Questions tagged [terminal]
A terminal emulator (or terminal, for short) displays characters, colours, and the cursor on the screen. Vi & Vim are run inside of a terminal, gVim is not.
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Starting Vim in new, maximized terminals glitches display
I normally navigate my filesystem with a file manager, so that I don't issue
vim file directly, but rather configure the file manager to spawn a
terminal emulator with Vim,
xterm -maximized -e vim ...
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Opening a terminal window and executing the cd command [duplicate]
In my current vim session, I would like to open a new terminal window and immediately execute the cd command in that terminal to change to a specific directory. I have tried
:terminal cd /home/me/...
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Vim outputting weird characters and becoming unresponsive
I'm using Vim inside gnome-terminal. Every so often, typically after coming back to a file opened in a vim session in another terminal tab after editing some other file opened in some other vim ...
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termguicolors vs :terminal: incorrect colors being displayed
I'm having trouble with the colors of the the terminal windown opened by :terminal.
I use a theme called PolarIce from themer.dev.
This work perfectly on KiTTY, Gnome Terminal and pretty much any ...
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PATH order different in vim terminal window
I have anaconda set up with a few different environments. When I switch environments and open vim 8.2 and type :term to launch a terminal window and type echo $PATH, $PATH does not match what is ...
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Disable Shift+Insert from pasting from Primary
In Vim, the canonical methods to interact with X11's Clipboard and Primary is to use + and * registers.
There are at least another two ways to paste from Primary into Vim: Shift-Insert and Mouse ...
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:terminal colorscheme inside Vim is different from either Vim or Host Terminal
I have a gruvbox theme applied to Vim inside my vimrc.
The problem is that when I run the :terminal command inside Vim the colorscheme is different from either the Vim theme or the terminal emulator's ...
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autoupdate nvim terminal
Is it possible to make the nvim terminal always automatically scroll down so you can see the latest messages? For example I have my vim editor setup like this
On the button half of the screen I have ...
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How do I switch from terminal back to vim? [duplicate]
When I'm in vim and I use :term to open a terminal inside vim, how can I switch back from the terminal to vim?
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How does vim terminal talk to the root terminal emulator?
I use vterm to denote terminal inside vim, rterm to denote root terminal emulator in this post:
rterm--->vim--->vterm
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All rendition is done by rterm? All escape sequence and text must ...
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How can I check the terminal ouput info in nvim?
I am at the beginning of switching from vim to nvim. When I build my program by runing a script from a shortcut key, it will output the build info. In vim, the build info is put into terminal, I can ...
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:term command changes cursor type in vim
I have set the cursor shape to be - I-beam in my terminal preference. When I execute :term command in vim, the cursor type is changed to block type. This change is retained even after I exit the :term ...
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How to map the C-W Shift+N for making terminal non active?
In Vim, you can invoke the terminal by :terminal. Then, you can treat the terminal window as a normal Vim window by doing Ctrl+w Shift+n.
I want to map this sequence to, e.g, Ctrl+t. I checked with :...
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How to scroll the screen in terminal mode in neovim
In insert mode, we can use PageDown/Up or <Shift-PageDown/Up> to scroll the screen. But this fails for terminal mode. How can we achieve this in terminal mode? I'm using zsh on the Arch Linux ...
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How to run a command in neovim's terminal mode without leaving this mode
Suppose ALT+h to mapped to <C-\><C-N><C-w>j as following Nvim documentation: nvim_terminal_emulator. We have two horizontally split windows with terminal buffers and the right window ...
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How to put cursor in the right position after switching from normal mode to insert mode in terminal
After launching a terminal inside vim via :terminal, vim doesn't put curosr in the right position after pressing i in normal mode. As seen in the following picture, the cursor is put at the end of the ...
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Map a key on a terminal buffer whose corresponding job is already finished
The context
I have mapped <c-p> in terminal mode so that it deletes the terminal buffer where the cursor is. The way I've created this mapping is presented below
tnoremap <c-p> <c-w&...
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How can I execute commands or move to other tabs without first closing the terminal executed by `:term`?
I've created a new terminal by executing :tabnew +term.
How can I execute other Vim commands or move to another tab without first closing the terminal (:term)?
Currently, all input is directed to ...
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How can I pass extra arguments to gdb with Termdebug?
While using Termdebug, occasionally it would be useful to pass extra arguments to gdb (for example, -x).
I've tried :Termdebug -x <my_file> <command_to_debug>, but that just seems to ...
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How can I change the colorscheme of the vim terminal buffer?
I use GVim with the gruvbox colorscheme. When I open a terminal inside vim with :term, the colors are different, it looks like another colorscheme is applied.
The other terminals I use (urxvt and ...
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How do I get the name of the current terminal in Vim?
I'm currently running Vim in Windows 10. I want to specify in my config file certain settings for when I'm running Vim in Cmder, different settings when I'm running Vim in Alacritty, etc.
When in ...
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$TERM specific NeoVim configuration
I spend half the time in a TTY (Linux console as in Ctrl+Alt+F2) and the other half in a X session. Unfortunately the color scheme I use for NeoVim in the graphical environment on xterm does not look ...
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How do you open text files exclusively for writing so that other applications cant access it at that time?
How can I restrict my other terminals from accessing one of my already opened file (within vim)?
Sometimes I forget which one of my terminals has that particular file already opened and again open it ...
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How to activate bracketed paste mode in GNOME Terminal for Vim inside tmux
Edit this issue happens inside a tmux session. The original value of $TERM before starting vim is:
echo $TERM
screen
The issue appears for example when pasting this kind of indented code:
def ...
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Ctrl keybindings not working in wsltty
I have the following mappings:
nnoremap <C-,> :tabe ~/.config/nvim/init.vim<cr>
nnoremap <C-/> gcc
Neither of these mappings is working - they both do nothing. I have a plugin ...
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How can I use the `:term` command without closing the current window on exit?
I often use the :term command in my projects to create new directories or perform other work.
However, if I have multiple windows open, then executing :term from one of them will also close that ...
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How to I use terminal-function-details?
recently started working in the terminal Vim provides with :terminal. Reading through the man pages of this I reached the section on Terminal functions, which seem quite interesting. However, I'm not ...
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Neovim does not restore terminal cursor on exit
The cursor of my gnome-terminal is an underline _.
I am using Neovim and I want the cursor in Command Mode to be: block |
set guicursor=n:block-Cursor
When I exit from Neovim I want the cursor back ...
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Cannot run basic Windows commands using :terminal
I have the GVim 8.1 compiled with +terminal flag. After I enter Vim via vim -u NONE, I try to execute simple command, like :terminal cd or :terminal dir just to check the output. Instead of the ...
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Why does custom map of <c-w><space> cause mapping delay in terminal mode?
I'm using <c-w><space> to open current terminal buffer in a new tab:
tnoremap <c-w><space> <c-w>:tab split<cr>
This map cause <c-w><c-w> trigger ...
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Shortcut for binding same command to multiple key
Is there any way to map same command to multiple key without repeating mapping. Like mapping this one
inoremap ) <right>
inoremap " <right>
inoremap ] <right>
into something like ...
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'include=^\s*\(from\|import\)' error in vim
When I type :set inc it doesn't work and below status bar shows include=^\s*\(from\|import\). Even when I turn on GVim it shows include=^\s*#\s*include error.
Here is my .vimrc file
set nocp
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Vim not rendering text when moving up
I can move down until the last line of a file with no issues. However, when move up the text that was out of screen bounds does not render (as shown by the figure) until i press Ctrl + L to force ...
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How to open a terminal horizontally on the right side of vim
I'm using vim 8 and I set a shortcut to open a terminal in my vim.
nnoremap <F5> :wa<CR> \| :term ++kill=term<CR>
It works except that it opens a terminal vertically as below:
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Job still running in buffer while :qa
I'm using vim 8 with some plugins and shortcuts.
I set a shortcut for :term to open a terminal in vim:
nnoremap <F5> :wa<CR> \| :term<CR>
command Q qa
So when I type F5, a ...
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Running a python command with terminal-generated signals enabled
I'm trying to do a long blocking read call inside a python script supplied with the python command:
python3 << EOF
import ctypes
libc=ctypes.CDLL("libc.so.6")
ch = ctypes.create_string_buffer(1)...
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Difference between `:!{cmd}` and `:w !{cmd}` regarding alternate screen
On a Linux platform I see this difference of behavior between running a shell command with :!{cmd} (which just runs the command directly) and with :w !{cmd} (which passes the buffer as standard input ...
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F10 is not yet available to Vim via gnome-terminal
I'm using gnome-terminal for first time (after using xterm for many years).
And the one keystroke that no longer works within gnome-terminal from my Vim application is Function Key F10.
I've turned ...
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Does Vim have functionality similar to tmux's `display-panes` command for selecting (goto) a specific window by number?
Does Vim have functionality similar to tmux's display-panes command
for selecting (goto) a specific window by number?
Sometimes when I've many windows open, it can be a pain to navigate them by C-w ...
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Vim takes a long time to close over SSH?
While ssh'd into my server, vim hangs for a variable amount of time (about 2 seconds, but can be longer or shorter) when opening and closing.
It's worth noting that (to my eyes) the delay is the ...
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Ctrl-W at :terminal (default terminal behavior expected)
I am very fond of Vim's :terminal, though whenever I use Ctrl-w (expecting to erase the last typed word at prompt), Vim captures the key press and enters pane navigation mode. So I end up having to ...
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Cannot read output of ./a.out
My current keybinding for compiling cpp files is:
autocmd filetype cpp nnoremap <F2> :!g++ -g %<CR>:!./a.out<CR>
When I press F2, vim escapes to the shell and a.out executes well ...
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How to move the cursor out of the terminal
I'm now using Vim 8 and its new feature: :term.
Well, it's great but I don't know how to move the cursor out of the terminal without the mouse.
In Vim 7, we can type <C-w><C-h>, <C-w&...
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Mapping Shift-Up & Shift-Down, mintty keycodes
I am trying to create some keybinds (in my .vimrc) for vim, used from Cygwin's mintty.
I have found and extended some code for the .vimrc that translates the keycodes used by mintty (https://github....
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Whats the benefit of using :term inside Vim compared to a separate terminal emulator app?
I am using iTerm2, which is working well for me. I've been using VIM for almost 2 years now, with MacVim. Then suddenly I became curious whether my coding experience will improve when I use terminal ...
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Pasting text on Vim inside tmux breaks indentation
Ubuntu: 18.04 bionic
tmux: version 2.6
VIM: Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Jun 06 2019 )
Included patches: 1-1453
Modified by pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Compiled by pkg-vim-...
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terminal api not working on gvim
vim 8 support terminal, and has a api to let command in terminal to communicate back to vim.
For example:
In vim, define function like
" .vimrc
let g:cnt = get(g:, 'cnt', 0)
func! ...
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customising Termdebug commands
There are commands such as :Break and :Continue, but I would like an :Until to run to the current line without setting a breakpoint. Is it possible to add this myself, or would it need a vim feature ...
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ctermbg and ctermfg are backwards or incorrect for certain highlighting groups
I am currently attempting to create a custom colorscheme for vim by using ctermfg and ctermbg values, and checking what the colorscheme looks like with the highlight test file provided by Vim.
What I ...
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How to get internal terminal's current dir name in vim? [duplicate]
I would like to start editing some files in dir to which I've switched in internal vim terminal. But I do not like to open nested vim inside this term.
If I work in same dir in which I've opened vim, ...
