Can anyone explain why this crash editors?

1 pointsgnator8y ago9 comments

I was coding and something happened with atom and I was unable to reopen my project without atom crashing. I deleted my code in notepad and extract this which is causing crashes in Microsoft Word and extreme lag in notepad++ and Atom. Anyone know why this is the case?

PS: This file is only 9mb so it shouldn't be too big for anything to view it

Thanks https://www.dropbox.com/s/ru1qlmi92ky4y53/weirdFile.js?dl=0

9 comments

homemadejam8y ago

Opening this file in a hex editor shows that the file consists of almost all spaces, which I'm assuming are all on one line, making the text editors crash.

icebraining8y ago

Yeah, hexdump shows:

    00000000  ef bb bf 2f 3e c2 a0 0a  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
    00000010  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
    *
    00900000  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  3c 61
    0090000a

Which means that except for those first 8 bytes and the last two, the whole file is just 0x20 (space in ASCII/UTF-8) repeated ad nauseam.

gnatorOP8y ago

Why would long lines crash editors?

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pwg8y ago

The file opens in a blink of an eye on Linux in both the Joe editor (http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/) as well as in vi (i.e., it is about about a second or less to open the file in each). So the problem would be that Word, Notepad++, and Atom have trouble with very long lines.

db48x8y ago

You just need a better editor; it doesn't crash Emacs, for example.

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