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What I want from Emacs 25 is to not have to use vi when I want to edit a large file without line-breaks. Okay, maybe I need a more powerful machine — but I shouldn't.



I'm guessing that the reason you resort to vi is that scrolling through the editing buffer is slow.

Have you tried visiting the file with M-x hexl-find-file?


No, but why would I want to edit it as hex? Maybe I'm missing something obvious?


In Hexl mode, scrolling is vastly faster -- and it shows the file as characters as well as as hex somewhat like the Unix program strings does.

M-: (hexl-find-file (concat invocation-directory invocation-name))

It's no big deal, but if it is not the speed of scrolling, then I do not understand what it is about Emacs that discourages you from using it on large files without line-breaks.


That is an improvement, but I still wish I could open it like any other text file. Still, thanks for a viable method.




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