Subject: Re: bug#16875: python, comint-mode: Large output makes Emacs freeze

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:28:57 +0200

On 25.06.2014 16:26, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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> Maybe comint.el could also be changed so that it "wraps" lines if they
> get past some arbitrary maximum length (like 10K chars, for example).
> It wouldn't be a great solution, but if the performance sucks really bad
> past 10K chars, wrapping the line might be a lesser evil.
>
>
>          Stefan
>

Sounds promising, thanks! As comint is built for human interaction, readability of output matters.

Andreas