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

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> I mean, both of the following methods will freeze Emacs, as shown in
> the attached files:

> $ emacs -Q
> /home/werner/Public/repo/github.com/feisele/vscode-gap-language-support.git/src/symbols.ts
> `M-x global-so-long-mode RET`

This can't work, the file is already opened then.

> $ emacs -Q
> /home/werner/Public/repo/github.com/feisele/vscode-gap-language-support.git/src/symbols.ts
> `M-x so-long-minor-mode RET`

The major mode works better for that file: M-x so-long-mode RET.

I can't say much about the background, I never checked the
implementation of those modes.

Michael.