From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, christopher.ian.moore@gmail.com
Subject: Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:14:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur6kw1ugh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vea8wsqo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org)
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: "Chris Moore" <christopher.ian.moore@gmail.com>,
> emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:35:27 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > It would be a performance hit: Emacs will need to open a file and read
> > its first bytes just to know what to do with it.
>
> This is precisely what an autodetecting coding system does.
No, that's not true; at least not in GNU Emacs. Autodetecting reads
the file in its entirety.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 19:28 jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes Chris Moore
2007-09-17 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-18 3:35 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-09-18 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-09-18 5:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-09-18 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-19 3:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-09-19 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-20 18:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-09-20 19:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-20 23:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-09-21 3:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-21 5:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-09-21 5:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-09-21 6:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-09-21 7:41 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-09-17 21:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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