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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:59:01 +0100
> 
> > 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.

It does.  There are several valid reasons why we don't read
everything: insert-file-contents has more than a single operation
mode.