From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Subject: Re: feature/fix-the-long-lines-display-bug c760d2ed16: * etc/PROBLEMS: Remove the entry which is no longer relevant.
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:01:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsfmydtmx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220718185141.39F11C0F203@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> (Gregory Heytings's message of "Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:51:41 -0400 (EDT)")
> diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
> index 14c1df25b1..4f02788ecd 100644
> --- a/etc/PROBLEMS
> +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
> @@ -568,12 +568,6 @@ This can happen with CVS versions 1.12.8 and 1.12.9. Upgrade to CVS
>
> ** Miscellaneous problems
>
> -*** Editing files with very long lines is slow.
> -
> -For example, simply moving through a file that contains hundreds of
> -thousands of characters per line is slow, and consumes a lot of CPU.
> -This is a known limitation of Emacs with no solution at this time.
I wish this were true, but AFAIK the problem is still very much present.
We deal with it a bit better, but that doesn't mean the problem is gone.
In my tests, editing the end of a 1MB single-line JSON file is still
basically not an option, for example.
Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-18 21:01 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20220718185141.39F11C0F203@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-07-18 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-07-18 21:04 ` feature/fix-the-long-lines-display-bug c760d2ed16: * etc/PROBLEMS: Remove the entry which is no longer relevant Gregory Heytings
2022-07-18 21:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-18 21:46 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-07-19 4:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-19 5:21 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-07-21 11:50 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-07-21 12:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-21 14:51 ` Daniel Martín
2022-07-21 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-21 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-21 16:36 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-07-22 14:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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