I recently discovered that using ftdetect is absurdly slower than filetype.vim.
To reproduce, try this:
mkdir -p ~/.vim/ftdetect
echo 'autocmd BufNew,BufNewFile,BufRead *.md :set filetype=markdown' >
~/.vim/ftdetect/markdown.vim
mkdir testing
cd testing
touch {1..500}.md
vim
:args *
Here's vim --version:
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Mar 17 2017 12:13:35)
Included patches: 1-95
Modified by [email protected]
Compiled by [email protected]
Huge version with GTK3 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl +file_in_path +mouse_sgr +tag_old_static
+arabic +find_in_path -mouse_sysmouse -tag_any_white
+autocmd +float +mouse_urxvt +tcl
+balloon_eval +folding +mouse_xterm +termguicolors
+browse -footer +multi_byte +terminfo
++builtin_terms +fork() +multi_lang +termresponse
+byte_offset +gettext -mzscheme +textobjects
+channel -hangul_input +netbeans_intg +timers
+cindent +iconv +num64 +title
+clientserver +insert_expand +packages +toolbar
+clipboard +job +path_extra +user_commands
+cmdline_compl +jumplist +perl +vertsplit
+cmdline_hist +keymap +persistent_undo +virtualedit
+cmdline_info +lambda +postscript +visual
+comments +langmap +printer +visualextra
+conceal +libcall +profile +viminfo
+cryptv +linebreak -python +vreplace
+cscope +lispindent +python3 +wildignore
+cursorbind +listcmds +quickfix +wildmenu
+cursorshape +localmap +reltime +windows
+dialog_con_gui +lua +rightleft +writebackup
+diff +menu +ruby +X11
+digraphs +mksession +scrollbind -xfontset
+dnd +modify_fname +signs +xim
-ebcdic +mouse +smartindent +xpm
+emacs_tags +mouseshape +startuptime +xsmp_interact
+eval +mouse_dec +statusline +xterm_clipboard
+ex_extra +mouse_gpm -sun_workshop -xterm_save
+extra_search -mouse_jsbterm +syntax
+farsi +mouse_netterm +tag_binary
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc"
defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK -pthread
-I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi-2.0
-I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include
-I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/mirclient
-I/usr/include/mircore -I/usr/include/mircookie -I/usr/include/cairo
-I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0
-I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
-I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -Wdate-time -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/vim-8krYYf/vim-8.0.0095=. -fPIE
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1
Linking: gcc -L. -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now
-fstack-protector -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -Wl,-E
-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed -o
vim -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject
-lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lSM -lICE -lXpm
-lXt -lX11 -lXdmcp -lSM -lICE -lm -ltinfo -lnsl -lselinux -lacl -lattr -lgpm
-ldl -L/usr/lib -llua5.2 -Wl,-E -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.24/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lcrypt
-L/usr/lib/python3.5/config-3.5m-x86_64-linux-gnu -lpython3.5m -lpthread -ldl
-lutil -lm -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -ltcl8.6 -ldl -lz -lpthread -lieee -lm
-lruby-2.3 -lpthread -lgmp -ldl -lcrypt -lm
The docs *do* say that if you are detecting files based purely on names you
should instead use an autload group in a filetype.vim file, but it's pretty far
down in the docs and a *lot* of people seem to have made this mistake:
https://github.com/search?p=4&q=%22set+ft%3Dmarkdown%22+language%3Avim&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
I would like to know why this is slower, but more, if filetype.vim needs to be
used for filename based filetype detection, and functions need to be defined in
scripts.vim for content detection, what good is ftdetect anyway?
Thanks,
fREW
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