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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.

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    Have you tried How to debug my vimrc?
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Jan 3, 2022 at 13:53
  • Welcome to Vi and Vim!
    – filbranden ♦
    Jan 3, 2022 at 18:09
  • 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 5, 2022 at 10:21

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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

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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 5, 2022 at 14:24

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