For example, when a 1GB file is loaded on Vim, it takes as much memory and swap space, as shown in the top output below. While the LargeFile plugin can help you speed up file loading, Vim itself still cannot handle editing an extremely large file very well, because it tries to load the entire file in memory. To change the minimum size of large files to 10MB, add the following entry to ~/.vimrc. To change this setting, you can edit ~/.vimrc file (create one if it does not exist). By default, files bigger than 100MB are considered large by the plugin. What this plugin does is to turn off events, undo, syntax highlighting, etc. The plugin will be installed at ~/.vim/plugin/LargeFile.vim.
#EDIT TEXT FILE IN TERMINAL INSTALL#
$ gunzip Įnter :so % and press ENTER within Vim window to install the plugin in your home directory. To install the plugin in your home directory, you can open the. The latest version of the plugin is 5, and it will be saved in Vimball format (.
#EDIT TEXT FILE IN TERMINAL DOWNLOAD#
Then download the LargFile plugin from Vim website.
For Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint: $ sudo apt-get install vimįor Fedora, CentOS or RHEL: $ sudo yum install vim-enhanced To install the LargeFile plugin on Vim, first make sure that you have Vim installed. This plugin allows you to load and edit large files more quickly by turning off several Vim features such as events, undo, syntax highlighting, etc. Vim text editor boasts of various plugins (or scripts) which can extend Vim's functionality. In this tutorial, I will discuss more user-friendly ways to open (and possibly edit) a large text file on Linux. If you are a savvy system admin, you can probably open or touch an arbitrary text file with a combination of cat, tail, grep, sed, awk, etc. A typical text editor may not be designed to deal with such large text files efficiently, and may simply get choked while attempting to open a big file, due to insufficient memory. Or you could be analyzing multi-GB log files manually for specific troubleshooting purposes. Suppose you somehow need to search and edit one of those big text files by hand. In the era of "big data", large text files (GB or more) could be commonly encountered around us.
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