How may I scroll with vim into a big file?

Asked 2009-02-18T15:27:43.710

I have a big file with thousands of lines of thousands of characters.

I move the cursor to 3000th character.

If I use PageDown or Ctrl+D, the file will scroll but the cursor will come back to the first no-space character.

There's is an option to set to keep the cursor in the same column after a such scroll ?

I have the behavior with gvim on Window, vim on OpenVMS and Cygwin.

vim large-files

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This might not suit your situation at all, but if it makes it easier to break the lines up you can break them at a certain character e.g. after ':'

:%s/:/\r&/g

Or every 80 characters

:%s/.\{80}/&\r/g

answered 2009-02-18T15:39:14.180