Re: any way to format vim --version?

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 06:29:46PM -0500, tooth pik wrote:

> inside vim :ver has been beautified to list features in as many columns as will
> fit the window, but out at the bash prompt vim --version seems limited to four
> columns of features, causing the display to scroll off the top of my screen if i
> let --version print all of the Compilation and Linking lines
>
> i have attempted to make those last two lines readable with
>
> vim --version | awk '!/^Compilation/ && !/Linking/'
> vim --version | grep '^Compilation' | fmt -w $(( $(tput cols) - 2 ))
> vim --version | grep '^Linking' | fmt -w $(( $(tput cols) - 2 ))
>
> if i want it to fit do i need to write a script to capture the
> --version output and
> perform some parsing and tabling magic or is there an option to tell vim to
> query the system with maybe a call to tput cols

Maybe

vim --cmd ":version | :q"

will do what you need?

Danek

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