How do you exit a terminal buffer unless in a pager

Question

In a terminal buffer, I want to auto-exit when I press "kk". Except for when I'm in some interactive session, like a pager (like the pager which is created when you git diff).

To do that, I have this code

let g:_pager_bottom_texts = [":", "?", "/", "Pattern not found  (press RETURN)", "(END)"]



function! MoveIfNotInPager()
    let l:current_line = getline(".")

    if index(g:_pager_bottom_texts, l:current_line) >= 0
        normal i
        call timer_start(0, {-> feedkeys("k")})
    endif
endfunction


tnoremap kk <C-\><C-n>:call MoveIfNotInPager()<CR>

And it works moderately well, actually. I've noticed though that, in a pager, pressing k is about 1/2 speed compared to j when I'm in a terminal buffer. Can anyone recommend a better way which still gets what I'm looking for without causing terminal or pager experience to be slower?

Answer 1

I didn't find a proper solution for this problem. However, if you stack two "k" calls together, the 1/2 speed becomes full speed again.

So I ended up with this

let g:_pager_bottom_texts = [":", "?", "/", "Pattern not found  (press RETURN)", "(END)"]


" If the user is in a pager, re-enter the terminal buffer and scroll up
function! MoveIfInPager()
    let l:current_line = getline(".")

    " re-enter the terminal buffer and press "k" to scroll up in the pager
    if index(g:_pager_bottom_texts, l:current_line) >= 0
        normal i

        " We send 2 "k" keys, so it scrolls at double-speed
        call timer_start(0, {-> feedkeys("k")})
        call timer_start(10, {-> feedkeys("k")})  " 10 happened to be a decent number
    endif
endfunction