Subject: bug#43016: replace-region-contents takes a lot of time when called from json-pretty-print-buffer

From: ljell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:29:49 +0000

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> If you run M-x json-pretty-print-buffer on the already pretty file then it's much faster,so maybe it's related to the single long line generated by json-encode.

The json-encode part was missing in my first post, so the relevant code looks like this:

...
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert (json-encode data))
    (json-pretty-print-buffer)
    (write-file "data.json"))
...

So I insert json encoded lisp data into a temp buffer and then run prettyfing on it, so the json file is more readable and there are no long lines. This code took a few seconds on 26 and it takes much longer with 27.