Re: Emacs freezes again when I try to open a file including only one very long line.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 10:12 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:22:36 +0800
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > > > But I waited a minute and didn't see any matching results highlighted
> > > > on the screen, as shown in the attached file.
> > >
> > > With what value of max-redisplay-ticks?
> >
> > (setq max-redisplay-ticks 250000)
>
> Then I cannot reproduce this.  In my case, Emacs pops up a window
> showing the *Warnings* buffer which says:
>
>   Window showing buffer __tmp.symbols takes too long to redisplay

OK. Let me take a concrete result as an example. If I search
`|isgroup|', then VSCode will give the only result immediately as
shown in the attached file. Now, how can I achieve this in Emacs?

> > > Can VSCode be programmed to changed its display and its commands like
> > > Emacs can?
> >
> > Not clear. My description of the behavior of it and its specific
> > third-party plug-ins is based on the corresponding default settings.
>
> VSCode is a different program with different display routines and
> different features.

Best,
Hongsheng

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