[squeak-dev] TranscriptStream characterLimit?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Jan 15 03:06:41 UTC 2019


There is also a preference for "Redirect transcript to stdout" that
can be useful for keeping a record of the updates.

Dave

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 03:20:42PM +0100, H. Hirzel wrote:
> Hello Marcel
> 
> Thank you for the info, this is helpful.
> I encountered the issue while updating a Squeak 6.0a-17330 image ....
> 
> The reason is to preserve  the full record of the update history in
> the Transcript.
> The image I am working with still has original characterLimit.
> 
> Regards
> Hannes
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/14/19, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> > Hi Hannes,
> >
> > it has been a preference since Nov 2017, instroduced by Eliot. See:
> >
> > TranscripStream class >> characterLimit:
> > TranscripStream class >> characterLimit
> >
> > Best,
> > Marcel
> >
> > Am 14.01.2019 15:10:22 schrieb H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
> > Hello
> >
> > The TranscriptStream characterLimit was set by Dan Ingalls 20 years
> > ago to 20'000 characters.
> >
> > characterLimit
> > "Tell the views how much to retain on screen"
> > ^ 20000
> >
> > Could this be set to a higher value or made a preference which can
> > easily be found?
> >
> > Regards
> > Hannes
> >
> >
> 


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