On 12/11/12 16:53, Ben Fritz wrote: [...]
My mistake. I've never heard of a feature that works in a terminal but not in gvim. Are there other features that rely on the terminal to work and therefore don't work in gvim? This is the first I've seen.
The only other one that I can think of is invoking (by :! or system() or :shell etc.) an external program which uses curses or ANSI escapes to move the cursor all about the screen. The "terminal" which gvim passes to external programs is a "dumb" one, and by that I mean, something that works as a teletypewriter used to: you can write on successive positions on a line from the left margin to wherever it is that you end the line, and then the paper moves to the next line, but you can never move leftwards on the current line, nor to a line higher up than the current one.
In Console mode, the underlying terminal is still there, it usually supports curses or at least ANSI, and it is used for :! system() and :shell, so you can invoke a "full-screen" external console program.
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