>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
Yeah, that's why last week or the week before or whenever (someone wanted to move like 90,000 lines of text to another file), I recommended saving any huge tracts of text to a separate throwaway file instead of clipboarding it. Never know what the limits of a system might be.
