> The buffer is the UI, rendered by Emacs's extremely optimised text display machinery
Doesn't emacs lag like crazy in files with large lines. Why is this still a problem? Every modern editor handles this gracefully. I remember reading something about using regexes for syntax highlighting. This looks like a problem in the rendering layer which shouldn't be too hard to fix without touching the core engine. Are there any other problems that make it difficult to fix without disabling any useful features?
Doesn't emacs lag like crazy in files with large lines. Why is this still a problem? Every modern editor handles this gracefully. I remember reading something about using regexes for syntax highlighting. This looks like a problem in the rendering layer which shouldn't be too hard to fix without touching the core engine. Are there any other problems that make it difficult to fix without disabling any useful features?