From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Intelligently opening large files in emacs Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:25:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877g7rrjgw.fsf@gmail.com> <83mwgna1k5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395188777 31060 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2014 00:26:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:26:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 01:26:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQ4Kv-0002kq-KV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:26:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQ4Kv-0000rk-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60765) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQ4Kd-0000hp-Gv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQ4KW-00023k-73 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59754) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQ4KW-00023a-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQ4KV-00021r-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:25:59 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-162-160.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.162.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:25:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-162-160.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:25:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-162-160.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+/FQjusPdy0f3gFjzFL6ld1mHZ4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96599 Archived-At: > If that loses something, then how come you are prepared to lose that > for files larger than some arbitrary threshold, but not for smaller > files? He's probably prepared to lose that functionality for the reason that that functionality is unusable (too slow) in large buffers. Stefan