Thursday, February 3, 2011

Re: Manpage inside Vim

On 2011-02-03 Joan Miquel Torres Rigo <joanmiquel@mallorcaweb.net> wrote:

> >> aren't terminals and doesn't export any value for TERM environment
> >> variable.
> > TERM is set to xterm.
>
> Of course,
>
> as Christian said, gvim don't use external terminal emulator but its
> own one and it is not fully functional.

Now I understand.

> I didn't know that because I never use gvim (I prefer console-vim in
> real terminal emulator).
>
> Anyway, in this case, if TERM is set to xterm, then less will think
> that terminal is fully functional.
>
> This will not resolve the problem, but if you set TERM to something
> like 'dumb', less will function in more compatible way.

It seems to act the same.

> >> Fore example:
> >> :!TERM=xterm man ls
> > Doesn't work, either.
>
> Ok. But try now with 'dumb'.

Same result.

Marco


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