Re: Intelligently opening large files in emacs

[Dushyant Juneja]

Hi Jambunathan,

Thanks for the suggestion. Indeed, I was looking at vlf earlier. However,
with apologies to the developer, I found M-x find-file-literally to be a
much better alternative on my 64bit system.

My question hence is, is there a way to integrate find-file-literally in a
way that emacs automatically opens large files using this function, and the
smaller files using the usual find-file. Please help me if such is possible.


Regards,
Dushyant Juneja
Analog Devices, Inc. (India)


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> You are looking for vlf.el.  See http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/.
>
> Install it via
>
>     M-x list-packages
>
>
> Dushyant Juneja <juneja.dushyant@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm relatively new to emacs, but am pretty fascinated by its features.
> One
> > pain point is that it is rather slow in opening large data files bound to
> > specific modes. I generally observe it for circuit mode files (files
> > utilizing verilog-mode, spice-mode and spectre-mode). Is there a
> > possibility to help this?
> >
> > I find that M-x ffap-literally is rather fast, so can the following be
> done
> > somehow:
> >
> > If file is larger than default warning limit, open it literally.
> > Else open it with usual mode bindings.
> >
> > Also, please share as to how may I modify the default size limit.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dushyant Juneja
>