starting nvim ends up in blank screen
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Description
Recently updated vim-startify to latest (ver f2fc118) and now when starting neovim (v0.4.4) the screen just stays blank for minutes; feels like it's blocking; generally it finally loads, but as said it takes a crazy amount of time.
In one of the shells I managed to see the following message (which gave it away the plugin I needed to disable):
startify: Pattern '/.git/' threw an exception. Read :help g:startify_skiplist
Only config I have is this:
let g:startify_bookmarks = [
\ $HOME . "/.config/nvim/init.vim", $HOME . "/.config/nvim/init.first.vim",
\ $HOME . "/.config/nvim/init.last.vim", $HOME . "/.config/nvim/nvim.plugins"
\ ]
let g:startify_custom_header = [
\ ' Author: laur89',
\ ' Original vimconf: http://github.com/timss/vimconf',
\ ''
\ ]
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the delay with Neovim v0.4.4 after updating vim-startify to commit f2fc118, using the reported bookmark configuration. Read :help g:startify_skiplist and investigate the exception for the '/.git/' pattern. Done means startup no longer remains blank for minutes and the pattern error is resolved.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- vim
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100