Re: Reading huge files

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:24:52 -0700
> >
> > (defun view-large-file-contents (file beg end)
> >    "View FILE contents from bytes BEG through END, in View mode."
> >    (interactive "fView file: \nnFrom byte: \nnTo byte: ")
> >    (switch-to-buffer
> >     (generate-new-buffer (format "%s[%d,%d]"
> >                                 (file-name-nondirectory file) beg end)))
> >    (insert-file-contents file nil beg end)
> >    (view-mode 1))
>
> Does this really work?  I think it won't: the underlying problem is
> that for large files, END overflows the limits of the ELisp integer
> type, and your suggestion doesn't resolve this fundamental problem.
> So insert-file-contents will still barf with large files.
>
> Or am I missing something?

No, you are far wiser in the ways of the buddha.

Why does insert-file-contents signal an error if you pass floating point
values for BEG and END?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA