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25.2: Feature Request: auto exit upon memory exhaustion warning

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From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31091 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31091: 25.2: Feature Request: auto exit upon memory exhaustion warning
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 12:58:19 -0400

On 2018-04-08 12:30, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> Hmm, I guess I'm not sure what advantage an abrubt shutdown has over a
> warning.

The most useful case would be of a user is running a time-consuming
operation or an asynchronous operation, maybe a long repetitive macro,
for which the current warning would be generated at near the beginning
of the operation and system freeze would happen in mid-operation.

>  And as far as I understand, you never saw the warnings
> messages,

I did see the mini-buffer advice and warning, and ignored it, and I did
see the mode line warning, and ignored it. Added to the long list of
things I've done -- once.

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