On: From Vim to Emacs

[dopamean]

Try terminal Vim. I don't use MacVim and have very few issues with sluggishness.

[cnp → dopamean]

I started with terminal Vim, began having issues with redraws, and made the switch. I find that MacVim is faster and more stable.

[vectorpush → cnp]

Try switching to a different terminal app. I get excellent performance running vim and my entire dev environment in tmux. I also find that the performance is pretty consistent whether I use chrome-ssh, cygwin, gnome-terminal or konsole. Honestly, I'd be surprised if any modern GUI toolkit could compete with a curses app in terms of display performance.

[scintill76 → cnp]

MacVim is faster, except when it's not? :P

I wonder if the redraw issues were the fault of your terminal emulator rather than vim. I don't have a lot of MacOS experience, though.

[sigzero → cnp]

I use MacVim in the Terminal as well as a GUI.

[jzelinskie → cnp]

Try putting `set lazyredraw` in your .vimrc