FWIW, I believe this happens because of the regular expression scanning going on to effect syntax highlighting. If you can set this particular file type to .txt or another non-highlighted format first, you may find that opening it goes faster.
Walter
On Dec 7, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Yi Lin wrote:
For my work I often diff dumps of databases, and sometimes those files have super long lines without newline character; for example, an insert statement for millions of record all on a single line. When I open such a file, TextMate generally freezes. It would be nice if TM can handle working with such file efficiently, or at least warn me before trying to open such a file.
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