You actually don't have to put ! In front of make. Vim has makefile integration. If all you're doing is typing make, you can do :make. For a custom build comman

You actually don't have to put ! In front of make. Vim has makefile integration. If all you're doing is typing make, you can do :make. For a custom build command, you can set the variable makeprg, and :make will execute that instead. On my phone so it's hard to type examples, this blog post gives more info: https://jbernard.io/2011/09/30/vim-makeprg.html https://jbernard.io/2011/09/30/vim-makeprg.html