Hi,

May I ask that does VIM support editing large files. I'm editing a 3G (good, less than 4G) text file with several millions of lines. I have deleted the first ~110,000 lines and :x (save and exit). OMG: this operation takes more than 3 days. I think it hangs already, so I terminated it. So my question is, can VIM do this???

Mine is:
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0
Included patches: 1, 3-4, 7-9, 11, 13-17, 19-26, 29-31, 34-44, 47, 50-56, 58-64, 66-73, 75, 77-92, 94-107, 109, 202, 234-237
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -I/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE -I/usr/include/python2.4 -pthread
Linking: gcc -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE -L/usr/local/lib -o vim -lncurses -lselinux -lacl -lgpm -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE -lperl -lresolv -lutil -lc -L/usr/lib64/python2.4/config -lpython2.4 -lutil -lm -Xlinker -export-dynamic

Xuancong

I've edited some pretty big files in vim. Have you checked disk space. Remember that it creates a hidden (aka dot) file as a backup when you open vim.
Check where that's being put.
Also, you could ask here http://www.vim.org/