I'm using screen (I've seen it commonly referred to as GNU screen, though I'm not using GNU) in gnome-terminal in Ubuntu, and I love it. I like to use the vertical split so I can have a side-by-side view of two things.
Only problem is that if I use the mouse to select text on one side of the vertical split, it selects the text on both sides. This means I can't effectively copy and paste text from terminal while using a vertical split in screen.
Is there a way to overcome this problem? If there is a mouse-less solution, that would be even better.
Thanks! : D
I found the answer to my question in this Super User section:
Copy-paste with GNU Screen with vertically-split windows on OS X
Ctrl+Shift and the cursor can be used to select text in just one of the vertical splits.
Hope this helps someone!
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I have started to use tmux and noticed that the lines that seperate the different panes are not entirely straight, instead there are small bumps. I think it might have something to do with the font, my thought is that characters from one "character-field" are overlapping into the next, which creates the little bumps. Does anyone know how I can fix this and get a straight line without bumps?
The font I use: Menlo
example of the bumpy lines
The problem was actually the terminal emulator I used, Alacritty, which lets some characters reach outside of their cell. To solve this issue, I switched to Kitty, which has better support for preventing characters from overflowing into other cells.
Im not sure how to express it so I posted a picture in link below.
It should look like this
Just enter the text on 3 lines like so:
MORE
AT
THE HALL
Then adjust the point sizes, leading, kearning, etc. to create the aesthetic you want.
In this case line 1 and 3 could have full justification.
You can use scaling of the text(as shown in the character panel in attached snapshot) because changing font size also moves the baseline and causes the text to shift downward.
These attributes are also exposed via scripting.
Does anybody know where this line and the grey area to the right of it comes from?
If it's just a bug, feel free to close this question!
That line is there to give you an impression on how long your lines should be. It's good practice to keep your code within a certain width, so its readable on different resolutions.
That is the Page Guide.
You can disable it here...
By unchecking this...
You can also change the distance that it shows.
It's there to show where your code would wrap on a standard 80 character width terminal.
In this screenshot of my vimrc settings, I have installed the plugin vim-airline using vundle. After going through airlines docs, I found the set of lines to customise my airline.
The problem is the ones highlighted in red. The blue highlighted one works fine but the red one does not. The left one is same as right one. I tried using different Unicode symbols but does not work. Any workaround to this situation as this is troubling my OCD :P.
Thanks in advance.
This is a well-known issue related to the font (size and family) used in your terminal.
For a better display, you have two solutions:
Do not use arrows as separators
Configure your terminal emulator to use a patched font with the right size
If you prefer the first solution, make sure you have this code in your .vimrc:
let g:airline_right_sep = ""
let g:airline_left_sep = ""
If you prefer the other solution, take a look at this: https://github.com/powerline/fonts
I have used the Hack font with size 11 for a long time and the arrows are perfectly displayed in my editor...
I use vim to edit text files. My screen is too wide and it's cumbersome to always look near left border of screen when editing. If you open a document in MS Office, the page is "centered" instead of left-aligned, and has non-active area borders on RHS and LHS. How do I get similar behavior from vim?
Here are a couple approaches that won't work too well:
First, if you read VIM: Show a 3 character border on left of window or MacVim: how do I set a left gutter (margin) for my buffers?, you might try this:
:set foldcolumn=50
This won't work, because the maximum value of foldcolumn is limited to 12.
Second, if you read How to create a border between the line numbers and text in Vim, you might try using numberwidth instead of foldcolumn:
:set numberwidth=50
But this won't work either, because the maximum value of numberwidth is limited to 10.
The best approach that will work, as far as I've been able to find, is https://superuser.com/q/537584/376367. See that question's answer for more details, but the summary is: create two vertical splits, and edit your file in the middle. If the vertical divider lines and tildes bother you, you could hide them with:
:highlight VertSplit guifg=bg guibg=bg
:highlight NonText guifg=bg
Caution: if you use listchars, they also use NonText highlighting and will also be hidden by this trick.
A plugin which centers the text and removes distractions for you is Goyo, especially useful in combination with Limelight.