GNU bug report logs - #38407
27.0.50; infinite loop with display of large file without newlines

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Message #8 received at 38407 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: Pieter van Oostrum <pieter <at> vanoostrum.org>
Cc: 38407 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38407: 27.0.50; infinite loop with display of large file
 without newlines
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:38:12 +1300

See whether M-x global-so-long-mode makes things more tolerable?

Extremely long lines are a problem for Emacs, but so-long.el can
help significantly in some situations.

If you enable that, and then visit your file, it should switch to
so-long-mode.  It won't prevent the redisplay getting relatively
slower the deeper you navigate into a very long line, but it should
make navigating in the early stages of the file much faster, and
help to some extent throughout (but I would still expect displaying
the end of the line to be painful).

M-x so-long-commentary has all of the details.


-Phil

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