From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filemananger for emacs with meta information about a file without opening it
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:15:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leos9tld.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8X4nFoPn8D4EjPoPVNvvx6v_Y_Niw_3m-rO=4SaNq3GRQ@mail.gmail.com
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> > How do you find out a picture's resolution without opening the file?
>
> Nohow. The opening is just not perceived by the user. The pedantic
> description would probably be “without visiting in a buffer and
> without starting an associated interactive application”.
I read it as "without reading the complete file contents from disk".
To get some metadata about images one has to look at the contents but
the first N bytes may be enough with an appropriate small N.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-03 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-31 20:49 filemananger for emacs with meta information about a file without opening it Uwe Brauer
2022-11-02 12:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-03 9:14 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-03 9:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-03 15:44 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-03 15:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-04 13:05 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-04 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-04 17:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-04 5:13 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-04 7:28 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-04 16:00 ` Drew Adams
2022-11-05 13:50 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-05 21:05 ` Drew Adams
2022-11-03 6:49 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-03 7:56 ` tomas
2022-11-03 8:17 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-03 8:44 ` tomas
2022-11-03 11:15 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2022-11-04 3:22 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-04 3:21 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-03 9:01 ` Emanuel Berg
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