I run Windows XP and gvim7.2. I want to inspect a large (130 MB) XML file with VIM. Is it possible to simply open the first 1000 lines of the file?
3 Answers
the main problem of vim is not the file size, but the syntax highlighting of the file. i use the 'large file' script to disable such timeconsuming things when working on large files.
Also you can just:
head -1000 large_file.xml | vim -
You may use head
or tail
to cut specific parts of the file and then open them in vim. In your specific example, you could do:
head -1000 large_file.xml > small_file.xml
Then you would be able to open small_file.xml in gvim.
This, of course, you have the head and tail utilities installed.