Disabling vim's startup message (vimdiff, vim -o -O ones)

Question

When using opening multiple files with split windows from the command line, vim likes to state what the file names are, the line count, and the character count, for each file. Then the user is prompted to press enter to continue on to the good stuff.

Is there an setting or switch to disable this? I'm using this for diffing with TortoiseSVN and the message is killing my productivity when all I want is a quick glance at the changes.

Answer 1

I've just tried this on vim on two machines, but I'm not getting the same behaviour. When I vimdiff it tells me that there are 2 files to edit (at the command prompt) for a second before launching vim.

Could it be one of your plugins?

Which version of vim are you using?

Answer 2

Do you have 'verbose' option set? What does Vim tell you if you write :set verbose? ?

Answer 3

You have to play with 'shortmess' vim option.

:help shortmess

Either set it in your .vimrc

set shortmess=at

or during the vim run

vim --cmd 'set shortmess=at'