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Re: Reading huge files
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Andreas Roehler |
Subject: |
Re: Reading huge files |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:42:11 +0100 |
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Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Leonid Grinberg wrote:
>> I need to read a file, which contains approximately 1.2GB of
>> data. Obviously, this is well above the maximum buffer limit.
>> Is there any way for me to read it without
>>
>> 1) breaking it up into smaller files and
>> 2) using a different editor
>
> Not that I'm aware of. You could cook up something like:
>
> (defun view-large-file-contents (file beg end)
> "View FILE contents from bytes BEG through END, in View
> mode." (interactive "fView file: \nnFrom byte: \nnTo byte:
> ") (switch-to-buffer
> (generate-new-buffer (format "%s[%d,%d]"
> (file-name-nondirectory file) beg end)))
> (insert-file-contents file nil beg end)
> (view-mode 1))
>
>> I am using GNU Emacs 21.4.1 on Ubuntu Edgy Eft on a Dell
>> Latitude C600 with 256MB of memory.
>
Think it should be possible to have an ed-mode.
Until then, opening a file into `ed' from an emacs-shell
seems much more convenient than calling it from bash or
so.
__
Andreas Roehler
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