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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? |
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Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:00:55 +0200 |
> From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:46:33 +0200
>
> It is possible read only portion of file by Emacs
> and don't load all file content into buffer?
Yes, see the doc string of insert-file-contents.
> Many hex viewer in read-only mode allow open large files without
> performance penalty. Emacs don't.
It won't help in this case, because the performance problems Stefan
mentions make his nhexl-mode unusable even on relatively small
buffers, unfortunately.