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Re: off-topic: `virtual' files
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: off-topic: `virtual' files |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:36:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Sometimes I'm downloading big files which have been split into chunks,
> say, a 1GByte file into ten chunks with 100MByte each. Currently, I
> have to concatenate all files into a new file to be able to access it
> as a whole. I now wonder whether it is possible to group these chunks
> into a virtual file (similar to virtual file systems), avoiding this
> copying. BTW, I'm using a GNU/Linux box.
A recent discussion (no implementation yet):
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg31707.html
should be also possible to implement with http://www.filesystems.org/
Back on topic: WIBNI to have a command to read a set of related files
into one buffer like
M-x multi-find-file RET ChangeLog* RET
Then operations on multiple files grouped into a virtual file would be more
simple (e.g. normal search/replace instead of `A' and `Q' in Dired, etc.)
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/