From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Cc: 45412@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#45412: File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 06:52:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735zuig9m.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1a6u2its2.fsf@yahoo.es> ("Daniel Martín"'s message of "Fri, 25 Dec 2020 02:00:45 +0100")
Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:
> I think users would be confused about this option. Would it always open
> the file regularly or literally?
Yes, it's rife with confusion.
> Instead, one possibility could be to offer a "!" option that would
> always open big files non-literally in the current Emacs session. Its
> implementation would basically open the large file and set
> large-file-warning-threshold to nil. However, I foresee problems if
> users accidentally press "!" in this prompt.
Whether to open a large file (and how) is so situation-dependent that I
think adding a "!" option here would be a disservice.
> Another approach could be to offer a C-h binding that opens a help
> window that describes the possible options and briefly links to the
> customization entry point that removes the prompt permanently.
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
--
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-24 14:44 bug#45412: File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-12-25 1:00 ` Unknown
2020-12-25 1:29 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-12-25 5:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-25 9:32 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-10 22:32 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-10 22:52 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-11 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-12 8:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-16 23:50 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-17 11:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-21 22:12 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-22 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-25 19:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-25 21:23 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-04-26 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-27 1:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-05 23:10 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-06 8:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-06 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-07 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-08 11:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-08 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-09 9:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-09 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-22 22:09 ` Juri Linkov
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