From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: map-file-lines Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:50:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86wsc87o3c.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86skmw7ig6.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233672767 28102 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2009 14:52:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 03 15:54:01 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 1LUMeu-00083s-LK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:53:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUMdb-0005DV-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:52:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUMbp-0004Q2-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:50:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUMbo-0004P2-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:50:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58310 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUMbo-0004Oz-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:50:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:4223 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUMbn-0001kt-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:50:39 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArEEAO/nh0nO+IQk/2dsb2JhbACBbs1RhBQGgnc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,372,1231131600"; d="scan'208";a="33252612" Original-Received: from 206-248-132-36.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.132.36]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 03 Feb 2009 09:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8F1F88296; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:50:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:27:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:108682 Archived-At: > That might indeed be the case. I dont advocate any particular solution > to the bigfile problem. I just wanted to explain that some of us > longterm Emacs users would like this functionality in Emacs. I'm quite aware of it. I myself have had such needs. > That being said, how would the insert-file-contents solution work in > practice? Has something been done along these lines already? Can't remember if someone tried it at all, but I don't think anyone has gotten very far, no. > Would it be possible to make some kind of generic solution that would > make for instance hexl mode work on large files? That sounds very difficult. But it should not be too hard to adapt hexl-mode specifically once the other part is implemented. Stefan