Re: Emacs hangs when deleting a large portion of text in a large file

[Kai Großjohann]

Michael Mueller <michael_p_mueller@agilent.com> writes:

> I often use emacs to examine large log files (may be 10 MB). Sometimes
> I want to extract a part of such a file for further investigation, for
> example, I am in the middle of the file and want to delete the
> rest. When I just jump to the end and then delete the region using
> C-W, emacs hangs.

Maybe it's the X cut buffer (X selection?) interaction?  You could
try to frob the variables interporgram-cut-function and
interprogram-paste-function.

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