branch: externals/vlf
commit a31be70613d0f7c898082ca4acf862229147ca86
Author: Andrey Kotlarski <[email protected]>
Commit: Andrey Kotlarski <[email protected]>
Update README and bump version.
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README.org | 18 ++++++++----------
vlfi.el | 2 +-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index edd0837..6f5ec8c 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
* View Large Files Improved
-An Emacs mode that allows viewing files in chunks. This is a fork
-that builds on the bare bones GNU ELPA vlf.el. It adds the following
-improvements:
+An Emacs mode that allows viewing, editing and searching in large
+files in chunks. Batch size can be adjusted on the fly and bounds the
+memory that is to be used for operations on the file.
+This is a fork that builds on the bare bones GNU ELPA vlf.el. It adds
+the following improvements:
+
+- proper dealing with Unicode
- regular expression search on whole file (in constant memory
determined by current batch size)
- chunk editing (if size has changed, saving is done in constant
@@ -12,11 +16,5 @@ improvements:
- ability to jump/insert given number of batches at once
- newly added content is acknowledged if file has changed size
meanwhile
+- automatic scrolling of batches
- vlfi is added as an option when opening large files
-
-* Known issues
-
-- When chunk starts with only part of multi-byte character, encoding
- for this chunk is clobbered visibly, don't edit/save in such case.
- Workaround is to move back to the first non-clobbered chunk and
- enlarge batch size until this chunk comes into range.
diff --git a/vlfi.el b/vlfi.el
index 05200b8..8dc8559 100644
--- a/vlfi.el
+++ b/vlfi.el
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
;; Copyright (C) 2006, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-;; Version: 0.6
+;; Version: 0.7
;; Keywords: large files, utilities
;; Authors: 2006 Mathias Dahl <[email protected]>
;; 2012 Sam Steingold <[email protected]>
