From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs?
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:46:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ii198g$p28$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsjwcfxin.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>
On 2011-01-29 0:59, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I use hexl-mode all the time.
>> I've often needed an insert, as opposed to overwrite. Do you know if
>> there's a way to insert?
>
> Sadly, there isn't. I have a new mode I call "nhexl-mode" which does
> "the same" as hexl-mode but in a completely different way (the
> conversion is done in a font-lockish way, so the buffer's content is
> not affected, only the display) so you can use it with buffer insertion
> and pretty much anything else. Sadly, it bumps into some severe
> performance limitations in the current redisplay code, so it's largely
> unusable other than on very small buffers :-(
>
It is possible read only portion of file by Emacs
and don't load all file content into buffer?
Many hex viewer in read-only mode allow open large files without
performance penalty. Emacs don't.
--
Best regards!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-29 14:46 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.0.1296117403.8303.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-28 9:54 ` What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Simón Ortiz
2011-01-28 21:22 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.21.1296249764.1176.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-28 22:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-29 14:46 ` Oleksandr Gavenko [this message]
2011-01-29 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-29 15:02 ` Perry Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.10.1296313340.8933.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-29 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-17 10:53 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2011-02-17 13:43 ` Perry Smith
2011-02-17 14:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.9.1297951684.6316.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-17 19:04 ` view/edit large files (was: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs?) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-18 0:09 ` What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Tim X
2011-01-29 12:55 ` Javier Sanz
2011-02-06 20:11 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-02-08 23:10 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
[not found] ` <mailman.11.1297206657.16135.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-09 4:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-09 20:51 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-02-09 21:31 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-02-09 22:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-02-14 20:44 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
[not found] ` <mailman.10.1297284733.9144.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-10 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01 21:30 What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? Cthun
2011-03-02 1:00 ` What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Steve
2011-03-02 5:34 ` PJ Weisberg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-27 8:33 Le Wang
2011-01-27 9:29 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-27 12:03 ` Wang Lei
2011-01-27 14:13 ` suvayu ali
2011-01-27 14:12 ` Ken Goldman
2011-01-27 18:11 ` Erik Iverson
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1296137574.27610.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-27 22:23 ` Joe Fineman
2011-01-28 6:40 ` Jason Rumney
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