Problem

The cursor briefly moves to the commandline when printing the message after writing a file.

In terminal nvim

In terminal nvim, this is perceived as a cursor flicker.

In neovide

In neovide with cursor animation enabled, this is perceived as the cursor jumping across the screen and then back.

Steps to reproduce

Open neovim:

nvim --clean

or

neovide -- --clean

Insert 10,000,000 lines in buffer and save file:

iabcdefg<Esc>
yy10000000p
:write temp.txt

Create mapping to invoke write silently:

:nnoremap <silent> w :write<CR>

Invoke write with mapping:

w

Notice that cursor goes to commandline to print message "temp.txt" 10000001L, 80000008B written

Expected behavior

The message should be printed in the commandline without moving the visible cursor there.

Neovim version (nvim -v)

NVIM v0.10.0-dev-1461+g468292dcb-Homebrew

Vim (not Nvim) behaves the same?

yes, vim 9.0.1544 (cursor disappears briefly as well but does not seem to appear in comandline)

Operating system/version

macOS 13.5.1

Terminal name/version

kitty 0.29.0

$TERM environment variable

xterm-kitty

Installation

homebrew