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Truncate long lines of grep output

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From: Rudolf Schlatte <rudi <at> constantly.at>
To: 44983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44983: Truncate long lines of grep output
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:30:10 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
>> Cc: dgutov <at> yandex.ru, 44983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 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

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