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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: sds@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: view part of file
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:16:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsjdy7qje.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lijrszn0.fsf@gnu.org> (Sam Steingold's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:52:35 -0400")

> What I want is another option, in addition to y/n:
> open a part of the file.

> Is this already available or do I need to put something up myself?

There's vlf.el.  I wish someone would take this on and develop it
further.  E.g. With the isearch hooks we have it should be possible to
automatically search through the whole file, with "manual paging".


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-13 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-13 20:52 feature request: view part of file Sam Steingold
2012-06-13 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-06-14 16:20   ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-14 16:53     ` Mathias Dahl
2012-06-14 17:32     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-14 18:21       ` Paul Eggert
     [not found]     ` <jwvd3517qww.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <CABrcCQ5zDfB2tw9DRrwpCZmDqHPc+BB6W5w9ULNU95e_v4yyJw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <87395xu768.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <CABrcCQ6rpG9qhsCO+ZEpTiNqbQRtg-PBeb=q_B5F8YgrGxoWKA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <jwvvcit67sc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-14 19:34               ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-14 21:29 ` Sam Steingold
2012-06-18 20:34   ` Štěpán Němec
2012-07-19 17:58     ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-19 19:38       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-04 11:58   ` Andrey Kotlarski
2013-01-18 23:30   ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-01-18 23:52     ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-01-19  6:54       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-19 10:18         ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-19 10:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-19 12:47             ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-19 13:47               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-19 19:00                 ` Paul Eggert

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