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emacs: good at lots of things, bad at displaying really long lines

@cwebber Alan Turing wrote a paper on the long lines problem.

Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

@moggers87 Really or are you trolling me? Link?

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@cwebber I think it was Martin Davis who coined the term "long lines problem", but Turing was the first to publish a proof that it was obviously a joke for Turing displays.