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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by _djo_ on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:19AM (#24977913)
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 -
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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by OJFord on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:05AM (#24980253)
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 % | ...
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