From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature request: view part of file Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:20:37 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: <87d351uap6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lijrszn0.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339690895 8387 80.91.229.3 (14 Jun 2012 16:21:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:21:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mathias Dahl To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 14 18:21:34 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 1SfCnW-00037Q-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:21:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfCnW-0002xk-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfCnL-0002tZ-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:21:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfCnG-0004b1-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfCnG-0004aY-6E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SfCnB-0001mG-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:21:05 +0200 Original-Received: from cl-pat-tr.clearspring.com ([8.18.54.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:21:05 +0200 Original-Received: from sds by cl-pat-tr.clearspring.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:21:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cl-pat-tr.clearspring.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Cancel-Lock: sha1:GA2d679fGN2tnrPRhxZJQdQKoPw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:150944 Archived-At: > * Stefan Monnier [2012-06-13 19:16:59 -0400]: > >> What I want is another option, in addition to y/n: >> open a part of the file. > >> Is this already available or do I need to put something up myself? > > There's vlf.el. I wish someone would take this on and develop it > further. Is it okay if I clean it up and put into the emacs tree, hooking up into the "really open this huge file" dialog? Do we have the papers for Mathias Dahl, the vlf author? Also, does anyone know what xemacs uses for viewing huge files? -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) X 11.0.11103000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://www.memritv.org http://truepeace.org http://ffii.org http://pmw.org.il http://mideasttruth.com http://camera.org char*a="char*a=%c%s%c;main(){printf(a,34,a,34);}";main(){printf(a,34,a,34);}