Hi,

Hari Krishna Dara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> words
        on 23.03.2007 - 14:19 (-0700 Zulu-Time):

> This happened to me always by mistake and what happened today was the
> worst. Forgetting that I have copied large amount of text into the
> clipboard, I tried to paste it at the search prompt using ^R* and this
> caused Vim to hang for a very long time and pressing ^C had no effect.
> I remember that Vim used to crash when a large amount of text is pasted
> this way, but I think that problem is now fixed, though I think a better
> behavior is needed, e.g.,
> - Stop and give error after reaching some limit
> - Detect ^C and stop.
> 
> Any comments?

linux/unix: killall vim 
There is a similar command for the windows command-line


Cheers -- Erik 

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