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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Andrea Cardaci <cyrus.and@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Detecting the coding system of a file programmatically
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:27:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lfudmth.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACMsj9M38DGS5rE4VoJScf6K-WPT_VsMQWZ-EMKoQfy-E3WMBw@mail.gmail.com> (Andrea Cardaci's message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2018 03:02:55 +0200")

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> I use `insert-file-contents-literally' because the non-literally
> counterpart is too slow (about twice as much apparently) as it does a
> bunch of stuff in addition to simply populate the buffer.
> Unfortunately, one of these things is to decode the buffer.

For better performance I restrict the size of inserted file by giving to
`insert-file-contents' a small value of args BEG and END.  For example,
to automatically detect encodings of files for diff I use such customization:


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-16 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-10  1:02 Detecting the coding system of a file programmatically Andrea Cardaci
2018-08-10  7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-10 13:37   ` Andrea Cardaci
2018-08-10 13:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-10 14:47       ` Andrea Cardaci
2018-08-10 15:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-16 21:27 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2018-08-17 11:33   ` Andrea Cardaci

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