[ale] large file on vi editor

[mhw at wittsend.com (Michael H. Warfield)]

Chu, Tsannhui enscribed thusly:

> Does anybody know how to use vi on large file (i.e. file size > 2M).

	Yeah...  Don't use elvis (the nominal vi clone editor).  Use
vim (one of the others).  Does just great.  If you do an ls -l /bin/vi
you will probably find it is a symbolic link to elvis.  You can remove
it and replace it with a sym link to vim and that then becomes your
default vi editor.  Vim is not limited to the 2M limit that elvis
slams into...

> thanks for any help.

> Tsannhui Chu

	Mike
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