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[Narcis Garcia <156201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've open a 54MiB .sql file with gedit 2.30.4 (Ubuntu 11.04) and no
problem. There is now a progress bar.

But there are some lines with near 300000 columns where the editor
doesn't scroll text when the user walks with the keyboard cursor to the
first or the last characters, and with "text wrapping" it refreshes
poorly the work area when Search&Replace.

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Title:
  gedit handles opening big files badly

Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome:
  Confirmed
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gedit

  Opening big text files (400 MB, 750 MB) in gedit is bad
  - from a usability standpoint
    -> There's no progress bar or cancel button for the action, and the load takes a long time.
  - from a system standpoint:
    -> In earlier versions, gedit would take so much memory until the system swapped all other applications to disk, and the system became unusable.
    -> Since Ubuntu 9.04 Beta, gedit crashes without a GUI message, but the message "failed to allocate <X> bytes" in the console.


  
  Original description:
  I just opened a 400 MB text file (mbox mail file) in gedit, and it my system has now been unresponsive for minutes. Other editors can open large files without a problem. Also, there's no progress bar or cancel button that would make it easy to see how long gedit is loading the file or to cancel the load.

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