query for large object display

[Rodney Sparapani]

Ben:

Are you loading these objects from a large file?

Rodney

>Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:23:40 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ben Shoemaker <shoemake at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
>X-X-Sender: shoemake at scarecrow
>To: Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at post.its.mcw.edu>
>cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: query for large object display
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>Rodney,
>
>Thanks for your quick reply!  Unfortunately, that didn't seem to work for
>me.  I added the lines below to my .emacs file and when I restarted xemacs
>it complained:
>
>Warning: reference to free variable filename
>Warning: assignment to free variable filename
>
>I went ahead and tried typing the name of a large object, but again it
>hung up my xemacs.
>
>Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
>--Ben
>
>On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
>
>> Ben:
>>
>> Not by default.  But, I run into this problem all the time so I have the
>> following in my .emacs:
>>
>> (defvar big-file-limit 400000)
>>
>> (defadvice find-file (before huge-file-protection activate)
>>   (let* ((big-file-list (file-attributes filename))
>>          (big-file-size (nth 7 big-file-list)))
>>
>>   (if big-file-list
>>      (progn
>>       (if (or (equal big-file-size -1) (> big-file-size big-file-limit)) 
(progn
>>         (shell-command (concat "head -10000 " filename " > " filename "00"))
>>       (message "WARNING: only showing first 10000 lines of %s." filename)
>>       (setq filename (concat filename "00"))))))
>> ))
>>
>> Rodney
>>
>> >Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:03:25 -0500 (EST)
>> >From: Ben Shoemaker <shoemake at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
>> >X-X-Sender: shoemake at scarecrow
>> >To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> >Subject: query for large object display
>> >MIME-Version: 1.0
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I use ESS version 5.1.19 in xemacs 20.4 and am very happy with it.
>> >Occasionally, however, I type an object's name and forget to explore first
>> >if it's a large object.  If it is, it causes xemacs to freeze up,
>> >sometimes indefinitely while it's trying to dump all of the data to the
>> >buffer.  Is there a variable to set which would query yes/no (or simply
>> >refuse to do it) if the object is beyond a certain size?
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> >Ben
>> >
>> >
>> 
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>> Rodney Sparapani              Medical College of Wisconsin
>> Sr. Biostatistician           Patient Care & Outcomes Research (PCOR)
>> rsparapa at mcw.edu              http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
>> Was 'Name That Tune' rigged?  WWLD -- What Would Lombardi Do
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>

Rodney Sparapani              Medical College of Wisconsin
Sr. Biostatistician           Patient Care & Outcomes Research (PCOR)
rsparapa at mcw.edu              http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
Was 'Name That Tune' rigged?  WWLD -- What Would Lombardi Do

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