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When I type :hi to see all the highlight groups, I only see as much as can fill the screen. How do I scroll through them?

:hi[ghlight]        List all the current highlight groups that have
                    attributes set.

To show more results, I have to re-run the command to decrease the text size, but I can’t scroll up:

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  • Not sure I understand what you're looking for. You can't scroll unless there's more than a page worth of output. If there was enough to scroll through it would say "More" at which point you could press ? to see available commands.
    – B Layer
    Aug 27, 2021 at 18:16
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    Weird. Sounds like the pager isn't working for you. What do you get for :set more? Also, to rule out anything in your vimrc try :hi after launching Vim with -u DEFAULTS. (This is all to check Vim settings. It could also be something amiss in your terminal settings.)
    – B Layer
    Aug 27, 2021 at 20:01
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    Wecome to Vi and Vim! One option is to dump the output of the command into a (scratch) buffer. You can do that with a command such as :put =execute('hi'), which executes :hi but captures its output (that's the execute() part) and dumps it into the current buffer (:put with the expression-register =.)
    – filbranden
    Aug 27, 2021 at 20:36
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    Thanks @filbranden, this seems to hide the colors though. Aug 27, 2021 at 21:07
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    Are other commands scrollable? I’m inclined to disagree this is off-topic because vimr has enough of vim in it to qualify.
    – D. Ben Knoble
    Aug 28, 2021 at 11:48

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You can use j k or arrow keys or enter; it's the same as the less command:

SPACE/d/j: screen/page/line down, b/u/k: up, q: quit

If you cannot move with any of these options, it's perhaps a bug in your vim or config.

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