Bypassed the bug with
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vim
$ sudo apt-get install vim
and it works now
$ time vim -c :q foo
real 0m0.083s
user 0m0.039s
sys 0m0.015s
Don't know if it is related, but some other ubuntu packages can be fixed with --purge too, such as firefox after installation of enigmail (bug #34574).
Bypassed the bug with
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vim
$ sudo apt-get install vim
and it works now
$ time vim -c :q foo
real 0m0.083s
user 0m0.039s
sys 0m0.015s
Don't know if it is related, but some other ubuntu packages can be fixed with --purge too, such as firefox after installation of enigmail (bug #34574).