Re: meld will dead if meld compare with binary file

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 8 March 2018 at 18:26, weidong <1015490825 qq com> wrote:
> widon@widon-H61M-S2V-B3:~$ meld --version
> meld 3.18.0
> widon@widon-H61M-S2V-B3:~$ cp contract contract.bin
> widon@widon-H61M-S2V-B3:~$ file contract
> contract: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux),
> dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux
> 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=cbbbef2110c4dc16237dfe98eaad3c925ba93342, with
> debug_info, not stripped
> widon@widon-H61M-S2V-B3:~$ meld contract contract.bin
>
> If I do this, meld will just dead even if I use ctrl+c I can not get out.
> meld can not support binary file, but please do not dead, just ignore the
> binary file and jump to next.

I've tested this briefly, and I'm pretty sure that we're actually just
taking a long time to do... something. Testing with small binaries
it's a bit slow but totally fine, but it soon gets really bad. I'm not
sure whether this is us doing something silly, or whether it's an
issue in GtkSourceView loading or what.

If you could open an issue at
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/issues, that would be great!

cheers,
Kai