From: Bug Dout <buggsy2@mailinator.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Intelligently opening large files in emacs
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:25:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y507wei9.fsf@mailinator.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.17438.1395161765.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Excellent point. In some very informal tests I didn't notice much
difference in opening "large" files either way on a desktop PC (Windows
7x64). I ran into GNU Emacs' ridiculous "exceeds maximum buffer size"
long before any noticeable opening delay.
> IOW, the size of the file usually says nothing about its contents or
> the mode in which you'd like to visit that file. So doing this based
> on size alone sounds like not a good idea to me.
>
--
"In order to discover new lands one must have the courage to lose
sight of the shore."
--Andre Gide
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-18 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-18 7:20 Intelligently opening large files in emacs Dushyant Juneja
2014-03-18 8:37 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 9:51 ` Dushyant Juneja
2014-03-18 15:05 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-19 0:25 ` Stefan
[not found] ` <mailman.17438.1395161765.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-18 18:25 ` Bug Dout [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.17417.1395136301.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-18 16:45 ` Felix Dietrich
2014-03-19 0:29 ` Stefan
2014-03-19 4:52 ` Marcin Borkowski
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