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August 11, 2026

I wrote a minimal vimrc file to be used on external servers, as a replacement for my Neovim full config. I recommend minimal settings discussed by Romain Lafourcade if you’re lacking inspiration or want to try some zero-plugin config, BTW. It appears that shift insert in a rectangular selection is very slow with default settings in Vim 9. The culprit seems to be ttimeoutlen which defaults to 1000 (i.e., the default value of timeoutlen). When set ttimeoutlen=100 like in Neovim, everything works smoothly. #vim