John Little wrote:

> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 7:54:00 PM UTC+12, nuko8 wrote:
> 
> > Accordingly, I'd like to suggest that the issue be viewed more in terms of 
> > interaction between KDE and GTK+ 2 as well as usage of the KDE desktop 
> > environment.
> 
> I agree with your conclusion, but it is a severe gvim failure.  For me, any 
> text file large enough, about 5000 lines, causes gvim to exit if one tries to 
> ggVG. In the vim source directory, eval.c is not big enough, but cat e*.c > 
> x.c makes a file big enough.

Right, even when the problem is in the system or a library, that doesn't
mean it's OK that Vim crashes.

Is there a way we can detect the situation and avoid it?

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