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> But it's a text editor.

Long time emacs user here (+20 years, yikes). I've used it on all kinds of computers during this time. Even a relatively modest computer from 2024 is an absolute beast compared to something from the year 2000.

With that said, there are text editing operations that can cause it to grind to a complete halt, especially working with large files (or very long lines). And it shouldn't, you know? I think emacs users sort of internalize which operations they should avoid. It's kind of ridiculous to have to do that in a text editor with the massive amounts of compute that our computers have today.

▲ donio 5 days ago | parent [-]

> (or very long lines)

Long line handling has greatly improved in emacs-29. Multi-megabyte lines are not a problem anymore.

▲ canucker2016 5 days ago | parent [-]

from Emacs 29.1 NEWS file, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/refs/he...

    ** Emacs is now capable of editing files with very long lines.
    The display of long lines has been optimized, and Emacs should no
    longer choke when a buffer on display contains long lines.  The
    variable 'long-line-threshold' controls whether and when these display
    optimizations are in effect.

    A companion variable 'large-hscroll-threshold' controls when another
    set of display optimizations are in effect, which are aimed
    specifically at speeding up display of long lines that are truncated
    on display.