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Text files of that size are absurd

Text files of that size are absurd

Posted Feb 25, 2008 12:46 UTC (Mon) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: Text files of that size are absurd by flewellyn
Parent article: Emacs news: new maintainer, version 22 pretest

He said "(don't ask)"! ;)


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Text files of that size are absurd

Posted Feb 25, 2008 13:09 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Yes, I know, but...sheesh.  I wouldn't even try using an interactive editor on a file that
size.  That's what sed and awk are made for.

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