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bug#22143: 24.5; Emacs blocked on long lines.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#22143: 24.5; Emacs blocked on long lines. |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:01:43 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 06:53:24 -0700
> Cc: 22143@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Is this better with so-long.el?
No, I think so-long.el is better, and in any case so-long.el is our
canonical solution (or, rather, band-aid) for this annoying problem.
> etc/PROBLEMS says:
>
> *** Editing files with very long lines is slow.
>
> For example, simply moving through a file that contains hundreds of
> thousands of characters per line is slow, and consumes a lot of CPU.
> This is a known limitation of Emacs with no solution at this time.
>
> Is there anything more we can/should do in this case short of rewriting
> the display engine?
Maybe there is, but I have yet to hear ideas for how to do that.
Ideas are still welcome.
> Does it make sense to track this limitation in a bug report?
We already have one: bug#13675.