related to this https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/FAQ ?
gedit is very slow and/or crashes when opening files with very long lines. Can you fix it? When designing GtkTextView (the text display widget of gtk+ which gedit uses) the developers had to make a design decision: trading off bad performance and memory use on corner cases like very long lines in exchange for better performance in search operations and full support for UTF-8 text. This is a known limitation of GtkTextView and cannot be fixed. On top of that Pango seems to use a lot of CPU drawing such long lines. This may be fixable, but it isn't easy... Feel free to give it a try. Crashes with long lines are usually due to out-of-memory conditions, but if that's not the case then we would like to know about it. ------------ I think I've suffered from the long-line issue a lot, and have used leafpad (and am about to try geany) as a more reliable alternative; don't get me wrong: if gedit were reliably stable and would not become UNUSABLE for certain documents, I'd have zero complaints about it... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1136644 Title: gedit search function is not practical anymore To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1136644/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
