patch 8.0.0976: cannot send lines to a terminal job commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b241208a13d3e9def36d749b1e824ae694aa85f8 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Aug 20 18:09:14 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0976: cannot send lines to a terminal job Problem: Cannot send lines to a terminal job. Solution: Make [range]terminal send selected lines to the job. Use ++rows and ++cols for the terminal size.

Test for writing and reading a file of over 100 Kbyte

1 line: "This is the start"
3001 lines: "This is the leader"
1 line: "This is the middle"
3001 lines: "This is the trailer"
1 line: "This is the end"

STARTTEST
:%d
aThis is the start
This is the leader
This is the middle
This is the trailer
This is the endkY3000p2GY3000p
:w! Xtest
:%d
:e! Xtest
:.w! test.out
3003G:.w >>test.out
6005G:.w >>test.out
:qa!
ENDTEST