From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:01:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87pqqqg3ot.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <482fb2ba-e50f-4102-bfe7-3a78613d970f@m27g2000prj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297951728 20942 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2011 14:08:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Perry Smith Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 15:08:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq4XA-00004z-1A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:08:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37849 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pq4X9-0004Mf-Ak for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:08:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38918 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pq4WX-0004LM-Rm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:08:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq4WW-0001tJ-Tt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:08:01 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp209.alice.it ([82.57.200.105]:39563) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq4WW-0001sw-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:08:00 -0500 Original-Received: from ambire.localdomain (95.236.70.168) by smtp209.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4D498EF3014A49A3; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:07:55 +0100 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pq4Qc-0000sZ-HT; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:01:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Perry Smith's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:43:54 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.105 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79194 Archived-At: () Perry Smith () Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:43:54 -0600 I looked at this. The approach I was going to take was to put into the C code an "open", "close", "read", and "lseek" concept and that would need a new "type" for a file descriptor. You might as well add "write" to complete the set. There is nothing currently like that in the C code. Perhaps =E2=80=98insert-file-contents=E2=80=99 can be used to implement this feature in Lisp.