On 2019-04-07, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2019-04-06, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: >> >>> 2. A lot of my editing involves editing near (but not at) the end of >>> a file. I assume (I know) that the software that saves the file is >>> smart enough not to rewrite the entire file but instead to preserve >>> the beginning of the file and just rewrite the changed part of the >>> file (or from there to the end of the file). >> >> Not completely sure if "you assume" or "you know" it to be the case. >> Especially given that you then add: > > He assumes he knows, I guess. > > It might be pertinent for us to know what "the software" is exactly. At > any rate, why anyone would write "the software" rather the name of the > application involved defies my imaginative faculty.
I probably should've have said name or nature of the software involved (and cover the case where it's some sort of home-brew thing with no denomination, or an obscure proprietary app whose name wouldn't mean anything to anybody, or God knows what). > Maybe it's privileged information the OP must keep under wraps. > >>> Can anyone confirm that, >> >> which suggest you're not really sure (unless it referred to something else). >> >> >> Stefan >> >> > > -- “Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance-- we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves
