[TxMt] Re: TM freezes for 10+ minutes on a file with Soft Wrap + Regexp slowness

[Allan Odgaard]

On 8 May 2009, at 06:52, David Ross wrote:

> When you have a file that has only one line break (say a minimized  
> css or js
> file) and if you have Soft Wrap enabled, TM will freeze for 10  
> minutes at a
> time! Totally weird. Even a TextEdit works perfectly with something  
> like
> that.

TextMate is line-oriented, and it gives the entire line to the spell  
checker, the parser, the text layouter/renderer, etc. Especially the  
last part is _really_ slow with extremely long lines. It’s a known  
problem.

> Another issue is slow regexp. Whenever I execute regexp on a file  
> that's
> about 5K lines, TM freezes for 20+ seconds. I've never seen such a  
> slow
> regexp. Am I doing something wrong or is there a preference/switch  
> that I
> could set so it doesn't do that?

There is no turbo button, no. What regexp are you using for the  
search? Regexps have varied running time.