Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37793:ec57e2733712
(Visiting): Document that files larger than the buffer size limit cannot
be visited.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 18 May 2001 10:28:49 +0000 |
| parents | 96f0fed8e431 |
| children | 7a3c8aa0ba51 |
| files | man/files.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/files.texi Fri May 18 07:13:47 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/files.texi Fri May 18 10:28:49 2001 +0000 @@ -213,6 +213,12 @@ since you visited or saved it last. If the file has changed, a warning message is printed. @xref{Interlocking,,Simultaneous Editing}. +@cindex maximum buffer size exceeded, error message + Since Emacs reads the visited file in its entirety, files whose size +is larger than the maximum Emacs buffer size (@pxref{Buffers}) cannot be +visited; if you try, Emacs will print an error message saying that the +maximum buffer size is exceeded. + @cindex creating files What if you want to create a new file? Just visit it. Emacs prints @samp{(New file)} in the echo area, but in other respects behaves as if