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 files. However, sometimes it has a problem when the batch job is re-run while I am viewing the file in vim, and the log file is replaced by a much shorter one.
When vim tries to reload the file, sometimes I get a very long series of red warning messages - I can't repeat the event just now, so can't provide the content of the warning, but I think it has to do with missing lines. This succession of warnings can be inconvenient when there are several million to report, or even a few thousand! And very occasionally vim hangs (apparently), or just gives up the ghost and dies. I think problems are more likely when the 'present location' is far down the file. Considering the abuse I am giving vim this is within the range of acceptable behavior, but I thought it was worth mentioning as an issue anyway. From the behavior, I speculate that vim has found the present line to be after the end of file, is trying to move the line pointer upwards one line at a time, and is finding no data there each time. -- "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."-- J.R.R. Tolkien - But where does that leave particle physics? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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