From 2e28d5a885608fddd1e0b7464ba3c9582a9e8ca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Ryder Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:02:59 +1300 Subject: Add exm(1df) to work around Vim's screen-clearing --- man/man1/exm.1df | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man1/exm.1df (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/man1/exm.1df b/man/man1/exm.1df new file mode 100644 index 00000000..892ca326 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/exm.1df @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +.TH EXM 1df "March 2017" "Manual page for exm" +.SH NAME +.B exm +\- invoke Vim's ex(1) with a dumb terminal +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B exm +[EX_OPTIONS...] [FILES] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B exm +works around a quirk of Vim that causes it to clear the screen when invoked as +ex(1) interactively. It applies Vim's -T option to force the terminal to the +builtin "dumb" terminal. +.SH CAVEATS +This doesn't work on its first invocation from any given terminal, but does +work thereafter. I haven't yet figured out why. +.P +This breaks switching to visual mode with :visual somewhat, as the terminal +will persist in its dumb state. I'm not sure there's a way to fix this. If +there were a Vim :autocmd for mode switching, it might be possible, or perhaps +by wrapping :visual somehow to :set terminal=$TERM. +.SH AUTHOR +Tom Ryder -- cgit v1.2.3