Rendering bug on SSH to windows

[seblj]

First of all, sorry that this isn't a very detailed issue... I am a bit unsure about how I should go forward by making this more minimal.

I also am not sure if this is supposed to work because it sort of involves windows, but I am opening this anyway because it is working in kitty...

So, I have a windows VM on my macbook, where I am doing some development for dotnet framework. My workflow is that I am running an editor in parallels, and I am interacting with git and stuff through ssh. This has been working great for me on kitty, but I noticed some weird rendering with ghostty.

Ghostty

Screen.Recording.2025-01-02.at.17.59.08.mov

Kitty

Screen.Recording.2025-01-02.at.17.59.55.mov

Notice the weird rendering where it shifts the text inside neovim when I am scrolling up and down in ghostty. In kitty this works exactly as expected.

Is there anything I can do that could help in getting to the root of why this is happening? It seems like I am setting TERM correctly and that xterm-ghostty is available if I understand it correctly.

I also tried to set TERM to xterm-kitty in ghostty just to see if it could have something to do with that, but still the same result. I also tried to set TERM to xterm-ghostty for kitty, but kitty still behaves as expected

[lmb]

This also happens when using nano. vim doesn't seem to be affected (not 100% sure as i don't usually use vim)

To reproduce:

• ssh to a windows VM (with SetEnv TERM=xterm)
• execute nano foo (this is nano-win installed via chocolatey)
• The first column is rendered last

• The behaviour persists when resizing the window.
• kitty doesn't exhibit the same behaviour.
• vim via the same setup also seems to work (from the Git for Windows installation.