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Re: Emacs awfully slow on some files
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs awfully slow on some files |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:01:38 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:04:08 +0200
> From: Deniz Dogan <address@hidden>
>
> 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?