Thanks I see what you mean (as below). I went through my packages and removed a lot and the problem seems to have gone away (a lot of the linters which I dont use really being a beginner). Removed a lot of themes/colors and other packages not often used.
This list shows how much time each plugin has taken to respond to each event:
on_activated:
Clickable URLs.clickable_urls: 0.003s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.001s
AutoFileName.autofilename: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
BracketHighlighter.bh_core: 0.048s total, mean: 0.008s, max: 0.047s
LiveStyle.livestyle-plugin: 0.025s total, mean: 0.004s, max: 0.017s
Color Highlighter.ColorHighlighter: 0.061s total, mean: 0.010s, max: 0.052s
ColorHelper.color_helper: 0.040s total, mean: 0.007s, max: 0.026s
FileDiffs.file_diffs: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
SideBarEnhancements.SideBar: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
Default.pane: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
on_close:
Clickable URLs.clickable_urls: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
LiveStyle.livestyle-plugin: 0.001s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
Color Highlighter.ColorHighlighter: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
Default.settings: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
SideBarEnhancements.SideBar: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
Default.pane: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
on_deactivated:
Default.history_list: 0.008s total, mean: 0.002s, max: 0.008s
on_hover:
JavaScript Completions._generated_2017_04_09_at_16_06_42: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
BracketHighlighter.bh_core: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
Default.symbol: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
on_load:
Clickable URLs.clickable_urls: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
BracketHighlighter.bh_core: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
LiveStyle.livestyle-plugin: 0.001s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.001s
Color Highlighter.ColorHighlighter: 0.026s total, mean: 0.009s, max: 0.013s
Default.detect_indentation: 0.009s total, mean: 0.003s, max: 0.004s
Default.exec: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
on_modified:
Clickable URLs.clickable_urls: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
SideBarEnhancements.Stats: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
AutoFileName.autofilename: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
BracketHighlighter.bh_core: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
LiveStyle.livestyle-plugin: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
BracketGuard.BracketGuard: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
Color Highlighter.ColorHighlighter: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
ColorHelper.color_helper: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
Default.settings: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
SideBarEnhancements.SideBar: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
on_pre_close:
Default.settings: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
Default.history_list: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
on_selection_modified:
Color Highlighter.ColorHighlighter: 0.086s total, mean: 0.017s, max: 0.071s
ColorHelper.color_helper: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
SideBarEnhancements.Stats: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s
BracketHighlighter.bh_core: 0.000s total, mean: 0.000s, max: 0.000s