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It is very realistic when I copy a json dump into an editor and then do a key stroke to format it. My beloved vim doesn't fair so we'll. VScode does very well

• ploxiln 6y ago
  I noticed some years ago that vim can be much slower due to highlighting of particular syntax of huge files. For example it was fine with a 10MiB C file, but super slow with a 10MiB XML file, but fast again with ":syntax off"
• _djo_ 6y ago
  Are you doing the formatting via a Vim plugin? I often find it's much faster to pipe out to a command line program to do formatting on huge files. e.g. :%! jq or :%! xmllint --format -
  • OJFord 6y ago
    Huh, thanks, I didn't know you could put the contents on stdin like that (%!) - just in case you (or anyone) was similarly unaware in reverse, you can also put `%` wherever you want to use the filename in the command. i.e. I would have done: :! jq % and have probably been guilty of (not knowing `%!` per above): :! cat % | ...