From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature request: view part of file Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:16:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lijrszn0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339629446 17923 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2012 23:17:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: sds@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 14 01:17:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SewoK-0003f2-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:17:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SewoJ-0004xI-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SewoG-0004x2-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SewoF-0000dq-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:17051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SewoE-0000ci-UK; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:06 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09MCqwm/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA2IQAW6CY0mgx4DozOBWIMF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="191340967" Original-Received: from 76-10-172-38.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.172.38]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 13 Jun 2012 19:17:05 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D708D58B20; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:16:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87lijrszn0.fsf@gnu.org> (Sam Steingold's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:52:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150936 Archived-At: > 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