Slightly relevant: if you find yourself in vim and don't have tmux/are too lazy to open another SSH connection, you can use ":sh" to drop to a shell. So for th

Slightly relevant: if you find yourself in vim and don't have tmux/are too lazy to open another SSH connection, you can use ":sh" to drop to a shell. So for the nginx edit conf/restart server scenario you would: # vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf <make changes> :sh # drop to a shell # nginx -t # check config, let's assume it failed due to a missing "}" # exit # go back to vim <make changes> :sh # nginx -t && nginx -s reload # config check passed # exit # back to vim :q # exit vim #