Re: How to scroll back in Vim's built-in terminal?

2017-10-01 21:28 GMT+03:00 Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Redesorr <arsorrwy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am using Vim's built-in ":terminal", it works well.
>>
>> However, I found it is impossible to scroll back in this terminal.
>>
>> I have tried several terminal emulators and Gvim. But none of them can let me scroll back in terminal opened by ":terminal" command.
>>
>> I tried SHIFT+PgUp and Ctrl+Shift+UP, both failed. And I don't find any information about scroll back in ":terminal" in Vim's document.
>>
>> Is there any way to scroll text in Vim's ":terminal"?
>>
>
> I haven't much experimented with Vim's new +terminal feature, but I
> remember how it was before, with the !something, :shell, etc.
> commands.
>
> In that case, Console Vim let you interact with the terminal it was
> started from, with just something like "Hit Enter to continue" at the
> end, but what you got (and IIUC still get) in gvim is a "dumb"
> terminal, which emulates the kind of paper-hammer-ribbon
> teletypewriter which could neither backspace nor move up the paper but
> only move forward and down. So unless gvim's new +terminal feature is
> radically different from what it used to run shells in before
> +terminal came around, the answer to your question could quite well be
> "In gvim there isn't, and in Console Vim you get what you started Vim
> from".

+terminal uses libvterm which is xterm-compliant to a great extent, it
has nothing to do with what was there previously. To scroll back one
just needs to exit to normal mode and scroll there using regular
scrolling commands, e.g. via `<C-\><C-n>`.

>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
>
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