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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: docs for insert-file-contents use 'bytes'
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:19:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uod26je2p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86hc7y64vm.fsf@lifelogs.com>

> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:04:13 -0500
> 
> This is not a safe operation mode with multibyte sequences; is there a
> way to DTRT?  I'm specifically thinking about a paged buffer mode where
> you only see a small portion of the file (for editing large files, as we
> discussed in another newsgroup a while ago).

How about this idea: read a bit more than you want, then find safe
place to end this page-full?

> I don't know if this is the right wording, but it's a pretty essential
> operation so it should give some warning about this common (nowadays)
> case.

Is it really a common case that insert-file-contents is used to read a
portion of a file?  Where is this used?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 19:58 docs for insert-file-contents use 'bytes' Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-29 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-29 21:04   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-30  6:06     ` Miles Bader
2008-09-30  7:19     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-09-30 13:48       ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-30 15:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-30 16:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-01  0:44         ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-01 16:54           ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-02  1:33             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-02 13:42               ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-02 18:55                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-03 13:55                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-02  1:58             ` Kenichi Handa

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