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Re: editing large files
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David Kastrup |
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Re: editing large files |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:38:33 +0200 |
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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