On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that the following will create a file containing one million spaces > (and *no* carriage-return after them). I haven't tested it. It mixes > ex-commands and normal-mode commands. It assumes that the current file is > not modified. It will fail (with an error) if the required features are not > compiled-in. <Space> and <Esc> are one keypress each. It assumes that ^ is a > valid character in a filename, which is true under Unix/Linux; I don't know > about Windows. > > :enew > :setlocal virtualedit=all binary noeol > :set undolevels=0 nobackup nowritebackup > 1000000| > i<Space><Esc> > :saveas 10^6spc.txt > > For a million 'a' instead, add > > :s/ /a/g > > before the :saveas but that :substitute operation may be costly. >
Thanks, there is much interesting stuff in there. This is quite why I asked the question! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- 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
