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Article #807tags-search should kill newly made buffers
From: Paul Rubin
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:51
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:51
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In GNU Emacs 18.58.1 of Wed Apr 8 1992 on yoyo (berkeley-unix) Tags-search necessarily often visits a lot of unvisited files; it should kill off the buffers for such files if it doesn't find the searched-for string, before going on to the next file. I just did a tags-search in a big source directory. When the search finished, I had 700 buffers and my Emacs process used 13 megs of memory. Even just killing off the buffers made the machine page its brains out. (I couldn't just exit Emacs and start a new one because I had a subprocess running that I didn't want to kill).
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!napa.telebit.com!phr From: phr@napa.telebit.com (Paul Rubin) Subject: tags-search should kill newly made buffers Message-ID: <9210142351.AA20245@napa.TELEBIT.COM> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Distribution: gnu Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:51:27 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 12