From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: search files with conversion but fundamental mode, no handlers, no file-local vars Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:13:30 -0800 Message-ID: <296740EF42554F179812951459A5573D@us.oracle.com> References: <3D2A507FA3EE44909DF7CA025897BFC3@us.oracle.com> <83txrgmtof.fsf@gnu.org> <615E3EC604F94336B49A1812AC076EF8@us.oracle.com> <9E912F79068C4D81A99CB0BCD286D970@us.oracle.com> <9B23B2D4E92A4AE7A7C7961F960BB0D1@us.oracle.com> <83vcbvtyea.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356106434 19632 80.91.229.3 (21 Dec 2012 16:13:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:13:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 21 17:14:09 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Tm5Ee-0006fm-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:14:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42035 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm5ER-0004pL-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:13:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm5EJ-0004od-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm5ED-0000LN-8v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:13:47 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:19467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tm5E8-0000Kq-Ny; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:13:36 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qBLGDZHX009851 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:13:36 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qBLGDYOc018290 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:13:35 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt111.oracle.com (abhmt111.oracle.com [141.146.116.63]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qBLGDYOQ007830; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:13:34 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:13:34 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <83vcbvtyea.fsf@gnu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac3fceUBhGKxlqwsQjmTuREBMvoqPwAI9cqA X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155733 Archived-At: > 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.