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Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded
From: |
Kin Cho |
Subject: |
Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded |
Date: |
04 May 2004 19:00:41 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Harish Narayanan <harish@gamebox.net> writes:
> I've been trying to open a large file (208 MB) but I receive the
> error "Maximum buffer size exceeded" and Emacs fails to open the
> file. This is Emacs 21.2.1 on a Redhat GNU/Linux 9 box.
>
> I tried searching in the archives, and noticed this has been
> asked before, but the responses don't seem encouraging. Is there
> a way of working around this that's arisen in the recent past?
Use head/tail/dd to extract the small part of the file you want
to edit, edit that small file, then use cat/head/tail/dd to put
it back into your original file.
Let's say you want to edit the last line of the file 208MB, which
is 1 million lines long:
tail -1 208MB > foo
emacs foo
(head -999999 208MB; cat foo) > new-208MB
-kin
- Maximum buffer size exceeded, Harish Narayanan, 2004/05/04
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