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by pwg 3268 days ago
If the editor has some built in line length limit then exceeding that limit might lead to a crash (depending upon how the editor is coded).
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Right but it looks like (i was able to load it for Atom and Notepad++ but very slow) they perform soft wrap on these long lines
Which would imply that their soft-wrap algorithm consumes an inordinate amount of time when confronted with a single, 9MB long, line of space characters.