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bug#44818: 27.0.91; wedged
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#44818: 27.0.91; wedged |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:53:06 +0200 |
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: Emacs-hacker2018@jovi.net, 44818@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:29:04 -0500
>
> > > I wonder if it is possible to detect that a single line has taken too
> > > long, and set a flag to truncate long lines in that buffer.
> > > Perhaps set truncate-lines.
>
> > That could be too drastic: Emacs becomes painfully slow long after the
> > number of characters exceeds 80 or 130 or 250 or any other reasonable
> > line width. So setting truncate-lines would hide too much from the
> > view.
>
> Sorry, I am don't follow you. What exactly is the problem? What action
> do you recommend, or discourage?
You suggested to behave as if truncate-lines is turned on when we
discover a line whose rendering takes too long. I'm saying that doing
so will prevent users from seeing more than a hundred or so characters
of every line, and hide the rest. And that might be too drastic a
measure, because Emacs becomes slow on lines much longer than 100 or
200 characters; a single very long line will only make it slow for
that single window-full. IOW, the punishment is too severe, IMO.