Slow on large files or large lines

[denilsonsa]

I have 175KB plaintext file with some very large lines. The largest one has 20K characters. All characters are standard ASCII chars, none of them are trollish.

If I open this file and :set nowrap, Vim becomes very slow and laggy. Disabling vim-troll-stopper plugin solves it.

The same happens when I open an SVG file, because several lines are very long.

Ideas for solutions:

• Add some commands: :TrollStart to enable it; :TrollStop to disable it (I think this is already implemented); :TrollToggle to toggle it. Alternatively, could be :TrollOn and TrollOff. Maybe even :Trollolo to toggle it.
• Add an option to have the plugin off by default.
• The plugin could be off by default, but it could check for troll characters only once (on file load, or something), and if any troll character is found, a warning message could be shown at the status bar: Troll characters were found, run :TrollStart to highlight them.

[bruno-]

Sorry for the late reply here. I think this issue is legit, although I haven't had any noticeable issues with this.

To help with this issue, PR https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-troll-stopper/pull/10 was just merged. As far as selectively and intentionally starting the plugin, vim 8's 'packages' feature could help here. It has a new opt directory that allows the plugins to be started selectively from vim's command line. I think this feature would do for now? More about the 'packages' feature http://vimcasts.org/episodes/packages/