Re: feature request: view part of file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vitalie Spinu <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:52:50 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> So it is really a bug in emacs, insert-file-contents accepts integer
> values only, but for big files the size and positions are floats. In my
> case 802200060.0. 

It's not a bug, it's a fundamental limitation of how Emacs accesses
buffers.  Any valid buffer position _must_ fit into the width of an
Emacs integer.  The only way to lift that limitation is to compile
Emacs with a wider EMACS_INT type.