GNU bug report logs - #44818
Say "Consider switching so-long mode on" when detecting long line files

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Message #72 received at 44818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs-hacker2018 <at> jovi.net, 44818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44818: 27.0.91; wedged
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:01:10 -0500

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  > You suggested to behave as if truncate-lines is turned on when we
  > discover a line whose rendering takes too long.  I'm saying that doing
  > so will prevent users from seeing more than a hundred or so characters
  > of every line, and hide the rest.

Yes, it would.  Wouldn't that be better than what happens now?

  > And that might be too drastic a
  > measure, because Emacs becomes slow on lines much longer than 100 or
  > 200 characters; a single very long line will only make it slow for
  > that single window-full.

I agree. different changes might give a superior result.  I'm not
arguing against that.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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