I suspect your DISPLAY env variable is incorrecty set, or set to a remote machine which is somehow slow to access.
Using vim -X would ignore DISPLAY so should be fast. This is probably not a bug in Vim. -- vim-gnome is very slow to load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240693 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs