Vim/urxvt sessions

I use xmonad, urxvt, and vim for development, but there is no session saving such as in geany or kate. Is there any way I can open a project one file at a time, save a session, reboot, and then open the same session with a few commands and not one (file) by one? I'm perfectly fine with any level of hackishness .

Lexion wrote:I use xmonad, urxvt, and vim for development, but there is no session saving such as in geany or kate. Is there any way I can open a project one file at a time, save a session, reboot, and then open the same session with a few commands and not one (file) by one? I'm perfectly fine with any level of hackishness .
Do an initial
:mksession
and save the file (usually "Session.vim") at some suiting place.
To save later editing sessions I did set up a keybinding for this in my .vimrc:
" --- Define a session save shortcut ---
:map <C-F12> :wa<Bar>exe "mksession! " . v:this_session<CR>
Afterwards reopen the session with
vim -S <where-your-Session-file-was-saved>
Last edited by bernarcher (2009-09-10 07:17:41)

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[SOLVED] Odd colours in vim/urxvt

So I'm using the base16 colourset in my Xresources and something really strange seems to be happening. The colours being used by vim to perform syntax highlighting are just wrong. As in, there are colours being used that aren't even specified in my Xresources file.
Periodically, like 1 out of 50 calls to vim they will look "correct".
$TERM is rxvt-unicode-256colors
Nothing to do with colours or colour schemes in my .vimrc.
Can anyone tell me what's going on here?
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Last edited by Vixus (2012-11-05 15:43:23)

doug piston wrote:Well to my knowledge (Someone correct me if I am wrong), Vim doesn't look at your .Xresources by default. You can make it do such a thing but using the a colorscheme is still a better option. Just install the colorscheme, I do not see why you don't want to...
Sorry, I may not have explained clearly, but I did try and install the base16 colorscheme for vim, following all the steps that the author provided. However there were some steps involving running bash scripts that just didn't work, most likely why the colorscheme didn't work.
Thanoulis wrote:1) Vim always uses a colorscheme, even if not present in .vimrc. In that case it uses :colorscheme default.
This I did not know. Thanks for telling me. In that case I guess there are bugs in the base16 colourscheme for vim (as a lot of comments on the repository seem to suggest).
2) In Xresources, we define the terminal's color palette, not vim's colorscheme. My guess is that you use a different color palette for urxvt and xterm (hence the differences in vim colors)
I don't, since I only have one Xresources file that presumably applies to both terminal emulators.
3) The weird looks from your ssh session, is because in the host machine there is not a valid terminfo file. Usually its fixed by installing the same type of terminal emulator in both machines.
Ugh, really? I never thought that was necessary... can I fake this in any way? I don't have sudo access to any of the work machines I ssh into.
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As I understand it, to use the system clipboard you have the choice of the selection or the cut buffer that are accessed through vim's * and + registers.
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[SOLVED] custom terminal (urxvt) settings with vim

Hi all,
I want to run vim in a terminal (urxvt) session with XRESOURCES settings different than the default, located at ~/.Xresources.
I'm doing this because when I run vim I want different font settings as well as some other urxvt settings
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Last edited by beitme (2013-09-05 04:08:45)

You can also just have a different class specifier in your Xresources file, so you'd have settings for URxvt*<option>: setting, and urxvt-vim.<option>: setting. Then call as "urxvt -name urxvt-vim -e vim" and it will take all the urxvt-vim settings from Xresources.
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[SOLVED] Vim : cterm=italic doesn't work

I tried to change the colorscheme in Vim to have comments in italic like this :
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Last edited by Pascal C.Plusplus (2012-10-30 18:59:45)

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Urxvt, xterm, vim, and gnu screen.

To make this simple: all i want is 256 color support in one terminal, that will give 256 color support in vim, gnu screen, and not screw up shells i ssh into. If I could get this working in xterm alone consider this solved.
The more I try to fix my problem it seems the more complicated it gets. What I want, I thought was simple:
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Urxvt
$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color
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set smartcase
set incsearch
set hlsearch
let g:netrw_http_cmd = "wget -q -O"
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screen-256color-bce
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Xterm
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xterm
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in xterm, Gnu Screen
echo $TERM
screen-256color-bce ( I do not see in any file where this option is defined)
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Vim in Gnu Screen in Xterm displays 256 colors properly.
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term screen-256color
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hardstatus alwayslastline "%{= kW} %-= %{= kC}Session:%u%{= kW} %5` | %{= kC}Host:%{= kW} %H | %1` |%{= kC} MEM:%{= kW} %2`MB /%{= kC} SW: %{= kW}%3`MB | %4` %{= kR}Unread %{= kW}| %m/%d %c"
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backtick 2 60 60 /home/username/bin/get_freemem
backtick 3 60 60 /home/username/bin/get_freeswap
backtick 4 60 60 /home/username/bin/get_gmail
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screen -t shell 2 bash
screen -t shell 3 bash
screen -t shell 4 bash
screen -t shell 5 bash
screen -t shell 6 bash
screen -t shell 7 bash
screen -t irc 8 irssi
screen -t home 9 bash
select 1
here is my .Xdefaults
!XTerm*font: -*-terminal-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-
XTerm*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8
xterm*faceName: Mono
xterm*faceSize: 8
XTerm*background: #191919
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*pointerColor: white
XTerm*pointerColorBackground: black
XTerm*cursorColor: white
!XTerm*internalBorder: 3
XTerm*loginShell: true
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*scrollKey: true
XTerm*saveLines: 1000
XTerm*multiClickTime: 250
XTerm*boldColors: false
xterm*title: xterm
xterm*geometry: 160x25
! Black
XTerm*color0: #262626
XTerm*color8: #252525
! Red
XTerm*color1: #C12121
XTerm*color9: #E50E0E
! Green
XTerm*color2: #597b20
XTerm*color10: #89b83f
! Yellow
XTerm*color3: #Ded838
XTerm*color11: #efef60
! Blue
XTerm*color4: #265997
XTerm*color12: #3F6FD0
! Magenta
XTerm*color5: #706c9a
XTerm*color13: #826ab1
! Cyan
XTerm*color6: #69a2b0
XTerm*color14: #a1cdcd
! White
XTerm*color7: #BBBBBB
XTerm*color15: #EEEEEF
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URxvt*urlLauncher: /usr/bin/firefox
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URxvt.matcher.button: 2
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher
URxvt*saveLines: 4000
URxvt*background: #191919
URxvt*secondaryScroll: true
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*geometry: 150x25
URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8
URxvt.xftAntialias: true
URxvt*foreground: white
URxvt*pointerColor: white
URxvt*pointerColorBackground: black
URxvt*cursorColor: white
!URxvt*inheritPixmap: True
!URxvt*shading: 90
!URxvt*tintColor: #999
URxvt*keysym.Home: \033[1~
URxvt*keysym.End: \033[4~
! Black
URxvt*color0: #262626
URxvt*color8: #252525
! Red
URxvt*color1: #C12121
URxvt*color9: #E50E0E
! Green
URxvt*color2: #597b20
URxvt*color10: #89b83f
! Yellow
URxvt*color3: #Ded838
URxvt*color11: #efef60
! Blue
URxvt*color4: #265997
URxvt*color12: #3F6FD0
! Magenta
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URxvt*color13: #826ab1
! Cyan
URxvt*color6: #69a2b0
URxvt*color14: #a1cdcd
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To Fix In Xterm
-Get Vim to display 256 colors without Gnu Screen
To Fix In Urxvt
-Get vim to display any color, but preferably 256 colors in urxvt and urxvt with Gnu Screen. (and yes, it's a 256 capable urxvt)
-Get shells i SSH into to recognize the reported term variable
To Fix In Gnu Screen
-Make it stop reporting the term variable as screen-256color-bce without losing 256 color support as this screws up shells i ssh to.
any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel like a dog chasing its tail b/c when I find a fix to one problem, I end up creating 1-2 more.
Last edited by scv5 (2009-07-31 14:11:31)

I had similar but different issues regarding this. Now, i have 256 color support in whatever terminal/ssh/screen session I'm in.
The relevant config lines:
.Xdefaults:
XTerm*termName: xterm-256color
URxvt*termName: rxvt-256color
.vimrc
" 256 colors only if you can handle it
if $TERM =~ "-256color"
set t_Co=256
colorscheme zenburn
endif
.screenrc
# term
term xterm-256color
# main options
altscreen on
attrcolor b ".I"
defbce "on"
# some termcaps
termcapinfo xterm-256color 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
termcapinfo rxvt-256color 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
note: this setup caused an issue where background colors in mutt/htop inside screen did not extend passed the line's text. i had to solve that via this workaround.
Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-07-31 21:28:55)

[SOLVED] Open file in current Vim session

Hello,
I'm wondering if it's possible to send a file to Vim and have it opened in a new tab within a currently running session/instance. I'm using the Awesome WM and I'd ultimately like to have the Ranger file manager running in one tag and have it send opened files to a master Vim session running in another tag.
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Last edited by rennis250 (2010-10-27 22:35:57)

Ah, I was aware of the gVim command and was looking for a terminal implementation. Thanks, fellas! It looks like --remote-tab-silent will fit into my work flow nicely.
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Urxvt and vim bothering

I'm trying desperately to make urxvt show some nice colors AND use my vim color scheme (gentooish) !
But no matter what I do I cant have both !
I want to use urxvt because i like the tabmode, but somehow it breaks my vim theme !
I know this issue has been brougth here in this forum, and I've read all of them, but I cant find a solution that works properly with my setup.
Help is needed !!

Thanks for replying
Could you be more specific please ?
My .Xdefaults looks like this
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URxvt*background: #191919
URxvt*colorBD: #EEEEEF
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URxvt*color0: #404040
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URxvt*color9: #E50E0E
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[Solved] Urxvt, vim and ctrl + arrow keys

I just switched to rxvt-unicode - mostly because of its ability to set the WM_CLASS variable (Xfce's terminal, my previous terminal application, was unable to do so, and I was tired of dragging all my apps to the virtual desktop I wanted to have them on). So far so good, but I bumped into a problem I knew from a previous encounter with urxvt: it maps ctrl+left/right differently than xterm (and Xfce's terminal), and I can't jump words in Vi anymore.
I have been trying to map them in my ~/.virc to reproduce the behaviour, but that's not working (and I'm clueless why). This is the excerpt from .virc:
map ^[Oc W
map ^[Od B
map! ^[Oc ^[Wa
map! ^[Od ^[Ba
Ctrl+Left generates ^[Od, Ctrl+Right generates ^[Oc. Vi will put itself in insert mode (if it isn't already) when i press those combinations and insert a d or c, depending on the combination pressed, but no jumping words.
Does someone know what I'm doing wrong?

@ davvil & hbekel: Awesome, I'll try that when I get back home and report .
skottish wrote:
The solution that RedHat uses is to modify /etc/inputrc. I assume that means that ~/.inputrc can be used also. These are the two lines that they added in the rxvt section for Ctrl <Right, Left>:
"\eOc": forward-word
"\eOd": backward-word
Skottish, I already have those in my ~/.inputrc. The thing is, I understood /etc/inputrc and ~/.inputrc are used by readline and apps using it, but vim is not one of them. Those sequences make Ctrl+Right/Left work like in xterm and similar terminals (Xfce's terminal e.g.) - you can jump words - but Vim won't pick it up, since it doesn't use readline.

[solved] Vim: console and urxvt have different colors

Well, as you can see, vim in console (vc/1) and in urxvt has different colors:
I'd like to have the same colors of console in urxvt (and not the opposite), is there a way?
I don't know from where the colors of urxvt come from. That blue with which is written '#include' and that green/cyan with which is written 'int' aren't even in my .Xdefaults.
TIA
Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2009-03-08 12:17:16)

andre.ramaciotti wrote:Is there a way to trick vim so it thinks that urxvt is only 16-colours capable? A $parameter or an option I can set in .vimrc?
set t_Co=16

Urxvt - transparency - vim ? - SOLVED-

I'm runnung urxvt with real transparency by putting this in my .Xdefaults:
URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*background: rgba:2121/2121/2121/aaaa
vim gives me error codes when I try to run it in a transparent terminal:
BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Vim: Got X error
Vim: Finished
If I run Vim -X I can get it to work, but then I lose the nice X stuff like buffer copying with the middle mouse button.
I've looked around, but can't find anyone having or addressing this problem? Any ideas from urxvt users out there?
Thanks
tdphys
SOLVED
Gah...
I didn't have URxvt at the beginning of the two lines in my .Xdefaults. How embarrasing since i added them for the initial posting. Goes to show, dumb mistakes are only solved after posting to the forum.
Sigh...
Last edited by tdphys (2008-09-04 19:22:44)

Quick update: I was thinking about this - the wiki post can only be mentioning pseudo transparency ("non-standard wallpaper setters"), so it wouldn't apply to this situation (true transparency via compiz). After a little searching, I found this :
It seems the newest version has the copy-background-to-pixmap method overriding true transparency if that is set by the resources. That's the opposite of the way it used to be, but otherwise works. I just had to remove the other background settings, such as .inheritPixmap and .tintColor, and it works again.
So I commented out those resources in my ~/.Xdefaults ... and it works!
So, really solved.

[solved] Transparent vim in pseudo-transp. urxvt?

Hi,
currently I'm using pseudo-transparency in rxvt-unicode-256color.
Can I have this transparency in vim too? When I start vim the background is set to black.
My .Xdefaults:
URxvt.saveLines: 1000
URxvt.scrollBar: false
urxvt*depth: 24
urxvt*shading: 80
URxvt.inheritPixmap: true
URxvt.secondaryScroll: true
URxvt.foreground: white
URxvt.font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=12
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher
URxvt.urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt.matcher.button: 1
URxvt.matcher.pattern.1: \\bwww\\.[\\w-]\\.[\\w./?&@#-]*[\\w/-]
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Last edited by Barghest (2009-05-03 17:15:00)

Barghest wrote:
Thanks bluewind,
I found out that the reason was this line:
call <SID>X("Normal", "cccccc", "000000", "")
I commented it out and added a new line with ctermbg=NONE.
I guess I could have entered NONE also in the other line? What does it stand for?
It's a function to set colors. (search for "fun <SID>X" in the file to see what it does)
call <SID>X("Normal", "cccccc", "NONE", "")
should also remove the background.

Urxvt + vim arrow keys in insert mode problem

There's this annoying problem I've been experiencing for a while now that I haven't been able to fix.
I'm running urxvt-unicode-256color as my terminal emulator. When I'm using vim in insert mode, accidentally hitting the arrow keys inserts A B C D or into the file. I don't use the arrows keys, but accidentally hitting them can get really annoying. I've read all sorts of ways to resolve this and none of the seem to work. The only way I was able to get around this was to set $TERM to be xterm, but that seems like a weird fix for this.
Is there another way of solving this?

nan wrote:
karol wrote:
nan wrote:Is there another way of solving this?
Map the keys in vim to something useful or to nothing at all.
BTW, I have the same setup and my cursor keys result in movement like hjkl, so:
- check if you're using vim and not vi,
- change your settings in .vimrc.
I've already mapped the keys to do nothing. But it doesn't seem to work. I'm using map and imap, I've also use set t_ku, etc.
How do I check if I'm using vim as opposed to vi? I've already installed the vim package.
I have set nocompatible in my .vimrc but it doesn't seem to do anything.
Mr.Elendig wrote:set your TERM to rxvt-256color, make sure vim is not in compatible mode (and that you are actually using vim and not vi)
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Set it to 'rxvt-256color'

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