Editing xml files with long lines is really slow in vim. What can I do to fix this?

Question

I edit a lot of xml files with vim. The problem is that, because of the long lines, navigation/editing in vim is extremely slow. Is there something I can do (besides turning off

Answer 1

The problem is that VIM syntax-highlighting is slow for long lines. An easy fix that only slightly degrades functionality is to limit syntax highlighting to the first x columns. Something like this in your .vimrc:

set synmaxcol=120