Plugin takes 3-6 seconds to load via pathogen

[Davyd McColl]

Referencing wakatime/vim-wakatime#60, when loading the vim-wakatime plugin via pathogen, vim takes an extra 3-6 seconds to start up. If I move the plugin out of bundle and manually load with:

" .... at the end of my .vimrc
execute pathogen#infect()
source ~/vimfiles/bundle/disabled/vim-wakatime/plugin/wakatime.vim

Then loading times for the vim-wakatime plugin drop back down to around 2ms.

[Tim Pope]

I spy use of the Python interface. My guess is it's somewhere in that black box.

[Davyd McColl]

It's interesting that even if I remove the main .vim file, it still takes that amount of time to load (though, of course, the actual plugin isn't functional).

[Alan Hamlett]

It's because Vim is scanning every file in the vim-wakatime/plugin/packages/ folder on startup. I think autoload folders are the only exception?

I've moved vim-wakatime/plugin/packages to vim-wakatime/autoload/packages with wakatime/vim-wakatime@f9e5760, maybe this will speed things up.

[Tim Pope]

I think that's only true of the plugin/ directory; you could move packages/ up to the top and be fine too.