is UIEnter supposed to fire with neovim in xterm or gnome-terminal?
i put the following in $MYVIMRC : autocmd UIEnter * colo deus and colo deus is executed with neovim in the terminal
Yes. For TUI, v:event.chan is 0 on UIEnter, so you can do this:
autocmd UIEnter * if v:event.chan !=# 0 | colo deus | endif
I’ve opened a PR to clarify docs: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/16804
what about GUIEnter ?
GUIEnter has been deprecated. It is never triggered.
why was it deprecated in favor of UIEnter ?
Oh, actually GUIEnter and GUILeave are not deprecated, as they never existed in Nvim. They only exist in Vim.