Re: problem: vim can only yank for 50 lines in vim

Reply to message «problem: vim can only yank for 50 lines in vim»,
sent 13:29:34 22 October 2010, Friday
by robert song:

> I uses w3m to browse some pages and edit it with vim, but I can only
> paste 50 lines in vim, so maybe some configuration is wrong in my vim,
>
> Reproduce the problem.
> - download the w3m package.
> - sudo yum install w3m
> - open a site
> - w3m www.lwn.net
> - set the configuration of w3m.
> - press "o" key.
> - modify the editor to /usr/bin/vimx
> - edit the page with vim.
> - press "Esc-e".
> - yank for more than 50 lines.
> - 100yy
> - quit the vim
> - :q
> - edit the page once again
> - press "Esc-e".
> - paste the yanked lines.
> - p
It is not related to w3m anyhow. You are quiting vim and whenever you quit, the
viminfo file is written where registers are saved. But by default length of
registers is limited to 50 lines or 10 kiB (which hits first). To remove all
limitations, add the following to the vimrc (it is the default with all
limitations removed):
set viminfo='100,h
If you want just to adjust this limitation and do not remove it (for example, to
forbid your viminfo to grow too large), see description of `<' and `s'
characters in ``:help viminfo''.

You can also use system registers instead of viminfo: prepend «"+» to all paste
and yank commands, so they look like this: «"+100yy» and «"+p». Your system is
likely not to have such limitations, see section 7 in `:help registers'.