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Re: Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?!
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?! |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:06:00 +0200 |
> From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:59:01 +0100
>
> > Not clever, but flexible, powerful, and performant. Which other
> > program supports on-the-fly decoding of non-ASCII text in so many
> > encodings?
>
> No need to convince me. I have been living in Emacs since 1998.
>
> That said, the finding that Emacs does not read files until EOF
> surprised me quite a lot. I thought that it had solid underpinnings.
It does. There are several valid reasons why we don't read
everything: insert-file-contents has more than a single operation
mode.