I (and my colleagues) often need to view extremely large log files (> 1G). From force of habit we use vim; but vim takes a very long time to open huge files.
Even turning off the swap etc only partially mitigates the load time. I would like to suggest that perhaps vim could be modified to open files in 'stages'. That is, the first relatively small chunk could be read in an lines processed, and the file shown, while vim continued to load the rest of the file. This would give a better user experience since the load time would be very fast even on large files. The downside of course is that nothing requiring line-numbers could be done until the entire file had been read. Comments? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
