Re: Opening /very/ big files
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Didier Verna writes:
> somebody recently asked me if it was possible to have XEmacs only load
> parts of files in buffers instead of loading the whole files. They have
> files that can grow up to 1Go or more, which fills up their memory.
See the docstring for `insert-file-contents', specifically the START
and END arguments. I'm not sure what happens in Mule if you specify
octets that do not correspond to a character boundary.
Yes, I know about that. My question was really about a user-level
solution.
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