Re: Opening large files?

On 2014-04-16 09:58, Adrian Nagle wrote:
> 'm helping another user open a large, 3Gb, file. The standard
> windows editors balk, so I recommended VIM. Unfortunately, even
> vim crashes after scrolling some amount. For instance, he can't go
> straight to the end of file.
>
> The work station is Windows 7, 64 bit, with 32Gb of RAM. Are there
> any settings to modify to make vim more stable with large files, or
> is there some Windows performance limitation and just out of luck?

In addition to the LargeFile tips, for certain types of edits, using
a stream editor such as "sed" will usually let you operate on
arbitrary-sized files, as it only processes one line at a time
(modulo what you keep in the hold-space). If you detail the types of
transformations/changes that you are hoping to make, there might a
way to do it that can be done regardless of the file-size.

-tim


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