I don't know of a limit within normal uses (i.e. 100K or so). How
long is the text you are trying to yank?
I can't say I've hit any abnormal limits either, and I've
yanked/pasted some pretty long texts from log-file dumps.
If you need to read in a huge quantity of data, you can save that
data to a file, and then use
:r filename.txt
to read in the data if you're having clipboard problems.
If you've got absolutely gargantuan data that blows vim's limits
(":help limits"), you can use a stream editor like sed which will
process the file(s) a line at a time:
sed '25r filename.txt' source.txt > result.txt
to put the contents of 'filename.txt' after (or is it
before...I'd have to experiment) line 25 of source.txt and save
the result as result.txt
If you need to put it after a particular regexp line (assuming
there's only one match, unless you want to read filename.txt into
the file multiple times), you can just use
sed '/regexp/r filename.txt' source.txt > result.txt
There are some stunts one can perform to read filename.txt only
after the first or last instance of "regexp". I have a solution
for the former...reading after the last match of "regexp" is a
bit trickier.
Just a few thoughts...
-tim
