From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs awfully slow on some files
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:01:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zla7jxwt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b501d5c0908101104v6fb4d56axe3f5ea28628d7fe3@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:04:08 +0200
> From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
>
> I have a file which is 1 MB long and all of the content is on a single
> line. Using Emacs on this file is pretty much impossible due to the
> super-sluggish behavior. It's embarrassing. Why is this? Can it be
> fixed?
IIRC, this is a fundamental limitation of the current implementation
of the Emacs display engine. Too long lines make it very slow.
Does it help to set truncate-lines to a non-nil value?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-10 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-10 18:04 Emacs awfully slow on some files Deniz Dogan
2009-08-10 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-08-11 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-11 15:34 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-08-13 22:09 ` Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
2009-08-14 8:09 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-14 8:43 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-14 9:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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