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authorBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2005-04-15 21:00:38 +0000
committerBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2005-04-15 21:00:38 +0000
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-*tips.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Feb 23
+*tips.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Apr 01
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -129,26 +129,26 @@ Switching screens in an xterm *xterm-screens* *xterm-save-screen*
:the same thing as each other for a given xterm setup.
They not necessarily do the same thing, as this may be a termcap vs.
-terminfo problem. You should be aware that there are two databases for
+terminfo problem. You should be aware that there are two databases for
describing attributes of a particular type of terminal: termcap and
-terminfo. This can cause differences when the entries differ AND when of
+terminfo. This can cause differences when the entries differ AND when of
the programs in question one uses terminfo and the other uses termcap
(also see |+terminfo|).
In your particular problem, you are looking for the control sequences
-^[[?47h and ^[[?47l. These switch between xterms alternate and main screen
-buffer. As a quick workaround a command sequence like >
+^[[?47h and ^[[?47l. These switch between xterms alternate and main screen
+buffer. As a quick workaround a command sequence like >
echo -n "^[[?47h"; vim ... ; echo -n "^[[?47l"
-may do what you want. (My notation ^[ means the ESC character, further down
+may do what you want. (My notation ^[ means the ESC character, further down
you'll see that the databases use \E instead).
On startup, vim echoes the value of the termcap variable ti (terminfo:
-smcup) to the terminal. When exiting, it echoes te (terminfo: rmcup). Thus
+smcup) to the terminal. When exiting, it echoes te (terminfo: rmcup). Thus
these two variables are the correct place where the above mentioned control
sequences should go.
Compare your xterm termcap entry (found in /etc/termcap) with your xterm
-terminfo entry (retrieved with /usr/5bin/infocmp -C xterm). Both should
+terminfo entry (retrieved with /usr/5bin/infocmp -C xterm). Both should
contain entries similar to: >
:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ be able to give comments to the parts of the mapping. >
(<> notation |<>|. Note that this is all typed literally. ^W is "^" "W", not
CTRL-W. You can copy/paste this into Vim if '<' is not included in
-'cpoptions')
+'cpoptions'.)
Note that the last comment starts with |", because the ":execute" command
doesn't accept a comment directly.