From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs freezes again when I try to open a file including only one very long line. Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:04:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83a69uf886.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83leth6iga.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0907ty3.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7447pjc.fsf@gnu.org> <83a69w6vsd.fsf@gnu.org> <838rpf7m9t.fsf@gnu.org> <834k037lac.fsf@gnu.org> <8335fn7e64.fsf@gnu.org> <831qv778ye.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfnmcnyx.fsf@web.de> <83zghu45lv.fsf@gnu.org> <87czeqck2v.fsf@web.de> <83h742fcye.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8sib4l3.fsf@web.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38381"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 18:09:48 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o6wjj-0009o4-1V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:09:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52606 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6wjh-0007ob-GA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:09:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34402) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6wef-00053S-FW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53092) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6wed-0000Bf-SU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:04:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=cviLFYYHdZlliEAvDq21+v00ogCR1l1US/nAGKdG5aA=; b=QFkGqtQBVVj8 gEqHmmhp+dPMlB8MfIiY9394zM1yUOCK9BrOWOxJeg40hqAD20Qp/OqrUaEXdZ72PbwKBaYIYWSyp k15qEnhDCpELWHsZylSN+HlxtfFFBF2divu1EdDb2/78qk+IUax4JKJbYEAt9SL5fkoWgSeS4lGKN YJ8zsp+5fYeH/NaFOjBXJsaXigVVIiesPMXKzFYht3+ZnzfwpTXKrO3Tb9tcd/+kS5aUzx4FiHZRw Yme20pYRej9pV5Hk8pPkC3IXGtdwSTNURugMP9+ChJNxWE5x8L1/msscKOxIYfInVyDqbZg8hUt4C sjXSU3zdt31T7s+VP6YJcQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3842 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6wed-0002SO-BS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:04:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v8sib4l3.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:36:56 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138241 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:36:56 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > Can one still do useful things in a partially displayed window? > > > > Sometimes. Try C-l and then C-f. If neither of them pops another > > warning, you can use commands like C-f and C-b. > > But my first reaction was: unselect the window, so that the user can > notice Emacs is still alive. And doesn't try to edit the buffer without > seeing what one is doing. That could be what you'd like to do in that case, but it doesn't have to be what everyone will want to do. Other possibilities include turning on longlines mode there, or turning on so-long-mode, or killing the buffer. And I'm sure there could be other possibilities that make sense in some cases. IOW, I'm completely unsure that there's one-fits-all modus operandi when that happens.