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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Occupy the remaining space in terminal
When I open the vim in the xterm (ubuntu) there's always a space on the right and bottom part of terminal which is not fully occupied by the vim. What could be the reason behind it? And what are the ...
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Why doesn't undercurl use underline in my terminal?
:help undercurl states:
"undercurl" is a curly underline. When "undercurl" is not possible then "underline" is used. In general "undercurl" and "strikethrough" is only available in the GUI.
But if ...
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How to set a colorscheme that still shows spelling errors?
How to set a colorscheme that still shows spelling errors?
I am looking for two combined effects that I can acquire separately but not yet together.
Set Colorscheme alone: OK. If I want highlights ...
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Yank and paste between two Vims in two terminator terminals? [duplicate]
What's the easiest way to yank content from one Vim instance in a terminator terminal into another Vim instance in another terminator terminal (via key bindings and visually)?
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Execute visual selection/current line in Vim terminal via keymap
How can I create a keymap to send the visual selection/current line to a vim terminal window?
I opened a normal vim window (containing only the line echo test) and a vim terminal window and tried ...
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Clear New Vim Terminal window
Vim's new :term feature is pretty neat, but when I run something like a rails server, I want to be able to clear logging output every now and then.
The usual methods in a non-vim term window don't ...
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(Solved-ish) neovim: Don't close :terminal buffer after process exit
In Vim, when I run, for example, :terminal python3, and, when I'm done, exit python, the terminal window stays open as a readonly buffer, which I can inspect freely.
In Neovim, I always get "[Process ...
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Unable to use the clipboard when inside terminal (:term) on macOS
Actually, I am unable to do so when I am using MacVim Application. But inside iterm using Vim (the same MacVim release), I am able to.
They also both use the same .vimrc .
Both versions compiled ...
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Unexpected characters injected when copying from clipboard to vim in terminal
I'm using OS X 10.14/Vim 8.0.1283 and iTerm2. Every time when I'm copying things from clipboard to terminal, in specific iTerm2, there will be some unexpected characters injected in.
Say I'm copying ...
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Visual Select highlighting not working anymore
The issue
My custom highlighting styles for Visual mode selection of text is not as it was. It use to be yellow background with black text. Now it is just underlined.
Environment
vim 8.0 term, not ...
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Why are Vim 8 :term colours with gvim different from those in plain vim :term or bash?
Vim 8 :term colours in gvim happen to be different from those seen in plain vim :term or bash.
How come? How does one obtain the same bash colours in gvim?
EDIT: I have been reading a bit more about ...
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How could I adjust terminal height
I like to use the vim embedded terminal, but I do not know how I could adjust its height. Sometimes, I need it to be lower so that I could concentrate on my editor how could I adjust it ?
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How could I turn off the terminal line number while keep the editor line number in vimrc
I want to show line number in the editor, thus I use set nu in my vimrc. But when I open the embedded terminal with :ter, there are also line numbers there which I feel not comfortable. How could I ...
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Opening :terminal window in new buffer
When I type :terminal to vim8.1, it splits the window and I use it split window. I want to open a new buffer and open the terminal inside it. Basically, like neovim's terminal emulator. Is there a way ...
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Does Vim in console/tty have same colors set as in terminal/xterm-256color?
When I setup vim for colors in terminal, I'd like it has the same as in console, so Does console support 256color? as I'm using xterm-256color in a terminal right now?
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Why gvim can't work with command: p4 client?
P4EDITOR is set to gvim in .p4enviro.
When run command p4 client in terminal, it will pop an empty tmp file.
But if change editor config to P4EDITOR=vim, it works fine.
How to fix this?
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disable cursor blinking in terminal-vim
I thought this would be a 10 second google search, but no. I found a bazillion sources how to disable cursor blinking in GVim. But I would like to disable it in terminal vim. My terminal cursor is set ...
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Neovim not showing correct background color
I'm running neovim from a uxterm on arch linux with the solarized color scheme.
The issue is that on scrolling only the characters which are non-whitespace are displaying the correct background.
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could I open a terminal in the quickfix window instead of in a buffer?
I could use :ter to create a terminal in the vim window, but it seems to be opened in a buffer, and I could see the title of this terminal buffer if I use air-line. I wonder if I could open the ...
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How could I create a terminal at the bottom
I could create a terminal with vim by running :term in the vim normal mode. However, this terminal is opened at the top of the window and I would like to open it in the bottom. How could I open it at ...
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Change color of character covered by cursor
I'm using xfce4-terminal and the cursor is green, which means that green text behind the cursor is not visible or is hard to see.
Is there a way to force the etext behind the cursor to be some ...
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Scrollback in Vim 8 Terminal
Been really loving the asynchronous terminal in Vim 8. Sometimes I have a large amount of output in the terminal, and when I enter normal mode in the terminal and use gg to go to the top, I see that ...
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Is it possible to manage tabs only within the single window in split mode?
Here is my situation. I launch tmux on iTerm2 and then split the window vertically (left and right), then make the right side of the window split horizontally. So now, there are 3 windows, one big at ...
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Switching buffers in VI while skipping any terminal in VI 8.1
I am using multiple files within the same tab and when I switch buffers using :bn I reach the terminal, at which point I have to issue the command again to move.
Here is the catch, I am using keymaps ...
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Is there a command to get out of Terminal mode on Neovim?
I could not get out of my Terminal mode for some reasons, using C-\ + C-n combinations. Maybe since I map the \ to my Leader (I'm not sure)...
So anyway I would rather map Esc to the command that ...
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Scroll wheel inserts seemingly-random characters in cygwin vim, depending on where on the screen the mouse cursor is
I have the following options set to non-default values, as reported by :redir @+ | :set | @redir end:
--- Options ---
autochdir
cscopetag
foldcolumn=7
hlsearch
lazyredraw
relativenumber
sidescroll=1
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Use :terminal to display file with ansi escape codes
I want to display a file in Neovim with ansi terminal escape codes interpreted.
I created a file which contains ansi escape codes (only colors for now, we can think about others as a bonus):
echo '\...
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How to deal with accented latin characters on neovim
I'm trying to find out how to configure neovim in order to edit texts with accented latin characters. I usually set ambiwidth to double so Jananese symbols are displayed properly, but then neovim ...
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How to capture errors from make in terminal window
Vim 8.1's release note seems to indicate that you can feed output from make running in a terminal window to a quickfix list, but I couldn't find any detailed explanation. Is there a way to do this ...
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How to use WSL's bash shell as default terminal of gvim/windows 10?
gvim 8 1-26 / windows 10
I'd like to use Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL)'s bash shell as a gvim's terminal instead of cmd.
So if I type in command potion of gvim: :!.\test.sh, it will echo result ...
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Clear shell screen everytime a shell command is run
Is there a way to clear the shell screen everytime before running a terminal command within vim?
This would be most useful to me when running scripts while editing it as I have a binding for Python ...
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hide the WinBar (TermDebug)
Vim 8.1 add a new :Termdebug command with a really good gdb integration.
If the mouse option is set, there is also a visual bar appearing on vim.
Here is an extract of the man:
If 'mouse' is set the ...
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gx doesn't work on visually selected text
I have a link to a pdf file in my vim which contains spaces. I'm trying to open it with external app. While with gf I can visually select the text (e.g. a b.pdf) and open the pdf as a text file but ...
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How to redirect terminal output to vim or get `vim like` behaviour in terminal output [closed]
How to get vim keybindings at terminal output so I can navigate/operate at terminal output like in vim or get smooth shell command processing in vim. For example I type:
ifconfig
an i want to make ...
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Vim Session keeping terminal state
I am currently using tmux to have two terminals on the left and vim on the right. One terminal is running Django server, and the other one is for general usage.
I am trying to find out if I can ditch ...
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How to pass C-r to Vim terminal window? [closed]
In the Vim terminal I want to be able to search history in bash and ipython but C-r is already bound to basic Vim functionality. Is there any general way to pass this and other characters to the ...
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vim does not redraw the screen properly when scrolling the page up or down line-by-line
I am connected to a Windows SSH server from a Linux client, on Windows I end up in a Powershell. For small,quick edits I use the official vim windows console binary. It seems to work without ...
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Neovim Gray Background
Problem
Anytime I switch to a colorscheme the background turns this ugly gray that gives everything a washed out look. Why does this happen, and how can I prevent it?
Example screenshot—
More ...
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What does `-` mean in command `ls -la | vim -`?
I got to know commands like ls -la | vim - can be used to open Linux command output in vim.
What does - mean after vim?
Is it some kind of special switch?
Why doesn't simply using ls -la | vim works ?...
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Vim 7.4 on terminator - cursor intel not working
I want to see an I-beam like cursor when I come in insert mode, otherwise block style. I tried every iteration from http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_cursor_shape_in_different_modes but none worked so ...
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Vim Terminal - Solarized Colorscheme [Gnome]
I've tried
syntax on
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
set t_Co=256
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized
but it doesn't look like GVim, how can I achieve that?
Right now
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Implement “Press any key to close” in neovim terminal buffer
When running shell commands in a terminal buffer I often just want to examine the output, and then close the buffer. Let's say I call :term ls. How would I implement a simple "Press any key to close" ...
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Scrolling the terminal with vi shortcuts? [closed]
I have vi shortcuts set on my gnome-terminal and can't figure out how to scroll through the terminal's output after the change. Before I could use Shift+Page-up, but this isn't working in normal or ...
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How to execute (using bash) a buffer with line continuations (\)?
In vim8, you can do:
:. term
to send the current line to execute in your terminal's shell (e.g., bash).
But how, in normal and ex mode, do you execute a single line that contains line ...
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Delayed esc from insert mode caused by cursor-shape terminal sequence
I set a couple terminal options so that Vim changes the cursor shape to a vertical bar when I enter Insert mode, an underbar for Replace mode, and a block when I return to Normal mode:
let &t_SI="...
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Is it possible to change the statusline color in Vim 8 terminal windows?
I would like to change the default green terminal statusline below to my usual colorscheme statusline color:
Is this possible? There is no mention of it in :h terminal.
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Normal highlight group changes cursor color in vim in xterm
I set the following highlight:
:hi Normal ctermfg=250 ctermbg=235
The text is a nice light gray on dark gray, as intended. But the cursor has become dark blue. I'd love to have it just be the ...
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bash script to open file and translate text
I have followed your post and used :%s/\\u\(\x\{4\}\)/\=nr2char('0x'.submatch(1),1)/g to translate unicode escape sequences.
However I have to open the file and need to press escape and paste your ...
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How do you fix the Home and End keys producing 'H' and 'F'?
I recently was doing some Vim editing and noticed the behavior was very different for two important keys.
The only difference I made was I started bash using:
env -i bash --init-script ~/.bashrc....
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Get the current running program in command-line mode with Vim8
I want to rename the current buffer to have the current running program. Show the running program in the statusline like this :
/usr/bin/zsh;#neoterm-2 [bin/rails console]
The current buffer name ...
