Re: any way to format vim --version?

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 6:57 PM <duvall@comfychair.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

indeed it does -- thx danek -- brilliant!

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