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Zhendong Cao
Zhendong Cao

Reputation: 169

VIM gets stuck when I try to type a parenthesis ( or when the cursor is ahead or on a parenthesis

I recently met with this weird issue when I edit rst file using VIM on macOS Catalina 10.15.7:

When I try to type a parenthesis

(

or when my cursor tries to pass the parenthesis, VIM will get stuck and then the CPU fan of my laptop will run crazy. I finally figured out this issue happened after I created a ~/.vimrc file and set

syntax on

If I delete this file, this issue will disappear.

Does anyone know why this happens? And how to fix this issue meanwhile keeping VIM recognize all kinds of syntax?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 207

Answers (2)

Jérôme
Jérôme

Reputation: 2720

I have the exact same behavior. After a bit of digging, the culprit is set regexpengine=1. I forced this regex engine some time ago, because vim was a bit laggy for syntax highlighting.

For the moment, I just remove this setting, and see how latest vim and neovim behave.

Upvotes: 0

Philip Durbin
Philip Durbin

Reputation: 4072

It's definitely something with syntax. Adding the following to the bottom of my ~/.vimrc seems to help.

autocmd BufRead *.rst set syntax=off

I'm on macOS 13.6 and here is my version of vim: VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Jun 23 2023 22:11:46).

Upvotes: 0

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