Re: md5 checksum of a img file, or get the value of 100th byte

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:17:02 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote: 

EZ> Reading the file into a buffer and then working on that buffer is one
EZ> of the most efficient operations in Emacs.  After all, this is the
EZ> most basic operation of any text editor, so it must be heavily
EZ> optimized.

Not if the file is large :)  I'd like to see a 'sliding editing window'
for large files but I think it would require changes at the C level.

Ted