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Can the split separator in vim be less than a full column wide?
You are wrong about tmux. Like every terminal-based program — including Vim — it only draws stuff inside cells. This means that Vim and tmux both use the same method to draw vertical borders: they ...
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How to label tmux tabs with the name of the file edited in vim?
There you go :
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost,BufNewFile,BufEnter * call system("tmux rename-window 'vim | " . expand("%:t") . "'")
Decomposing :
autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost,BufNewFile,...
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Tmux is changing part of the background in vim
You might try to add the following to your .vimrc.
if &term =~ '256color'
" disable Background Color Erase (BCE)
set t_ut=
endif
The t_ut option (default = y) describes how vim handles what ...
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No syntax highlighting in tmux
Well, I solved the problem by myself.
as @Carpetsmoker♦ commented, I started to suspect that my .vimrc is a problem. I read this question and started vim with this command inside tmux.
vim -u NONE -...
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Separate C-m and Enter
As far as Vim is concerned, <C-M> and <CR> are the same thing: they are represented in the same way internally.
If your terminal is truly sending different keycodes (mine doesn't) for ...
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Mouse wheel scrolling inserts characters
Ah, I found the culprit by bisecting my .vimrc file. I had mapped Escape in normal mode to clear search highlighting:
" Clear highlighting on escape in normal mode
nnoremap <esc> :noh<return&...
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Cursor shape under vim + tmux
It seems the problem is that tmux doesn't send your cursor-changing escape codes to the terminal emulator. You need to wrap your desired escape codes in a special sequence that tells tmux that it ...
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Sending command to different tmux pane from vim
To send to another pane you'll need to call tmux from Vim. Specifically, you'll need the send-keys command (alias: send). For example, this will cause the current line number in Vim to be printed to ...
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No syntax highlighting in tmux
From the vim manual: :h termguicolors recommends reading :h xterm-true-color, also see :h $TERM
Sometimes setting 'termguicolors' is not enough and one has to set the |t_8f|
and |t_8b| options ...
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Change cursor shape in different terminals
As of November 2017, all the terminals you are using support the same DECSCUSR escape sequences for changing the cursor shape1. So you don't need to test for the different terminals.
As such, the ...
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Pasting text on Vim inside tmux breaks indentation
Manually toggling :set paste/:set nopaste as suggested by francois P is cumbersome, and resetting the TERM variable as evaristegd suggests is a very bad idea as explained in the comments (which hint ...
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Does Vim have functionality similar to tmux's `display-panes` command for selecting (goto) a specific window by number?
I'm not aware of any Vim feature or even plugin that does that; in fact, up until recently it would be rather hard to display it like that, but with Vim 8.2's popup windows it wouldn't be too hard; ...
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Tmux messing with Vim highlighting
Add this line to your tmux.conf file
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
Add the line below to you shells rc file in my case its my .zshrc
if [[ $TERM == xterm ]]; then TERM=xterm-256color; ...
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Can the split separator in vim be less than a full column wide?
Even in my own screen-shot, tmux is not using any magic, the split is still a single character wide column. The less obtrusive visual effect is the use of a Unicode box drawing character that is less ...
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Running code in a different tmux pane
The run-shell example you mention looks identical to that in
my 'Unix & Linux' post
on this topic so you may have read that. If so, at the very end I mention use of a mapping to prevent external ...
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No syntax highlighting in tmux
I actually made it work just fine with termguicolors. This is what I did
1. in my ~/.bash_profile i put this:
export TERM=xterm-256color
and inside my ~/.vimrc I had this
syntax enable
colorscheme ...
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Can the split separator in vim be less than a full column wide?
No, this cannot be done in Vim, and would probably be very hard to implement in GVIM.
Vim sticks to the cell-based addressing used in the terminal; within a buffer, this is crucial for consistent ...
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Vim, tmux, and xterm-bracketed-paste
I have this in my .vimrc, which works when running tmux in gnome-terminal
if &term =~ '^tmux'
let &t_BE="\<Esc>[?2004h"
let &t_BD="\<Esc>[?2004l"
let &t_PS="\<Esc&...
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How to activate bracketed paste mode in GNOME Terminal for Vim inside tmux
It is even supposed to be by default in Vim 8.
Only if Vim thinks the terminal is xterm-compatible, which is the case if TERM is xterm or some derivative.
If TERM is gnome, Vim won't enable the ...
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Cursor shape under vim + tmux
The correct value of $TERM environments variable is very important. Make sure that it is different from screen-256color. Set it to xterm-256color for example.
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Truecolor (termguicolors) causes display issues in Tmux
Turns out this was a bug in Vim itself. The problem is resolved as of Vim 7.4.1942.
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How to label tmux tabs with the name of the file edited in vim?
To restore the default tmux naming scheme when quitting vim you can also do:
autocmd VimLeave * call system("tmux setw automatic-rename")
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Send message to tmux properly
After messing around a bit more and looking over some stuff I was able to get this to work by wrapping the external command and its parameters in an execute command then using the bar to send the ...
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Why isn't vim applying syntax highlighting to this code?
Adding t_Co=256 to your vimrc should never be necessarily, save for some highly unusual and archaic situations. It's typically a sign that something else is set up wrong.
By far the most common ...
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Send file and line number to tmux
Here's an example of inserting line number in a shell command:
:exe "!echo " . line(".")
So your mapping would be something like this:
nnoremap <silent> <leader>ef :exe "!tmux send -t 0....
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Sending command to different tmux pane from vim
Uploaded my personal config tvp-repl
Copy from one pane with Ctrl+c and paste to another (requires xclip)
vim with +clipboard, .vimrc:
set clipboard=unnamedplus
vnoremap <C-c> "+y
tmux ...
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Nvim can not detect focus change inside tmux sessions
I opened an issue on Neovim repo and get the right answer.
We need to turn on the focus-events for tmux. Edit the tmux config file ~/.tmux.conf and add the following setting:
set -g focus-events on
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Cannot send `--` into tmux panes from vim
Looks more like a shell related question than a Vim related question. I would try the following (not tested, so might be wrong):
silent execute "!tmux send-keys -t " . _count . " -- \"" . text . "\""...
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Running code in a different tmux pane
If you build tmux from Git master you can send the output to an empty pane, for example:
mybuildcommand|tmux splitw -dI -c/my/source/directory
I don't know how to stop vim hiding the code while this ...
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Change Neovim cursor in insert mode under st (simple terminal) and tmux
You need to tell Tmux how to translate the control sequences sent by Nvim to the outer terminal, here st.
This is done by setting the unofficial extensions to terminfo Ss and Se.
From man tmux:
Ss, ...
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