Re: Emacs opens only first 16384 bytes of file?!

[Christoph Groth]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
> > 
> > However, no other programs (including editors) seem to have
> > a problem with this.  So it really must be Emacs trying to be
> > clever.
> 
> Not clever, but flexible, powerful, and performant.  Which other
> program supports on-the-fly decoding of non-ASCII text in so many
> encodings?

No need to convince me.  I have been living in Emacs since 1998.

That said, the finding that Emacs does not read files until EOF
surprised me quite a lot.  I thought that it had solid underpinnings.

> > Should I report this to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, or is posting on this
> > list enough?  Or should I open a ticket with debbugs.gnu.org?
> 
> A bug for this already exists: bug#9800.  A possible solution was also
> pointed out there.

Thanks, I did not manage to find this one.