On Tuesday 09 June 2009 4:52 pm, Matt Wozniski wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Florian Breitwieser wrote:
> > Thanks for the fast answers. I reread the :help xterm-screens. As I
> > understand it, xterm|rxvt has a main and alternate screen. If your terminal
> > supports it, and you want that, you can switch to the alternate screen for
> > vim, so after exiting the main one is restored.
>
> Right.
>
> > My request is different. I want, after exiting, the main screen restored and
> > vim to behave similar to cat: The previous shell commands are visible, the
> > [file content visible when exiting vim] is just appended. Benefit: No
> > anoying tilde lines.
>
> That's not possible. Vim takes control of a full xterm screen -
> either the main screen or the altscreen. When it exits, it leaves a
> full screenful of data on whichever of those screens it was drawing
> on. It won't ever leave less than one screenful of data. As a
> *horrific* hack, you can trick vim into thinking that the screen is
> smaller than it really is... I would never actually do this, since I
> would be in no way shocked if this breaks horribly somewhere, but...
> this does what you want given some very limited testing:
>
> function! HopefullyDontBreakEverything()
> " Do nothing if vim is dying from a signal.
> if !v:dying
> " Remove all other windows
> only
> " Remove any ~ lines
> let &lines = min([ line("$"), &lines])
> " Remove the status line
> set laststatus=0
> " Force vim to redraw the screen
> redraw!
> endif
> endfunction
>
> autocmd VimLeave * call HopefullyDontBreakEverything()
>
> but I really don't think it's a very good idea at all...
gee whiz -- if it's really such a problem seeing the tildes, why
not stack a clear along with the vim command, as in
$ vim filetoedit;clear
and when you exit vim the clear will trigger
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