From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: view/edit large files
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:26:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868wofnyqg.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1LVjGd-00072S-7q@fencepost.gnu.org
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:14:27 -0500 Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
RMS> Describe it in text is what I thought I did.
RMS> I don't have time to implement it, though.
I quote your suggestion here:
> Here's an idea for a UI for editing big files. First you run M-x grep on
> the file, and display the matches for whatever regexp. In the *grep*
> buffer you specify a region, which is a way of choosing two matches,
> the ones whose entries contain point and mark. Then you give a command to edit
> the file from one of the matches to the other. It marks these matches
> (and the lines containing them) as read-only so that you can't
> spoil the correspondance with the file. Thus, you can always save this
> partial-file buffer.
> The beginning and end of the *grep* buffer can be used to specify
> that the portion to edit starts or ends at bof or eof.
I didn't understand your suggestion fully initially, sorry. I think
you're suggesting that the user should pick a "window" between two
places in the file. Then the user can only edit the file between those
two places. That `grep' is producing the list of places is not as
important as the idea of having those places.
RMS> Your API seems to be aimed at a lower level,
RMS> so the two could work together.
Yes, I believe so. I'll try to implement the items I listed and perhaps
someone can use them productively, to implement the UI you suggested or
something else.
Thanks for your help and time.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 17:20 map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 18:54 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 19:22 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 19:52 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-02 20:54 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 22:42 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 13:57 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-02 22:41 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 23:59 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-03 4:13 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 7:27 ` map-file-lines joakim
2009-02-03 14:50 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 7:04 ` map-file-lines Richard M Stallman
2009-02-04 15:38 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-05 5:40 ` map-file-lines Richard M Stallman
2009-02-06 18:42 ` view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-06 21:06 ` view/edit large files Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-06 21:49 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <864oz3nyj8.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2009-02-10 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-10 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 9:23 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-10 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 10:02 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-10 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-17 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-17 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-17 20:18 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-17 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-17 21:19 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-17 21:21 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-18 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-18 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-20 19:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-10 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 12:46 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-07 9:14 ` view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) Richard M Stallman
2009-02-09 20:26 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2009-02-10 20:02 ` view/edit large files Richard M Stallman
2009-02-06 13:20 ` map-file-lines Mathias Dahl
2009-02-02 22:40 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 4:11 ` map-file-lines Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 20:48 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 8:08 ` map-file-lines Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-02-03 14:00 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 14:17 ` map-file-lines Miles Bader
2009-02-03 10:45 ` map-file-lines Thierry Volpiatto
2009-02-03 14:06 ` map-file-lines Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-03 14:56 ` map-file-lines Thierry Volpiatto
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-07 3:44 view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines) MON KEY
2009-02-08 4:34 ` Bob Rogers
2009-02-09 19:44 ` view/edit large files Thien-Thi Nguyen
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