From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 08:07:41 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EE829EC for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E10B18DD for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-111-1.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.111.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F0803CCFF; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:07:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s8287ZQL001919; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:07:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:07:35 +0200 From: Polytropon To: kpneal@pobox.com Subject: Re: how to install wireless n.i.c. on FreeBSD 9.1 Message-Id: <20140902100735.5c57c3ee.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140901220045.GA49707@neutralgood.org> References: <20140823025527.bd80818d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140826022802.198cd285.freebsd@edvax.de> <3f1e44ea23fb755ae9f8e2390ab2a3d6@surewest.net> <20140830200831.GB12450@neutralgood.org> <20140831103329.18f5b713.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140901220045.GA49707@neutralgood.org> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:07:41 -0000 On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 18:00:46 -0400, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > The advantage of gvim, aside from using different settings for colors and > fonts, is that vim/gvim handles damn-that's-huge huge files very, very > well. We're talking a couple of seconds to open a multi-million line file. > And boy is is responsive. It's dependencies for installation also are acceptable. > The catch is the lines must be normal length. If you have text in an MVS > dataset (with fixed size blocks), and you convert EBCDIC to ASCII with dd, > AND you don't have the line lengths in sync between MVS and dd, then what > you get is a file that only has one line but that line is millions of > characters long. Don't do that. This requires an additional step of inserting a line break every n characters (where n often is 80, but for data files often more). By the way, there's _one_ feature that I didn't find in gvim, and especially in regards of column-oriented data files, this would be really helpful: a real COLUMN RULER on top. As a grown-old mainframe person, I'm thinking about something like this: |...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6 Something that you would recognize from ISPF/PDF or SEU. It could also look like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ----+----0----+----0----+----0----+----0----+----0----+----0 Or this: ....+... 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 Is there a way to add this to gvim? Ideally it should accomodate to the "set nowrap" or "set wrap" setting (lines longer than the window width are either wrapped or scrolled horizontally). It should be shown on top of the current view (no matter how far you are into the file vertically). Any idea? > I used to use nvi/vi for simply large files until our admin contacted me > about the ongoing space issues in "/var/tmp". Oops. Now if I want to look > at those files in nvi I use the "-F" option. Yes, this directory is used by vi, and it's not subject to the automatic cleaning of /tmp. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...