How can I open a Shell inside a Vim Window

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I can open a shell by using the  shell command in Vim  however I can t edit a file and at the same time use the shell   Is there any way to split Vim in many Windows  or tabs   and have a shell opened in one of them

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vsp or  sp - splits vim into two instance but you cannot use  shell in only one of them   Why not display another tab of the terminal not another tab of vim  If you like the idea you can try it  Ctrl-shift-t  and move between them with Ctrl - pageup and Ctrl - pagedown  If you want just a few shell commands you can make any shell command in vim using    For example     a out

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With Vim 8 0 or later you can run a terminal emulator in a vim window by using the terminal feature  BTW if you want to simulate modern IDE terminal  like VSCode integrated terminal  in gVim or MacVim  you can put the following configuration in you vimrc  set shell  path to shell   quot  Make sure to replace  sh exe  in BufNr  quot sh exe quot   with your shell executable  nnoremap  lt expr gt   lt space gt  BufNr  quot sh exe quot    gt  0     amp buftype     terminal      lt c-  gt       b    BufNr  quot sh exe quot       lt cr gt        terminal   curwin lt cr gt    function  BufNr pattern    let bufcount   bufnr  quot   quot     let currbufnr   1   let nummatches   0   let firstmatchingbufnr   0   while currbufnr  lt   bufcount     if bufexists currbufnr         let currbufname   bufname currbufnr        if match currbufname  a pattern   gt  -1          let nummatches    1         let firstmatchingbufnr   currbufnr       endif     endif     let currbufnr   currbufnr   1   endwhile   return firstmatchingbufnr endf  Now you can use space in normal mode  or whatever mapping you chosen  to   Open a terminal in current window if terminal doesn t exists yet  Switch to terminal buffer if current buffer is not a terminal type  Switch to previous buffer if current buffer is a terminal buffer

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Shougo s VimShell  which can auto-complete file names if used with neocomplcache

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You may want to open a  screen  program  split screen  open shell on one and vim on another  Works for me

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Not absolutely what you are asking for  but you may be interested by my plugin vim-notebook which allows the user to keep a background process alive and to make it evaluate part of the current document  and to write the output in the document   It is intended to be used on notebook-style documents containing pieces of code to be evaluated

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I am currently using tmux   Installation  sudo apt-get install tmux Run it  tmux  Ctrl   b followed by Ctr       it splits your terminal window in two vertical halves   Ctrl    arrow left   arrow right    moves between terminals

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I guess this is a fairly old question  but now in 2017   We have neovim  which is a fork of vim which adds terminal support   So invoking  term would open a terminal window  The beauty of this solution as opposed to using tmux  a terminal multiplexer  is that you ll have the same window bindings as your vim setup   neovim is compatible with vim  so you can basically copy and paste your  vimrc and it will just work   More advantages are you can switch to normal mode on the opened terminal and you can do basic copy and editing   It is also pretty useful for git commits too I guess  since everything in your buffer you can use in auto-complete   I ll update this answer since vim is also planning to release terminal support  probably in vim 8 1   You can follow the progress here  https   groups google com forum   topic vim dev Q9gUWGCeTXM  Once it s released  I do believe this is a more superior setup than using tmux

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If you haven t found out yet  you can use the amazing screen plugin   Conque is also exceptional but I find screen much more practical  it wont  litter  your buffer for example and you can just send the commands that you really want after editing them in your buffer

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Well it depends on your OS - actually I did not test it on MS Windows - but Conque is one of the best plugins out there   Actually  it can be better  but works

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Neovim and Vim 8 2 support this natively via the  ter minal  command   See terminal-window in the docs for details

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You can use tmux or screen  second is able to do only horizontal splits without a patch  to split your terminal  But I do not know the way to have one instance of Vim in both panes

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