From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reading huge files
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:03:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u64bfj1s3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eo0c41$t3f$1@sea.gmane.org> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:24:52 -0700)
> From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:24:52 -0700
>
> (defun view-large-file-contents (file beg end)
> "View FILE contents from bytes BEG through END, in View mode."
> (interactive "fView file: \nnFrom byte: \nnTo byte: ")
> (switch-to-buffer
> (generate-new-buffer (format "%s[%d,%d]"
> (file-name-nondirectory file) beg end)))
> (insert-file-contents file nil beg end)
> (view-mode 1))
Does this really work? I think it won't: the underlying problem is
that for large files, END overflows the limits of the ELisp integer
type, and your suggestion doesn't resolve this fundamental problem.
So insert-file-contents will still barf with large files.
Or am I missing something?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-09 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 22:17 Reading huge files Leonid Grinberg
2007-01-09 15:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-09 22:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-01-11 6:30 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2007-01-11 6:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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2007-01-09 23:29 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10 0:14 ` Leonid Grinberg
[not found] ` <mailman.2922.1168388054.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10 0:23 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2923.1168402283.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10 7:39 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2938.1168460877.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10 22:33 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-01-11 5:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-11 9:49 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-11 18:06 ` Markus Triska
2007-01-12 8:36 ` Mathias Dahl
[not found] ` <mailman.2897.1168356311.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-09 20:42 ` Andreas Roehler
2007-01-09 20:42 ` Andreas Roehler
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