From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Stream-based Scanning of File-Buffers Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5f0abd5c-159d-4d59-bd13-62eb178c7633@g6g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253882796 5862 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2009 12:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:46:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 14:46:29 2009 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 4.50) id 1MrABx-0006YZ-3o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:46:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MrABw-0007RZ-Bn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:46:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g6g2000vbr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1253880784 13568 127.0.0.1 (25 Sep 2009 12:13:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g6g2000vbr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ip1-w.foi.se:8080 (IronPort-WSA/6.3.0-523) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.212.0 Safari/532.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173349 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:68467 Archived-At: Is there a way to perform string/regexp scanning (using search-forward or re-search-forward) in a file-buffer whose contents is loaded only when it's needed, kind of like file streams in C, so that I only do a physical read on the blocks that I actually scan and then skip the rest of the file as soon as I get a hit. Thanks in advance, Nordl=F6w