Here we see the file(1) command knows a file has very long lines. $ file www.youtube.com.har www.youtube.com.har: UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines $ wc www.youtube.com.har 45982 330703 14075335 www.youtube.com.har Alas, even in my https://www.jidanni.org/comp/configuration/.emacs with (global-so-long-mode 1) (setq so-long-action 'so-long-minor-mode) this certain file does not trigger so-long mode. Where to get such a file to test? Real simple. In Chrome Developer Tools network tab, visit https://www.youtube.com/c/jidanni2/playlists?view=1 and right click "Save all as HAR with content."