(In reply to Christian Wittmer from comment #9) > Hi, > this change makes vi taking forever to open and edit a file ... I currently can't reproduce it. Can you provide more information to reproduce? Especially the command line used to launch vim and the content and owner/group/permissions of the opened file. $ cat /etc/issue Welcome to openSUSE Leap 42.1 - Kernel \r (\l). $ uname -r 4.1.34-33-default $ rpm -qa vim; vi --version | grep xterm_clipboard; time vi '+:q' /etc/gai.conf vim-7.4.326-3.10.x86_64 +eval +mouse_dec +startuptime -xterm_clipboard real 0m0.033s user 0m0.028s sys 0m0.004s $ rpm -qa vim; vi --version | grep xterm_clipboard; time vi '+:q' /etc/gai.conf vim-7.4.326-5.1.x86_64 +eval +mouse_dec +startuptime +xterm_clipboard real 0m0.036s user 0m0.028s sys 0m0.004s