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From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
To: eliz@gnu.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?!
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:59:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rh2t2re.fsf@drac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83357bhzte.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
> > 
> > However, no other programs (including editors) seem to have
> > a problem with this.  So it really must be Emacs trying to be
> > clever.
> 
> 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.

> > Should I report this to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, or is posting on this
> > list enough?  Or should I open a ticket with debbugs.gnu.org?
> 
> A bug for this already exists: bug#9800.  A possible solution was also
> pointed out there.

Thanks, I did not manage to find this one.



             reply	other threads:[~2023-02-13  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-13  7:59 Christoph Groth [this message]
2023-02-13 13:06 ` Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?! Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
2023-02-12  6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12  7:11   ` tomas
2023-02-12  7:33     ` Eli Zaretskii

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