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Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:14:06 +0200

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Chris Moore" <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:35:27 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > It would be a performance hit: Emacs will need to open a file and read
>  > its first bytes just to know what to do with it.
> 
> This is precisely what an autodetecting coding system does.

No, that's not true; at least not in GNU Emacs.  Autodetecting reads
the file in its entirety.




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