[Linux-disciples] Editing just the last N lines in vim

[Stephen R Laniel]

I have a very large file that I'd like to edit in vim, but
most of the time I only want to edit the last few lines.
Normally I do this like so:

tail -n 10000 filename > ~/tail_file
vim !$

Is there any way to do this without creating the tail_file?
Somehow force vim to only modify a fixed range of lines? 

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Stephen R. Laniel
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