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Why did it take VIM so long to get this? Emacs has this feature for 30 years or so.

• pasabagi 8y ago
  It's a very emacsy idea. I think, for better or worse, vim is centered around the goal of making a better editor. Emacs is centered around making a portable universe. To be honest, I don't really like having a 'terminal' in vim. It makes more sense to just use the terminal, which is like, right there, one ctrl-z away.
  • kjeetgill 8y ago
    I don't like Neovim's terminal mode because I need a terminal. I'm also a religious ctrl-z user. I use it when I want to be able to yy stuff out of the scrollback to use in the split with my code like parts of a live repl session or the output from curl.
    • pasabagi 8y ago
      That does sound nice.
    • JdeBP 8y ago
      Have you tried setting syntax=sh and turning on syntax colouring in the terminal, yet?
• rjkennedy98 8y ago
  Tmux solves that problem and most power vim users use tmux
• qu4z-2 8y ago
  vim used to have this listed in :help design-not - Vim is not a shell or an Operating System. You will not be able to run a shell inside Vim or use it to control a debugger. This should work the other way around: Use Vim as a component from a shell or in an IDE. A satirical way to say this: "Unlike Emacs, Vim does not attempt to include everything but the kitchen sink, but some people say that you can clean one with it. ;-)" In summary, it took it so long to get it because it explicitly goes against the original design (and I kind of think it was the right choice. Emacs already exists).