Questions tagged [terminal-buffer]
A terminal emulator within vim, eg created by :terminal or term_start()
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Rename neovim terminal buffer without breaking :mksession
Is there a "good" way to rename the terminal buffer in neovim?
I know that renaming is possible with the :file command, and that works fine for current session.
The problem with this approach is ...
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neovim: Keep :terminal active when I switch to other buffers
I use :terminal in neovim to run a dev server. But whenever I switch to other opened buffer(s), the terminal kills the process. Is there a way to keep the terminal running in neovim?
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Parsing winlayout() For Toggling Multiple Windows At Once
When working in vim, I like to have a toggle-able terminal window that I can bring with me from tab to tab. This works by tracking a buffer, and opening it in a new bot split (if it isn't visible), or ...
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NeoVim - Go into insert mode when clicking in a terminal in a pane?
I'm trying to use NeoVim as a tmux replacement, and have found that no matter what I do, I can't get it to go into insert mode when I click in a pane that has a terminal in it.
Here's the config I'm ...
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Making terminal buffer unlisted
I'm configuring my scripts to work with terminal in VIM and have a question regarding :h special-buffers. Among mentioned kinds there were the following:
unlisted The buffer is not in the buffer ...
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How to start a terminal, so that on exit will call a function?
I recorded info of terminal buffers in a dict, and want remove bufnr of closed ones.
Can you tell me how to start a terminal such that call a function on exit, eg,
func! myterm#remove(bufnr):
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CTRL-V_CTRL-[key], instead of ^[key] gives ^[[27;5;[ASCII code of key]~ in xterm on Arch
For example, Ctrl-v_Ctrl-w gives ^[[27;5;119~ instead of usual ^W.
It does behave in such way only on (u)xterm. I've tested it on st, lxterminal, xfce4-terminal and rxvt. I'm also 98% positive that ...
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Vim terminal job prevents from exiting
I'm writing a function which is supposed to create a terminal buffer once for the entire Vim session and which would not prevent it from exiting. Here is how it looks like:
let s:term_buf_nr = -1
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Make a buffer active by its number
I'm configuring a terminal buffer and now I have the following problem. I have only one terminal buffer and I need to make it active by its number to avoid lots of CTRL-w j/k/l clicks.
Here is what ...
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Toggle terminal buffer vimscript function
I'm new to vimscript and writing a function to toggle a terminal buffer. Here is what I tried:
let g:toggle_term = "<C-j>"
let g:term_buf_nr = -1
function! ToggleTerminal()
if g:...
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Execute Vim command in terminal window and return to Terminal-Job mode
For a while, I'd been using :nnoremap <C-H> <C-W>h and :tnoremap <C-H> <C-W>h, et. al. to switch windows. This was working great, so when I started using tabs, I decided to ...
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Is there a way to start vim in terminal mode?
I often find myself
Opening a terminal
Running vim
Starting a :terminal
Is there a way to say vim --start-terminal and have Vim automatically run :terminal ++curwin as soon as it starts?
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How does g:terminal_ansi_colors affect the :terminal colors?
:term usually looks ugly in most colorschemes I've tried. At least on Windows, with light themes, these colors do not work and end up in an unreadable shade of yellow against my light background.
I ...
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Allow text to reflow in terminal mode after resizing
I opened up a terminal with :terminal. Then I ran a server process that prints logs whenever someone hits the API. Next, I resized gnome-terminal, but I noticed vim didn't update the view of the ...
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Is it possible to use <C-H> (and J/K/L) for navigation inside a Vim 8 terminal?
I rebound control + H/J/K/L to navigate between splits without needing <C-W>:
nnoremap <C-J> <C-W><C-J>
nnoremap <C-K> <C-W><C-K>
nnoremap <C-L> <C-...
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Autocmd commands for sharing terminal when open new tab
I was trying to create a trigger that does the following:
When opening a new tab with a file, if there already exists a terminal buffer, it is opened below in this new tab.
I have seen in logfiles ...
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closing :terminal / term_start() should quit vim if it's the last buffer
Situation: I've typed this:
vim foo.js
:terminal
Now I have one split, a file editing buffer and a terminal.
The good: I can quit by closing the terminal first, then the file buffer.
The bad: But ...
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Vim terminal: How to split below by default?
Opening the vim terminal using :term, creates a horizontal split with the terminal placed at the top half of the window. Is there a way to open the terminal at the bottom half instead?
I know I can ...
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Random characters appear in my buffer but they are not part of the current file
I really don't know what details to give except for some screenshots and my vimrc file, I think it is because of a plugin but I am really not sure. Random characters just appear. Note that they are ...
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How to copy long line from terminal buffer as it is without adding new lines?
I wanted to copy a public key from one machine to the other. I opened up vim and had two terminal buffers - one for each machine. In the terminal in which I had the first machine I went into normal ...
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How to follow the output of a command in a terminal window
I recently decided to give a try at neovim and one thing is bothering me:
I use a terminal window to run my code watcher i.e. a never ending command which outputs new lines each time I write a buffer....
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send <cr> to ipython in :term
When I am developing some python script, I regularly find myself running part of the code to see if it does what I want it to do. Currently I do this by copying the code that I want to run to the ...
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Command to copy from current window and paste the text into terminal buffer
I am having trouble crafting a command that would copy the text from the current window and paste this text into a terminal buffer opened in the split below.
Here are a few things I tried:
normal ...
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vim 8.1 send_termkeys problem
I noticed that, if I use
call term_sendkeys(buf, "make\n")
and then I try to execute something else in the terminal windows (i.e. ls), vim append the last string sent from command mode to the actual ...
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use pipe symbol in vim :term command [duplicate]
recently i stumpled over vim :terminal mode.
i am really exited about that.
now i wanted to ask, how i can create a mapping, which sends a command, including a pipe symbol to :terminal?
it should look ...
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Using a login shell only for the :term command
I'm on MacOS, so basically all terminals are login terminals for me which source my bash_profile and load everything I need.
However, the :term command does not source my bash_profile, I believe ...
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Automatically inserting predefined strings to terminal buffer
When I compile any code file in vim, I use a specific mapping to open the terminal buffer and get into insert mode, but this requires me to be aware of the (potentially long and complicated) file name....
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Ex command to put value of variable into terminal emulator?
Using a terminal emulator (with :term), I would like to insert the value of a variable at the terminal cursor.
In a normal text buffer, I could use put =g:my_variable or exec ("normal! i" . g:...
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neovim key remap specific to terminal buffer
I have been using nvim terminal mode to learn python and I want to have Ctrl-C break the python script from the terminal window even when I am not in insert mode. However, I also want Ctrl-C in my ...
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How to hide terminal buffer without closing it?
I want to make toggleable window with terminal buffer similar to every IDE terminal feature.
Currently i have mapped:
noremap <F4> :botright 8split term://bash<CR>
tnoremap <F4> &...
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How to keep the neovim terminal buffer in the buffer list even after it being hidden
My problem is similar to, if not same as, this issues. But I can't follow what they're talking about.
The following steps are necessary to reproduce my problems:
:sp
:term
:wincmd w
:wincmd o
:ls
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How can I reproduce a Linting Plugin Behavior
I'm trying to get in to plugin writing, and currently I'm doing some builds (like Latex and LanguageTools checker), and I have in place hotkeys that call for the compilation, and It throws the output ...
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How to go up to previous command when in terminal mode in Vim 8?
I am new to Vim. I managed to use :terminal and :vertical terminal to have a terminal side by side with my code. This works great, I can move between my code and the terminals. However, how do I go ...
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Identifying the PID of Vim 8.1 internal terminal launched with :terminal ++close
When launching an internal Vim 8.1 terminal for an exclusive program like in terminal ++close ipython, is there a way to identify from vimscript which is the PID of the launched process (i.e. of the ...
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In Vim 8.1, “:term ipython” gives a different version of IPython than typing “ipython” on an already open terminal
When I open a Gnome terminal in my Ubuntu 18 and execute the command ipython, I start an Anaconda IPython terminal version 5.8.0. Within Vim 8.1, that is what I also get if I first open a Vim terminal ...
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Unmapping the global mappings on a per-buffer basis
I have the following mapping in tnoremap <Esc> <C-\><C-n> init.conf to exit insert mode while in the terminal.
In certain terminal buffers I would like to not have that global ...
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Execute command in terminal mode at terminal startup
I'm trying to execute simple commands in the vim terminal mode, but cannot get it to work. For example, I tried
nmap <F12> :let $VIM_DIR=expand('%:p:h')<CR>:terminal<CR>cd $VIM_DIR&...
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Start a new terminal instance if window splitting was initiated from a terminal buffer
When I'm in the terminal and I press <C-w>s the screen is split vertically and the terminal buffer is shown twice. Then I have to do :terminal if I want a separate terminal instance.
Typing ...
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Commands history for vim commandline and :terminal [closed]
I want a way in which we can access a history of commands in terminal mode (and Vim/NeoVim's internal command line), just like in a normal bash terminal; i.e. if I press the up key it will scroll ...
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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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How to make Neovim to not show the “[Process exited {num}]” when quitting a term?
When quitting the terminal it always shows the [Process exited 2], how can I disable it so that when I quit the terminal buffer should just close silently?
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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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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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In Vim, how to tag/enrich buffers with custom information (that persist naturally)
Gday,
I am trying to persist some state about my buffers, specifically terminal buffers, over vim sessions with :mksession through the plugin 'vim-session' by xolox.
The goal is to assign labels to ...
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Change the terminal emulater neovim uses
Is there a way to change which terminal emulator neovim uses for its :terminal command? I am running neovim on Windows 10, and it used cmd by default; however, I would rather use cmder or another ...
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How come the splitted window failed to update its shapes along with the whole window
By the normal mode command :vs, I split the current buffer into two equally sized buffers. Then I resize the whole terminal window and only find the left portion of the screen remains the same as ...
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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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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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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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Running vim's ':make' using ':term'
Is there a way that I can have the :make command output itself to a terminal window in vim? In the 8.1 release, they added the :term command, which allows you to run an external program in a vim ...
