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dired-view-file vs. emacs -nw

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Message #16 received at 73727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 73727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73727: dired-view-file vs. emacs -nw
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:28:14 +0300

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Cc: 73727 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

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