On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:38:42PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Bo Milvang-Jensen wrote: > > > I have found a bug in vim's recovery. > > To reproduce: create a file "test" with 40000 lines, with each line > > containing 78 minuses, a la > > > > 78a-<ESC> > > yy > > 39999p > > :wq > > > > Copy that file to test_save > > > > Edit test again, add one line, do not do :w, but rather kill vim > > (kill <PID>). > > Do "vim test" again, press r for recovery, do :wq > > > > The result is that the recovered file test does contain the newly added > > line (good), but it misses 292 of the original lines (bad!) I.e. > > > > wc test_save test > > 40000 40000 3160000 test_save > > 39707 39709 3136791 test > > > > The above test has been done with vim 7.3 compiled on a 32 bit LINUX machine > > and with vim 6.3.82 (from Kubuntu 10.10) on a 64 bit LINUX machine. > > Most likely this is solved by patch 7.3.216
Dear Bram, I just wanted to say thank you for your reply, and here a year after(!) I finally managed to get patch 7.3.216, using your aap programme, and my tests suggest that vim now correctly recovers large files! Thanks, Cheers, Bo -- 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
