Praful wrote: > On Friday, 30 May 2014 19:31:06 UTC+1, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > I wonder if this only applies to the :g command. Doesn't :%s have the > > > > same problem? And perhaps joining many lines. Anything that repeatedly > > > > puts text in the " register. > > I just tried :%s where I substituted something on almost all 200,000 > lines of a file. It did the substitutions in less than a few seconds. > To make sure I wasn't using Christian's patch, I then tried > :g/pattern/d and Windows froze! > > I tried the :%s on my patched gvim as well and that worked fine too.
I now realize that the :s command does not set a register. So your problem most likely is really about setting the clipboard, not something else. Perhaps :g and :v are the only commands that fill a register multiple times? Well, executing a script does, of course. And executing from a register multiple times. But that's not done with one command. -- "The amigos also appear to be guilty of not citing the work of others who had gone before them. Even worse, they have a chapter about modeling time and space without making a single reference to Star Trek!" (Scott Ambler, reviewing the UML User Guide) /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.