On Monday 02 February 2015 03:02:38 Curt did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 2015-02-02, Wayne Hartell wrote:
> > In case anyone is interested, I did some further research into this
> > knowing the issue is long lines and it seems that the bug has
> > existed (and been known about) for many years,
Curt wrote:
> The *gedit faq* is edifying on the long lines issue (seems like you missed
> reading it in your "research):
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/FAQ
I was searching for bug reports; I hadn't expected an FAQ to exist on the very
topic I was interested in. Quite honestly that's a firs
On 2015-02-02, Wayne Hartell wrote:
>
> In case anyone is interested, I did some further research into this knowing
> the issue is long lines and it seems that the bug has existed (and been
> known about) for many years, but still not fixed. The earliest bug record I
> can find dates back to 2003,
Wayne Hartell wrote:
> I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix,
> not that it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit
> and it takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower
> than I was expecting. To make things worse the perfo
Wayne Hartell wrote:
> I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not
that it appears
> to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit and it takes about
45 seconds to open
> the file. That is a whole lot slower than I was expecting. To make things
worse the
> pe
Wayne Hartell wrote:
> I think the file I have simply does not have many line feeds. Is that
> abnormal for Linux perhaps?
You mean such as your reply line above which is a very long line and
pushes off the right side of the screen? More typically it would be
word wrapped to make reading it easi
Linux-Fan wrote:
> In my experience, VIM is slow with long lines (which are automatically
> wrapped and often look strange if the result is too large to fit on a single
> page) and
> syntax highlighting. Using many short lines, VIM has always been good enough
> for me (even with several MiB fil
On 02/01/2015 01:42 PM, Wayne Hartell wrote:
> I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not that
> it appears to make a difference) and tried to open this in gedit and it
> takes about 45 seconds to open the file. That is a whole lot slower than I
> was expecting. To make
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Why did a _text_ file need converting? Or do you not mean .txt?
Yeah just a regular ASCII text file, but as another reply pointed out new
lines are handled slightly differently under Windows vs Unix/Linux. I don't
think that is the problem though.
Cheers,
Wayne.
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Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Unix text files end lines with , Windows with .
That was the purpose of pre-processing the file with dos2unix. It didn't seem
to help.
I think the file I have simply does not have many line feeds. Is that abnormal
for Linux perhaps?
Wayne.
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On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Sorry, Wayne. :-( This was meant to go to the list. I hope that someone can
> explain the answer!
>
> On Sunday 01 February 2015 12:42:00 Wayne Hartell wrote:
>> I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not
>> that i
Sorry, Wayne. :-( This was meant to go to the list. I hope that someone can
explain the answer!
On Sunday 01 February 2015 12:42:00 Wayne Hartell wrote:
> I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not
> that it appears to make a difference)
Why did a _text_ file need
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI said:
> Possibly non-formatted, with one line per paragraph ?
That's what it looks like with line numbers on (very big paragraphs too), but
my question is why would this slow gedit down and is there any way around it?
It seems to present the content as I would expect.
Cheer
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 23:12:00 +1030
"Wayne Hartell" wrote:
> One thing I have noticed under vim is that if I turn on line numbers the
> document is showing as several large chunks of text on a handful of lines,
> as opposed to a large number of short lines. Would this be tripping up
> gedit perfor
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