How do I run a terminal inside of Vim?

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Evan picture Evan · Aug 6, 2009 · Viewed 304.7k times · Source

I am used to Emacs, but I am trying out Vim to see which one I like better.

One thing that I like about Emacs is the ability to run a terminal inside Emacs. Is this possible inside of Vim? I know that you can execute commands from Vim, but I would like to be able to run a terminal inside of a tab.

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Kyle Simek picture Kyle Simek · May 26, 2010

Outdated from August 2011

Check out Conque Shell (also on GitHub). Lets you run any interactive program inside vim, not just a shell.

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