Re: Emacs freezes when editing a file with one extremely long line even with so-long-minor-mode enabled.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 07:45:10 +0800
> 
> I try to use Emacs to open and check the file [1], which includes one
> extremely long line as follows:
> 
> 
> $ emacs -Q symbols.ts
> 
> `M-x so-long-minor-mode RET`
> 
> At this moment, Emacs still freezes. Any hints for tackling this problem?

It doesn't exactly freeze here, it just becomes sluggish: each cursor
movement command sometimes takes several seconds to complete.

Whether there's anything to do here depends on what you want to do
with this file; "check" doesn't really explain that.