Vim ignoring a very long line

Question

I have an html file that I am editing. It includes about 1MB of css and stuff from another site, which is all contained on one minified line, which I've folded:

It also causes any jumps 'around' line 11 to take about 5-10s, and as you can see, all text-highlighting underneath it are skipped.

Other than extracting the minified line into another file (which will eventually be done), is there a way for vim to basically just "ignore" this line, or act such that the line isn't there (i.e., so that doing j doesn't take 5 seconds between lines 10-13).

Answer 1

Since @christian-brabandt said for someone else to post the answer, I'll try to consolidate things and close out the question.

Check the help for :h synmaxcol (@christian-brabandt) -

                                                'synmaxcol' 'smc'
'synmaxcol' 'smc'       number  (default 3000)
                        local to buffer
                        {not available when compiled without the +syntax
                        feature}
        Maximum column in which to search for syntax items.  In long lines the
        text after this column is not highlighted and following lines may not
        be highlighted correctly, because the syntax state is cleared.
        This helps to avoid very slow redrawing for an XML file that is one
        long line.
        Set to zero to remove the limit.

From @b-layer: Ah, yes, good one. Presumably that's the mechanism causing it to "give up" now (default value: column 3000). So the choice may come down to lower synmaxcol so you retain the current, partial highlighting but without performance problems or say, "heck with it", and shut highlighting off. Still, I'd try temporarily commenting the line out in the hope that you'd fix performance but have highlighting in the rest of the file (except the long line).

And lastly, your own answer of :set synmaxcol=45 fixed your issue.