Public bug reported:
Sometimes a person will have a large-ish (~17MB) single-line text file -
such as the saved output of some web API that doesn't pretty-print its
output.
A ~17MB file with 1000 lines loads OK - but a 17MB file with a single
line causes gedit to hang for a very, very long time. And of course if
you kill it, you lose all your tabs - not just the one with the problem
document.
I've observed this with plain text files, as well as JSON files. I've
also seen it with and without the 'enable text wrapping' option enabled.
Thanks for taking the time to read my bug report!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: gedit 46.2-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-142.142-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-142-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.3-0ubuntu0.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 7 20:49:55 2026
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-05-31 (859 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble
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