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

Nice,
thank you very much.
I modified the viminfo varaible, and now it works.

Best Wishes,
robert

On 10/22/10, ZyX <zyx.vim@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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'.
>

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