Re: terminal-normal mode highlighting

On Thursday, November 23, 2017 at 2:52:37 PM UTC-7, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Jeremy Armstrong wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to preserve coloring from the shell (seen in TERMINAL mode) when in TERMINAL-NORMAL mode?
> > e.g.
> > 1. In TERMINAL mode (with an interactive shell) issue 'ls --color' and notice the colorized output
> > 2. <c-\><c-n> and notice the SHELL's coloring is lost
>
> Doesn't happen for me, color remains.
>

Sorry, I should have tested with '-u NONE', ft was getting set to text. It works now, thanks.

> > Also, is it possible to see vim's :hls highlighting from TERMINAL mode in TERMINAL-NORMAL mode?
> > e.g.
> > 1. in TERMINAL-NORMAL mode do ':set hls ' then search for a string that gets highlighted
> > 2. <c-n><c-\> and notice the search string is no longer highlighted
>
> I assume you use "a" here to go back to Terminal-Job mode.
Yes.
>
> Once you are back in Terminal-Job mode the window will display the
> contents of the terminal. It would be confusing if mixing with other
> highlighting.
>

How about a setting for this? Something like ':set keeptermhls' that defaults to 0?

Konsole has persistent search highlighting ( <ctrl-shift-f> ...search string... <esc> ) and it is very useful for watching for important strings scroll by in stuff like strace output or 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' etc.

Therefore, this feature in terminal mode vim could be greatly appreciated by people who prefer lightweight systems.

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Thanks for implementing terminal mode vim!

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