From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reading file in emacs
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:20:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4po7k4f.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r5jwn2ut.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com
pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
> Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2010/6/23 Qiang Guo <mcknight0219@gmail.com>:
>>> I know this is best done by C/C++, or some other
>>> languages. However, I just wonder the possibility of doing
>>> this in emacs, the greatest editor ever :-)
>>>
>>
>> C and C++ - the best programming languages for reading files.
>
> No. There is no operator defined in C to read files. (You have to use
> an external library, such as a unix kernel or a POSIX library).
>
> In the case of C++ there is some standard library defined, but not to
> read files, just to read sequences of bytes. So you could argue that
> it as some worth for that, but my files are very rarely sequences of
> bytes...
I think you missed the irony.
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-24 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-23 4:05 Reading file in emacs Qiang Guo
2010-06-23 5:11 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2010-06-23 5:13 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2010-06-23 6:38 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-06-23 11:28 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-06-23 14:38 ` Gary
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1277292530.15366.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-06-24 10:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-24 11:20 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2010-06-24 11:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] <mailman.0.1277266011.21451.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-06-23 9:05 ` John McCabe
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