From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com, handa@m17n.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-buffer in tar-mode
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:18:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AyY95-0001mI-Ee@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403021222.VAA17913@etlken.m17n.org> (message from Kenichi Handa on Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:22:35 +0900 (JST))
What tar-mode would ideally want to do
> is copy the tar data to auxiliary buffer B so buffer A could be in multibyte
> and buffer A in unibyte, but copying 25MB of tar data is a bit costly, so
> instead we could offer a primitive that swaps the buffer_text of
> two buffers.
I think it would work, and it might be a good idea.
However, something about it seems not quite right.
I have the feeling that the really right thing to do would
be different in some detail.
Perhaps attempting to write the buffer A into a file should actually
write buffer B into the file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-04 21:50 save-buffer in tar-mode Tak Ota
2004-02-04 23:36 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-02-04 23:53 ` Tak Ota
2004-02-05 2:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-02-05 2:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-09 9:39 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-12 13:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-02-12 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <200403021222.VAA17913@etlken.m17n.org>
2004-03-03 15:18 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-03-03 22:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-05 12:15 ` Richard Stallman
2004-02-13 17:35 ` Richard Stallman
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