From unknown Sun Jun 15 08:56:31 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#23087: emacs asks confirmation to open rather small files Resent-From: William Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 10:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 23087 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 23087@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.145864407414204 (code B ref -1); Tue, 22 Mar 2016 10:55:02 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Mar 2016 10:54:34 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57751 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxK-0003h2-GV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:34 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37966) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxJ-0003gq-6s for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxC-0007TJ-SM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:28 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50, RECEIVED_FROM_WINDOWS_HOST autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:44868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxC-0007TE-P6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:26 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57155) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxB-0005Xt-91 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJx8-0007RU-02 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:25 -0400 Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.2]:9748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJx7-0007R9-Mi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:21 -0400 Received: from [172.16.79.17] (unknown [143.196.127.2]) (Authenticated sender: r.3) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F4D64B01AC for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:49:50 +0100 (CET) From: William Message-ID: <56F1245B.3090407@libertysurf.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:54:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows NT kernel [generic] [fuzzy] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) Hello, When opening files bigger than I think 20Mo, emacs asks for confirmation. I guess it was important a long time ago, because opening such files could use all memory and generate freezes. But with today memory, I think the limit should be modified to let's say 300Mo, or even bigger. Best regards In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2015-03-07 on trouble, modified by Debian Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie) Configured using: `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro' Important settings: value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: y x r e p o r x r e p o r Recent messages: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...done Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)...done *** Reading .emacs *** Loading /p/opas/src/Ocaml/opam-v1.2b/4.02.3/share/emacs/site-lisp/tuareg-site-file.el (source)...done Loading paren...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. File log_merge is large (43.8M), really open? (y or n) y Making completion list... Quit Making completion list... 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[124.168.216.210]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id fw9sm47688229pac.21.2016.03.22.04.18.12 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 22 Mar 2016 04:18:13 -0700 (PDT) References: <56F1245B.3090407@libertysurf.fr> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 24.5.3 From: Alexis In-reply-to: <56F1245B.3090407@libertysurf.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 22:18:07 +1100 Message-ID: <87k2kuu5g0.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) William writes: > When opening files bigger than I think 20Mo, emacs asks for > confirmation. I guess it was important a long time ago, because > opening such files could use all memory and generate > freezes. But with today memory, I think the limit should be > modified to let's say 300Mo, or even bigger. Emacs versions 22.1 and later have the `large-file-warning-threshold' variable, available via the `find-file' customize-group. From unknown Sun Jun 15 08:56:31 2025 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.505 (Entity 5.505) X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org From: help-debbugs@gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System) To: William Subject: bug#23087: closed (Re: bug#23087: emacs asks confirmation to open rather small files) Message-ID: References: <87r3ebniq6.fsf@gmail.com> <56F1245B.3090407@libertysurf.fr> X-Gnu-PR-Message: they-closed 23087 X-Gnu-PR-Package: emacs Reply-To: 23087@debbugs.gnu.org Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:57:02 +0000 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1460462222-11509-1" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1460462222-11509-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Your bug report #23087: emacs asks confirmation to open rather small files which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. 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[124.168.216.210]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p85sm43213765pfj.16.2016.04.12.04.56.36 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Apr 2016 04:56:37 -0700 (PDT) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 24.5.3 From: Alexis To: 23087-done@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#23087: emacs asks confirmation to open rather small files Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:56:33 +1000 Message-ID: <87r3ebniq6.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 23087-done Cc: William X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) 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 writes: > Thanks for the information. > > Maybe it would be interesting to change the default behaviour > for all people who ignore the option ? Alexis writes: > William 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 writes: > ok fine, thanks Now closing this bug. ------------=_1460462222-11509-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Mar 2016 10:54:34 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57751 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxK-0003h2-GV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:34 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37966) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxJ-0003gq-6s for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxC-0007TJ-SM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:28 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50, RECEIVED_FROM_WINDOWS_HOST autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:44868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxC-0007TE-P6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:26 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57155) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJxB-0005Xt-91 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJx8-0007RU-02 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:25 -0400 Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.2]:9748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiJx7-0007R9-Mi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:54:21 -0400 Received: from [172.16.79.17] (unknown [143.196.127.2]) (Authenticated sender: r.3) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F4D64B01AC for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:49:50 +0100 (CET) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org From: William Subject: emacs asks confirmation to open rather small files Message-ID: <56F1245B.3090407@libertysurf.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:54:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows NT kernel [generic] [fuzzy] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) Hello, When opening files bigger than I think 20Mo, emacs asks for confirmation. I guess it was important a long time ago, because opening such files could use all memory and generate freezes. But with today memory, I think the limit should be modified to let's say 300Mo, or even bigger. Best regards In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2015-03-07 on trouble, modified by Debian Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie) Configured using: `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro' Important settings: value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: y x r e p o r x r e p o r Recent messages: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...done Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)...done *** Reading .emacs *** Loading /p/opas/src/Ocaml/opam-v1.2b/4.02.3/share/emacs/site-lisp/tuareg-site-file.el (source)...done Loading paren...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. 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