On Mo, 14 Dez 2015, JohnBeckett wrote:
> For many months I have noticed a bug whereby a sort results in corrupted
> text. I've been using a rather outdated Vim and the conditions for the
> corruption are not reproducible. I have recently upgraded to Vim 7.4.972 and
> just saw the bug again. I'm running 32-bit Vim with gigabytes of memory.
>
> Here is an outline of what sometimes shows the corruption.
>
> - Edit a big file (say 150 MB with two million lines).
> - Copy some of the file (say 20,000 lines) to another buffer.
> - Edit the copied text including some complex :s commands.
> - Enter :sort to sort the result.
> - Repeat last two steps a few times, possibly in other buffers.
>
> The big file activates plugin/LargeFile.vim which is the original Mar 30,
> 2006 release on my system. It just changes some settings so should not be
> relevant.
>
> The result often works, but sometimes it is corrupted. The result is the
> correct number of lines, but most of them are empty. Lines that aren't empty
> contain snippets of the old text (for example, one line was the last three
> characters of a twenty-character line in the original).
>
> This is a pretty useless report because whenever I've tried to reproduce the
> problem I fail. Is anyone else seeing this? Does anyone have a stress testing
> system?
I have never seen something like this.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian
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beistimmt.
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