opening file in horizontal split with CtrlP in Terminal vim

[chadoh]

Howdy, all. All-in-all, I love Janus and am a big proponent of it. Thank you for all of the work you do!

I was wondering if anyone else was seeing this behavior, or if it might be something related to my local setup. In MacVim, using CtrlP and then using <c-cr> to open in a new horizontal split works great. When in Terminal vim, however, it does not. However, <c-v> to open in a new vertical split still works.

This is an annoying problem. I love splits; they're a big reason I came back to vim after a month of dicking around with sublime. And I'm really enjoying tmux. So I'd like to keep my one-app dev environment if possible, and just get horizontal splits working optimally.

[Dan Neumann]

I just googled this question and landed here. I can live with having to enter `:sp` to manually split, moving to that split, and invoking ctrl-p.

Another option could be to map the capitalized version of your ctrl-p to do that for you.

For instance, I use ",t" to call ctrl-p. So I could do: :map ,T :sp<cr><c-w>j,t

:sp - create horizontal split
<cr> - enter
<c-w>j - move to that new split
,t - invoke ctrl-p

Oh well!

[Jeroen De Vlieger]

A file can be opened in a horizontal split  by pressing <c-x>, <c-cr> or <c-s> as mentioned by the help file of ctrlp

Opening/Creating a file:~

  <cr>

    Open the selected file in the 'current' window if possible.

  <c-t>

    Open the selected file in a new 'tab'.

  <c-v>

    Open the selected file in a 'vertical' split.

  <c-x>,

  <c-cr>,

  <c-s>

    Open the selected file in a 'horizontal' split.

  <c-y>

    Create a new file and its parent directories.

[Chad Ostrowski]

In MacVim that works fine. In iTerm or Terminal vim, it does not. <c-s> does nothing, <c-cr> does the same thing as <cr>, and hey wouldn't you know it <c-x> does actually work. So I can use that. But is this not the behavior you see?

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[Jeroen De Vlieger]

Heh, I have never notices it because I consistently use <c-x> but <c-cr> and <c-s> also don't work for me in the terminal vim. All three options do work in gvim though. Weird

Jeroen

[Chad Ostrowski]

In Dvorak, X is way over where B is in Qwerty, so it's not the most comfortable of mappings for me. But I'm glad to have an easy way to make horizontal splits again, regardless.

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[chadoh]

My compatriot Brandon Hilkert helped me out:

Ctrl-S is used for control flow in terminal app.

Run this in the console or add to your .bashrc to disable it, which frees up <c-s> to be used by vim.

stty -ixon -ixoff 

references:

https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim/issues/359

http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Disabling-terminal-flow-control-in-Vim-td1169027.html

http://dallarosa.tumblr.com/post/31333511717/commandt-and-ctrl-s-on-mac-os-x