Subject: bug#18530: 24.3; Emacs unable to handle very large lines

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 05:42:37 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  Alexis <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:30:53 -0400
> 
> > I think if we can get over this limitation of Emacs it will
> > make Emacs a little more powerful!
> 
> Yes, we all agree.  Eli is probably the most knowledgeable about fixing
> this bug.

Eli has actually filed the original bug about this.

> Maybe some kind of caching could get us there.

Not sure how that could help.  Anyway, this issue is constantly on my
mind, so "some day" I might have an idea.  Or maybe someone else will.