Questions tagged [tmux]
Questions about using vim into a tmux session and how to customize integration.
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Compile program in same tmux window
I'm new to vim and I'm trying to setup my environment for c++ development, and I want to configure vim in a way that like vscode, if I push f5 key, It would compile the program in the existing tmux ...
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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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Vim auto save buffer on Tmux `select-pane`
How to make (N)Vim auto save buffer on Tmux select-pane? In my vimrc I tried:
" Auto save when buffer lose focus
autocmd FocusLost,BufLeave * silent! wa
" Save on buffer change
set autowrite
But ...
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Change Neovim cursor in insert mode under st (simple terminal) and tmux
My Neovim cursor normally switches to a pipe symbol (|) when I'm in st, but it doesn't when tmux is open in st. Is there something special to do?
Version:
Neovim: v0.5.0-dev
Tmux: 2.9a
My ...
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Running code in a different tmux pane
I am new to vim and tmux.
TL;DR
I want to have tmux set up so that I have a pane for my (python) code and a pane for the output of the code.
What I know
Now, from vim I can do a command like :!...
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Vim+Tmux: How to switch between Tmux Windows and Vim Tab Pages Seamlessly using the Alt Key?
In Vim I can switch between tab pages with :tabnext- to go left and tabnext+ to go right, simulating the tabs on an IDE. In Tmux I can switch between windows using <prefix>p and <prefix>n ...
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Send current vim line to seperate tmux pane and move cursor down
I am trying to send the vim line that is under the cursor to another tmux pane and then move the cursor on vim down 1 line.
For context, I have vim open on 1 pane, and python open on another. I want ...
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Cannot send `--` into tmux panes from vim
I've the following function and accompanying key-bindings to send texts from vim in one tmux pane to other:
" copy yanked text to tmux pane
function! Send_to_tmux(count) abort
let _count = (a:...
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Sharing a copy register between vim on different machines?
The image below shows two terminals. Both are running vim instances on remote machines (ssh and a serial connection through an UART cable).
Vim's on those machines don't have a way to access the ...
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Any way to add an existing Vim environment to a tmux session?
If I already have vim running with numerous documents open and I want to use tmux, it seems that I have to quit vim, start the tmux session and then reopen everything again.
Is there anyway to start ...
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What is the [0/0] that pops up in corner of tmux vim if I try to scroll up?
When I'm in vim on tmux with terminal and I scroll up, the cursor will jump to where my mouse is and show a [0/0] on the right corner of my window. When that happens, I can't type or move the cursor ...
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Nvim can not detect focus change inside tmux sessions
I use the following setting for automatic line number toggle.
augroup numbertoggle
autocmd!
autocmd BufEnter,FocusGained,InsertLeave * set relativenumber
autocmd BufLeave,FocusLost,InsertEnter ...
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Update OS enviroment variables from inside VIM
I use vim inside tmux over an ssh session and I often run into the issue where the $DISPLAY variable gets changed, screwing up my copy-paste.
When I log in, $DISPLAY gets assigned to something new: ...
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Equivalent to tmux CTRL+B z in vim?
In tmux if you have alot of panes open, you can press CTRL+B, z to zoom into that terminal pane. Is there a way to do the same thing in vim, to zoom into / out of the selected pane?
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Sending command to different tmux pane from vim
behave test language need to execute different lines of the behave feature file, for example, if I want to test the line number 99, I'll need to input the following line in the terminal
behave ...
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remote scrollbind with an offset (to increase the viewing area, over two screens)
Could I just duplicate what scrollbind does, and use tmux to send-keys to the other vim?
I have vim on an android device (in termux), and want the effect of spreading vim over another device's ...
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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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Vim, tmux, and xterm-bracketed-paste
From Terminal.app on my Mac, I SSH in to a box where I run Vim 8.0.1601. Left at that, everything works fine. But if I launch Vim from within a tmux window, go to insert mode, and then attempt to ...
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sending variable commands in vim-slime
I am relatively new to vim and have started using the vim-slime plugin. One thing I use it for is to run python scripts, for example
:SlimeSend1 python ~/myPythonFile.py
I now would like to automate ...
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What can Neovim/Vim's :terminal do that tmux can't?
I've been using tmux for a while, and recently tried :term in Neovim for a few days.
Aside from some small trivial differences, it seems mostly the same to me? What is the advantage of using :term? ...
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Separate C-m and Enter
I am using zsh, urxvt, tmux and in there vim. I am not 100% sure who causes the effect but I would like to bind something to ctrl and m but not to carriage return in vim. Does somebody how this is ...
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Nvim not getting correct terminal size opening session in tmux [closed]
MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 + iTerm2, build 3.1.4 + NeoVim 0.2.0_1.
I run on iTerm a Tmux session loaded with
teamocil [session]
In one of tmux windows there's an instance of nvim working smoothly, ...
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Send file and line number to tmux
I want to send commands to tmux to run Elixir tests from vim. Using the % variable allows me to run the command to run a test for a single file. The relevant line in my .vimrc is
nmap <silent> ...
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Fugitive Gbrowse while being ssh on a server
I work remotely via ssh on my dev machine which runs a tmux. I want to pipe the output of the Gbrowse back to my laptop. Is there any reasonable way to do that.
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vim in tmux lose highlighting
I'm using vim 8.0 and tmux 2.5 on ubuntu.
And I have set the TERM environment export TERM=screen-256color and run as tmux -2.
Normally, nothing goes wrong. It's like the following picture:
But ...
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How to open file in specific window (create or reuse)?
I'm trying to develop a plugin that would show results of SQL queries, by executing them inside tmux split and using mysql pager option to save them to the specific file.
What I want now is to either ...
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Send message to tmux properly
I am trying to send a message to a running tmux window that is side by side, to tell it to run a script when I press a button. What I am trying to do is done by doing:
silent !tmux send -t 0.1 ruby ...
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Vim + Tmux: Resetting tmux tab name when exiting vim
I'm labeling my Tmux tabs with the current file in vim like so:
autocmd BufEnter * let &titlestring = ' ' . expand("%:t")
set title
set t_ts=k
Then I have a VimLeave autocmd to have tmux rename ...
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Why isn't vim applying syntax highlighting to this code?
If I open a random file (in this case, say .zshrc) in a blank vim with no rc file , but with vi compatibility forcing off
vim -N -u NORC ~/.zshrc
As expected vim will launch and display .zshrc ...
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How to open ranger from neovim and tmux, like Tim Pope`s dispatch do
Archlinux, termite -> tmux -> neovim
I want to open ranger in new pane, and when it ended and pane was closed - open selected file/files. This flow is similar to Tim Pope`s dispatch behavior
" ...
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vim under tmux looses color scheme in iterm2
OSX - sierra
iterm2 3.0.13
tmux 2.3
vim 8.0.176
colors work fine in bare iterm2:
but under tmux:
iterm2:
echo $TERM
xterm-256color
tmux:
echo $TERM
screen-256color
tmux config
vimrc
I'm ...
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No syntax highlighting in tmux
I installed tmux in iTerm 2.(Build 3.0.13) When I execute vim in tmux, syntax highlighting looks like this.
But outside tmux, syntax highlighting looks fine.
My $TERM inside and outside tmux is ...
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Wrong colors inside tmux
In vim without tmux:
In vim with tmux:
Color in Vim is 'default'
My .vimrc has nothing related to colors.
My .tmux.conf is empty.
My .bashrc is untouched.
I am using gnome-terminal with a custom ...
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How to remap <C-W>hjkl to navigate tmux panes and vim splits
I'm trying to use vim-tmux-navigator. I'd like to use default key bindings to move between vim and tmux splits. Which is <C-W>hjkl.
But it isn't working. Either you can't remap anything with C-...
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Truecolor (termguicolors) causes display issues in Tmux
As far as my setup is concerned, I'm running Tmux 2.2 (with true color support enabled) inside iTerm2 version 3 on a Mac. To clarify, there are other questions already answered which address ...
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Share completions between running vim instances
I use tmux for the most part instead of using vim tabs and splits. Does vim have the ability to share completions (via Ctrln and Ctrlp) between running instances? Is there a way to set it up where ...
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Visual selection in Nvim-R plugin sends one line too much to terminal
I have just set up the Nvim-R plugin for Neovim to send lines of code from an .R-file opened with Neovim to a terminal inside a tmux session.
Previously, I have worked with its predecessor Vim-R, ...
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How can I use tmux for copying if I can't access the system clipboard?
I'm testing out using vim with tmux. One thing that I could do with vim with a split window is yank text from one buffer and paste it into the other. This no longer works when I have vim buffers in ...
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Tmux messing with Vim highlighting [duplicate]
When I load up vim inside tmux there is a background color behind all text as so:
If I load it up not in tmux I get the following:
I want it to be like image 2, I can not understand why tmux is ...
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On Ubuntu and in tmux, vim does not react to Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End
Outside of tmux they work well. These key combinations should move the cursor to the beginning of the document and, respectively, to the end of the document.
How do I make them work?
Thank you very ...
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Mouse wheel scrolling inserts characters
I'm using macvim inside tmux inside iTerm2. Basically I just want to be able to scroll the buffer using the mousewheel. I've set
set -g moude-mouse on
in my .tmux.conf, and
set mouse=a
set ttymouse=...
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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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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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Cursor shape under vim + tmux
How can I have different cursor shapes when running vim inside tmux under cygwin?
WITHOUT tmux these lines would be enough to achieve what I want:
let &t_SI = "\e[5 q"
let &t_EI = "\e[2 q"
...
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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 you there is no visual split between them at all if the content ...
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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 ...
