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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of	Emacs?
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:00:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bp2zhhzs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ii198g$p28$1@dough.gmane.org>

> From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:46:33 +0200
> 
> It is possible read only portion of file by Emacs
> and don't load all file content into buffer?

Yes, see the doc string of insert-file-contents.

> Many hex viewer in read-only mode allow open large files without
> performance penalty. Emacs don't.

It won't help in this case, because the performance problems Stefan
mentions make his nhexl-mode unusable even on relatively small
buffers, unfortunately.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-29 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.0.1296117403.8303.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-28  9:54 ` What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Simón Ortiz
2011-01-28 21:22   ` Ken Goldman
     [not found]   ` <mailman.21.1296249764.1176.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-28 22:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-29 14:46       ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-01-29 15:00         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-01-29 15:02         ` Perry Smith
     [not found]         ` <mailman.10.1296313340.8933.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-29 16:08           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-17 10:53           ` Giorgos Keramidas
2011-02-17 13:43             ` Perry Smith
2011-02-17 14:01               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found]               ` <mailman.9.1297951684.6316.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-17 19:04                 ` view/edit large files (was: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs?) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18  0:09             ` What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Tim X
2011-01-29 12:55 ` Javier Sanz
2011-02-06 20:11   ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-02-08 23:10     ` Oleksandr Gavenko
     [not found]     ` <mailman.11.1297206657.16135.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-09  4:37       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-09 20:51         ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-02-09 21:31         ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-02-09 22:32           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-02-14 20:44             ` Oleksandr Gavenko
     [not found]         ` <mailman.10.1297284733.9144.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-10 17:24           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01 21:30 What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? Cthun
2011-03-02  1:00 ` What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Steve
2011-03-02  5:34   ` PJ Weisberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-27  8:33 Le Wang
2011-01-27  9:29 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-27 12:03 ` Wang Lei
2011-01-27 14:13   ` suvayu ali
2011-01-27 14:12 ` Ken Goldman
2011-01-27 18:11 ` Erik Iverson
     [not found] ` <mailman.0.1296137574.27610.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-27 22:23   ` Joe Fineman
2011-01-28  6:40     ` Jason Rumney

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