vi "W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file" on large read-write file

vi "W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file" on large read-write file

[Michael Bax]

When attempting to edit a *writeable* file of "zero" lines but 53 MB in size
(no newlines), vi appears to hang.  Ctrl-C is followed by the response
	W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file
following which it appears that one is editing a new file.  Quitting without
writing succeeds.

	cygwin 1.5.12-1
	vim 6.3-1

Cheers
Michael


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Re: vi "W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file" on large read-write file

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan  1 04:52, Michael Bax wrote:
> When attempting to edit a *writeable* file of "zero" lines but 53 MB in size
> (no newlines), vi appears to hang.

But it doesn't.  It just needs a lot of time to process the file.
After all vim is an editor.  It searches the whole file for line-endings
etc.  Try the same on another OS and you'll see the same effect.  On my
Linux box vi needs three or four minutes to scan such a file and to
become responsive again.  It eats up all CPU time while doing that.
Actually vim is not my preferred editor to edit binary files.


Corinna

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