Terminal Inside Vim

:terminal opens a real shell — usable with Vim navigation.

Keys: :term

:terminal (or :term) opens a buffer running an interactive shell. You can switch to normal mode inside the terminal to scroll back, search, and yank with normal Vim motions.

:terminal (or :term) opens a real interactive shell inside a Vim buffer. It's a buffer like any other — split it, switch to it, yank from it.

Action How
Open a terminal :terminal
Open in horizontal split :term
Open in vertical split :vert term
Run a one-shot command :term make
Switch to normal mode in terminal Ctrl-WN
Back to interactive insert mode i or a
Send keystrokes from normal mode Ctrl-W"{reg} pastes register

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See also: Shell Commands (:!), Creating Splits