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

[Emanuel Berg]

Daniel Fleischer 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.

Not good.

> Sure I can open them and "beautify" them

Sure, but you shouldn't need to.

> but they are automatically generated

Nuclear missile 1: - Target area identified.

Nuclear missile 2: - Here is where we need to blow up.

Nuclear missile 3: - Auto-generated is all well and good but
tell the program that does it not to create a file like that.

Nuclear missiles 1 & 2: - ...

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