Slow to load editor - with or without file

[ksorbo]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

It takes 6 seconds to load the program, with or without any file.
Used to using nano which loads in less than a second on my server
It would be nice to have a replacement for nano, but most of the time when I edit on ssh, I am doing multiple edit, save, exit, repeat. Is it normal to take this long for the editor to load? Is there any way to speed it up?

Specifications

Version: 2.0.6
Commit hash: 60846f5
Compiled on June 24, 2020

Commit hash:
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Terminal: bash

[zyedidia]

Is your server a small machine? In my experience micro generally takes 50-60ms to start up. The most costly parts of the startup are syntax highlighting, language detection, and Lua plugins, so you could try disabling these by setting the syntax option to false, filetype to off, and plugins that you don't need to false (such as autoclose, literate, linter, diff, etc...).

You can also enable fastdirty which will use a faster but less accurate way of determining whether the buffer has been modified.

[flyingfz]

try:

nano ~/.config/micro/settings.json

add or set :

{
     "clipboard": "terminal"
}

[zyedidia]

Ah that's a good point, this slowdown might be caused by micro trying to connect to the xclip server for clipboard integration. As mentioned above you can set clipboard to terminal, or internal to disable this.

[ksorbo]

I just installed 2.0.7. It starts instantly and gives the message
System clipboard not found, install xclip/xsel or change clipboard option
Your comments seem to be right on.

[horpto]

I faced with this error. maybe clipboard load in background should help? (i can make a pr)

[symbioid]

Want to confirm that this xclip seems to be the issue on wsl2 with no xserver running.
It was taking 32 seconds to load, without any x server.
Without editing the config, I opened GWSL xserver, and with that running, micro starts instantly...