vim: Vim locks up on files with long lines

[Ben Okopnik]

Package: vim
Version: 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1
Severity: normal


Vim locks up - i.e., takes no further input of any kind - when it hits a
long line in the text. E.g., when reading a crash report from
/var/crash, it works just fine for the first X lines (headers, procmaps,
procstatus, etc. - everything containing short lines), but locks up as
soon as it hits the coredump (which is one long line of base64-encoded
MIME several hundred kB in length). Even after several minutes, there's
no activity.


Regards,
Ben Okopnik
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers edgy-backports
  APT policy: (500, 'edgy-backports'), (500, 'edgy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-10-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages vim depends on:
ii  libc6           2.4-1ubuntu12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgpmg1        1.19.6-22ubuntu1         General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libncurses5     5.5-2ubuntu1             Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  vim-common      1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 Vi IMproved - Common files
ii  vim-runtime     1:7.0-164+1ubuntu6~edgy1 Vi IMproved - Runtime files

vim recommends no packages.

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