Re: Gvim taking a minute or more to start

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From: "jr" <creature.eternal@gmail.com>
To: vim_use@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, 12 Sep, 2022 At 15:09
Subject: Re: Gvim taking a minute or more to start

On Mon, 12 Sept 2022 at 14:26, A. S. Budden <abudden@gmail.com> wrote:

... Oooh, that was a good shot! Setting the HOME environment variable seems to work (again, I've only tested this on one machine so far; I'll try the other tomorrow). It doesn't seem to matter what it's set to: I tried c:\cygwin\home\al and also just c:\ and it both cases Vim started very quickly.

great.

Assuming it works on the other PC then that feels like a good & simple fix, but it'd be nice to understand why Vim goes slowly without HOME set to anything.

fwiw, "it'd be nice to understand" why Microsoft does without a HOME ;-).

It seems it is to do with their view of a file system. It's divided into HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH. It wd seem reasonable to insert a concatenation of these as HOME. I hesitate to offer a command, or where it sd go.

Chris Willis

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