Detaching and reattaching terminals from Vim

[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi all,

Based on the discussion threads in Vim reddit, it looks like users are trying
to use the Vim terminal support as a replacement for screen/tmux.
One of the key features that is currently missing in Vim is the ability
to detach and reattach terminals. I think, this will be a useful feature
to add.

- Yegappan

[Andy Massimino]

Do you mean detaching vim from the parent terminal or detaching vim's
inner :terminal(s)?  There is a small C program
https://github.com/crigler/dtach which handles only the detach feature
of screen/tmux (at least for some subset of linux terminals).  Plausibly
it could be embedded right into vim though I'm not sure if that's
appropriate.

[Bram Moolenaar]

Why not simply use:
:term tmux

and
:term tmux attach


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[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi Bram,

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 12:27 PM Bram Moolenaar <Br...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>
>
> > On 6/5/19 2:58 PM, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Based on the discussion threads in Vim reddit, it looks like users are trying
> > > to use the Vim terminal support as a replacement for screen/tmux.
> > > One of the key features that is currently missing in Vim is the ability
> > > to detach and reattach terminals. I think, this will be a useful feature
> > > to add.
> > >
> > > - Yegappan
> > >
> > Do you mean detaching vim from the parent terminal or detaching vim's
> > inner :terminal(s)? There is a small C program
> > https://github.com/crigler/dtach which handles only the detach feature
> > of screen/tmux (at least for some subset of linux terminals). Plausibly
> > it could be embedded right into vim though I'm not sure if that's
> > appropriate.
>
> Why not simply use:
> :term tmux
>
> and
> :term tmux attach
>

Vim has many of the terminal functionality found in tmux, so it can be
used without tmux. One of the key functionality missing currently is
detaching the terminal and reattaching it later.

Regards,
Yegappan