From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting?
Date: 16 Jun 2003 15:20:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5l4r2pde2e.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: un0ghyirr.fsf@sandia.gov
> My question: is it possible (using elisp) to search the contents of
> the thesaurus file *without* loading it into a buffer?
Nope. How would it work ?
I guess what you're thinking about is not "without loading it" but
"without loading it all at once". In which case, yes, you can use
the BEG and END args of insert-file-contents to load only a part
of the file, so you can search the file 1MB at a time (for instance).
But maybe you'll be better off using something like grep on
your thesaurus and then fetching the relevant part.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-16 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-16 18:33 Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting? taashlo
2003-06-16 19:13 ` Sam Halliday
2003-06-16 19:48 ` taashlo
2003-06-16 19:13 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-16 19:47 ` taashlo
2003-06-16 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-06-17 17:04 ` taashlo
2003-06-17 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-18 0:44 ` Tad Ashlock
2003-06-17 15:02 ` Eric Hanchrow
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