Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have been using Gvim for quite sometime and I like it very much.
There is a problem I am facing with Gvim.
I type “shell” and go to the command line, When I press the up arrow I get some weird
symbols and I am not able to use backspace also.
The version which I am using.
VIM – Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Mar 19 2009 15:27:51)
Sadly the reason this is not working is because gvim is an editor, not a terminal emulator. When yoy type :shell in gvim, you do not actually get a shell, you get some weak shell emulation. I say ‘weak’ because that shell emulation does not know how to deal with color codes, clear the screen or much else.
I stick to terminal vim, that way I can either use :shell, or, as is much more common, ^Z to just drop back into my shell to do something ( ^Z == suspend ) That, plus gnu-screen, plus a good shell is all the IDE I want.