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Re: map-file-lines
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: map-file-lines |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:40:37 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>>> Emacs Lisp lacks a good way to iterate over all the lines of a file,
>>> especially for a large file.
SM> I'm not really happy about focusing on "line at a time". It's a useful
SM> and common case, but Emacs usually is pretty good about being "line
SM> agnostic" (font-lock being an obvious counter example).
SM> Providing some kind of stream-processing functionality might be good,
SM> tho the need doesn't seem terribly high, since we've managed to avoid it
SM> until now.
> Without this function, Emacs simply can't handle large files and that's
> been requested at least 4 times by users that I can recall. I think a
> general solution to the large file Emacs problem would be better, but
> line-oriented processing is a classic approach to processing large files
> that many Emacs users will probably find familiar.
I know about the large-file problem, obviously, but I wonder what kind
of UI you expect to provide, in order for it to be able to work just one
line at a time.
SM> FWIW, another option is to provide an open-file-stream along the same
SM> lines as open-network-stream. I.e. the chunks are received via
SM> a process filter.
> How is that better than insert-file-contents as I use it?
It processes just one chunk at a time, with no need to keep the whole
file in memory. A naive implementation could look like
(start-process "open-file-stream" nil "cat" file).
> Are you thinking of a stateful back/forward seek capability? Or do
> you mean you'd like it to be asynchronous?
Just that the file is received/processed one chunk at a time, so you
never need to hold the whole file in memory at any one time.
Stefan
- Re: view/edit large files, (continued)
- Re: view/edit large files, Stefan Monnier, 2009/02/17
- Re: view/edit large files, Ted Zlatanov, 2009/02/20
- Re: view/edit large files, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/10
- Re: view/edit large files, Miles Bader, 2009/02/10
- Re: view/edit large files (was: map-file-lines), Richard M Stallman, 2009/02/07
- Re: view/edit large files, Ted Zlatanov, 2009/02/09
- Re: view/edit large files, Richard M Stallman, 2009/02/10
- Re: map-file-lines, Mathias Dahl, 2009/02/06
- Re: map-file-lines,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: map-file-lines, Stefan Monnier, 2009/02/02
Re: map-file-lines, Ted Zlatanov, 2009/02/02
Re: map-file-lines, Thierry Volpiatto, 2009/02/03