[ale] OT: VI editing of large files.

[Alan Stewart]

I agree with Ray, I've used vim to edit 250Mb+ files before. You're 
hitting a limitation in your system/environment, not a limit in vim.

Ray Knight wrote:

>On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 13:49, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>Adrin wrote:
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>>>I have a need to edit a very large file. on the Plus size of 43 megs.  Vi gives me an
>>>error message that the /tmp file is to large.  I know/think there is a way around this I
>>>just don't know.  Is there anyone out there that knows?
>>>      
>>>
>>One possibility is to use split to break the file into more manageable 
>>chunks, then cat the parts back together after you're done editing.
>>
>>You should be able to use either 'ed' or 'sed' to edit such large files. 
>>'sed' if you've got specific small changes, ed if you need a more 
>>interactive editing environment.
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>You're running out of disk space in your /tmp directory.  If you have
>space available elsewhere (for instance perhaps you have more available
>disk space in /home) you could do the following:
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># TMP=/home vi fileyouwanttodedit
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>This will tell vi to use the /home directory for temporary files.
>
>Ray
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