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0 pointspwg8y ago0 comments

If the editor has some built in line length limit then exceeding that limit might lead to a crash (depending upon how the editor is coded).

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gnator8y ago

Right but it looks like (i was able to load it for Atom and Notepad++ but very slow) they perform soft wrap on these long lines

pwgOP8y ago

Which would imply that their soft-wrap algorithm consumes an inordinate amount of time when confronted with a single, 9MB long, line of space characters.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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gnator8y ago

Right but it looks like (i was able to load it for Atom and Notepad++ but very slow) they perform soft wrap on these long lines

pwgOP8y ago

Which would imply that their soft-wrap algorithm consumes an inordinate amount of time when confronted with a single, 9MB long, line of space characters.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse