Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic) [LWN.net]

Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)

Posted Feb 25, 2008 7:15 UTC (Mon) by DG (subscriber, #16978)
In reply to: Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic) by atai
Parent article: Emacs news: new maintainer, version 22 pretest

vi[m] should be able to without a problem (I've done similar things with SQL dump files) -
although you'll probably want to skip using your customised .vimrc which adds in colouring and
the like _before_ opening it, else you'll be in for a long wait.

David.

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Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)

Posted Feb 25, 2008 16:35 UTC (Mon) by kh (guest, #19413) [Link] (1 responses)

I have had problems with vim and large files that had no newlines (but larger files with
newline chars were fine.)

Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)

Posted Feb 25, 2008 18:22 UTC (Mon) by TRS-80 (guest, #1804) [Link]

Yeah, syntax highlighting is only poorly behaved when there are no newlines - if I turn it off before loading a large file vim becomes snappy again.