Thank you - point taken about quotes being redundant in my set clipboard=.
I completely forgot about the black hole register! Thank you.
On Friday, 30 May 2014 00:48:51 UTC+1, ZyX wrote:
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On May 29, 2014 9:25:05 PM GMT+03:00, Praful Kapadia praful...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have had an annoying issue with gvim 7.4, with patches 1-307. If I
open a large file (e.g. containing 200,000 lines) and use the global
command to delete lines, the operation takes a very long time on
Windows if clipboard has been set to unnamed. I'm assuming it's the
constant copying of deleted lines to the Windows clipboard that's
slowing gvim down.
I use Windows 7 64-bit. I have compiled gvim 64-bit using ming. The
issue occurs on gvim 64-bit, 32-bit and, to a lesser extent, on MacVim.
On Windows, it takes several minutes to carry out the operation. During
this time, Windows becomes unusable, which is poor but that's another
issue.
On OS X, in MacVim, the same operation takes 30 seconds. With
clipboard=, it takes two seconds.
Do not mislead yourself. '' character starts a comment, so
set clipboard=
is equivalent to
set clipboard=unnamed
which is really (after you strip comment)
set clipboard=
. There is also no need to balance quotes:
set clipboard=unnamed
means the same thing. Use
let clipboard=...
syntax if you want '' to start a string and not a comment.
Here are the steps to reproduce the issue:
1. Open gvim with no plugins and no vimrc.
2. :set clipboard=unnamed
3. Open a text file with about 200,000 lines.
4. Enter:g/string/dThe string should match about 150,000
lines i.e. you want to delete lots of rows!
If you do not need to *cut* lines (any Vim delete operation cuts by default)
you need to use black hole register: delete _ in place of just delete
(d is the short form of it).
5. Go for a coffee break (Windows!) or wait 30 seconds (OS X)
In practice, if I issue the command on Windows, I kill the process then
open the file again, this time setting clipboard= before I issue the
command.
The workaround (:set clipboard=) is fine if you remember it! It would
be nice if gvim did this e.g. (pseudo-code):
old_clipboard = clipboard
try
clipboard =
execute global command
finally
clipboard = old_clipboard
end
One consideration for side effects: currently, if clipboard=unnamed,
the only text that ends up on the system clipboard is the final deleted
line, not all deleted lines. If anything, you might want all deleted
text to be on the clipboard but that is not what currently happens. I
suspect neither the last line nor all lines is generally required. I
don't care (others might) what ends up on the clipboard and would be
happy if there was no speed penalty when the command was issued!
It would be great if someone could look at this!
Thanks
Praful
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