m00natic/vlfi
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View Large Files in Emacs
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2013-05-20 · latest 2023-06-14
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…it. Doesn’t require any fancy data structures, just some extra book keeping and mechanics. [1] https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
comment by celeritascelery · 2023-06-14 · in Text Editor Data Structures -
You can edit gigabyte-large files with no trouble vlf.el https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi – though it's a bit of a separate universe, you have to use vlf-occur instead of occur to find matches over all gigabytes of the file ;; To have it…
comment by unhammer · 2022-06-03 · in Commercial-Emacs -
…in the past. This is probably the most current implementation of a ‘view large files’ package: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
comment by aasasd · 2022-04-04 · in A project with a single 11,000-line code file -
You know how "there's an app for that" used to be a thing? Well, there's an elisp package for that: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
comment by actually_a_dog · 2021-08-25 · in Using Emacs in an IDE World -
I've had good luck on big (multi-GB) SQL dumps, which often have very long lines, with https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
comment by rml · 2020-05-04 · in Bringing GNU Emacs to native code [video] -
I believe you can use the vlf package ( https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi ) for dealing with large files in Emacs. I haven't used it myself, so I am not sure how stable it is.
comment by MetaDark · 2017-10-02 · in Text Editor: Data Structures -
Depends on the machine. With https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi you can explore arbitrarily large file in instant.
comment by m00natic · 2013-05-20 · in Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?