From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 52569@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to handle files without reading them in first
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:00:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmjZb=9_VicsK53Xeq9t0VtmRoOBmhtPQdv+xdgSWWkEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861r28io75.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun, 19 Dec 2021 19:16:42 +0200")
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>> This would be useful for large files like .sqlite and images.
>
> I'm not sure about images since some image formats are editable,
> like .svg, .xpm, .ps... Only .pdf with in doc-view-mode could have
> this optimization of not loading the whole file. Also archive files
> could benefit from this optimization.
This would improve performance, right? If yes, I think this is sorely
needed for opening images in Emacs (though there are other things to
improve as well). I think the editable image formats are in the
minority, so we could always handle them differently.
> Or when it returns t, this could mean that the function displayed
> the buffer in some other way, for example, by calling an external command.
Yes, that would be very nice. I have wanted something like that to
replace the openwith package in my own use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-19 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-17 8:40 bug#52569: 29.0.50; Wishlist: There should be a way for packages to handle files without reading them in first Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-17 9:04 ` Adam Edge
2021-12-19 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-19 20:00 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-12-20 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-20 9:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-22 6:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-23 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
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