On Nov 20, 2007 2:02 PM, Aldi Kraja wrote: > Hi, > Opening a file 1.5 GB cygwin Vim reports segmentation fault. > Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV. > > Is there any way that one can expand the setting of Vim? > > I need to change the header of the file to some extent, but I do not > think that emacs will do it. Less is a pager. Any other idea how to edit > a file this large?
If it's only a header you need to edit, you do it the usual unix way... for a 15000 line file, where the header is in the first 100 lines: $ head -100 BIGFILE > filehead $ tail -14900 BIGFILE > filetail $ vim filehead # modify... $ cat filehead filetail > BIGFILE $ rm filehead filetail And, there's no reason that should crash vim. Do you have the 1.5 GB of memory that you'd need to open that file? ~Matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
