From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jason Spiro" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Please increase default value of message-log-max Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:16:47 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175935522 18381 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2007 08:45:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:45:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 07 10:44:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ha6XG-0006dL-0R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:44:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ha6ap-0004Bz-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZxjJ-0004LO-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZxjI-0004Kz-Tz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZxjI-0004Kw-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZxfl-0005iv-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so1547656ugf for ; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:16:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=IpP/t2ISGn9i7/4tHuwbwibv97YDn/C7N59wqIzdGU+HVta2f5BwPKEi4jamcuVt2vKFa/AOmSNTabIx1K/jmznudi4dmmkEHyzMrn/ZXWyxRGo1/YS2TsU7V6vWbKBK6GXxpAeglVfVCBe/zFfokOFuOD67n35W8hW6SniBX30= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=NvQCkkfw+9F6fZUl1En0MReK3oFlJh8bbXkIKIk0cQ4Gn8miqqol8CVjixOoFtztmYHxZqbojZrKpVeSRQ93OXdr6nZ5FnASBtQV7XgIrRCymEYwIv88l6VnTdk2sHTuG+1qfbm/lH+pruWuNz+RJ8UPLjwKXiC4oA4jf8r0doA= Original-Received: by 10.78.180.18 with SMTP id c18mr605039huf.1175901407088; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.25.19 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: eec000965810180b X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:48:16 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69155 Archived-At: Hi all, The default value of message-log-max in my 6-month-old Emacs snapshot is 50. This is not enough to hold all the messages Emacs emits at startup on my PC. Could you please bump the default for message-log-max to a larger value so that nobody will ever have to change the variable name? I suggest 1024 or preferably even 8192, since RAM is cheap and I can't think of any loss-of-privacy issues this would cause. Also, if you implemented this change, perhaps Elisp programmers would start logging more information to *Messages*, which I think would be handy when troubleshooting. Regards, Jason Spiro -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide software development and training services to clients worldwide. Contact me for a FREE consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: info@jspiro.com / MSN: jasonspiro@hotmail.com