On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 4:55:09 PM UTC-4, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2015-03-24, Adrian wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 2:19:59 PM UTC-4, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > > Does that help:
> > > :set t_ti= t_te=
> > 
> > Thanks Christian,
> > 
> > No, that just disables saving the terminal prior to (re)entering
> > vim.  I want to switch to the screen prior to (re)entering vim
> > without having to leave vim.  
> > 
> > I.e. I want a command that would switch to the command line
> > without generating a prompt or a 'Press ENTER or type command to
> > continue' message, but would go back to the vim screen when I
> > press any key.
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> 
> I played around a little with these two commands, which sort of
> worked, but also confused vim so that I had to refresh the display
> with ^L after the second one.
> 
>     :call system(">/dev/tty tput rmcup")
>     :call system(">/dev/tty tput smcup")

Hmmm, that's interesting.  I've also found out about the command:

    :silent read -sN 1

Which requires bash, but still works and doesn't add characters to the terminal 
screen.

Now I need to get up to speed with the scripting system to see if I can get 
that command to run and then refresh the screen.


A


> Have you tried using tmux or screen?  Tmux will let you run vim in
> one screen and a shell in another and easily switch back and forth
> between the two.  That's not what you asked for, but may be close
> enough to meet your needs.

Yeah, I've thought of using those, but 

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