Vi only show 16 lines, how to show full screen?

Question

My vim only show 16 lines, using terminator, how can i make it back to full screen? It is very annoying. Don't know what settings has to change.

Solution 1

• You may try resizing your terminal to force vim to recalculate its size;
• You may try quitting your vim session, typing reset and restarting vim;
• Inside vim you may try something like: :set lines=34

Solution 2

Use the following commands to enable the full screen:

export TERM=xterm
stty rows 36 cols 150

Solution 3

I had the same issue in a docker container, I did that:

export set LINES=58

Solution 4

reopen your vim session after entering "resize" command in your linux terminal. It worked for me.

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Comments

[romainl]

Outside of Vim, what is the output of $ echo $LINES and $ echo $TERM?

[Ravindra Bawane]

What does this setting actually do?

[AstraSerg]

This will set fixed number of lines. But auto size is needed.

[KC Baltz]

FYI, the current workaround for this issue in Docker seems to be to resize your window. For some reason, it's not getting the dimensions initially but a change to the window will get passed on.

[p._phidot_]

can you share some examples of the 'resize' commands used?