +0100 Original-Received: from p50811507.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([80.129.21.7] helo=mx.freenet.de) by mx1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID cweinberg@freenet.de) (Exim 4.43 #13) id 1CoSbZ-0001It-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:27:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <01c4f818$Blat.v2.2.2$d9851e60@zahav.net.il> (eliz@gnu.org) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:23278 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23278 Hi Eli, "Disk based text editing - supports files in excess of 4GB, minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files" (from Ultraedit feature list) UE doesn't read a file as an whole into an memory buffer, only parts. When scrolling down to a certain degree, UE reads the next chunk from disk, and so on. Therefore the 4GB without 4GB memory. -- Regards -Carsten