Ido [Too big] message

Ido [Too big] message

[Ross A. Laird]

What's the ido message [Too big] all about?
I get it every time I hit C-x C-f and the folder is ~/
There's nothing particularly large in this folder: no long file names,
not a huge list of files, and so on. It's mostly a few directories.
I do not get this message anywhere else.
This is what it looks like in the minibuffer:

Find file: ~/ [Too big]

What's the message intended to convey?

Ross

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Re: Ido [Too big] message

[Glenn Morris]

Ross A. Laird wrote:

> What's the ido message [Too big] all about?

M-x apropos-value, or a simple grep of ido.el, will take you to
C-h v ido-decorations, whose doc contains:

  10th element is displayed when directory exceeds `ido-max-directory-size'.

Re: Ido [Too big] message

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Ross A. Laird wrote:
>
>> What's the ido message [Too big] all about?
>
> M-x apropos-value, or a simple grep of ido.el, will take you to
> C-h v ido-decorations, whose doc contains:
>
>  10th element is displayed when directory exceeds `ido-max-directory-size'.

[Too big directory]?

Re: Ido [Too big] message

[B. T. Raven]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu> wrote:
>> Ross A. Laird wrote:
>>
>>> What's the ido message [Too big] all about?
>> M-x apropos-value, or a simple grep of ido.el, will take you to
>> C-h v ido-decorations, whose doc contains:
>>
>>  10th element is displayed when directory exceeds `ido-max-directory-size'.
> 
> [Too big directory]?
> 
> 

But it seems to default to 30000, at least in Emacs ver. 22.1 . But this 
doesn't seem to refer to the number of files but something else. Here is 
defcustom from ido.el:

(defcustom ido-max-directory-size 30000
   "*Maximum size (in bytes) for directories to use ido completion.
If you enter a directory with a size larger than this size, ido will
not provide the normal completion.  To show the completions, use C-a."
   :type '(choice (const :tag "No limit" nil)
		 (integer :tag "Size in bytes" 30000))
   :group 'ido)

So there is a "No limit" option.


Ed