Mercurial > emacs
changeset 59791:fc2f566fb0fd
(syms_of_undo) <undo-outer-limit>: Doc update.
| author | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:39:33 +0000 |
| parents | 85fb49e8bc60 |
| children | ff0bef9e820a |
| files | src/undo.c |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/src/undo.c Sun Jan 30 00:32:39 2005 +0000 +++ b/src/undo.c Sun Jan 30 00:39:33 2005 +0000 @@ -639,11 +639,13 @@ DEFVAR_LISP ("undo-outer-limit", &Vundo_outer_limit, doc: /* Outer limit on size of undo information for one command. At garbage collection time, if the current command has produced -more than this much undo information, it asks you whether to delete -the information. This is a last-ditch limit to prevent memory overflow. +more than this much undo information, it discards the info and displays +a warning. This is a last-ditch limit to prevent memory overflow. -The size is counted as the number of bytes occupied, -which includes both saved text and other data. +The size is counted as the number of bytes occupied, which includes +both saved text and other data. A value of nil means no limit. In +this case, accumulating one huge undo entry could make Emacs crash as +a result of memory overflow. In fact, this calls the function which is the value of `undo-outer-limit-function' with one argument, the size.