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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: joakim@verona.se
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: map-file-lines
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:41:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhc3cwjgx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ab9462h7.fsf@verona.se> (joakim@verona.se's message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:52:20 +0100")

> I would like to add my voice in requesting "large file" capability in
> Emacs. I wanted it many times over the years, but always coped-out into
> some other editor for this.

> A common example is hex-editing a large binary file, or finding some
> text in some enourmous log-file.

I don't se how such a "line-at-a-time" or "chunk-at-a-time" processing
(i.e. stream processing) will enable Emacs to let you conveniently edit
a large binary file.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-02 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ 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       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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                           ` view/edit large files Ted Zlatanov
2009-02-10 20:02                             ` 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

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