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Serious question: why not just open another terminal?

• AdamGibbins 6y ago
  The integration is nice, it behaves as a normal buffer. So you can use all the standard modes and motions, splits, copy output to another buffer easier etc.
  • garmaine 6y ago
    But modern terminals can do all that, with an editing mode that is tailored to terminal use rather than editing text. Sorry I just don't understand why I'd want to use a text editor as my command line.
    • AdamGibbins 6y ago
      They can't though, a modern terminal cannot behave as a vim buffer. You can't have 25% of your terminal as a shell and the other 75% vim, they can't split like that. I'm not aware of any terminal that allows integration with vim registers or use vim motions.
• renewiltord 6y ago
  You can use it as a normal buffer. Run command, switch to visual, go copy and paste. Way nicer than `:r !command`.