title: Make Vim handle medium-sized text files on windows?
body: <p>I am trying to open a 200MB text file in gvim on Windows, and it's choking. The vim window opens and just remains blank and unresponsive.  My system has 8GB of RAM and the file opens fine in about 2-5 seconds using notepad.  </p>
  
  <p>I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/908575/how-to-edit-multi-gigabyte-text-files-vim-doesnt-work">this SO post on editing very large text files in vim</a>, and I tried opening the file with plugins turned off:</p>
  
  <pre><code>vim -u "NONE" my200MBfile.text
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that didn't help.  Is there anything else I can do to make it work?  It seems strange that vim would choke on my machine on what is not really such a large file.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>