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Re: docs for insert-file-contents use 'bytes'


From: Kenichi Handa
Subject: Re: docs for insert-file-contents use 'bytes'
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:58:47 +0900
User-agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)

In article <address@hidden>, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> That's fine.  I would just seek back N bytes and resynchronize (see
> above).  I could also make the mode only work with bytes, bypassing
> encoding schemes.  This would be a good thing, actually, for cases where
> the user might page or search through many megabytes of data quickly.

How about reading a file in a unibyte buffer with
no-conversion, and decode one page by one into a view
buffer.   Except for UTF-16 encoding, it is safe to set the
decoding boundary at newline positions.

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden





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