From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs freezes when editing a file with one extremely long line even with so-long-minor-mode enabled. Date: Sat, 07 May 2022 16:46:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87k0ax9z8n.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <871qx65ac8.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:i9JYAMOWtFIpYLL/K63maf49GCY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 16:47:59 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 1nnLiw-0001eN-LH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 07 May 2022 16:47:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33768 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nnLiv-0007SL-HS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 07 May 2022 10:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nnLi0-0007SD-HB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2022 10:47:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:46540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nnLhy-0008Ub-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2022 10:47:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nnLhv-0000Cy-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2022 16:46:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:137181 Archived-At: Daniel Fleischer wrote: >> Don't have files "with one extremely long line". >> >> 1. It doesn't make sense. >> >> 2. Emacs freezes. > > One of the cases I deal with is editing JSON files. > These usually don't have any styling information because > they are text-base serialized objects and so no newlines and > can range from a few bytes to hundreds of MB, all in > a single line. Not good. > Sure I can open them and "beautify" them Sure, but you shouldn't need to. > but they are automatically generated Nuclear missile 1: - Target area identified. Nuclear missile 2: - Here is where we need to blow up. Nuclear missile 3: - Auto-generated is all well and good but tell the program that does it not to create a file like that. Nuclear missiles 1 & 2: - ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal