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

Ian Kershaw ian.kershaw at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 09:11:47 UTC 2008


Oh, now that is sweet. After fixing the problem caused by Logitech Control
Centre it works a treat.

Thanks very much!

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:33 AM, s.ross <cwdinfo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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