neovim receives unwanted characters (mac/iterm2)

Question

I am trying to set up neovim on my mac.

Using iterm2 and having installed nvim through homebrew. When I launch nvim from my fish shell, it immediately shows

112 q112 q

on the last line.

This does not happen when I use the Apple terminal program. TERM is set to xterm. I have tried xterm-256color which does not fix the problem.

FYI: I have reset all my .vimrc type configuration files, i.e. moved them to a save place.

I am certain it is not a vimrc issue. It is no longer evaluated, i.e. I am running stock neovim on mac installed with homebrew together with iterm2. Somehow, neovim must be interacting with iterm2 in a bad way. — user1788466, Jan 05 '22 at 10:21

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 05 '22 at 12:13

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This is embarrassing.

My problem was a Mac problem. I had a very old version of iterm2 lying around in some "stuff" directory. I was launching it with Command-Space iterm which pointed to the old version instead of the new.

I have removed the old version. With the new version of iterm2, neovim works fine. It would still be interesting to know why neovim fails and vim doesn't but I am happy with how it works now.

Cheers

Holger

answered Jan 05 '22 at 12:13

user1788466

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"Neovim fails and vim doesn't": vim as a project is far more concerned about backwards compatibility than neovim. It's entirely possible that some very old code in vim was ripped out in neovim, and it just so happened to overlap with what happened here. – D. Ben Knoble Jan 05 '22 at 14:24

neovim receives unwanted characters (mac/iterm2)

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