Re: how to restrict the numbers of chars in a buffer/file

Uwe> Thanks did not know about that one. Lets see whether I can Uwe> manage. For your use case, David's suggestion is far better than mine (I focused on the "file" in "buffer/file"). Something very simple like (defvar uwe-message-limit 155) (lambda (&rest ignored) ; you may need to have correct ; dummy arguments here (when (> (buffer-size) uwe-message-limit) (warn "The message buffer has %d characters. You should reduce it to %d characters or less." (buffer-size) uwe-message-limit))) should do as the hook function. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.