gedit bug with long lines. (was RE: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file)
Wayne Hartell wrote:
> I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix,
> not that it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit
> and it takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower
> than I was expecting. To make things worse the performance within
> gedit is very sluggish and searching the text file is not possible;
> it simply locks up the gedit process (maxes out the CPU).
In case anyone is interested, I did some further research into this knowing
the issue is long lines and it seems that the bug has existed (and been
known about) for many years, but still not fixed. The earliest bug record I
can find dates back to 2003, so I'm guessing the work around is my best bet
for the foreseeable future. :) Either that or address the "problem" on the
source side.
Cheers.
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