On Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:06:00 UTC+1, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:11:26 AM UTC-6, dza wrote: > > I wonder why my Vim is so slow over our Windows samba share - not only > > opening/closing is slow - also typing and edit/insert commands are slow as > > well :-commands, plugins, everything. > > > > Can I tame Vim running on a fileshare? Or make it cache the files locally > > so it doesn't slow down? > > > > I've seen alot of suggestions, but none of them seems to do the trick. > > > > For example: > > > > nofsync > > ttyfast > > ttimeout > > timeout > > > > Thank you very much in advance, I would really like to know how I can fix > > this ! > > A couple of suggestions: > > Move your Vim config (.vimrc, plugins, etc.) off any network share. In my > experience, my single greatest slow-down in Vim was due to running scripts > off a network share. > > Set your 'directory', 'backupdir', and/or 'undodir' options to a local > directory. By default swap, backup, and undo files are stored in the same > directory. This can make editing slow because Vim must peridocially write the > swap file over the network. 'backupdir' and 'undodir' are less important as > they only affect file write times. See > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_use/1ZrWkBj6DKI/discussion for setting > 'directory' differently for different file locations.
On Friday, 14 December 2012 09:53:37 UTC+1, Dominique Pelle wrote: > Hi > > > > Which version of Vim are you using? Maybe this patch helps? > > > > 7.3.027 MS-Windows: Opening a file on a network share is very slow > > > > -- Dominique It's also a problem on Linux for me :( ... Thanks for your suggestions so far all ! -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
