Re: --with-wide-int

[Stefan Monnier]

> Log files produced by various tools are much more interesting that Rmail
> (which is not that popular).

But these files are less likely to fall in the 512MB-2GB window, in my
experience.  [ Also, you can much more easily work around the 512MB
limit for those files e.g. by grepping them first].

> Even read-only access is valuable for such file sometimes.  Is it
> something people do every day?  Probably not, but it's very useful
> when needed.

I really think that a special "very large file" mode that manually swaps
chunks in and out of Emacs buffers would work better for such cases.
It could even easily be made to work for files larger than 2GB.
Even isearch could "transparently" search through the whole file by
using an appropriate isearch-wrap-function or
isearch-search-fun-function.


        Stefan