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 Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1105453 Title: gEdit hangs when searching a minimized css file Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I tried searching for "ps_main" using the Search function in gEdit and it just hung on me. Steps to reproduce: 1) start gedit 2) open de supplied css file 3) notice that for a file that's just 217,6kB big, and has 217630 lines, it load a bit slow 4) Use the search function to find "ps_main" 5) notice gedit hanging up, the program gets darkened due to not responding ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gedit 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.34-generic 3.5.7.2 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jan 25 22:18:11 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-05 (51 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gedit UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1105453/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
