One Weird Trick To Make Vim Go Faster On Your Mac

If you want to automate this:

  defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0
  defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 12

Surprised, isn't this something that everyone does on OSX right after install / opening a new computer anyway? I don't understand how they came up with the slow-as-molasses defaults.

Mouse responsiveness has also always been inexcusably sub-par compared to Windows and Linux.

This is a preference, not an optimization.

I have very high key repeat and mouse speed on my laptop, and when coworkers pair with me they don't say, "Wow, your vim is so much faster than mine!" They say, "Geez, your computer is crazy!"

Are you holding down hjkl or something?

Odd, I have them both all the way on the right and it still feels slugish to me.