Re: opening large files (few hundred meg)

[Mathias Dahl]

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

> For the record, I tried to implement this some time ago:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/VLF
>
> First I used head and tail, then I used insert-file-contents with beg
> and end arguments and ran into the integer problem. However, if one
> would switch back to use head and tail (or whatever other tool you
> prefer), I am sure this will be possible if we use floating point
> numbers instead. If someone would like to extend my hack with this,
> feel free to do so, at least you have something to start with.
>
> Read the wiki page, read the code.

BTW, to use the head/tail approach:

(setq vlf-external-extraction t)

/Mathias