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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: md5 checksum of a img file, or get the value of 100th byte
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:07:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubq2enx8w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868wxixujt.fsf@lifelogs.com>

> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:55:18 -0500
> 
> EZ> ??? insert-file-contents already can read only a portion of a file.
> EZ> See its doc string.
> 
> I know about that.  I'd like to be able to open a 1 GB file in Emacs and
> view just a piece at a time, in a sliding window.  I am not aware of
> functionality to do this

For viewing such a file, it should be easy to write some Lisp using
insert-file-contents to read a file one chunk at a time.  For editing,
I submit that there should be no reason to edit such large files.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-06 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-05 11:29 md5 checksum of a img file, or get the value of 100th byte Xah
2008-06-05 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.12717.1212693595.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-06 14:44   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-06-06 16:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.12786.1212770026.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-06 18:55       ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-06-06 20:07         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.12802.1212782926.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-06 22:45           ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-06-07  6:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.12833.1212820449.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-09 15:04               ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-06-09 15:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-07  0:03           ` Tim X
2008-06-09 15:15             ` Ted Zlatanov

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