Yes, this is quite common. Come to #vim on freenode and we'll help you troubleshoot it. There's a large and welcoming community waiting for you over there. Lau

Yes, this is quite common. Come to #vim on freenode and we'll help you troubleshoot it. There's a large and welcoming community waiting for you over there. Launch macvim as `mvim -u NONE --noplugin` and see if you can still reproduce your speed issues. If you can't, then your problem is not with vim, but with a plugin (or with your ~/.vimrc). You can use bisectly[1] to do a binary search over your installed plugins looking for a faulty one. This is similar to how git-bisect works, and it's WAY more effective than disabling your plugins one by one. I've personally used repeatedly it to narrow down problems to vim-gitgutter, which is quite possibly the buggiest plugin I've ever used. [1] https://github.com/dahu/bisectly https://github.com/dahu/bisectly