Questions tagged [terminal-buffer]
A terminal emulator within vim, eg created by :terminal or term_start()
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Mapping with termwinkey that accepts a v:count
In Vim, typically, prefixing a command repeats the action multiple times.
This is not the case for gt, which goes to the next tabpage. Whereas gt goes to the next tabpage, 2gt always goes to the ...
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Terminal buffer is being treated as editor buffer
I am using vim-terminal plugin. When I create a split terminal using the command :TerminalSplit bash, I can input commands into the terminal, but when I press enter, it moves to the next line without ...
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How to close a terminal popup through some keystroke(s)?
I want to use a terminal in a popup but I am struggling to close it through some keystroke(s).
Classic keybindings like <c-w>q or <c-w>c don't work in popups and <c-c> won't close ...
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See Last Commands Output from the Terminal Buffer
Lets say I run the external very_long_taking_command like this:
:!very_long_taking_command
and I get the output in this Vim Terminal where it says "Press ENTER or type command to continue".
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How to stop terminal from closing on <C-c>
According to vim help, https://vimhelp.org/terminal.txt.html#t_CTRL-W_CTRL-C <C-w><C-c> will forcibly end the terminal job.
I've been unable to disable this; I've attempted many variations ...
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Switch focus to :terminal buffer
I am trying to recreate the functionality of the very old conque plugin via terminal in modern vim. So far I have found a few plugins that send code to a terminal buffer. However, these do not update ...
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Help migrating from conque to vim 8.1 terminal mode
I have been using the conque plugin for many years now to run a terminal within a vim window, but it is probably past time to migrate to the terminal features of vim 8.1 and above. I only really use ...
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Execute reverse search in terminal mode at startup
I have tried to use the following
:nnoremap <leader>t :terminal<cr> <c-w>:call term_sendkeys('', "\<lt>c-r>")<cr>
To open a terminal with reverse search ...
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How to close Terminal and NERDTree windows if they are the last windows?
If I close all buffers, I'm left with the terminal window, which automatically opens whenever I open Vim.
I would like it close automatically when I exit Vim.
I see that on the NERDTree repo, they ...
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Get the last line of Vim terminal output
I use Vim for editing DocBook files. I created several functions that manipulate the text in the buffer. For example to build a PDF from the source using an external command. I run these functions ...
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How can I create a keybinding that pastes in the terminal in bracketed paste mode, but only if the shell supports it?
Xterm has a feature where if you put in .Xresources
XTerm.vt100.translations: #override \
Shift Ctrl<Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)
then ctrl+shift+V will paste from clipboard.
I notice ...
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Go to file with gf from :terminal
I often keep a :terminal open on the right of a vertical split, and on the left keep a window open for files:
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| file buffers | :terminal ...
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term_sendkeys({buf},{keys}) move cursor to the next line if {keys} is empty
I am running gvim 9.0 on Windows 10.
I am developing Python code.
I am using Miniconda and I run gvim from a Miniconda CMD shell.
For this reason I prepared a .bat file for starting gvim with the ...
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From terminal to normal mode and run a command
I have the following mapping
tnoremap <F8> <c-w>N :Vista!!<CR>
but the command after <c-w>N (in my case :Vista!!) is not executed.
How should I fix it?
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Nvim function to compile file in terminal
function! RunCppFile(filename, filedir)
let compile = "g++ " . a:filename . " -o " . a:filedir . "/a.exe"
:terminal
<i>
endfunction
nnoremap <C-L&...
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How to automatically change a buffer terminal name?
I have a small .bat file to open Vim along with a terminal running an IPython console:
@echo off
call C:\Users\myname\Miniconda3\condabin\activate.bat C:\Users\myname\Miniconda3\envs\myenv
gvim -c &...
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MacVim: <Delete> key does not work in a terminal window
I happened to find that we may open 'Terminal windows' in Vim and am happy to stop using terminal app. (It's available in v8 and v9)
However, when I have a typing mistake, pressing Delete key does not ...
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Is it possible to suppress the output of term_sendkeys()
Sometimes there are lots of lines to be sent from the editor to the terminal and therefore thethe latter scroll a lot as soon as it execute the received commands. That may not be too nice to see ...
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How do I disable easymotion in terminal mode?
I'm using easymotion with all buffers and it works well but changing to terminal mode raises the issue.
Thus I want to disable it in terminal mode for convenient.
How can I do it? Thanks for your ...
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Leave terminal normal mode
Once I'm in 'terminal normal mode' (where VIM has control on the terminal display), i can't come back to simple 'terminal mode' (where i can write BASH or launch process).
How to leave the "...
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Open file in new buffer within original vim instance from a terminal buffer [duplicate]
The terminal emulator is handy!
However, using it to open a file you wish to edit (while remaining in vim) is troublesome because simply doing vim myfile.txt will spawn a 'vim within vim inception' ...
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Save all lines of a terminal buffer into a list after its job finishes
I need to save all lines of a terminal buffer into a list after its job finishes asynchronously. I,m opening the terminal buffer like this:
let term_buf_no = term_start(cmd, {'term_name': name, '...
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Re-use or close vim terminal buffer on next command run
I'm opening a terminal buffer for my XML validation with the following command:
let term_buff_no = term_start(validate_cmd, {'term_rows': 10})
However, when running the same command again, a new ...
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How to keep focus in the "normal" editing buffer while a terminal buffer is opened and running a command?
I am editing a DocBook XML file and want to validate it by running a custom command validate_cmd. In my plugin, I'm running the following:
let term_buff_no = term_start(validate_cmd, {'term_rows': 10})...
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How do you set the cursor style in Vim terminal windows?
Vim has the :terminal command, which opens a window with a terminal session inside. According to the documentation (:help terminal-cursor-style),
By default the cursor in the terminal window uses a ...
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How do you send vim to the background from a terminal window?
I just learned that Vim has the :terminal command, which opens a window with a terminal session inside. Previously, my normal workflow was to launch vim from my terminal and use job control to get in ...
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How to get nnoremap <buffer> to work in different buffers?
I have a hotkey that runs python of the first buffer when I press F8 and outputs the outputs to the bottom.
However, this hotkey does not work when I switch buffers... it only works when I am on the ...
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How to visually select entire broken line in NeoVim terminal
(I'm using NeoVim, vsplit term://zsh)
If I have a long terminal line that gets broken, and go into visual mode in order to copy something, selecting the entire line does not work as I expect:
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How can I execute a non named file on terminal with NeoVIm?
Some time ago, I've made this question where I asked how to execute a file on the terminal with NeoVim... The solution I found was the following :terminal bash % . Knowing that, I made the following ...
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How to configure options in :terminal (NeoVim)
I've read the help section for term, terminal, termopen, buftype, and I've read several stack questions, but I haven't been able to find a solution for settings options in terminal mode. I know about ...
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Prevent vim from being launched in vim
When I'm using the terminal feature on nvim sometimes I run the last command again out of habit (thinking that I'll re-run the unittests for what I'm coding at the moment or something), but the latest ...
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How to change the directory highlight in the terminal buffer?
I have a theme which is great apart from some minor things. I could already change the LineNr highlight and some others, but can't seem to change the directory highlight in the terminal buffer, which ...
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Unable to resume backgrounded Neovim-terminal-emulator-process using `kill -CONT`
So, I'm trying to find an actual solution to another question on here that doesn't really have one. However, I'm running into a problem with backgrounding/foregrounding behaviour.
I need to background ...
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Run :terminal so it starts in terminal-normal mode?
I want to run an async command and when it completes open a terminal window. Since the opening is delayed, I don't want it to steal input from me, so the new window should be in Terminal-Normal mode.
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`termwinsize` cannot be accessed from Python 3
The option termwinsize cannot be accessed from Python 3.
Input
python3 << EOD
import vim
for window in vim.windows:
if (window.buffer.options['buftype'] == b'terminal'):
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Why don’t these mappings to enter Terminal-normal mode work?
I have remapped "enter terminal normal-mode" to <Esc> with:
tnoremap <Esc> <C-\><C-n> and it works.
I also use zsh vi-mode, which requires <Esc> to enter normal ...
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How can I append to a terminal buffer in vimscript?
I am trying to implement a vimscript function which appends to a terminal buffer. It works when I write this as a single mapping which uses the normal mode 'a' command to append:
nnoremap <Leader&...
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The remap doesn't resize terminal window
nnoremap <leader>rt :term<cr> <C-\><C-n> :resize 10<cr> i
I've tested the remap manually, it works as expected. A terminal window spawns I go into terminal normal mode, ...
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How do you exit a terminal buffer unless in a pager
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 ...
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Split Navigation in vim terminal [duplicate]
I use vim splits quite a bit. To switch faster, I use this shortcut instead of doing ctrl + w + h/j/k/l/
" Quicker window movement
nnoremap <C-j> <C-w>j
nnoremap <C-k> <C-w&...
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Prepend text to all commands in terminal mode
I would like to prepend clear; to all commands in terminal mode. This reduces the amount of 'clutter' in my terminal screen and makes things slightly clearer for me.
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Call range argument to execute in python terminal embeded in vim
Initial window:
My expectation: to copy whole or a part of python code in the right window into the left window's python terminal and execute.
My .vimrc setting:
function! CopyPasteBuffer()
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How to retain terminal colors inside the Vim terminal (-NOT- in GVim)? [duplicate]
My default terminal look:
will turn into this in the Vim terminal:
It's not a huge deal, but the former is easier on my eyes - and this doesn't happen on my other box... Tried to compare ...
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Eye torturing colors in Vim/GVim terminal
I am using GVim but this happens in terminal Vim too. I use the Gruvbox theme. Whenever I start the terminal using :term, I see too blue colors when I change the directory within the shell. The ...
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<BS> and <C-w> delete entire line in (terminal mode from a command) instead of a single character
I'm creating a mapping which is supposed to navigate to a specific window (call TEST_WIN), focus in on the terminal and then delete a single character.
The goal of this command is to navigate to the ...
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Terminal window interprets quick initial q as macro record
I have a function that opens a terminal window running some program. The program is quit by pressing q. But when I press q in the terminal window shortly after (within 1-2 seconds) of it being opened, ...
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How I can convert into the right characters?
I'm getting something weird characters in :messages.
How can I get the right results?
reproduce steps
define functions.
let s:rails_console_id = 0
function common#utilities#open_rails_console() ...
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How to hide terminal when not needed?
In VScode ,we are using ctrl+j to hide the terminal. Then if we press ctrl+j again, it will open the same terminal.
Is it possible in VIM/NEOVIM? I tried :Terminal ,but there is no straightforward way ...
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Reopen a terminal window running an active job
How do I reopen a terminal window with an active job if I hide the terminal window? This is similar to the following question: Close vim 8.1+ terminal buffer without unloading. In this case, however, ...
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How do I set floatterm plugin in Neovim such that F5 compile javascript and how do I do it for other languages?
I plugged float-term plugin , that open terminal window in neovim.
when I compile javascript with node in float term I did like :FloatermNew node % then it compiles fine and show me the output in ...
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