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Vim configuration slow in Terminal & iTerm2 but not in MacVim

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Ideally, I want to use Vim from Terminal or iTerm2. However, it becomes unbearably slow so I had to resort to using MacVim. There is nothing wrong with MacVim, however my workflow would be much smoother if I used only Terminal/iTerm2. When its slow Loading files, in particular Rails files takes abo…

Error Output

> vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Nov 16 2011 16:44:23)
MacOS X (unix) version
Included patches: 1-333
Huge version withou…

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Fix for: Vim configuration slow in Terminal & iTerm2 but not in MacVim

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I've found that any plugins or settings that affect the display (cursorline, cursorcolumn, vim-powerline, vim-airline, matchit.vim, etc.) slow down Vim in the terminal most significantly. Here are some lines from my .vimrc to keep things speedy: Als…

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