Re: Reading huge files

[Kevin Rodgers]

Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> I need to read a file, which contains approximately 1.2GB of data.
> Obviously, this is well above the maximum buffer limit. Is there any
> way for me to read it without
>
> 1) breaking it up into smaller files and
> 2) using a different editor

Not that I'm aware of.  You could cook up something like:

(defun view-large-file-contents (file beg end)
  "View FILE contents from bytes BEG through END, in View mode."
  (interactive "fView file: \nnFrom byte: \nnTo byte: ")
  (switch-to-buffer
   (generate-new-buffer (format "%s[%d,%d]"
                                (file-name-nondirectory file) beg end)))
  (insert-file-contents file nil beg end)
  (view-mode 1))

> I am using GNU Emacs 21.4.1 on Ubuntu Edgy Eft on a Dell Latitude C600
> with 256MB of memory.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA