How to temporarily exit Vim and go back

Question

How could I exit Vim  not  q  and then go back to continue editing

User · Answer

You can also do that by  sus to fall into shell and back by fg

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If you are on a Unix system  Ctrl   Z will suspend Vim and give you a shell   Type fg to go back  Note that Vim creates a swap file while editing  and suspending Vim wouldn t delete that file  you aren t exiting Vim after all   On dumb terminals  this method was pretty standard for edit-compile-edit cycles using vi  I just found out that for me  gVim minimizes on typing Z

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If you re using Neovim  you can do the following     terminal command to bring up a terminal window   Do your terminal stuff Type exit to kill the terminal process Press any key to return to Neovim

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Assuming terminal Vim on a flavor of  nix   To suspend your running Vim  Ctrl   Z  will suspend the process and get back to your shell  fg   will resume  bring to foreground  your suspended Vim   To start a new shell  Start a subshell using    sh    as configured by    set shell    or    bash   followed by   Ctrl D  or exit  but why type so much    to kill the shell and return to Vim

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You can switch to shell mode temporarily by       lt command gt    such as     ls

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Just put in fg and go back to your most recently suspended program

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You can use  sh to exit to your default shell then typing   exit at the shell prompt will return you to Vim

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To extend user Zen s answer  you could add the following line in your    vimrc file to allow quick toggling between Bash and Vim   noremap  lt C-d gt   sh lt cr gt

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There are several ways to exit Vim and have everything  the same when you return  There is very good documentation within Vim itself explaining the various ways this can be done  You can use the following command within vim to access the relevant help page   help usr 21  To give you a brief summary  here are the different methods of quitting and returning with your session intact    Suspend and resume - You don t actually quit Vim with this  you simply hide your session in the background until you need it  If you reset your computer or issue a kill command to Vim  you will lose your session  This is good for when you want to switch to another task temporarily  but if this is the case  then you might want to look into using the GNU Screen utility instead  Sessions - This is the true way of saving your session between instances of Vim  Even if you truly quit Vim  your session will be there for you when you return  This is probably what you are looking for

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If you don t mind using your mouse a little bit    Start your terminal  select a file  select Open Tab    This creates a new tab on the terminal which you can run Vim on  Now use your mouse to shift to from the terminal  I prefer this instead of always having to type   shell and exit

[vim] How to temporarily exit Vim and go back

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