The "open" command (when called from MacVim) is slower since MacOS Mojave

[tobireif]

The "open" command (when called from MacVim) is slower since MacOS Mojave.

I have eg these lines in my .vimrc:

" Open File:
:map gf :!gvim <cfile><CR>

" Go to URL ("Go to Link"):
:map gl :!open -a "Google Chrome" "<cWORD>"<CR>

[ychin]

@tobireif I can confirm this is happening. I don't have High Sierra installed to test unfortunately, but was it instantaneous before Mojave?

[tobireif]

Thanks for investigating!

Yes, it used to be very usable in a fast workflow. Now it's slow which is an issue, eg when I try to open several links in a row ...

[ychin]

I tried building MacVim with the latest changes under Xcode 10 and the issue seems to be gone somewhat. I don't know where the issue lied or whether some change actually fixed it or not, but after next time we do a release I'll ping here again to see if you see that issue.

[tobireif]

Thanks!

[alswl]

This bug was fixed for me on mojave 10.14.1 (18B75) .

updated: oops, it did not.

[tobireif]

(Yep, the issue persists here as well, on the same OS version.)

[tobireif]

Perhaps someone could report it to Apple at https://bugreport.apple.com/web/ .

[ychin]

Are you using homebrew or the distributed release binaries @tobireif ?

[tobireif]

I had installed MacVim (quite a while ago) from https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases , and since then it updates itself.

[ychin]

Ok. I think the issue is somehow because MacVim is currently not signed by an Apple Developer ID, which… for some reason means calling open is slow. I will investigate #517 to see if I can get an developer ID to sign it, plus see if Apple could fix the issue (there are users who use MacVim by building locally hence shouldn't be forced to self-sign their apps).

[tobireif]

Sounds good!

[tobireif]

I hope it will be possible to fix this 😀