Re: Emacs22 large file y-or-n-p

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> writes:

> Emacs 22 has a check when visiting files for size, and a threshold
> above which it queries the user whether s/he really wants to load
> the file. Mostly this is a good idea, but I regularly want to load
> my ~/RMAIL which gets ridiculously large.
>
> Is there a lightweight way to avoid the check for RMAIL? I've
> looked at the code (for find-file-noselect) and that permits
> different size thresholds (and turning the check off altogether). 
>
> Would defadvice around the rmail defun provide a handle? e.g.
> temporarily raise the threshold variable's value to 100MB and
> revert it afterwards?

Really Brendan!  M-x apropos RET large.*file RET

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