dotfiles VS iterm2

Yep I'm using VimTeX + UltiSnips. My configs are https://github.com/g6ai/dotfiles, look into vim directory for VimTeX config and UltiSnips snippets. The \cite{ completion is handled by coc.nvim and its extension coc-vimtex, relevant configs are all in my vimrc there. Any questions are welcome.

Can't really pinpoint your issue, but you can check my tmux.conf because it works for powerlevel10k zsh prompt

My tmux.conf and zsh powerlevel10k settings render like this.

Interestingly, I encountered this problem only in Vim, while Neovim is fine. Of course a workaround is apply !redraw. But I think this might be related to our dotfiles. I won't bother solving this right now, if you are interested here are my dotfiles.

I have experience on this. Basic Vim usage is smooth only if you SSH into it. Any WM is too much for it. Big Vim plugins make it quite laggy, so I'm maintaining my dotfiles that uses a minimal Vim setup for small machine like Zero W.

My own experience is kitty and Alacritty are all fast enough (low enough latency) and do not eat too much system resources. So I think maybe a capability comparison is more useful (common character/glyph display capability, not terminal special) , and I just wrote one here.

Here I summarized some tips on this: https://github.com/g6ai/dotfiles/wiki/vimrc#cursor-setting and https://github.com/g6ai/dotfiles/wiki/inputrc . You could reference my dotfiles here: https://github.com/g6ai/dotfiles

What terminal emulator are you using? I have noticed that the latest release of iterm2 has problems rendering glyphs (see this discussion and links therein). I too am having problems displaying any nerd font icon due to the aforementioned.

Found the bug report related: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/9372

2 things to note:

- This bug has 12 +1s, which suggests it was never very widespread (I could be wrong); and

- Big Sur was 2 major releases ago.

Like I mentioned, I never saw this issue, and had never heard of it despite the fact that probably about half the people I work with use Macs, and I believe nearly all of them use iTerm2.

I had trouble getting the tmux setup working in iterm.

The main page suggests -CC, but the best practices wiki[0] says to use `-CC new -A -s main`, but this causes iterm to warn that a session is already started and doesn't actually create or reattach like I expected. I also had trouble getting the tmux select-layout to work: when I tried it all my panes just exited with an error. I would like to have iterm behave similarly to Kitty's tall layout[1] which I think is the same thing as tmux's main layout, but haven't figured out how to make it work. Anybody have tips on making these wek?

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/tmux-Integration-...

The latest version (v3.4.16) was released 3 months ago.

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/tags/v3.4.16

See https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/6167

I just found this, the synchronized updates spec from iTerm2: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/synchronized-upda...

Googling for it, it seems some other terminals implement this as well.

According to https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/8827, this occurs when "reporting is enabled". This means that mouse clicks are reported as special events to the application running in the terminal rather than being handled by the terminal emulator itself. According to https://iterm2.com/documentation-preferences-profiles-terminal.html, you can temporarily disable it by holding down Option.

I take it that the main at the end of the command in this screenshot is the name of the session?