Vim:Terminal

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Vim:Terminal covers the terminal emulator built into Vim and Neovim. The :terminal command opens a shell inside a buffer so you can run commands without leaving the editor, and terminal output can be searched and copied like a normal buffer. Neovim introduced it first, based on libvterm, and a similar feature was added in Vim 8.1.

See also

• Vim

Favorite site

• Nvim documentation: nvim_terminal_emulator