Re: Register size
On 6/21/06, Anatoli Sakhnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, vim users! Can anyone tell me how big a vim register is? It's very unpleasant, when I yank some piece of text in the source and can paste only part of it. Is there a restriction? No word about the subject neither in the documentation nor in the web. -- Anatoli Sakhnik I don't know of a limit within normal uses (i.e. 100K or so). How long is the text you are trying to yank?
Re: Register size
I don't know of a limit within normal uses (i.e. 100K or so). How long is the text you are trying to yank? I can't say I've hit any abnormal limits either, and I've yanked/pasted some pretty long texts from log-file dumps. If you need to read in a huge quantity of data, you can save that data to a file, and then use :r filename.txt to read in the data if you're having clipboard problems. If you've got absolutely gargantuan data that blows vim's limits (:help limits), you can use a stream editor like sed which will process the file(s) a line at a time: sed '25r filename.txt' source.txt result.txt to put the contents of 'filename.txt' after (or is it before...I'd have to experiment) line 25 of source.txt and save the result as result.txt If you need to put it after a particular regexp line (assuming there's only one match, unless you want to read filename.txt into the file multiple times), you can just use sed '/regexp/r filename.txt' source.txt result.txt There are some stunts one can perform to read filename.txt only after the first or last instance of regexp. I have a solution for the former...reading after the last match of regexp is a bit trickier. Just a few thoughts... -tim
Re: Register size
Anatoli Can anyone tell me how big a vim register is? I can't. With HUGE (g)vim-7.0.22 on Windows XP I have experienced no problem when yanking 100MB of text (except of the business of my hard drive). It's very unpleasant, when I yank some piece of text in the source and can paste only part of it. Is there a restriction? Perhaps this depends on the version, on special characters you yank, on the Operating System etc. But I don't know. With best regards Mathias
Re: Register size
Let's just wait a while until I encounter the problem again. I think there's an unexpected feature either in the win32 version of the vim or in one of plugins I use. -- Sakhnik On 21/06/06, Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't say I've hit any abnormal limits either, and I've yanked/pasted some pretty long texts from log-file dumps. Just a few thoughts... -tim
Re: Register size
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:48:48PM +0300, Anatoli Sakhnik wrote: Can anyone tell me how big a vim register is? It's very unpleasant, when I yank some piece of text in the source and can paste only part of it. Is there a restriction? I'm not aware of any restriction, providing you remain within Vim when moving text around. If you quit Vim and restart it on a different file then only part of the register will be saved. See :help 'viminfo'. -- Matthew Winn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
