From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
Cc: 18530@debbugs.gnu.org, mtbar131@gmail.com
Subject: bug#18530: 24.3; Emacs unable to handle very large lines
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:19:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y4t3n2ex.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4t4fanm.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:16:06 +1000
> Cc: Amit Barve <mtbar131@gmail.com>
>
>
> Amit Barve writes:
>
> > Here goes the description of the bug: Whenever I open a text file
> > which has a very big line(a continuous line) without a newline inside
> > it (let's say first 1000000 space separated numbers) then emacs is
> > just unable to handle it. Emacs is unable to show line count of
> > buffer, instead it shows 'L??' and general commands like 'move to end
> > of file', 'move to start of line' take a lot of time (something like a
> > complete minute) to work.I tried by removing everything from my
> > '.emacs' file but that didn't help!
>
> i've been able to reproduce this on both 24.3.3 and 24.3.93.2 (both
> manually compiled on 64-bit Debian Wheezy running on an i5), having
> created the utf-8 file test.txt with:
>
> for i in `seq 1 1000000`; do echo -n "$i " >> test.txt; done
>
> then loading that file into an `emacs -Q` session. Moving from one end
> of the buffer takes 15-20 seconds.
This is bug #13675, a well-known imitation of the current Emacs
display engine.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 5:27 bug#18530: 24.3; Emacs unable to handle very large lines Amit Barve
2014-09-28 7:16 ` Alexis
[not found] ` <CAMy5G4jCKcfCWF=zWEAUszCO1k=jN_A79jNvez1=7+u-DMCELg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-28 10:10 ` Alexis
2014-09-28 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 1:26 ` Amit Barve
2014-09-29 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-29 2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 2:51 ` Amit Barve
2014-09-28 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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