Startup flag with Errors ?

[Christopher]

When running vim with the --startuptime flag the output isn't clean but with rather dozens of Not an Editor command ?

[Igbanam Ogbuluijah]

Works for me. My Vim version is 

VIM - Vi IMproved 9.2 (2026 Feb 14, compiled Mar 03 2026 19:50:15)
macOS version - arm64
Included patches: 1-100

Try these

1. Update Vim, and try again.
2. Read `:h --startuptime` and ensure you're passing in the correct parameters
3. Try it in a new shell window

In any case, please share more detail when you respond. It's hard to help without knowing details of the environment, version, output, and so on.

Cheers.

Igbanam

On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 12:30 AM Christopher <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:

When running vim with the --startuptime flag the output isn't clean but with rather dozens of Not an Editor command ?

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[Christopher]

When running the command `vim --startuptime vimlogMessages. The log messages should be written to such a file but that file doesn't exist ? Although when running the mentioned command the below is seen within my shell but the log messages are placed within my vimrc file ?

[Christian Brabandt]

On Do, 05 Mär 2026, Christopher wrote:

> When running the command `vim --startuptime vimlogMessages. The log messages should be written to such a file but that file doesn't exist ? Although when running the mentioned command the below is seen within my shell but the log messages are placed within my vimrc file ?
>
>

> shellvimerror.png

Looks like you accidentally have overwritten /etc/vimrc with a previous
attempt of using --startuptime /etc/vimrc as root.

And now this file contain a startuptime log instead of being a system
initialization file.


Thanks,
Christian
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[Christopher]

The solution is to revert back to a previous vimrc file; unless you know of another way besides just deleting the lines within the vimrc file as well ?