From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Perry Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:02:14 -0600 Message-ID: References: <482fb2ba-e50f-4102-bfe7-3a78613d970f@m27g2000prj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296313369 29844 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2011 15:02:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:02:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 29 16:02:44 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 1PjCK3-00052U-Li for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:02:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52760 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjCK2-0002u1-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:02:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36092 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjCJe-0002tl-SI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjCJd-0007sk-N3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:02:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:50941) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjCJd-0007sY-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:02:17 -0500 Original-Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so4060333qwa.0 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:02:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to :x-mailer; bh=WsoIjpPxVB0fSRhHWn2baHvT41xo8m939WhX/iXIwVE=; b=kmemCVIBR3HBsnsE5FIiHEg5V0WREgc8aKtmU4qOuAobsJ2oiD4LK+UWIqiO9AUjZu gAz4t1M9Cy4zKU5nGfeGcb3RW2gh86BK7LkdfIqTPwfEn1SlG6mal8/hpwNO68CDfLPj 8M+NzcIYkDRHNl22VsvcrbtijYViQrlb4psFc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=Yp1deUrmIxfouGtMlf94zzY6i0IBhwJZZEkL8DiHdmqMgFcoKG98ooLVaVCCA8hdWz F2nR3brclBmQZRpEbZdbw6wfQjtpA+8h2u/rk+S8sPuavYa+Z7BSCDjdOleUhldScFk+ 3jIwjS90uRhekmeGv4/TmQeZZJhNOU1Bj9Sdg= Original-Received: by 10.224.185.129 with SMTP id co1mr4140019qab.232.1296313336900; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:02:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [10.0.0.2] ([64.128.19.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e29sm13424333qck.3.2011.01.29.07.02.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:02:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 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:78832 Archived-At: On Jan 29, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > On 2011-01-29 0:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> I use hexl-mode all the time. >>> I've often needed an insert, as opposed to overwrite. Do you know = if >>> there's a way to insert? >>=20 >> Sadly, there isn't. I have a new mode I call "nhexl-mode" which does >> "the same" as hexl-mode but in a completely different way (the >> conversion is done in a font-lockish way, so the buffer's content is >> not affected, only the display) so you can use it with buffer = insertion >> and pretty much anything else. Sadly, it bumps into some severe >> performance limitations in the current redisplay code, so it's = largely >> unusable other than on very small buffers :-( >>=20 > It is possible read only portion of file by Emacs > and don't load all file content into buffer? >=20 > Many hex viewer in read-only mode allow open large files without > performance penalty. Emacs don't. This thread is beginning to drift a bit... but something I wish I had = was a way to view a file without loading all of it. I look at hugh trace files = and I have to get out of emacs and start a shell so I can use more / less. The shame of it all! ;-) I don't know of such a critter. If there is one, that would be super = cool. Perry