Hi. I very like Vim, thank you, but there's one thing in Vim that i really hate.
I often use rather old notebook with processor Pentium M 1.6 GHz, and when i use Vim on it, i can't normally edit files *.vim and *.php : syntax highlighting for these filetypes is VERY SLOW. And i'm sure that 1.6 GHz is pretty enough for syntax highlighting. Some IDEs and just editors i tested works fine: SlickEdit, UltraEdit, PHP Expert Editor. I tested Vim both on Windows and Linux: lags the same. And other editors works fine. And this is Vim! Vim was always positioned as extremely fast editor, when compared with IDEs. But there's fact: IDE works fast, Vim is slow, on the same hardware. I believe that Vim handles syntax highlighting not in the best possible manner. I have to turn syntax off while editing *.vim and *.php files on this machine, and i very don't like this. I have two questions: 1) Do you have plans to improve syntax highlight handling, to make it faster? 2) Is there maybe simplified syntax files for *.vim and/or *.php files? Or any other way to solve this trouble without turning syntax off? [image: pic.gif] Thanks. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
