GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 699839
gedit 3.8.x freezes right after opening a big file
Last modified: 2014-07-09 13:39:28 UTC
Created attachment 243496 [details] xml file with a content written in one line right after the opening of the attached xml file gedit remains unresponsive. additionally after some seconds of hanging a message appears: (gedit:19759): GtkSourceView-CRITICAL **: Highlighting a single line took too much time, syntax highlighting will be disabled
Hi, this is a limitation on GtkTextView.
gedit should load files asynchronously and not block the UI. It should be possible for example to close a file while it is loading.
It seems to be fixed with the new file loading code landed on git master, it'll be available for gedit 3.14.