Vim sessions not restored

[Guitarflier]

I'm on Mac Os Sierra, iTerm2 and restoring my vim sessions gives the result as per screenshot. Opening session file in a iTerm new tab, outside Tmux, restores it properly. Screenshot: My "last": tmux_resurrect_2018-10-11T09:10:50.txt my .tmux.conf: tmux.conf.txt Please ask for more details, fighting since one month trying not to ditch tmux that I love. But I need to restore Vim sessions, that seems it can't really do, at least in my case. Thanks for help.

[Guitarflier]

Hallo, isn't this plugin still attended? Is anybody out there?

[bruno-]

Hey, yea, the plugin is maintained, but unfortunately I can't respond to every support request. Please leave the issue open and I hope someone from the community will help or give ideas.

[Guitarflier]

Thank you, I hope somebody has encountered some similar issue. Waiting patiently...

[dmonopoly]

I wonder if this issue is related to https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect/issues/245 and the iterm vs. iterm2 problem is just a red herring.

[sheiksadique]

I use Arch linux and Terminator + zsh + nvim. I see a very similar issue with vim session restoration. The vim session is not rendered properly. At the moment my only solution is to close and reopen vim.

[roachsinai]

Same issue on Manjaro KDE konsole. @sheiksadique also press j until cursor down to the end line is another way to render it.

What's more I alse get a % each time restore a shell.

[roachsinai]

Hi @Guitarflier Maybe Vim sessions not restored properly is a more properly title?

[zachliu]

I have the same issue. The restored vim session is not properly rendered. At first it was a blank screen, and with the movement of the cursor, it started to render it line by line in a broken way :joy:

My environment: tmux 2.8 neovim v0.3.1 zsh 5.4.2 Linux Mint 19.1 with Cinnamon 4.0.9

[PaddiM8]

I have the same issue with neovim, only way to fix it I've found is to close vim and open it again, which is quite tedious.

[deeuu]

Neovim sessions are not recovered at all for me...just an empty shell with the correct working directory (where neovim was previously open).

[mark2185]

Same thing as @deeuu, but with macvim.

All vim sessions are lost, just tmux splits and panes are restored.

[coldeasy]

The default programs list allows vim which doesn't work with MacVim.apps binary (which is named Vim). Adding this config fixed the issue for me:

set -g @resurrect-processes '~Vim -> vim'

[mark2185]

@coldeasy this is a step in the right direction, all my vim processes did restart, but none of them reopened their sessions, all of them show an empty buffer.

[mark2185]

I was missing the vim-obsession plugin, now all works as expected.

[SevKaloujski]

If anyone still has issue with restoring vim sessions, it could due to _get_command_strategy() in process_restore_helpers.sh in tmux-restore scripts folder. I suggest checking if there is alias in .zshrc for vim as the command in saved tmux session instead of :vim ... could be :/usr/local/bin/vim ... which then messes up cutting command in _get_command_strategy() and produces wrong command to be called when restoring pane. Make sure to delete unnecessary aliases in .zshrc for vim/nvim or other programs. Hope it helps.