diff runtime/doc/gui.txt @ 12804:6687b321fb91 v8.0.1279

patch 8.0.1279: initializing menus can be slow commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/040c1feb212568cf04265e59b26182f8b76057aa Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Nov 9 19:45:48 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.1279: initializing menus can be slow Problem: Initializing menus can be slow, especially when there are many keymaps, color schemes, etc. Solution: Do the globbing for runtime files lazlily. (Ken Takata)
author Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
date Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:00:05 +0100
parents 65d7fd8381a3
children 02b3f719eacb
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--- a/runtime/doc/gui.txt
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-*gui.txt*       For Vim version 8.0.  Last change: 2017 Sep 23
+*gui.txt*       For Vim version 8.0.  Last change: 2017 Nov 09
 
 
 		  VIM REFERENCE MANUAL    by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -499,6 +499,17 @@ in the menu (which can take a bit of tim
 filetypes already present at startup, add: >
 	:let do_syntax_sel_menu = 1
 
+The following menuitems show all available color schemes, keymaps and compiler
+settings:
+	Edit > Color Scheme ~
+	Edit > Keymap ~
+	Tools > Set Compiler ~
+However, they can also take a bit of time to load, because they search all
+related files from the directories in 'runtimepath'.  Therefore they are
+loaded lazily (by the |CursorHold| event), or you can also load them manually.
+If you want to have all these items already present at startup, add: >
+	:let do_no_lazyload_menus = 1
+
 Note that the menu.vim is sourced when `:syntax on` or `:filetype on` is
 executed or after your .vimrc file is sourced.  This means that the 'encoding'
 option and the language of messages (`:language messages`) must be set before