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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How to map Alt key?
I'm trying to map Alt key in the following way:
:map <A-j> j
:map <A-k> k
but it doesn't work (bell is rang on Alt + j/Alt + k).
What am I missing?
I'm using Terminal on OSX, the same ...
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Can Vim interpret terminal color escape codes?
Many CLI programs output nicely-highlighted text. While most of them check if the output is going to a file, some include the terminal escape codes. I like the output with the escape codes, but ...
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Can I use a non-monospaced font in either Vim or gVim?
Is there any way to use a non-monospace font in either vim or gvim?
I tried changing the font for gVim with:
:set guifont=Dejavu\ Serif\ 12
But this gives me some rather ugly results:
I get the ...
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Terminal borked after invoking Vim with xargs
I've sometimes tried invoking Vim using xargs, like this:
find . -name '*.java' | xargs vim
… which kind of works:
As Vim launches, I see the following warning flash briefly:
Vim: Warning: Input ...
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Can the split separator in vim be less than a full column wide?
I use a tiling window manager (awesome) + a terminal multiplexer (tmux) + splits inside of vim. I have no window decorations at all, so there is no visual split between them at all if the content of ...
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Prevent Vim from clearing the terminal after exit
If I do:
$ less file
And press q to exit less, I stil see the same text as I had on the screen when less was still running.
However, if I do
$ vim file
And :q, my terminal is blanked...
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Scroll the screen, not the cursor, when using scrollwheel
I'm using Vim in a terminal, so scrolling with the scroll wheel uses the \e[A and \e[B syntax (where \e symbolizes \x1b, or escape).
However, Vim interprets this by moving the cursor up or down a ...
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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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Make vim show all the colors
I have a problem with making vim show a colorscheme fully (like in gvim). I've read about how to enable 256 color mode in terminal and it vim, but somehow it just doesn't work. The state of now is:
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Tmux is changing part of the background in vim
This only seems to happens when using vim inside of tmux. I'm also using iTerm 2.
If I create a new tmux pane or resize a tmux pane, it immediately looks like the this:
And then the only way to fix ...
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How to label tmux tabs with the name of the file edited in vim?
Whenever I open a tmux session in terminal, all of the tabs containing vim sessions are labelled vim.
My question is: How to configure it to label tmux tabs with the name of the edited file or ...
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Why doesn't my numpad work right in my terminal?
In several terminal programs, such as PuTTY, SecureCRT, iTerm, and Mac OS Terminal,
if I have NumLock on and I press the number pad (numpad) keys 0123456789 in insert mode, my vim looks like this:
y ...
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Using <C-,> causes "<80>ü^D," to flash in the showcmd area?
I've mapped <C-,> as well as some other special keys (<C-Enter>, <C-S-Space>, ...) in my vimrc like,
:set <F13>=^[[44;5u
:map <F13> <C-,>
:map! <F13> <C-...
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Colorscheme's background not correct in terminal
I imported the solarized colorscheme and palette. My terminal has the correct colors and background, gvim has the correct colors and background, but vim has an incorrectly colored background. The text ...
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Detect neovim terminal from bash in bashrc
Does neovim set any environment variables that would let me detect from bash that the terminal is neovim? I want to change the behavior of my .bashrc if neovim is the terminal.
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Scrolling issues when the `wrap` option is set
I find myself dealing with this issue every time the wrap option is active (in my particular case whenever I'm working with markdown files).
What happens is that, while scrolling up and down the ...
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Mapping Ctrl+s does not work
I am trying to map Ctrl+s to save my file however it does not work.
My mappings:
map <C-s> :w <CR> :echo "Saved" <CR>
imap <C-s> <Esc> :w <CR> :echo "Saved" <...
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I can't move around the document while editing
I am working on a ChromeOS computer with both Vi and Vim. When I open up the editor to an existing document, I type A to begin editing. When I try to move around with my arrow keys, the following ...
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What is causing my cursor to look so strange? [closed]
Whenever I hit the end or beginning of a line, I get this very odd character where my cursor was. Any idea what may be causing this? I believe I have my fonts and theme correctly installed. I'm using ...
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How to run internal vim terminal at current file's dir?
I edit file /home/me/projects/myproj/src/util.c And want to start terminal at /home/me/projects/myproj/src. Vim version > 8 so I can run :terminal but it always starts at folder in which I've opened ...
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Use case for neovim terminal emulator?
One big difference of neovim and Vim is that neovim includes a terminal emulator that works asynchronously.
However, I fail to see how can I profit from this feature. For what can I use it? Can you ...
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Number pad not working with vi and Putty?
When I am editing a file in vim via SSH, I will try to use the number pad on my keyboard to enter long numbers (like IP addresses). Vim does not seem to like that very much. I am using PuTTY for ...
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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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Up arrow key code, why '^[[A' becomes '^[OA'?
If I run cat under terminal (xterm-256color), and then press the up arrow button, I see ^[[A as output.
But if I press <ctrl-v> <up> in vim insert mode, I see ^[OA as output.
So i wonder ...
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Change the cursor shape in operator pending mode
My cursor in Gvim:
My cursor in Gvim after pressing d:
Is there any way I can change the cursor in terminal Vim when in operator pending mode? It doesn't have to look exactly like the screenshots.
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VIM: how to send entire line to a buffer of type "Terminal"?
In Vim 8, you can open a terminal inside Vim with the term command. This opens a new buffer of type terminal inside vim. Is there any way of sending lines from other buffers to this type of buffer?
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What's t_TE and t_TI added by vim 8?
First let me show a screenshot below.
In the modeline, a strange sequence of characters(>4;m<ESC>[>4;m<ESC) is shown. And not only in the modeline, I have seen such similar sentence in ...
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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 to change local directory of terminal buffer whenever its shell change directory
After :term ++curwin zsh, I use that buffer as an alternative of tmux window.
But there is one caveat, if I cd in zsh, vim will not know.
Which cause problem in below case
In terminal normal mode, ...
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:silent makes my vim go blank
When I used :silent to run a terminal command in the background, my vim screen goes blank, until I navigate through my code, at which point each line I move to reappears.
What gives?
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Mapping control-H in insert mode doesn't work; it always works like backspace
I tried mapping control-H, J, K, and L respectively in insert mode to move around splits.
inoremap <C-h> <ESC><C-W><C-h>i
inoremap <C-l> <ESC><C-W><C-l&...
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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 specify the content of a new buffer from command line?
Is there a way to call Vim in such a way that it opens a buffer with some content specified on the terminal, i.e. not saved in a file?
For example, I would like to run vim and have it open a buffer ...
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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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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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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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Neovim with split integrated terminal / REPL
Other editors and IDEs, such as VSCode and RStudio, have an integrated console/terminal/REPL with the following characteristics:
They open in a split window. The file we’re working on is visible at ...
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Is it possible for Vim to output ANSI colors from the terminal, without a colorscheme?
Many terminal emulators allow you to define colors:
Rather than trying to approximate (and duplicate!) the same theme in a Vim colorscheme, is there a way to tell terminal Vim to output ANSI escape ...
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How to run terminal command in interactive mode from NeoVim?
I have a terminal command which runs code with a breakpoint in it. When I run this command in NeoVim the code execution does not stop at the breakpoint, instead I get an error, that its not a TTY ...
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What's the difference between the "clipboard" and "xterm_clipboard" features?
What is the difference between the clipboard and xterm_clipboard features? When do I need to enable one or the other at compilation time?
As an aside, how do these features relate to the mouse ...
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Clipboard sharing broke under MacOS X
I'm using (roughly) the same config for my mac and my ubuntu machine. I use
set clipboard=unnamed,unnamedplus
To conveniently share vim's clipboard with the system clipboard. However, lately the ...
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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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How to restore bash terminal title if using 'set title' in vim?
I recently got to know that useful info can be shown in title of bash terminal when editing files using vim. Adding below displays file name, path of the file being edited.
set title
But on exiting ...
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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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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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Change cursor shape in different terminals
At home I use iTerm2 on MacOS X, and at work, I have a laptop with CygWin. I have another PC where I use gnome-terminal or terminator, and sometimes I use tmux.
I'm looking to configure the cursor ...
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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 there a way that I can identify which window is a terminal after calling the `:term` command in neovim?
Is there way I can identify a window by a number in neovim and then jump to it with a macro ? Or better yet...Is there a way that I can identify which window is a terminal after calling the :term ...
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Pressing Shift-Backspace in insert mode types '^?' instead of backspacing
When I mess up typing an uppercase letter, I usually hold Shift while pressing the Backspace. Instead of backspacing, it types ^? (to my frustration).
Google tells me that ^? is the "delete" ...
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How to prevent accidentally piping text to Vim?
I use Vim to edit the output of shell commands all the time. Appending the dash in this line is second nature:
$ ./some-command | vim -
But every once in a while I get distracted and forget:
$ ./...
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