Re: Large file - Opening n head lines

Sorry for late answer, that was to modify a 50Go VMware .vmdk file. Just to modify disk space allocation. 😊

I tried this morning. Vim succeed to open but not to save and close. 

NV

Le jeu. 17 mars 2022 à 18:50, Charles Campbell <campbell@drchip.org> a écrit :

Stan Brown wrote:
> On 2022-03-17 02:55, Lifepillar wrote:
>> On 2022-03-17, Ni Va <nivaemail@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to open a Large File Vim but just only few beginning lines
>>> of it, edit one of these 50 first lines and then save and quit ?
>> I don't think that is possible with Vim without the help of some
>> pre/post-processing tool, but... Vim can edit pretty large files
>> relatively quickly, if set up properly. Have you tried playing with
>> Vim's settings already?
> What settings do you have in mind? I wasn't aware that Vim needed to be
> set up differently for files of different sizes.
>
Vim doesn't "need" to be set up differently for large files. However,
options can be selected to make it faster.
See http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#LARGEFILE for a
plugin that helps with large files.

Chip Campbell

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