Intro disappears immediately after starting up neovim

[n4s3]

Describe the bug

I got the fresh kickstart installation I haven't changed anything, When i launch neovim the intro screen disappears immediately

To Reproduce

1. ...

Desktop

• OS: Arch linux
• Terminal: Alacritty

Neovim Version

Latest version

[feoh]

Hi.

What does "latest version" mean please?

What do you see when you run:

nvim --version

from your terminal?

[n4s3]

Hi.

What does "latest version" mean please?

What do you see when you run:

nvim --version

from your terminal?

NVIM v0.10.0-dev-2465+ga7788c2e25
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
LuaJIT 2.1.1702233742
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

[feoh]

OK thanks so you're definitely running a recent enough version.

What happens when you type:

nvim --clean

[n4s3]

OK thanks so you're definitely running a recent enough version.

What happens when you type:

nvim --clean

it does show the intro

[feoh]

OK.

Did you git clone the kickstart.nvim repository?

[feoh]

Also what happens if you run:

nvim

and then:

cat  ~/.local/state/nvim/log

[dam9000]

I can confirm that I also don't see the intro screen, or to be precise, it shows for a split second and then disappears. It doesn't bother me, but I went and commented out a bunch of plugins to narrow down the cause and it seems that if I disable these plugins then the intro is showing again:

• folke/which-key.nvim
• nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim
• folke/todo-comments.nvim

@n4s3 can you try this change just to confirm we're seeing the same:

diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index 0506b3e..1047598 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
 
   { -- Useful plugin to show you pending keybinds.
     'folke/which-key.nvim',
+    enabled = false,
     event = 'VeryLazy', -- Sets the loading event to 'VeryLazy'
     config = function() -- This is the function that runs, AFTER loading
       require('which-key').setup()
@@ -296,6 +297,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
 
   { -- Fuzzy Finder (files, lsp, etc)
     'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
+    enabled = false,
     event = 'VeryLazy',
     branch = '0.1.x',
     dependencies = {
@@ -738,7 +740,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
   },
 
   -- Highlight todo, notes, etc in comments
-  { 'folke/todo-comments.nvim', dependencies = { 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' }, opts = { signs = false } },
+  --{ 'folke/todo-comments.nvim', dependencies = { 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' }, opts = { signs = false } },
 
   { -- Collection of various small independent plugins/modules
     'echasnovski/mini.nvim',

[n4s3]

Also what happens if you run:

nvim

and then:

cat  ~/.local/state/nvim/log

Yes I cloned the repo.
thats the outupt of the log

ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:50.667 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:50.688 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:51.377 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:51.571 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:51.626 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:52.230 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:52.389 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:52.552 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:52.710 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:52.909 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:52.937 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:53.287 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
[C]: in function 'nvim_exec2'
vim/_editor.lua: in function 'cmd'
.../share/nvim/lazy/which-key.nvim/lua/which-key/layout.lua:97: in function 'trail'
.../share/nvim/lazy/which-key.nvim/lua/which-key/layout.lua:212: in function 'layout'
...al/share/nvim/lazy/which-key.nvim/lua/which-key/view.lua:313: in function 'on_keys'
...al/share/nvim/lazy/which-key.nvim/lua/which-key/view.lua:255: in function 'open'
...al/share/nvim/lazy/which-key.nvim/lua/which-key/init.lua:49: in function 'show'
[string ":lua"]:1: in main chunk
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:53.379 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-23T21:30:54.695 nvim.26680.0 decor_provider_invoke:47: error in provider treesitter/highlighter:line: Error executing lua: /usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: Invalid 'col': out of range
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_set_extmark'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:263: in function 'fn'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/languagetree.lua:345: in function 'for_each_tree'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:214: in function 'on_line_impl'
/usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:290: in function </usr/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/treesitter/highlighter.lua:284>
ERR 2024-02-28T01:19:58.095 nvim.716.0 loop_close:174: uv_loop_close() hang?
[--I] signal 0x63ca8d3beaa8
[-AI] async 0x63ca8d3be8f0
[R--] check 0x63ca8dd16d70

[n4s3]

I can confirm that I also don't see the intro screen, or to be precise, it shows for a split second and then disappears. It doesn't bother me, but I went and commented out a bunch of plugins to narrow down the cause and it seems that if I disable these plugins then the intro is showing again:

* folke/which-key.nvim

* nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

* folke/todo-comments.nvim

@n4s3 can you try this change just to confirm we're seeing the same:

diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index 0506b3e..1047598 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
 
   { -- Useful plugin to show you pending keybinds.
     'folke/which-key.nvim',
+    enabled = false,
     event = 'VeryLazy', -- Sets the loading event to 'VeryLazy'
     config = function() -- This is the function that runs, AFTER loading
       require('which-key').setup()
@@ -296,6 +297,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
 
   { -- Fuzzy Finder (files, lsp, etc)
     'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
+    enabled = false,
     event = 'VeryLazy',
     branch = '0.1.x',
     dependencies = {
@@ -738,7 +740,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
   },
 
   -- Highlight todo, notes, etc in comments
-  { 'folke/todo-comments.nvim', dependencies = { 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' }, opts = { signs = false } },
+  --{ 'folke/todo-comments.nvim', dependencies = { 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' }, opts = { signs = false } },
 
   { -- Collection of various small independent plugins/modules
     'echasnovski/mini.nvim',

I tried it nothing changed

[dam9000]

@n4s3 are you using the plain text mode nvim or any of the gui frontends? (using the gui frontends I also never get the intro but in text mode it shows)

Did the intro show up for you before the kickstart rewrite?
You can try by checking out this commit which is the last one before the rewrite:

2024-02-05 7af594f rgarber11 Add Build Step to LuaSnip (#611)

[feoh]

Yeah I'm seeing no intro on Mac either.

I suppose this is one of those "Advanced users won't care but new users will" scenarios.

[n4s3]

@n4s3 are you using the plain text mode nvim or any of the gui frontends? (using the gui frontends I also never get the intro but in text mode it shows)

Did the intro show up for you before the kickstart rewrite? You can try by checking out this commit which is the last one before the rewrite:

2024-02-05 7af594f rgarber11 Add Build Step to LuaSnip (#611)

yes it did

[LunarLambda]

I can confirm that I also don't see the intro screen, or to be precise, it shows for a split second and then disappears. It doesn't bother me, but I went and commented out a bunch of plugins to narrow down the cause and it seems that if I disable these plugins then the intro is showing again:

* folke/which-key.nvim

* nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

* folke/todo-comments.nvim

@n4s3 can you try this change just to confirm we're seeing the same:

diff --git a/init.lua b/init.lua
index 0506b3e..1047598 100644
--- a/init.lua
+++ b/init.lua
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
 
   { -- Useful plugin to show you pending keybinds.
     'folke/which-key.nvim',
+    enabled = false,
     event = 'VeryLazy', -- Sets the loading event to 'VeryLazy'
     config = function() -- This is the function that runs, AFTER loading
       require('which-key').setup()
@@ -296,6 +297,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
 
   { -- Fuzzy Finder (files, lsp, etc)
     'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
+    enabled = false,
     event = 'VeryLazy',
     branch = '0.1.x',
     dependencies = {
@@ -738,7 +740,7 @@ require('lazy').setup {
   },
 
   -- Highlight todo, notes, etc in comments
-  { 'folke/todo-comments.nvim', dependencies = { 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' }, opts = { signs = false } },
+  --{ 'folke/todo-comments.nvim', dependencies = { 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' }, opts = { signs = false } },
 
   { -- Collection of various small independent plugins/modules
     'echasnovski/mini.nvim',

It might be todo-comments then, that's the only one in the 3 that I use in my personal non-kickstart config and I started noticing similar things

[LunarLambda]

Confirmed on my personal config, it seems to be todo-comments

Closed upstream as wontfix, telling users to defer loading of the plugin in config

folke/todo-comments.nvim#210 (comment)

setting event = VimEnter fixes it in my case, but not in kickstart. It might be an ordering issue?

[feoh]

When I change the todo-comments line to:

{ 'folke/todo-comments.nvim', event = 'VimEnter', dependencies = { 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' }, opts = { signs = false }},

in init.lua, I still see a vanishing intro screen with the latest kickstart.

Am I doing it wrong somehow?