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Re: editing large files


From: Tim X
Subject: Re: editing large files
Date: 22 Oct 2005 19:28:40 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4

Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> 

For large files, I usually just split them up, do my editing and then
join them back together again. If the changes I need to make are
repetitive or fairly easily specified in a programatic fashion, I just
use sed.

Tim


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