Limited Number of Code Editor Lines?

[ethancrawford]

Hello @Songstress!
Correct, this situation is due to a limitation in the underlying technology that Sonic Pi uses to send data between the GUI and the server behind it.
There are a few ways to work around this - The following post may shed a little more light on it:

Maximum characters limit per buffer?

Yes, this is a known limitation of the ( UDP) method Sonic Pi uses to communicate between the displayed buffers in the GUI and the ruby server. There are various solutions. First, you can split the code between more that one buffer. (It is possible to run more than one buffer at a time. ALL code is only stopped when you press the stop button. Secondly, (and I use this technique a great deal with my code, most of which is for long linear pieces) you can use the run_file command. So of you save…

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