Is it possible to enter mark mode(to mark text in Linux terminal) without mouse. In CMD you can ,alt+space+e+k. Can it be done natively without 3th party programs?
Regardless of your terminal you can enable vi mode for you shell, both bash and zsh support this.
A quick one (without installing third party programs) would be to set -o vi in your shell to enable vi and use the shortcuts
If you don't like it you can always come back to emacs: set -o emacs
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How to open existing vim file from unix shell (bash) in new terminal (not in same/new tab of existing terminal) on local machine ?
Also is there any way to split file on new terminal (not in same/new tab of existing terminal) from inside vim ?
How to open a new terminal is platform dependent; This doesn't really have a whole lot to do with vim itself.
For example, if you're using GNOME you could do this by running gnome-terminal -e "vim $filename" & disown. Look up the documentation for the terminal emulator you're using to find out how to launch a new terminal and execute commands in it.
Another (IMHO much better) solution is to simply use GVim for situations like these, unless you have a very good reason to run vim in the terminal (if you're running this over ssh this won't work anyway, in that case you're better off using a terminal multiplexer like screen or tmux).
PS: bash isn't a terminal (emulator); bash is a shell. If you just run a new instance of bash it'll run in the same terminal, which is not what you want here.
Try this:
vim [your file]
If this isn't working for you, make sure you have it installed with:
sudo apt-get install vim
If you're already IN vim do
:edit [your file]
I'm ssh-ing into a remote machine and when I try to search my history in a linux terminal with reverse-i-search, nothing happens. I press ctrl-r as I usually do on my machine, but the prompt doesn't appear.
Any ideas? How can I check the keybindings for ctrl-r? How do I set them if they aren't set? Do I have to apt-get reverse-i-search functionality?
Thanks!
To use ctrl-r your shell needs to be using readline (or something similar), your history should be collected.
So you should verify your shell for example sh doesn't support this.
You should check it the history is collected. For example with bash shell: echo $HISTFILE
I think these can be the main reasons.
Hopefully with simply entering bash, you can switch to a proper shell which will support this.
When I run the emacs text editor the process does not return so I cannot use the terminal which is obviously the default behavior.
I cannot find the switch or command in the man but I know it is something very simple.
How can I run emacs as a separate process so I can continue to use the terminal without opening a second one?
You can start any program in the background by appending an ampersand to the command, emacs &.
There's a whole framework for working with backgrounded processes, see for example man jobs, disown, fg, bg, and try Ctrl-Z on a running process, which will suspend it and give you the terminal, allowing you to resume that process either in the foreground or background at your pleasure. Normally when your shell closes, all those programs will end, disown allows you to tell a program to keep running after you end your session.
The emacs --help command is giving you a tip:
--batch do not do interactive display; implies -q
So run emacs --batch (or maybe emacs --executesomecommand ).
If you have a desktop (or some X11 display) and want emacs to open an X11 windows and give you back a shell prompt, run it in the background (e.g. emacs &) as many commented.
And I find very useful to start programs (or shells) within emacs, e.g. with Emacs commands: M-x shell, or M-x compile (for make etc...), or M-x gdb for a debugger.
You usually start one single emacs at the beginning of a working day. You could use emacsclient (or set your EDITOR environment variable to it) for other editions using the same emacs.
I'd like to add that Windows does have an equivalent to *nix's & for starting programs in a separate process:
start /b emacs Main.hs
I use IntelliJ for most of my Java programming, but every once in a while I need to make certain changes which are much easier done in VIM.
Thus, the question:
While I'm editing a file in IntelliJ, it is somehow possible to tell IntelliJ to start VIM with the same file that is currently under cursor.
Thanks !!
Absolutely!
Go to File -> Settings -> External Tools and add a new one.
Program and Working Directory fields should be self-explanatory. The parameter field should be $FilePath$. Click the Insert macro button to see more token values that you could use.
You can also bind keyboard shortcuts to the external tools you define.
See the help page on configuring third party tools for more info.
Also, see the answers below with helpful screenshots for Windows or Mac.
Even though the original question is about VIM, I'd like to share my settings for GVIM. Especially useful is the parameter used to take it to the current line.
I find it useful to have Gvim open up the file AND take me to the current line. This is done using the following parameters: +$LineNumber$ $FilePath$.
When executed, Gvim should open up and take you to the line you were at in Intellij.
Here's how to set this up with the Homebrew version of MacVim (i.e. the mvim command) on Intellij IDEA 14.
Go to Preferences->Tools->External Tools and click the plus symbol.
Set up the new tool with these parameters
Program:
/usr/local/bin/mvim
Parameters:
+"silent! "$LineNumber$"|norm! zz" $FilePath$
Working Directory:
$SourcepathEntry$
For macOS 10.12+ users, If you want to open it in iTerm2, here is a latest solution:
#!/bin/sh
vim="vim $1"
osascript -e "
tell application \"iTerm\"
set myterm to (create window with default profile)
tell myterm
activate current session
launch session \"Default Session\"
tell the current session
write text \"$vim\"
end tell
end tell
end tell
"
Date: Apr 5, 2018
iTerm2: 3.1.5
IntelliJ IDEA: 2018.1
https://gist.github.com/backslash112/open_vim_in_iterm.sh
This was somewhat more involved on the Mac OS X (Lion), especially if you'd like to use Terminal.app
The only difference on Linux is the shell script would be much simpler... (really it'd be simple to not even use a shell script for this on Linux, with a terminal that accepts the -e argument!)
Here's my working solution:
#! /bin/sh
vim="vim $1"
osascript -e "tell app \"Terminal\"
activate
do script \"$vim\"
end tell"
I am using these parametrs for launching vim: +$LineNumber$ --remote-tab-silent "$FilePath$". It allows you to open each new file in vim's tabs. Works fine)
Go to Settings -> Tools -> External Tools
Click the + to add a tool.
Here are the settings I use:
Name: Vim
Program: /usr/bin/gvim
Arguments: --servername $ProjectFileDir$ --remote "+call cursor($LineNumber$,$ColumnNumber$)" $FileDir$/$FileName$
Working directory: $ProjectFileDir$
I turn off "Open console for tool output".
The arguments will use Vim in client-server mode, so if you jump to Vim from IntelliJ in the same project dir multiple times, the existing Vim instance will be reused, and they will also place the cursor in Vim exactly where it is in IntelliJ.
Try out the VIM Plugin, http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=164
I have experienced some bugs but for the most part it works.
I have been using Gvim for quite sometime and I like it very much.
There is a problem I am facing with Gvim.
I type "shell" and go to the command line, When I press the up arrow I get some weird
symbols and I am not able to use backspace also.
The version which I am using.
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Mar 19 2009 15:27:51)
Sadly the reason this is not working is because gvim is an editor, not a terminal emulator. When yoy type :shell in gvim, you do not actually get a shell, you get some weak shell emulation. I say 'weak' because that shell emulation does not know how to deal with color codes, clear the screen or much else.
I stick to terminal vim, that way I can either use :shell, or, as is much more common, ^Z to just drop back into my shell to do something ( ^Z == suspend ) That, plus gnu-screen, plus a good shell is all the IDE I want.
Try some wrappers, e.g. Conque Shell : Run interactive commands inside a Vim buffer ;)
vim is not for such complicated things I think. you can do simple shell operation via :! or :shell, However, vim is only a good if not best editor.
What you need can be done in shell-mode of Emacs.