I'm having problems with slow startup time in vim. I used the --startuptime flag to investigate, with the following output:
times in msec clock self+sourced self: sourced script clock elapsed: other lines000.003 000.003: --- VIM STARTING ---000.082 000.079: Allocated generic buffers000.103 000.021: locale set000.112 000.009: GUI prepared000.115 000.003: clipboard setup000.119 000.004: window checked000.496 000.377: inits 1000.513 000.017: parsing arguments000.514 000.001: expanding arguments000.527 000.013: shell init1000.786 1000.259: xsmp init1001.055 000.269: Termcap init1001.108 000.053: inits 21001.315 000.207: init highlight1001.702 000.298 000.298: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/debian.vim1002.839 000.950 000.950: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/syncolor.vim1002.954 001.139 000.189: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/synload.vim1013.304 000.029 000.029: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/ftdetect/tree.vim1013.520 010.526 010.497: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/filetype.vim1013.594 011.841 000.176: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/syntax.vim1013.642 012.296 000.157: sourcing $VIM/vimrc1014.184 000.410 000.410: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/debian.vim1014.724 000.270 000.270: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim/autoload/vundle.vim1015.021 000.197 000.197: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim/autoload/vundle/config.vim1015.683 000.015 000.015: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/filetype.vim1015.782 000.040 000.040: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/ftplugin.vim1015.875 000.035 000.035: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/indent.vim1016.281 000.298 000.298: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/nosyntax.vim1016.592 000.211 000.211: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/syncolor.vim1016.715 000.390 000.179: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/synload.vim1016.744 000.796 000.108: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/syntax.vim1016.810 000.011 000.011: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/filetype.vim1016.875 000.009 000.009: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/ftplugin.vim1016.937 000.009 000.009: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/indent.vim1017.797 000.567 000.567: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/pack/dist/opt/matchit/plugin/matchit.vim1017.906 000.013 000.013: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/filetype.vim1018.017 000.011 000.011: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/ftplugin.vim1018.085 000.010 000.010: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/indent.vim1018.539 000.209 000.209: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/syncolor.vim1019.006 000.203 000.203: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/syncolor.vim1019.385 000.203 000.203: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax/syncolor.vim1020.619 002.482 001.867: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/colors/minimalist.vim1020.903 000.207 000.207: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/autoload/camelcasemotion.vim1021.384 007.678 002.596: sourcing ~/.vim/vimrc1021.387 000.098: sourcing vimrc file(s)1022.101 000.586 000.586: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/plugin/camelcasemotion.vim1022.503 000.221 000.221: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/autoload/ctrlp/mrufiles.vim1022.753 000.632 000.411: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/plugin/ctrlp.vim1023.103 000.273 000.273: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/bundle/tabular/plugin/Tabular.vim1023.450 000.090 000.090: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim1023.712 000.247 000.247: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/gzip.vim1023.994 000.268 000.268: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/logiPat.vim1024.023 000.013 000.013: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/manpager.vim1024.263 000.229 000.229: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/matchparen.vim1024.941 000.662 000.662: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim1025.013 000.043 000.043: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/rrhelper.vim1025.066 000.033 000.033: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/spellfile.vim1025.286 000.202 000.202: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/tarPlugin.vim1025.408 000.098 000.098: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/tohtml.vim1025.658 000.231 000.231: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim1025.937 000.246 000.246: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/zipPlugin.vim1026.087 000.026 000.026: sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim80/pack/dist/opt/matchit/plugin/matchit.vim1026.105 000.839: loading plugins1026.146 000.041: loading packages1026.676 000.274 000.274: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/bundle/tabular/autoload/tabular.vim1028.950 002.703 002.429: sourcing /home/daniel/.vim/bundle/tabular/after/plugin/TabularMaps.vim1028.955 000.106: loading after plugins1029.433 000.478: inits 31029.736 000.303: reading viminfo1031.466 001.730: setup clipboard1031.483 000.017: setting raw mode1031.490 000.007: start termcap1031.510 000.020: clearing screen1031.954 000.444: opening buffers1032.050 000.096: BufEnter autocommands1032.052 000.002: editing files in windows1032.146 000.094: VimEnter autocommands1032.148 000.002: before starting main loop1033.609 001.461: first screen update1033.613 000.004: --- VIM STARTED ---The offending line is clearly 1000.786 1000.259: xsmp init, which I believe indicates that vim is connecting to the X server.
Googling suggests that the only way to fix this is to recompile without xclip. But people use the system clipboard all the time, and most of the issues raised about this kind of slow connection seem to be related to using vim remotely, which I am not doing. The fact the delay is so close to exactly one second also makes me suspicious of something silly that might be easily fixed.
So, what can I do to investigate how slowly X is initialising here?
Extra info: I have this issue when running vim with bash through both gnome-terminal and the simple terminal.