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Re: Detecting the coding system of a file programmatically
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: Detecting the coding system of a file programmatically |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:27:22 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> I use `insert-file-contents-literally' because the non-literally
> counterpart is too slow (about twice as much apparently) as it does a
> bunch of stuff in addition to simply populate the buffer.
> Unfortunately, one of these things is to decode the buffer.
For better performance I restrict the size of inserted file by giving to
`insert-file-contents' a small value of args BEG and END. For example,
to automatically detect encodings of files for diff I use such customization:
dired-diff.el
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