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Emacs hangs when deleting a large portion of text in a large file
From: |
Michael Mueller |
Subject: |
Emacs hangs when deleting a large portion of text in a large file |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:30:08 +0100 |
I often use emacs to examine large log files (may be 10 MB). Sometimes I want
to extract
a part of such a file for further investigation, for example, I am in the middle
of the file and want to delete the rest. When I just jump to the end and then
delete the
region using C-W, emacs hangs. I assume emacs has problems saving such a large
portion
of text in the kill ring and it would come back if I would wait for some
minutes or maybe
hours, which I don't want to do. Even C-g won't interupt this. The only thing I
can do
is kill emacs from the shell.
Is there a way to delete large portions of text from large files quickly?
Thanks
Michael
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