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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.

  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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