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Re: Warning (undo): Buffer `*Buffer List*'


From: Tamas K Papp
Subject: Re: Warning (undo): Buffer `*Buffer List*'
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:02:39 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

On Thu, Apr 25 2013, Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> Hi Tamas,
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After my Emacs has been running for a while, I get warnings like this:
>>
>> ----
>> Warning (undo): Buffer `*Buffer List*' undo info was 12075571 bytes long.
>> The undo info was discarded because it exceeded `undo-outer-limit'.
>
> I wonder whether undo data in *Buffer List* is useful at all - I don't
> think so.  ibuffer does (buffer-disable-undo) for its buffer list, and I
> think the *Buffer List* should disable recording undo data as well.
>
> With other words, I think this is just a bug, since *Buffer List* is a
> read-only buffer.  Can you please submit a bug report (M-x
> report-emacs-bug)?

Thanks Michael, I have reported it as a bug.  In the meantime, how can I
work around this?  I would need to call (buffer-disable-undo) each time
*Buffer List* is created, but I could not find a hook for this.

Best,

Tamas





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