Subject: Re: bug#44818: 27.0.91; wedged

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 08:04:16 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> When you visit such a long file in Emacs 27.1, you should see a
> suggestion to visit it literally; take it.
>
> A more general solution is to turn on so-long mode.

This is such a general problem that people bump into all the time that I
think Emacs should have an even more general solution, and it should be
on by default.

The long-file warning isn't sufficient -- there's plenty of smaller
files that have this problem, too.

Why doesn't Emacs just check for long lines (in the C code, for speed)
when opening files, and offer the "visit literally?" if it detects them?

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