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When I open Vim for the first time and go to search using ctrl+p fzf then start typing my search it gets prepended with the following text:
12;4$y
This means if I have typed searching it will become 12;4$ysearching. This only happens when I first open Vim and hit the key sequence to start the fzf finder before Vim has fully loaded. I'm wanting to track down where in the startup process this is happening.
How can I track this oddity down? My .vimrc dot_files
Thanks to some very helpful comments by @dedowsdi I have discovered some more about the vast world that is Vim.
vim --startuptime vtime.log and inspecting the log file.viminfo file being 22k lines after the updates below it is only 2.5k..vimrc options changed the load time of my viminfo to 008.324, more than 42x faster. Current configuration inside my .vimrc file:
set history =501
set viminfo ='100,:100,@100,s10,\"100,h,n$v/files/info/viminfo
This took my load time from ~.4 a second to ~.2 second. The rest of this time is mostly plugins.
Extra notes:
set viminfo options are on 7.4 Again thank you @dedowsdi for getting me going on tracking this all down. Edited for current config
undolevels is not stored in viminfo, 501 might be too small if you work on a file for a whole day. < is the same as " .
vim --startuptime vtime.log?vtime.logand find out what's dragging you down. My point is that if you can reduce startup time to 0.2 second, your problem should vanish away most of time. If you really want to know why , you can follow above link to debug your vimrc.365.514 194.023: reading viminfoIs this for my .vimrc file?