SSH Vim Rendering

[reasonablytall]

I get this right after starting vim over an ssh session. The server is correctly using the xterm-kitty terminfo file.

The version of vim is 7.4. Option termguicolors, t_8f, and t_8b are unknown. t_ut is known and is set to ''.

It seems like there's an issue with vim writing the screen - text in the file only updates when I scan over it in visual mode or something similar. You can see this in the image below.

[kovidgoyal]

It's likely something to do with the ancient vim version, kitty likes to push the boundaries a bit :) 7.4 is what 4 years old? Start with an empty vimrc and do some bisection, you'll probably find the problematic setting(s) that way. I can tell you that vim 8.0.1092 works fine over ssh in kitty (which is the oldest vim I have available to test).

[reasonablytall]

Ah sorry for the trouble! I ran through my vimrc and it looks like vim-airline is causing the issue.

[kovidgoyal]

No worries, closing.