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Re: editing large files


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: editing large files
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:38:33 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com> writes:

> I need to edit some relatively large files (~ 200 Mb), so I'm exceeding
> the maximum buffer size allowed by my Emacs (GNU Emacs 21.4.1
> (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-10-02 on
> trouble, modified by Debian).  Searching for solutions it seems that the
> only way to do this would be to use a 64-bit machine and Emacs.  Is this
> correct?  What alternatives are people using on a 32-bit machine?

emacs-snapshot has a max buffer size of 256MB, xemacs of 1GB (IIRC).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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