From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bug Dout Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Intelligently opening large files in emacs Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:25:18 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86y507wei9.fsf@mailinator.com> References: <877g7rrjgw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395167556 27894 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2014 18:32:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:32:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 19:32:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1WPyof-00081I-8C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:32:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36945 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPyoe-0004dZ-Oj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:32:44 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: Rhncd0j9xRLTzObGc1MF7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZnBFno3ArhSJm0I4OshWT73oXGU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204323 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:32:36 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96593 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: Excellent point. In some very informal tests I didn't notice much difference in opening "large" files either way on a desktop PC (Windows 7x64). I ran into GNU Emacs' ridiculous "exceeds maximum buffer size" long before any noticeable opening delay. > IOW, the size of the file usually says nothing about its contents or > the mode in which you'd like to visit that file. So doing this based > on size alone sounds like not a good idea to me. > -- "In order to discover new lands one must have the courage to lose sight of the shore." --Andre Gide