From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:13:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <296740EF42554F179812951459A5573D@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vcbvtyea.fsf@gnu.org>
> The ELisp manual already says something about it, in the node
> "Visiting Functions":
>
> In a Lisp program, if you want to look at the contents
> of a file but
> not alter it, the fastest way is to use `insert-file-contents' in a
> temporary buffer. Visiting the file is not necessary and
> takes longer. *Note Reading from Files::.
That is indeed helpful. I'm sure I read it and read the cross-referenced node
as well, but I somehow did not see the light immediately. Perhaps adding a
simple example would be helpful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-21 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-20 18:57 search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars Drew Adams
2012-12-20 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-20 19:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-20 21:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-20 22:01 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-20 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-20 22:01 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-20 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-20 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21 3:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-21 4:02 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21 4:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-21 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-21 16:13 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-12-21 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-21 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-21 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-22 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-21 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-21 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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