How can I open a Shell inside a Vim Window?
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?
Neovim and Vim 8.2
support this natively via the :ter[minal]
command.
See terminal-window
in the docs for details.
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.
: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
.
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.