Re: vim via serial console

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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