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From: d89peter@odalix.ida.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: editors for huge files
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Date: 29 Jan 91 21:53:20 GMT
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hf@marvin.e17.Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hannes Faestermann) writes:

>kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen) writes:

>>In article <1991Jan28.201452.27323@athena.cs.uga.edu> boone@athena.cs.uga.edu (Roggie Boone) writes:
>>>I am looking for an ASCII editor that will let me edit huge files.
>>>I have a program file (21000+ lines) that is over 1 megabyte in size and
>...stuff deleted...

>Try EMACS from the FSF (Free Software Foundation): It's able to load
>files >1MB and there are lots of macro packages written in a sort of
>lisp.
>You can get the newest version by anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu
>in the directory pub/gnu
>The newest version is 18.57 and it's size is about 4MB as a tar'ed and
>compressed file

Uuu.... Sure, GNU Emacs can load files up to 16MB in size, but due to the
way it is written you don't wanna edit huge files with it unless you have
your own workstation with some >16MB RAM (or more). With smaller machines
the pageing resulting from editing huge files in Gnu Emacs is horrible..
(It loads the whole file into the memory and keeps it there until you
save you changes..)

/Peter

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