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| author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2018-04-05 22:15:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2018-04-05 22:15:22 +0200 |
| commit | 9a993e3c09371bb80d71be62fca53cf954a98f72 (patch) | |
| tree | e16064177b3a1351cbd0efd97b9904ec8caf772e /runtime | |
| parent | 3aa67fb453373109132b71eeb488595d651dfb7d (diff) | |
| download | vim-git-9a993e3c09371bb80d71be62fca53cf954a98f72.tar.gz | |
patch 8.0.1665: when running a terminal from the GUI 'term' is not usefulv8.0.1665
Problem: When running a terminal from the GUI 'term' is not useful.
Solution: Use $TERM in the GUI if it starts with "xterm". (closes #2776)
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/terminal.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/terminal.txt b/runtime/doc/terminal.txt index f575c82d1..8dc19cbf6 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/terminal.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/terminal.txt @@ -352,7 +352,9 @@ On Unix a pty is used to make it possible to run all kinds of commands. You can even run Vim in the terminal! That's used for debugging, see below. Environment variables are used to pass information to the running job: - TERM name of the terminal, from the 'term' option + TERM the name of the terminal, from the 'term' option or + $TERM in the GUI; falls back to "xterm" if it does not + start with "xterm" ROWS number of rows in the terminal initially LINES same as ROWS COLUMNS number of columns in the terminal initially |