On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Jasen Betts wrote:
> yeah, emacs is slow on large files.
Jasen,
I've noticed this over the years.
> for a one-off I'd use less(1), to extract the desired table data.
> If I had to repeat it i'd use sed or awk
I used 'joe'. It handled the job with aplomb.
Thanks,
Rich