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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 30943@debbugs.gnu.org, cfindeisen@google.com
Subject: bug#30943: save-hist creates massive cache file
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:47:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83po3md8hw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1rwoxusqjl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:08:30 -0400)

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org,  30943@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:08:30 -0400
> 
> 
> I think it's a reasonable feature request to ask that savehist be
> capable of dealing with additional variables that aren't automatically
> truncated (or if not it should be explicit about it).

That'd require people to register a function to do the truncation.  We
could, of course, provide a couple of default functions to do that
with "simple" variables.

> On the other hand, desktop is a superset of savehist and can can already
> do this (apparently, see desktop-globals-to-save).

Yep.

> I wonder if load should pay attention to large-file-warning-threshold
> somehow?

I actually find that to be a nuisance even for visiting files.  With
64-bit builds, this warning makes very little sense.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-29 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-25 19:11 bug#30943: save-hist creates massive cache file Chris Findeisen
2018-03-26 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-27  2:50   ` Chris Findeisen
2018-03-27 19:44     ` Glenn Morris
2018-03-29 16:27       ` Chris Findeisen
2018-03-29 17:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-29 18:08         ` Glenn Morris
2018-03-29 18:47           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-03-30  5:25             ` Glenn Morris
2018-03-30  8:14               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-15 10:29           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-03-27 19:12   ` Glenn Morris
2018-03-29 10:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-29 17:12       ` Glenn Morris

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