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> I've wondered if emacs can [deal with large files or huge number of open files] […] I take that as a "no"? Emacs handles it fine. Two years ago¹, I wrote th
by teddyh 5y ago
> I've wondered if emacs can [deal with large files or huge number of open files] […] I take that as a "no"?
Emacs handles it fine. Two years ago¹, I wrote this:
“Just last week I opened, edited, and saved, a 4 Gigabyte SQL dump file, in Emacs. It was a bit slower than usual, but still well usable, and certainly no crashes.”
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880333
- andai 5y agoThat sounds like a lot, but most (power user) machines have more RAM than that these days. Are there any editors that can deal with files larger than available memory?
- teddyh 5y ago> Are there any editors that can deal with files larger than available memory? Emacs: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html