[Geany] do not open oversize files

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 17:42:22 +0000, Nick wrote:

>On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:05:36 +0100
>Milan Babuskov <milan.babuskov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >> "You're trying to open a huge file (600MB), which may cause your
>> >> system to work slow. Are you sure?"
>> >
>> > Well, where to set such a point?
>> 
>> Any file larger than 50MB?
>
>This sounds OK, or even smaller. A hidden pref could be used
>to control the limit.

That's probably the best with using a hidden pref.


>> Alternatively, if the file browser would show the file sizes that
>> would also work. It happens to me sometimes to accidentally open the

If adding this to the file browser plugin, it should be optional as it
would cause a not so small performance loss stat'ing each single file
or even use GIO for querying the file size which might be a bit more
portable.

Regards,
Enrico

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