From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: map-file-lines Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:54:35 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86fxiw7e5w.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <86wsc87o3c.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86skmw7ig6.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233608019 10895 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2009 20:53:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 20:53:39 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 21:54:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LU5oc-0005WT-Ls for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:54:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5nK-0007mh-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:53:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5n4-0007dK-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:53:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5n0-0007ZK-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:53:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47529 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5n0-0007Z9-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:53:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38807 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LU5mz-0005YQ-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:53:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LU5my-0007lD-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:53:05 +0000 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:53:04 +0000 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:53:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4AyVLb3Kb8CefV3R9pCsnyvpfO4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108637 Archived-At: On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:52:20 +0100 joakim@verona.se wrote: j> I would like to add my voice in requesting "large file" capability in j> Emacs. I wanted it many times over the years, but always coped-out into j> some other editor for this. j> A common example is hex-editing a large binary file, or finding some j> text in some enourmous log-file. I plan to implement large file viewing and searching, depending on Stefan and others' decisions and suggestions. I don't know the Emacs file internals well, so a stream-based solution may be better underneath. Ted