Subject: Re: bug#73727: dired-view-file vs. emacs -nw
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:16:51 +0200
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> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:28:14 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> > From: Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:16:22 +0800
> > 
> > All I know is a couple more erroneous keystroks, and one ends up
> > accidentally editing one of these files, with its regexp parser choking
> > long lines... might end up using all the CPU...
> 
> dired-view-file visits the file in read-only mode, so you are not
> supposed to edit it unless you really mean to...
> 
> IOW, it sounds like there was some cockpit error in your case, and you
> somehow decided that it's Emacs's fault.  It isn't.

No substantial new information or comments about this in more than 2
weeks, so I'm now closing this bug.