Re: Possible problem with sudden shortening of very large files by an external process

2010-03-01 Thread Gary Bickford
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Gary Bickford wrote: I often misuse vim to view log files while debugging batch jobs. It is very handy for moving around in the file, viewing the colorized content and searching for relevant text. These log files can be from several thousand to millions of lines.

Possible problem with sudden shortening of very large files by an external process

2010-02-26 Thread Gary Bickford
I often misuse vim to view log files while debugging batch jobs. It is very handy for moving around in the file, viewing the colorized content and searching for relevant text. These log files can be from several thousand to millions of lines. Vim does a remarkably good job of handling these

Re: Possible problem with sudden shortening of very large files by an external process

2010-02-26 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Gary Bickford wrote: I often misuse vim to view log files while debugging batch jobs. It is very handy for moving around in the file, viewing the colorized content and searching for relevant text. These log files can be from several thousand to millions of lines. Vim does a remarkably