Subject: Re: bug#23087: emacs asks confirmation to open rather small files

From: Alexis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:56:33 +1000

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 <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thanks for the information.
>
> Maybe it would be interesting to change the default behaviour 
> for all people who ignore the option ?

Alexis <[email-masked]> writes:

> William <[email-masked]> 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 <[email-masked]> writes:

> ok fine, thanks

Now closing this bug.