https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402361
--- Comment #3 from NiO <arco...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Kåre Särs from comment #1) > Hi, > > You are probably referring to the built-in search. > > This is a known issue for files with long lines in Kate/KWrite. > > There is now ongoing work to split the replacing into chunks so that it will > be possible to cancel the replace if it takes too long. > > A similar effort is also being done for the Search & Replace plugin. I'm > actually testing the S&R change at the moment. > > > Hopefully this will be a bit improved for Kate 19.04 Great to hear, thank you. I guess Christoph's dupe confirms this has been an issue for quite a while. I did search beforehand but didn't notice any similar reports. Apologies for the duplicate! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.