[TxMt] Extreme slowness on files with long lines / no carriage returns

s.ross cwdinfo at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 05:33:49 UTC 2008


Well... you could do this on your file:

cat foo.xml | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.gsub(/\>\</, ">\n<")' | mate

WDYT?


On Apr 25, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Ian Kershaw wrote:

> Ah, good to know. Thanks.
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient <textmate at subtlegradient.com 
> > wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Ian Kershaw wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've done a basic search on Google but can't find anything specific  
> about a problem I'm having with Textmate, namely handling large  
> textfiles or textfiles with long lines.
>
> It's driving me nuts. I'm having to deal with XML and HTML files  
> which have been 'compacted' so there are no carriage returns / line  
> feeds and I want to tidy them up in TextMate so I can make then  
> human readable but TextMate just takes forever to load the files.  
> TextPad on the PC has no problems, but I didn't switch to Mac for my  
> Windows colleagues to point and laugh! :) Seems like a basic  
> capability of text editor that TextMate just can't deal with.
>
> Had this been noted before? Is there a fix in the pipeline?
>
> Thanks,
> Ian.
>
> -- 
> Ian Kershaw
>
> Yes, this is the oldest bug evar.
> It will probly be fixed in TM2.
> You can work around it by writing a super short ruby script to  
> replace "><" with ">\n<"
>
> Yes, it is a shockingly embarrassing bug :[
>        but there are hundreds of billions of awesome features that  
> will make all your windows buddies extremely defensive and secretly  
> cry themselves to sleep at night.
>
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