Please increase default value of message-log-max

Please increase default value of message-log-max

[Jason Spiro]

Hi all,

The default value of message-log-max in my 6-month-old Emacs snapshot
is 50.  This is not enough to hold all the messages Emacs emits at
startup on my PC.  Could you please bump the default for
message-log-max to a larger value so that nobody will ever have to
change the variable name?  I suggest 1024 or preferably even 8192,
since RAM is cheap and I can't think of any loss-of-privacy issues
this would cause.

Also, if you implemented this change, perhaps Elisp programmers would
start logging more information to *Messages*, which I think would be
handy when troubleshooting.

Regards,
Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>

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Re: Please increase default value of message-log-max

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:16:47 -0400
> From: "Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
> 
> The default value of message-log-max in my 6-month-old Emacs snapshot
> is 50.  This is not enough to hold all the messages Emacs emits at
> startup on my PC.

Why can't you customize the value as the first thing your .emacs does?

Re: Please increase default value of message-log-max

[Richard Stallman]

I am not sure I like the idea of setting message-log-max to 1024,
but setting it to 100 probably can't do any harm.
Does anyone see a problem in this?

Re: Please increase default value of message-log-max

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> I am not sure I like the idea of setting message-log-max to 1024,
> but setting it to 100 probably can't do any harm.

As a data point, I've had it set to 1000 for 3 years, and have never
seen any problems.

Re: Please increase default value of message-log-max

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> I am not sure I like the idea of setting message-log-max to 1024,
>> but setting it to 100 probably can't do any harm.
>
> As a data point, I've had it set to 1000 for 3 years, and have never
> seen any problems.

But, having said that, I suspect it's not important for most people,
those who need to can easily change it, so this close to a release
just bumping it to 100 (or doing nothing) is a better idea.

RE: Please increase default value of message-log-max

[Drew Adams]

> > I am not sure I like the idea of setting message-log-max to 1024,
> > but setting it to 100 probably can't do any harm.
> 
> As a data point, I've had it set to 1000 for 3 years, and have never
> seen any problems.

FWIW, same here, with 2000.

Re: Please increase default value of message-log-max

[Edward O'Connor]

>> I am not sure I like the idea of setting message-log-max to 1024,
>> but setting it to 100 probably can't do any harm.
>
> As a data point, I've had it set to 1000 for 3 years, and have never
> seen any problems.

I've had the following in .emacs for some time, and also haven't had any
problems:

(setq message-log-max most-positive-fixnum)


Ted

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Re: Please increase default value of message-log-max

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Edward O'Connor wrote:
>>> I am not sure I like the idea of setting message-log-max to 1024,
>>> but setting it to 100 probably can't do any harm.
>> As a data point, I've had it set to 1000 for 3 years, and have never
>> seen any problems.
> 
> I've had the following in .emacs for some time, and also haven't had any
> problems:
> 
> (setq message-log-max most-positive-fixnum)


I always use (setq message-log-max t) and I have not noticed any 
problems. (But on the other hand I often erase the message buffer.)