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Asked: 2026-06-08T03:05:08+00:00

Vim was much faster on the time when I installed it freshly. It now

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Vim was much faster on the time when I installed it freshly. It now takes 2-4 seconds from the time I hit enter after typing vim inside terminal and the opening of Vim (even without any file/argument).

I have:

  • 7 plugins (autocorrect, auto-pairs, closetag, snipMate, supertab, tetris)
  • No colorschemes
  • A .vimrc file with these configurations
  • The .vimrc file in my home directory is a symlink, the real file is in .vim directory

  • I am starting Vim in insert mode (I have alias in .bash_aliases file):

    alias vim="vim -c 'startinsert'"
alias vi="vi -c 'startinsert'"

What is slowing down my Vim?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m almost sure that autocorrect.vim is the reason. Just looked into it and saw 8152 lines. All these lines are parsed by Vim at its startup, which slows it down.

    For the future. You can start vim with --startuptime argument to know exactly what slows down its loading, e.g.

    vim --startuptime startup.report

    Examining of produced file will give you information about time spent for loading different scripts.

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