My Vim has gone slower by the time

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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?

Accepted Answer

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.

My Vim has gone slower by the time

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