Magit performance on minified JS and CSS

For a long, long time, [[Magit]] has been super slow for me when I have any minified files in the diff for staging. It was one of those annoyances that I just kind of lived with for a while, but I revisited it today.

Someone else here was having the same problem. They put it down to long lines.

There’s a big discussion on that here. It’s been an Emacs problem for a while.

For me, the solution from there was the so-long.el package, which is included in Emacs >27.1 (Which I recently updated to - [[Installing Emacs from source]]).

After adding:

(global-so-long-mode 1)

to my init file, the problem has pretty much gone.

It’s still a teeny bit slow when there’s a few minified files in magit status, but way, way better now.