------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 236 committer: Chong Yidong <c...@gnu.org> branch nick: elpa timestamp: Sun 2012-06-17 13:01:56 +0800 message: vlf.el: Improve commentary. modified: packages/vlf/vlf.el
=== modified file 'packages/vlf/vlf.el' --- a/packages/vlf/vlf.el 2012-06-15 23:21:13 +0000 +++ b/packages/vlf/vlf.el 2012-06-17 05:01:56 +0000 @@ -23,11 +23,17 @@ ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: -;; -;; After reading the Nth post on Gnu Emacs Help about Viewing Large -;; Files in Emacs, it itched so much that I decided to make a try. It -;; helped quite a lot when Kevin Rodgers posted a snippet on how to -;; use `insert-file-contents' to extract part of a file. + +;; This package provides the M-x vlf command, which visits part of a +;; large file in a read-only buffer without visiting the entire file. +;; The buffer uses VLF mode, which defines the commands M-<next> +;; (vlf-next-batch) and M-<prior> (vlf-prev-batch) to visit other +;; parts of the file. The option `vlf-batch-size' specifies the size +;; of each batch, in bytes. + +;; This package was inspired by a snippet posted by Kevin Rodgers, +;; showing how to use `insert-file-contents' to extract part of a +;; file. ;;; Code:
