Re: recovery wrongly deletes almost 300 lines from large files

Bo Milvang-Jensen wrote:

> I have found a bug in vim's recovery.
> To reproduce: create a file "test" with 40000 lines, with each line
> containing 78 minuses, a la
>
> 78a-<ESC>
> yy
> 39999p
> :wq
>
> Copy that file to test_save
>
> Edit test again, add one line, do not do :w, but rather kill vim
> (kill <PID>).
> Do "vim test" again, press r for recovery, do :wq
>
> The result is that the recovered file test does contain the newly added
> line (good), but it misses 292 of the original lines (bad!) I.e.
>
> wc test_save test
> 40000 40000 3160000 test_save
> 39707 39709 3136791 test
>
> The above test has been done with vim 7.3 compiled on a 32 bit LINUX machine
> and with vim 6.3.82 (from Kubuntu 10.10) on a 64 bit LINUX machine.

Most likely this is solved by patch 7.3.216

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