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• View Large Files Improved
• Known issues

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:

• 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 memory determined by current batch size)
• options to jump to beginning, end or arbitrary file chunk
• ability to jump/insert given number of batches at once
• newly added content is acknowledged if file has changed size meanwhile
• 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.