Tag: startup | VimTricks

How do I profile Vim startup time to find out which plugins are slowing it down?

vim --startuptime /tmp/vim-startup.log +qall && sort -k2 -rn /tmp/vim-startup.log | head -20

When Vim starts slowly, the --startuptime flag writes a timestamped log of every script and plugin loaded during initialization.

:set verbosefile=/tmp/vim.log verbose=9

Vim's verbosefile option redirects all verbose tracing output to a file on disk instead of printing it to the screen.

:set shortmess+=I

The shortmess option is a string of single-character flags that tell Vim which messages to suppress or abbreviate.