GNU bug report logs - #69519
1gb file too big for Emacs to handle?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 04:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: robertstephenboyer <at> gmail.com, 69519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69519: 1gb file too big for Emacs to handle?
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:17:20 +0200

> From: Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 69519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:48:19 +0100
> 
> The file extension is ".txt.lisp"; it contains 3 lines, and is about
> 950MB.  The whole content is on the second lines, the 2 other ones being
> only a few char long.

Thanks, this will certainly hit the issues with very long lines.

> Using GNU Emacs 29.2 (emacs -Q), opening it literally when asked, then
> moving to the end (M->) is instantaneous for me.

Thanks for testing, that's what I would expect with Emacs 29 and
later.
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