From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: view/edit large files Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:02:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <868wofnyqg.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234296297 25273 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2009 20:04:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 21:06:12 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 1LWyrL-0004YG-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:05:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44613 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWyq1-0000uC-80 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:04:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWypv-0000rw-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWyps-0000ra-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:04:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45142 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWyps-0000rX-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50482) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWyps-0001J7-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LWynx-0003m3-65; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:02:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <868wofnyqg.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:26:15 -0600) 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:108964 Archived-At: I didn't understand your suggestion fully initially, sorry. I think you're suggesting that the user should pick a "window" between two places in the file. Then the user can only edit the file between those two places. That `grep' is producing the list of places is not as important as the idea of having those places. Yes, that's it. A further part of the idea is that the matching lines that mark the beginning and the end of the segment would be read-only, to prevent confusion in what it means to save the file back.