<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Extreme slowness on files with long lines / no carriage returns</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> On 4/25/08 10:33 PM, in article 8A9B62C0-9280-4236-9A3F-33F4538780E4@gmail.com, "s.ross" <cwdinfo@gmail.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>Well... you could do this on your file: cat foo.xml | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.gsub(/\>\</, ">\n<")' | mate </BLOCKQUOTE> Kind of crude. Why wouldn't you just run the file thru "tidy"? m. -- matt neuburg, phd = matt@tidbits.com, <a href="http://www.tidbits.com/matt/"><http://www.tidbits.com/matt/></a> A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool! One of the 2007 MacTech Top 25: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2rh4pf"><http://tinyurl.com/2rh4pf></a> AppleScript: the Definitive Guide - Second Edition! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596102119"><http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596102119></a> </BODY> </HTML>