Re: filemananger for emacs with meta information about a file without opening it

[Michael Heerdegen]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> > How do you find out a picture's resolution without opening the file?
>
> Nohow. The opening is just not perceived by the user. The pedantic
> description would probably be “without visiting in a buffer and
> without starting an associated interactive application”.

I read it as "without reading the complete file contents from disk".

To get some metadata about images one has to look at the contents but
the first N bytes may be enough with an appropriate small N.

Michael.