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Re: Emacs22 large file y-or-n-p


From: Brendan Halpin
Subject: Re: Emacs22 large file y-or-n-p
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:04:39 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

> Or, in this code in files.el:
>
>       (when (and large-file-warning-threshold (nth 7 attributes)
>                  ;; Don't ask again if we already have the file or
>                  ;; if we're asked to be quiet.
>
> ;;;;;;;; NEW CHECK STARTS HERE
>
>                    (not (string-match large-file-warning-exceptions filename))
>
> ;;;;;;;; NEW CHECK ENDS HERE
>
>                    (not (or buf nowarn))
>                  (> (nth 7 attributes) large-file-warning-threshold)
>                  (not (y-or-n-p
>                        (format "File %s is large (%dMB), really open? "
>                                (file-name-nondirectory filename)
>                                  (/ (nth 7 attributes) 1048576)))))
>
> ;; New variable
>
> (defvar large-file-warning-exceptions nil
>  "Regexp matching files that wont get their size checked")
>
> ;; And in your .emacs
>
> (setq large-file-warning-exceptions "my_rmail_file_regexp")
>
> This is probably the best solution in that it is more general.

That is the best solution (or something very like it -- a list of
exceptions, perhaps).

Where should feature requests for Emacs22 be sent?

Brendan
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