Subject: bug#22143: 24.5; Emacs blocked on long lines.

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:20:48 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> The bug report about slow redisplay in this case and in similar cases
> is bug#13675, and it is not marked wishlist.

Ah, thanks.  Didn't expect multiple reports about this.

> > If we can't solve the issue with long lines in the display code, maybe
> > we should do something like this by default?
>
> Practical and detailed proposals, let alone patches, in that direction
> will be most welcome.

Sorry about my ignorance, but - are there reliable means of handling
such buffers other than longlines?  Does longlines always behave sane
with such files?

Michael.