[zelphirkalt]

I have the same feeling.

There is one more, possibly gigantic, thing though: Better handling of very long strings. I know the data structures for strings have various tradeoffs, but properly abstracted, it should be possible to even give a choice, no? So users could choose the data structure, based on their use cases. But I know little about the internals and maybe that is all too low level to be something a user could choose from the user interface or configuration.

I hope string data structure is properly abstracted from, so that it is exchangable for another data structure, but I have my doubts. Would like to be surprised here and anyone credibly telling me, that string data structure in Emacs has an abstraction barrier around it, and is actually exchangable, by implementing basic string functions like "get nth character" or "get substring" in terms of another data structure.

If it is not properly abstracted from, then of course it could be a nightmare to change the data structure.

[b3morales]

This was also something that was enhanced recently and will be in Emacs 29: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/21b387c39bd9cf07c...

> 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.

> ...

[zelphirkalt]

So looking forward to Emacs 29 being available in standard package repositories!

[ashton314]

Sweet! When did that merge?

[b3morales]

I believe it was over the summer.