Re: Intelligently opening large files in emacs

[Bug Dout]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Excellent point. In some very informal tests I didn't notice much
difference in opening "large" files either way on a desktop PC (Windows
7x64). I ran into GNU Emacs' ridiculous "exceeds maximum buffer size"
long before any noticeable opening delay.

> IOW, the size of the file usually says nothing about its contents or
> the mode in which you'd like to visit that file.  So doing this based
> on size alone sounds like not a good idea to me.
>

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