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diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index e4b97e58fca..649fa8bcb4d 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -206,7 +206,10 @@ saved it. If the file has changed, Emacs offers to reread it. If you try to visit a file larger than @code{large-file-warning-threshold} (the default is 10000000, which is about 10 megabytes), Emacs asks you for confirmation first. You can -answer @kbd{y} to proceed with visiting the file. Note, however, that +answer @kbd{y} to proceed with visiting the file or @kbd{l} to visit +the file literally (see below). Visiting large files literally speeds +up navigation and editing of such files, because various +potentially-expensive features are turned off. Note, however, that Emacs cannot visit files that are larger than the maximum Emacs buffer size, which is limited by the amount of memory Emacs can allocate and by the integers that Emacs can represent (@pxref{Buffers}). If you @@ -400,11 +403,14 @@ possible responses are analogous to those of @code{query-replace}: @table @kbd @item y +@item @key{SPC} Save this buffer and ask about the rest of the buffers. @item n +@item @key{DEL} Don't save this buffer, but ask about the rest of the buffers. @item ! Save this buffer and all the rest with no more questions. +@item q @c following generates acceptable underfull hbox @item @key{RET} Terminate @code{save-some-buffers} without any more saving. @@ -1016,13 +1022,16 @@ separate file, without altering the file you actually use. This is called @dfn{auto-saving}. It prevents you from losing more than a limited amount of work if the system crashes. +@vindex auto-save-no-message When Emacs determines that it is time for auto-saving, it considers each buffer, and each is auto-saved if auto-saving is enabled for it -and it has been changed since the last time it was auto-saved. The -message @samp{Auto-saving...} is displayed in the echo area during -auto-saving, if any files are actually auto-saved. Errors occurring -during auto-saving are caught so that they do not interfere with the -execution of commands you have been typing. +and it has been changed since the last time it was auto-saved. When +the @code{auto-save-no-message} variable is set to @code{nil} (the +default), the message @samp{Auto-saving...} is displayed in the echo +area during auto-saving, if any files are actually auto-saved; to +disable these messages, customize the variable to a non-@code{nil} +value. Errors occurring during auto-saving are caught so that they do +not interfere with the execution of commands you have been typing. @menu * Files: Auto Save Files. The file where auto-saved changes are @@ -1309,17 +1318,8 @@ default), and @code{list-directory-verbose-switches} is a string giving the switches to use in a verbose listing (@code{"-l"} by default). -@vindex directory-free-space-program -@vindex directory-free-space-args In verbose directory listings, Emacs adds information about the -amount of free space on the disk that contains the directory. You can -customize how this is done for local filesystems via the variables -@code{directory-free-space-program} and -@code{directory-free-space-args}: the former specifies what program to -run (default: @command{df}), the latter which arguments to pass to -that program (default is system-dependent). (On MS-Windows and -MS-DOS, these two variables are ignored, and an internal Emacs -implementation of the same functionality is used instead.) +amount of free space on the disk that contains the directory. The command @kbd{M-x delete-directory} prompts for a directory's name using the minibuffer, and deletes the directory if it is empty. If @@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ automatic line number correction, change the variable @code{diff-update-on-the-fly} to @code{nil}. Diff mode arranges for hunks to be treated as compiler error -messages by @kbd{C-x `} and other commands that handle error messages +messages by @kbd{M-g M-n} and other commands that handle error messages (@pxref{Compilation Mode}). Thus, you can use the compilation-mode commands to visit the corresponding source locations. |