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?

This is pretty common, so your system's specs should be able to
handle it. Hints can be found here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Faster_loading_of_large_files

and a plugin/script to facilitate it can be found here:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1506

-tim


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