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Re: Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?!
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Christoph Groth |
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Re: Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?! |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:59:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
> >
> > However, no other programs (including editors) seem to have
> > a problem with this. So it really must be Emacs trying to be
> > clever.
>
> Not clever, but flexible, powerful, and performant. Which other
> program supports on-the-fly decoding of non-ASCII text in so many
> encodings?
No need to convince me. I have been living in Emacs since 1998.
That said, the finding that Emacs does not read files until EOF
surprised me quite a lot. I thought that it had solid underpinnings.
> > Should I report this to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, or is posting on this
> > list enough? Or should I open a ticket with debbugs.gnu.org?
>
> A bug for this already exists: bug#9800. A possible solution was also
> pointed out there.
Thanks, I did not manage to find this one.
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