Re: vim via serial console

On 07/01 08:24, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 7:32 AM, <tuxic@posteo.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > to my Rapsberry Pi Zero W I connect via serial
> > terminal.
> >
> > The serial terminal output respect the size
> > of my terminal window on the host pc.
> >
> > As soon as I start vim, the size of the
> > "printable area" - that is: what vim uses
> > to let me edit text" is drastically shrunken
> > to 24 lines and 80 colums, which is too tiny
> > to edit config files and look through log files
> > in most cases.
> >
> > Is there a way to tell vim to use the full size
> > as (in this case) picocom does?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for any bigger edit window in advance! :)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Meino
>
> What happens if you do
>
> :set lines=999 columns=999
>
> ? (I have no serial console, and on some terminals this doesn't work.
> On my system, it works in gvim and in xterm but not in konsole.)
>
> See
> :help 'lines'
> :help 'columns'
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
>
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Hi Tony,

*thanks* for your reply.
I will check later...a few minutes ago I "killed" my
raspi-installation...have to start from the beginning.

... will be back later...

Have a nice sunda!
Cheers
Meino

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