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Re: Conversion of old db
From: |
Dirk Eddelbuettel |
Subject: |
Re: Conversion of old db |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:03:46 -0600 |
On 27 December 2019 at 21:45, Roland Winkler wrote:
| On Fri Dec 27 2019 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > Wow, yes! Loads faster and ... works with old the db. Amazing.
|
| I am glad this helped!
Me too :)
| > Got one set of messages:
| >
| > Warning (undo): Buffer ‘*BBDB*’ undo info was 12368960 bytes long.
| > The undo info was discarded because it exceeded `undo-outer-limit'.
|
| Thanks for reporting this! There is really no reason why Emacs
| should record the changes of the buffer *BBDB* because this buffer
| is not directly editable like other buffers. Usually, this is
| not a problem anyway when the BBDB database is small. But your
| fairly big database makes Emacs choke. So bbdb-mode should bind
| buffer-undo-list to t.
|
| I'll do that.
Do you have a simple two or three liner I could add to .emacs to the same
effect?
| (I am surprised that nobody reported this problem previously.)
Guessing here but maybe because Emacs is reasonably subtle here and keep the
*Message* in a background buffer? It wasn't a hard "failed, here is the
message" error.
Dirk
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