From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?!
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:06:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6vpg1fr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rh2t2re.fsf@drac> (message from Christoph Groth on Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:59:01 +0100)
> From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:59:01 +0100
>
> > Not clever, but flexible, powerful, and performant. Which other
> > program supports on-the-fly decoding of non-ASCII text in so many
> > encodings?
>
> No need to convince me. I have been living in Emacs since 1998.
>
> That said, the finding that Emacs does not read files until EOF
> surprised me quite a lot. I thought that it had solid underpinnings.
It does. There are several valid reasons why we don't read
everything: insert-file-contents has more than a single operation
mode.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-13 7:59 Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?! Christoph Groth
2023-02-13 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2023-02-11 21:16 Christoph Groth
2023-02-12 3:55 ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-02-12 4:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-02-12 5:56 ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-02-12 9:58 ` Christoph Groth
2023-02-12 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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