Characters left on screen after suggestions close

[jlucier]

Characters are left behind on the screen after the completion suggestions close. Originally thought this was an issue with YouCompleteMe or the vim builtin completion, but the issues are only reproducible with vim-colorschemes installed and active.

Random artifacts:

Filename completions:

I'm on macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and here's my vim --version output.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[jlucier]

Seems to only occur for certain themes. I tested a number of "-okai" themes (molokai, Monokai, Benokai, etc) and seemed to have the issues, however with "Tomorrow-Night" I don't see any of that behavior.

[nhendy]

I'm having the same problem. @jlucier were you able to resolve it?

[jlucier]

@nhendy I just switched the theme I use on my Mac in order to avoid the problem. This doesn’t happen for me on Linux, which is my main driver

[viktorbahr]

Had the same issue with colorscheme dracula. Resolved it by changing to Tomorrow-Night, as suggested by @jlucier .

[jlucier]

Randomly, I think I have stumbled into isolating this issue. It seems to come down to the version of vim. This started happening to me on vim 8.2, whereas on vim 8.0 it does not.

Anyone have ideas for what's causing this or ways to remedy? Obviously the solution of "find a theme for which this doesn't happen" still works, but that's a bit unfortunate.

[jonnyrobbie]

I just wanted to chime in that this still happens

$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Jun 20 2021 14:31:00)
macOS version - x86_64
Included patches: 1-3025
Compiled by Homebrew

macos big sur

[jlucier]

@jonnyrobbie FYI this problem does not seem to plague Neovim at all.