Subject: Re: bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output

From: Rudolf Schlatte <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:30:10 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:53:18 +0200
>> 
>> > Does it help to set bidi-inhibit-bpa non-nil?
>> 
>> This helped to open the file with a lot of '{'.
>> But on minified files grep.el is still very slow.
>
> What are "minified files"?

Javascript libraries are often “minified” for deployment by shortening
identifiers and eliminating whitespace, including linebreaks.  So a
300kb library might be compressed into a 200kb one-line file.  Trying to
open such files makes Emacs unresponsive.

Rudi