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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs-hacker2018@jovi.net, 44818@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44818: 27.0.91; wedged
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:01:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kl49W-0006TH-Vr@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mtyveyb1.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:53:06 +0200)

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-04  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-23  1:04 bug#44809: One very long line of <中文> XML tags puts emacs out of business 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-11-24  7:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-27 19:43   ` bug#44809: Warn that current file needs so-long mode 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
     [not found]     ` <handler.s.C.160651363628407.transcript@debbugs.gnu.org>
2020-11-23  5:07       ` bug#44818: 27.0.91; wedged Devon Sean McCullough
2020-11-23 15:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-24  7:04           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-24 15:39             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-25  6:57               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-25 15:37                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-24 18:42           ` Devon Sean McCullough
2020-11-24 18:48             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-25  1:35               ` Devon Sean McCullough
2020-11-25  8:34                 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-25 14:47                   ` Devon Sean McCullough
2020-11-25 15:06                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-26 17:06                   ` Devon Sean McCullough
2020-11-27  5:40                     ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-01 11:32                       ` Devon Sean McCullough
2020-12-02  4:32                         ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-02 15:00                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-03  5:29                             ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-03 14:53                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-04  6:01                                 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-12-04  8:36                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27  8:20                     ` Michael Albinus
2020-11-27 22:26         ` bug#44818: Looks like I retitled both bugs 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-11-29  9:50     ` bug#44809: Warn that current file needs so-long mode Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-23  8:56 ` bug#44818: Say "Consider switching so-long mode on" when detecting long line files Lars Ingebrigtsen

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