It's much worse than described. It's not just that you don't (and should) see a progress bar, that the whole UI blocks (and shouldn't) and that you don't get a warning when the file actually can't be properly handled.
It's also that handling of big files is ridiculously inefficient. A file as small as 30MB hangs gedit, takes ages to load, and renders the UI unresponsive every once in a while when trying to scroll it. I can open the very same file in VIM seamlessly in a fraction of a second and navigate through it. And vim does syntax highlight too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156201 Title: gedit handles opening big files badly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/156201/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
