Slow dashboard picker

[22ispencer]

I found snacks a few days ago and decided it'd be fun to rewrite my conf again. Anyways now I'm back to using lazy.nvim instead of mini.deps, as such it's very possible that i have a bad config. My issue right now is i love the way the dashboard from snacks looks/works, but with my current config it feels like it takes at least 500ms for the picker to work once I open neovim. Below are my lua/plugins/snacks.lua and lua/plugins/mini.lua. Also I have tried making "echasnovski/mini.pick" a dependency of snacks and that doesn't seem to help much if at all. Any help figuring this out would be great!

lua/plugins/snacks.lua

return {
	"folke/snacks.nvim",
	priority = 1000,
	lazy = false,
	opts = {
		-- your configuration comes here
		-- or leave it empty to use the default settings
		-- refer to the configuration section below
		bigfile = { enabled = true },
		dashboard = { enabled = true },
		indent = { enabled = true },
		input = { enabled = true },
		notifier = { enabled = true },
		quickfile = { enabled = true },
		scroll = { enabled = true },
		statuscolumn = { enabled = true },
		words = { enabled = true },
	},
}

lua/plugins/mini.lua

return {
	{ "echasnovski/mini.ai", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.basics", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.bracketed", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.comment", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.completion", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.cursorword", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.diff", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.extra", opts = {} },
	{
		"echasnovski/mini.files",
		opts = {},
		keys = {
			{
				"<Leader>e",
				function()
					MiniFiles.open()
				end,
			},
		},
	},
	{ "echasnovski/mini.fuzzy", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini-git", main = "mini.git", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.icons", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.jump", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.jump2d", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.pairs", opts = {} },
	{
		"echasnovski/mini.pick",
		config = function()
			require("mini.pick").setup({})
			vim.ui.select = MiniPick.ui_select
		end,
		keys = {
			{ "<Leader><Leader>", "<cmd>Pick buffers<cr>" },
			{ "<Leader>ff", "<cmd>Pick files<cr>" },
			{ "<Leader>fh", "<cmd>Pick help<cr>" },
			{ "<Leader>fg", "<cmd>Pick grep_live<cr>" },
		},
	},
	{ "echasnovski/mini.sessions", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.splitjoin", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.statusline", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.surround", opts = {} },
	{ "echasnovski/mini.tabline", opts = {} },
}

[folke]

This really has nothing to do with snacks. If mini.pick is slow for some reason, the ask in that repo.

[jcomesana]

I had this issue too and it took me a while to understand it. In my case, pressing "f" to select files with fzf-lua was fast, but pressing "g" to search text had a couple of seconds of delay.

The problem was not that the picker was slow, it was a combination of the chosen key (that's "g") and having a big value for vim.o.timeoutlen. In neovim or vim, g is a key that is used in combination with other keys (gf, gu, gU, ...) so if you press only "g", vim/neovim will wait for timeoutlen milliseconds for the next keys.

My setting for timeoutlen is 2000, so here is my delay.

Possible solutions, set another key (I've chosen "t" instead of "g") or set a smaller value for timeoutlen.