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

How about pretty-printing your XML file (if the line length is the real problem)? You could do that e.g. using xmllint which is part of the Gnome libxml2 package (and there is also a version available for Windows).

You can pretty-print in-place by executing

xmllint --format -o xmlFile.xml xmlFile.xml