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

[Daniel Fleischer]

Emanuel Berg [2022-05-07 Sat 04:45] 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. Sure I can open them and "beautify" them (if
they're small) but they are automatically generated and if they require
a small edit I never use Emacs for that. So easy said than done.

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Daniel Fleischer