>Interestingly here, even without wrapping, featherpad freezes for 4-5 seconds 
>just pasting geany.html 12 times, but Geany is instantaneous, but Geany takes 
>1-2 seconds to wrap the resulting file if the edit window is about 40 
>characters wide but featherpad is instantaneous. Maybe featherpad is caching 
>information when opening so wrapping is fast. Given it is done by Qt who knows.

Thank you for your test.

>Note that people run apps line Geany and Scite on machines like raspberry pi, 
>so not all machines can be assumed to be hypercomputers

That's true, indeed.

I recognized that the editor Kate and the editor Geany have the same behavior. 
It seems to be that developers of big software don't like a freezing behavior 
because it is a break in the flow, and the flow seems to be holy.

I think a good comprise would be to offer two Line Wrapping:
- Line Wrapping without freezing the display
- Line Wrapping with freezing the display

But I can imagine that it will not be realized because the effort is enormous 
while the use is low. Nevertheless at Scintilla I could write this:
Add the possibility to switch between 'Line Wrapping without freezing the 
display' and 'Line Wrapping with freezing the display'.

What do you think?

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