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Re: Reading portions of large files
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Reading portions of large files |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:21:05 +0300 |
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 09 Jan 2003 19:20:06 +0100
>
> > I have very large files, sometimes over 1G, from which I would like to edit
> > very small portions, the headers or trailers for example. Emacs won't open
> > those files, it complains about them being too big. Is it possible to
> > edit, and save back after editing, only small portions of such files.
>
> insert-file-contents is a built-in function.
> (insert-file-contents FILENAME &optional VISIT BEG END REPLACE)
I don't think this will help the OP, since BEG and END need to be
representable as Lisp integers, so they still are subject to the same
128-MB limit.
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- Re: Reading portions of large files, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, 2003/01/13
- Re: Reading portions of large files, Miles Bader, 2003/01/13
- Re: Reading portions of large files, Miles Bader, 2003/01/13
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- Re: Reading portions of large files, Miles Bader, 2003/01/13
- Re: Reading portions of large files, Lee Sau Dan, 2003/01/20
- Re: Reading portions of large files, Mac, 2003/01/24