From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?! Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:06:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83h6vpg1fr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878rh2t2re.fsf@drac> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31291"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 13 14:07:10 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pRYY1-0007zE-Bl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:07:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pRYXL-0005g8-88; Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:06:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pRYXJ-0005fj-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:06:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pRYXI-00039W-Rl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:06:24 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=QI5IHRoyn6rj3HJlMRqdlT741TxOP+QT51iIgFSKuuk=; b=eeFEoWGvFJOA Xm1kxLLwjq+G57TYq0epMMxreptrrVjufXSlCWlaDIBvHVM29PXOv1lKZmKzTjQ/eevzftQAb20Uv RaGBcyvELG7eK/nRuyiX7vTKl5Mg4TCWdnhe6GMmvivvllmMPytJGOL4uLZhI2DQ65ey1Jfhsgk2A pxlNBVB1hVOx9H78u/b6+Q2Ha6EinqoFtV6IWLPgXMQ04BALETrw6XH9t9f31FCLcU5rnO5mg3Sa7 ltv1lRTKiGCAmaaTG/0PlIXDgEluUlkaKb25lX0Ft7pwadf3PZQDkNV9761u0Nr32TF8Q1hyzsM3/ tQofMqiA+5vC5usCF3az6Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pRYXI-0005P9-58 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:06:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878rh2t2re.fsf@drac> (message from Christoph Groth on Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:59:01 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:142733 Archived-At: > From: Christoph Groth > 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.