gedit hangs when opening large XML file

Bug #682588 reported by lokster
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #156201: gedit handles opening big files badly. Edit Remove
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gedit (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gedit

Actually, this problem affects all GtkSourceView-based editors I have tried.
They seem unable to handle (not so) big text files. I mean ~10MB. The editor just hangs for long time.
When (if) it finally opens the file, any editing is practically impossible - its VERY slow.
The problem is even worse if the input text/xml file has long lines.
For example, the XML file I was trying to open was 10MB on a single line...
I know it's better the XML to be well formatted, but in my case it's not up to me.
And I don't want to use vim or some other "hardcore" editor - I like gedit.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #156201, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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