A few months back I upgraded my vim configuration to use pathogen for managing my vim plugins.
Since adding plugins was now a doddle I found a few lists of “super-duper
useful vim plugins you must have” and just installed them blindly.
Along the way I also configured how various plugins and the like were
configured. This included a
one-line change
to associate .md
files with markdown (by default they associate Modula-2
which I haven’t written code in for 20+ years).
And that’s when opening a markdown file started to take about three seconds.
Which is kind of insane.
For a long while I just left it alone but it bugged me today again and
I mentioned it on IRC. Finn pointed me at the
--startuptime
flag and I gave it a shot and this is the tail of the log:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | 100.208 000.698 000.274: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/html.vim 100.397 001.261 000.563: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/markdown.vim 102.151 000.367 000.367: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/javascript.vim 104.572 002.228 002.228: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/vb.vim 109.634 004.917 004.917: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/css.vim 1745.487 1635.791 1635.791: sourcing /home/kevin/.vim/bundle/vim-css-color/after/syntax/css.vim 1747.296 1646.199 002.896: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/html.vim 1747.771 1646.809 000.610: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/markdown.vim 1749.532 000.167 000.167: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/html.vim 1749.748 000.798 000.631: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/markdown.vim 1752.060 000.452 000.452: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/javascript.vim 1755.110 002.818 002.818: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/vb.vim 1766.053 010.666 010.666: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/css.vim 3410.204 1645.087 1645.087: sourcing /home/kevin/.vim/bundle/vim-css-color/after/syntax/css.vim 3411.995 1662.352 003.329: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/html.vim 3412.376 1662.821 000.469: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim74/syntax/markdown.vim 3415.364 006.619: opening buffers 3415.395 000.031: BufEnter autocommands 3415.396 000.001: editing files in windows 3415.696 000.300: VimEnter autocommands 3415.697 000.001: before starting main loop 3419.461 003.764: first screen update 3419.463 000.002: --- VIM STARTED --- |
Wait, what? The vim-css-color plugin is taking a combined ~3290ms? I almost never edit CSS. What does this thing bring to the table?
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Oh hell no. So I remove it (rm -rf ~/.vim/bundle/vim-css-color
) and then
get these startup times:
1 2 3 | 133.808 000.001: before starting main loop 137.545 003.737: first screen update 137.546 000.001: --- VIM STARTED --- |
Starting up in 137.5ms is far more reasonable that 3,419.5ms. So thanks for that finn, that’s way better!