[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Geany really slow when opening huge text files (#1969)

[elextr]

These things have been discussed before, and the conclusion is, no, there is no reasonable definition of "big", it totally depends on your computer speed, and also on whether you actually want those things I listed above to happen.  Geany is used on Raspberry Pis and workstations with high end GPUs, "big" and "fast" is not comparable between those so there is no way to decide how long something will take.

Geany is a programming IDE, it is designed to edit reasonable sized (for humans) program language files, thats its primary use-case.  It is capable of editing other files (large logs are a common example) but they are not the core focus, so the defaults are set for the core use-case and options to turn off encoding and filetypes are available for other cases if those features are not required.

Having Geany try to be "smart" in the way that you suggested will only result in it being more annoying to some part of the primary use-case population, and thats a negative.

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