Activity that occurs after invocation but before the first document is displayed
Questions tagged [startup]
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How can I get Vim to ignore all user configuration, as if it were freshly installed?
In order to ensure that behaviour is not affected by my personal config, I want to start Vim in a way that ignores all my user-installed config files, as if Vim had just been freshly installed for the first time and the user had run it…
Rich
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Interpreting the output when using --startuptime
When I use the --startuptime option, vim generates an output file. I've included an example at the bottom of this post.
How can I interpret the output? I can't find documentation to verify my assumptions (I checked :help startuptime).
The…
dannyadam
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Intermittent slow startup
I have a strange issue. Sometimes (not every time, but often enough) the startup is extremely slow (ten seconds or more). Most of the time, when I run vim next time, it starts reasonably fast. Then in a few minutes or hours it starts up slowly…
n. m. could be an AI
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Incremental search for text from the command line
I'm trying to create a zsh alias that will start vim and search backwards from the end of the file for a given string. I learnt about +normal and can do something like this to start vim at the end of the file:
vim "+normal G" log
But I'm not able…
jogloran
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Why is my Vim startup dominated by "first screen update"?
I'm trying to investigate why Vim startup is pretty slow. vim -u NONE and the like are extremely fast as expected, so it is obviously my config/plugins, but what strikes me, is that most of the time is spent on first screen update.
Some stats:
Using…
fbence
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Weird sequence of characters temporarily when opening file
I know the title isn't all too descriptive but I don't have a better way to describe it. Whenever I open a file with vim (but interestingly not nvim), a bizarre sequence of characters shows under the cursor until I take my first action in the file,…
ericmarkmartin
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Press ENTER each time Vim starts
Each time Vim (v8.2) starts, it shows a subset of my key bindings, and awaits a keypress, like this:
n * za
n , * :nohlsearch
n Q *
Press ENTER or type command to continue"
In GVim on Windows 10, it…
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How to prevent certain files from being sourced
I am not happy with the behavior of the indent/html.vim file, so I made a custom one in ~/.vim/indent/html.vim. However, vim -V2 still revealed to me that the /usr/share/vim/vim80/indent/html.vim is still sourced.
How do I prevent the latter from…
Hielke Walinga
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