Some shell commands to investigate startup times of Vim.

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# Some shell commands to investigate startup times of Vim.
# Intended to be used on their own, in example by copy-paste.

# Measure the startup time.
vim --startuptime /dev/stdout +qall && echo && time vim +q

# Remove the first column and sort the output based on time elapsed for that particular entry.
vim --not-a-term --startuptime /dev/stdout +qall | awk '{$1="" ; print $0}' | grep -E '^ *[0-9]' | sort

# Get detailed information.
vim --startuptime /dev/stdout +qall -V