From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: 23087-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: William <r.3@libertysurf.fr>
Subject: bug#23087: emacs asks confirmation to open rather small files
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:56:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3ebniq6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F1245B.3090407@libertysurf.fr>
i just noticed that two of the OP's responses, and my own subsequent
response to one of those, were only sent privately. With the permission
of the OP, i here reproduce these responses as support for closing this
bug.
William <r.3@libertysurf.fr> writes:
> Thanks for the information.
>
> Maybe it would be interesting to change the default behaviour
> for all people who ignore the option ?
Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes:
> William <r.3@libertysurf.fr> writes:
>
>> Thanks for the information.
>
> You're welcome. :-)
>
>> Maybe it would be interesting to change the default behaviour
>> for all people who ignore the option ?
>
> Mm, i think it's best to leave it at the current size, for two
> reasons:
>
> * Emacs is used in a wide variety of situations; not everyone is
> in a situation where they're running Emacs on a machine with
> multiple gigs of memory. i would suggest it's less
> inconvenient for someone to have to say "y" to opening a
> large file than for someone to have the 256M machine on which
> they're working hosed by a 300M log file that was opened
> without confirmation.
>
> * Which value should be chosen is likely to result in
> bikeshedding, since different people with different
> experiences will have different ideas about what value is
> 'reasonable'.
>
> So unless others feel a strong need to revisit the default
> value, i recommend closing this bug.
William <r.3@libertysurf.fr> writes:
> ok fine, thanks
Now closing this bug.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-12 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 10:54 bug#23087: emacs asks confirmation to open rather small files William
2016-03-22 11:18 ` Alexis
2016-04-12 11:56 ` Alexis [this message]
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