From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ross@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Ido [Too big] message Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:45:09 -0800 Message-ID: <87fxjd224a.fsf@rosslaird.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232480797 9370 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2009 19:46:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:46:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 20:47:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LPMZ8-000099-Ui for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:47:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPMXr-0007av-Ro for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:45:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPMXS-0007XB-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPMXQ-0007Un-85 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:45:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35413 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPMXP-0007UJ-U2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60232 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPMXP-000091-3C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPMXJ-0004pl-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:45:21 +0000 Original-Received: from h24-207-49-95.dlt.dccnet.com ([24.207.49.95]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:45:21 +0000 Original-Received: from ross by h24-207-49-95.dlt.dccnet.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:45:21 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h24-207-49-95.dlt.dccnet.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WAlMFpqvcUjgpnwWgAEmYN8A8vk= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61513 Archived-At: What's the ido message [Too big] all about? I get it every time I hit C-x C-f and the folder is ~/ There's nothing particularly large in this folder: no long file names, not a huge list of files, and so on. It's mostly a few directories. I do not get this message anywhere else. This is what it looks like in the minibuffer: Find file: ~/ [Too big] What's the message intended to convey? Ross -- Ross A. Laird, PhD www.rosslaird.info