Syntax highlighting causes terrible lag in Vim

Question

I love Vim. But its giving me hard times right now.

I use a lot of plugins and during the last 6 months, I\'ve found a lot of awesome ones. But my Vim got really slu

Answer 1

Syntax highlighting can be slow, but that should be limited to some (somewhat pathological) files, and particular syntax(es). The latest Vim 7.4 has a new command :syntime to troubleshoot syntax highlighting slowness.

Apart from that, often, a binary search where you disable half of your plugins, then only one half of that (when the problem is still there), or the other half (when the problem vanished) lets you get to the problematic script quickly.