[linsomniac]

I like being able to have a vim window that has a terminal in it, there are some cases where I just prefer to have it in my terminal environment rather than switching to another real window. Mostly this is for things where I want to be in the same directory as my editor to run greps through my source, etc...

It's also nice sometimes to do something and then be able to search through the history with "/". At times I've then gone back and cut and pasted between the terminal output and a document I was working on, rather than using my window manager cut and paste.

I was, however, fairly surprised that I could no longer ":sh" out to run something. Had to get used to ":term" or ":spl term://bash".

[espadrine]

> I was, however, fairly surprised that I could no longer ":sh" out to run something

Honestly, :sh always felt weird in vim.

Either you are in a terminal, and Ctrl-Z is a much better experience, since you maintain your existing session.

Or you are in the GUI, and the terminal emulation is poor and slow.