When you're working with a computer, you are in a some kind of a box by definition. >interacting with the terminal requires either a dedicated plugin or openin

When you're working with a computer, you are in a some kind of a box by definition. >interacting with the terminal requires either a dedicated plugin or opening another nested terminal emulator This is not true, you can run any terminal command in vim's command mode like :!git show HEAD, you can autocomplete it, pipe output where you need it etc without ever getting away from the file you're currently editing. You can also use % to substitute the current open file path in the command like :!git add %