When typing Ex commands, why doesnt the colon appear until a subsequent key is pressed?

When typing Ex commands such as :wq, or find and replace, the colon isnt shown on screen until a subsequent key is pressed. This is annoying because it makes me think i haven’t pressed the colon key.

In vim, this works as expected. I have colon and semi-colon mapped to each other (swapped).

Any ideas why the colon isnt shown on screen until something else is typed? Perhaps neovim is waiting to see if i type some other shortcut that begins with colon, but i haven’t defined any shortcuts like this.

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How did you create the mappings? Did you create the mappings with silent?

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oh perfect! thank you! Yeah, my default options included silent=true - removing this made it work as expected.