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Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes |
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Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:49:17 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > 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.
Well, if you're going to open and convert the file anyway, this isn't
really a loss.
Furthermore, there must be some scheme for buffering for process
coding systems.
- jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Chris Moore, 2007/09/17
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/17
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/09/17
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/18
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/18
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/09/18
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/19
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/09/20
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/20
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/09/20
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/20
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/09/21
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Kenichi Handa, 2007/09/21
- Re: jka-compr.el doesn't recognise gzipped files from their magic bytes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/09/21