I'm on Arch Linux live USB. I'm using vi to open an 18kb text file containing a single line of json. I did a search with / and hit a block partway through the file represented by an @ symbol. Then, when I press n to go to next match, the editor freezes. The cursor is on the command line with / highlighted and the cursor is glitching.The editor doesn't respond to :q, esc, Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+D, Ctrl+L, Ctrl+/When I press Ctrl+S, the cursor begins blinking normally but Ctrl+Q makes it start glitching again.Alt+F2 then kill -9 [pid] works to get out. But I'd like to know what the problem with the file is.Upon opening the file, I noticed an incomplete last line error message displayed on the command line. But no line too long error. Also, vi would not scroll past the @.The file is on an HDD mounted externally through USB. The OS is on a USB stick.
vi is frozen after search on arch linux
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