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Re: Handling large files with Emacs
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Fab |
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Re: Handling large files with Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:09:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Fab <fab4100@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:33:07 +0200
>>
>> I had to work with a vast bibTeX file today and Emacs almost died and
>> got super slow, which made working with Emacs impossible. So I switched
>> to Vim. However, I use Emacs since some years now and the only thing
>> that really bothers me is this issue. I do not need to work with large
>> files a lot, but when I do, Emacs is not my side kick anymore. I tried
>> some additional packages, but none of them really satisfied me. Why is
>> Vim still so fast and smooth when it deals with large files? How do you
>> handle this issue with Emacs? I would love to see Emacs get over this
>> issue some day.
>
> How large is "large"? Which version of Emacs was that? On what
> platform (CPU and OS)?
Actually "only" ~6mb with 120000 lines, Emacs version is GNU Emacs
24.2.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars) on an
AMD64-bit quad core with Debian 6.0.4
> It's impossible to give you any meaningful answer without knowing at
> least that much.
Thanks
Fab
- Handling large files with Emacs, Fab, 2012/10/23
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/23
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- Re: Handling large files with Emacs,
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- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/23
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Tom, 2012/10/24
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Jambunathan K, 2012/10/24
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Tom, 2012/10/24
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/24
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Tom, 2012/10/24
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Jambunathan K, 2012/10/24
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/24
- Re: Handling large files with Emacs, Tom, 2012/10/24
- RE: Handling large files with Emacs, Ludwig, Mark, 2012/10/24