vim 9's popup features not working about kitty HOT 8 CLOSED

I strongly recommend switching to nvim, but if you really want to
continue using vim, see
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#using-a-color-theme-with-a-background-color-does-not-work-well-in-vim

from kitty.

Not sure why this is closed. These seem to me to be completely different issues.

This thread is about the feature of layers that vim uses to make those pop ups. The suggested fix does not do anything in that regard.

from kitty.

Because this is not a bug in kitty. It's a bug in vim, that you most
likely can workaround by following the instructions in that FAQ.

from kitty.

Could you expand on what the vim bug is? I did read your entire thread with Bram. And I added all of the hardcoded settings you recommend. They did nothing for this particular issue. If you have further insights, it would be appreciated.

fatih/vim-go#1963

This is the functionality I am trying to get, loosely. The pop up balloon should pop up.

from kitty.

Perhaps there is a specific $TERM setting I should have. You are more familiar with the nuances of this and thus could provide better insights.

from kitty.

No clue, I stopped using vim a while back, given all its issues. General
advice is, make sure TERM is xterm-kitty, and you have applied the settings
in the FAQ. Beyond that you are better of asking in the vim issue
tracker, they will know best what preconditions are needed for whatever
is responsible for that feature. There is nothing the terminal has to do
here, it's all application side code, vim needs to decide to draw or not
draw those popup windows and then draw them or not draw them. The popup
windows are themselves not actually "windows" they are just a
differently colored region of the screen completely indistinguishable
from anything else as far as the terminal emulator is concerned.

from kitty.

Thanks for your response. I have found vim to be stable and reliable companion over the years. The big change for me is switching from iterm2, which I have been using for some time. So some growing pains are to be expected. Though, most of my setup does just work out of the box with kitty, so I am willing to do a bit more to make the switch.

I did try the TERM=xterm-kitty to no effect with respect to this scenario. I will investigate further.

from kitty.

I figured it out. My particular workflow uses the popup balloons with an LSP client. I am using nix. The LSP part does not work unless I start the nix-shell. I did that and immediately got the popup.

This means that my config worked with your system out of the box, without doing that hardcoding of parameters. It also means that it worked out of the box even without me setting the terminal to xterm-kitty. Just FYI for you.

Thanks for creating such a performant terminal. I might just make the switch!

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