Friday, August 19, 2011

Re: Vim writing to disk with every single keypress...why?

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, John Magolske wrote:

> When using Vim, I observe a write to disk upon every single keypress.
> Every single time I press a key the HD light blinks. When I start Vim
> like so:
>
> vim --noplugin
>
> ...I notice this is not the case. I'm guessing a particular plugin may
> causing this "write with every keypress" behavior...how might I go
> about discovering the cause?

Since it doesn't happen when plugins are disabled, it sounds like one of
your plugins is using one of the { CursorHold, CursorHoldI, CursorMoved,
CursorMovedI } autocmds, perhaps with a really low 'updatetime' setting.

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Best,
Ben

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