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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reading huge files
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:03:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u64bfj1s3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eo0c41$t3f$1@sea.gmane.org> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Tue,  09 Jan 2007 08:24:52 -0700)

> From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:24:52 -0700
> 
> (defun view-large-file-contents (file beg end)
>    "View FILE contents from bytes BEG through END, in View mode."
>    (interactive "fView file: \nnFrom byte: \nnTo byte: ")
>    (switch-to-buffer
>     (generate-new-buffer (format "%s[%d,%d]"
> 				(file-name-nondirectory file) beg end)))
>    (insert-file-contents file nil beg end)
>    (view-mode 1))

Does this really work?  I think it won't: the underlying problem is
that for large files, END overflows the limits of the ELisp integer
type, and your suggestion doesn't resolve this fundamental problem.
So insert-file-contents will still barf with large files.

Or am I missing something?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-09 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-08 22:17 Reading huge files Leonid Grinberg
2007-01-09 15:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-09 22:03   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-01-11  6:30     ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2957.1168497037.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-11  6:55       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2912.1168380222.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-09 23:29     ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10  0:14       ` Leonid Grinberg
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2922.1168388054.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10  0:23         ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10  4:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2923.1168402283.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10  7:39         ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-10 20:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2938.1168460877.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-10 22:33             ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-01-11  5:54       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-11  9:49         ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-11 18:06           ` Markus Triska
2007-01-12  8:36             ` Mathias Dahl
     [not found] ` <mailman.2897.1168356311.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-09 20:42   ` Andreas Roehler
2007-01-09 20:42   ` Andreas Roehler

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