<p><a href="https://github.com/adamdanischewski" class="user-mention">@AdamDanischewski</a></p>
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<p>if it fails to grab more then warn the user.</p>
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<p>Thats what this issue is for.</p>
<p>To be clear Scintilla does keep a "healthy" amount of memory allocated, but it decreases as you add characters to it until its full then reallocates, and if you do a big copy and paste you can exceed ANY pre-allocation, so there is no point of trying to guess, you always have to handle allocation failure.</p>

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