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Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded
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Marco Gidde |
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Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded |
Date: |
05 May 2004 13:45:22 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > From: Marco Gidde <marco.gidde@tiscali.de>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: 05 May 2004 07:53:04 +0200
> >
> > I was in the same situation a few days ago, a large file with more
> > than 200MB. It's sad, but vim did the job without complaining.
>
> Why ``sad''?
Simply because I couldn't use Emacs for that.
> OTOH, why would someone need to load such a huge file into an
> interactive editor like Emacs or vim? Sed sounds like a perfect tool
> for the job (faster, too).
In my special case it was a log file, that I had to modify in a
special way and defining a kbd macro in Emacs was much faster than
writing a perl/awk/sed script for the same purpose. After that I had
to compare the file with another log file and this was just about the
time when I first tried ediff and found that it is great.
And what if the modifications you want to make are not specific to
lines but to paragraphs? I think that would be a problem with sed. And
although I like hacking I don't like to write parsers that must (since
they work without any help from my side) handle all edge cases just to
throw it away after one use.
So I think that interactive editing is not constrained to the case of
files with a few thousand lines of text or code. And interactive
editing requires an interactive editor.
> In other words, there's the best tool for every job, ...
Sure.
> ... and Emacs (nor vim) is not the one for this job.
What I doubt.
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- Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded, Marco Gidde, 2004/05/05
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- Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/06
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- Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded, Miles Bader, 2004/05/05
- Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/05
- Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/06
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Re: Maximum buffer size exceeded, Matthieu Moy, 2004/05/05
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