https://duan.ca/tag/iterm2/ <p>I noticed something strange today.</p> <p>While playing with Ubuntu on a VirtualBox hosted by OS X Mavericks, Vim <em>seems</em> much faster than it being in iTerms2. How could that be? So I took the following steps to test things out:</p> <ul> <li>Installed exact configurations with Vundle on the VM.</li> <li>Vim in Terminal.app</li> <li>MacVim with GUI.</li> </ul> <p>Nope, Vim is still more responsive on Ubuntu. In fact, text input seem more responsive on this VM than the host OS in general! I thought I came to the light switching to OS X after using Linux as desktop for years, and now this? <em><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html#wtf(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Throwable)">WTF</a>?</em></p> <p>Defeat and confused, I went to the Internet, and found <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4489885/how-can-i-increase-cursor-speed-in-terminal">something close to an answer</a>. Under <em>System Preferences-Keyboard</em>, drag the two slide widget (&quot;Key Repeat&quot; and &quot;Deley Until Repeat&quot;) to the right most. Suddenly, Vim become faster!</p> <p>Turns out, key repeating is very important for Vim users.</p> Fri, 02 May 2014 10:25:00 -0600 https://duan.ca/2014/05/02/one-weird-trick-to-make-vim-go-faster-on-your-mac/ https://duan.ca/2014/05/02/one-weird-trick-to-make-vim-go-faster-on-your-mac/