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RE: Handling large files with Emacs


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Handling large files with Emacs
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:19:29 -0700

> It actually was all my mistake and I was not aware the
> linum.el caused all the trouble!

Maybe linum should (by default) let users know when they might incur a
performance penalty because the buffer is large.  Maybe we should have a user
option that specifies a size limit beyond which linum would avert you of the
potential slowdown, or even (optionally) turn itself off.

That's what we did for font-locking, for instance (option
`font-lock-maximum-size'), before just-in-time font-locking was available.

IOW, maybe we should not be too quick to just ascribe this to user error.  Maybe
linum could be more helpful to users.




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