Hi Ted! On Mo, 23 Aug 2010, Ted wrote:
> Hi all, > Note that this is *not* a vim 7.3-related issue -- I'm still running > 7.2. I'm using the ubuntu 10.04 `vim-gnome` package. > > I've noticed that pasting into the command line from a register uses > a conspicuous amount of resources, both in terms of processing time > and memory. This can easily clog up the operation of a machine, and > can happen quite easily if you just hit the wrong key by accident. It > happens very slowly, taking up to a second just to paste in one screen > row's worth of text. > > Today I accidentally pasted the entire jQuery source code into the > vim command line by pressing `<C-R>+`. `^C` didn't seem to work to > cancel this operation, although I pressed it pretty early in, after > there were only a few rows of pasted text. I thought maybe just > letting it go might be okay, and just used cpulimit to prevent it from > hogging lots of CPU while I worked on something else. After a few > minutes that vim process had consumed at least another couple of > hundred megs of memory, at which point I killed it from another > process. I was able to kill it with a normal kill signal (i.e. not > `kill -9`), at which point it exited gracefully, notifying me that it > had saved files (though not saved a session). > > Presumably this is a complicated issue which can't easily be > rectified (unless it is fixed in vim 7.3?). Is there a workaround of > some variety? Even just placing a fixed limit on the length of a > command line entry, at a few hundred characters or so, would prevent > these sort of catastrophes. > > Alternatively, perhaps there is a way to get vim to save a session > file when it exits due to an interrupt signal? Not perfect, since > there are a few items not saved in a session file, but for a quick fix > it would be helpful. There was a similar issue reported at vim_dev a couple of days ago. See the thread that started at: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/137352cc1adcdd16 This workaround was mentioned: ,---- | " Avoid command-line redraw on every entered character | " by turning off Arabic | " shaping (which is implemented poorly). | if has('arabic') | set noarabicshape | endif `---- regards, Christian -- Bei manchen Menschen geht alles schnell zum einen Ohr rein und zum anderen raus - die haben auch nicht viel dazwischen. -- Heinz Erhardt -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
