Except for the lack a of a decent pager...

Not sure what you want, but when I do (e.g.)

:1,$p
[download]

it pages the output (through more or something like it. (Tried it on Windows.))

I got a segmentation fault.

Are you sure your vim was compiled with perl support on? And that it's picking up the same perl as was detected/specified at compile time?

jdporter
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