When I'm working with lets say 4 files, all are open in tabs(VIM). I want to save the changes and compile it without having to close the tabs, ie I want to open a terminal in new tab along with the existing 4?
How should I do this in VIM?
:tab ter
opens a terminal in a new tab instead of opening it in a new window as :ter
does. You can also use the equivalent, longer :tab terminal
form.
Credits to user wolloda in this Reddit post .
Extra information
Terminating the shell with Ctrl-d
or exit
closes the terminal buffer.
Ctrl-w
N
or Ctrl-\ Ctrl-n
put the buffer in the terminal-normal mode: Keystrokes are not forwarded to the shell, but are used by Vim as in a normal buffer (although the shell job is still running). Then you can use gt
to change tabs, type Ex commands such as :ls
, etc. To bring the terminal buffer back to life, i
, a
, ...
If you are going to map this, I recommend using :tab ter++kill=hup
, so that when you :qa
the terminal job does not prevent Vim from quitting. And this is the signal normal terminal emulators send to its jobs when closed anyway.
For terminal mode mappings, use tnoremap
, for example
tnoremap <S-Tab> <CW>:tabprevious<CR> tnoremap <CN> <CW>N
More information on :help :terminal
and :help :tab
.
In 2019, vim now has a Terminal mode.
:help terminal
For example, you can use it like this.
# go to terminal-job mode
:terminal
# go to terminal-normal mode
ctrl-w N
# go back to terminal-job mode
i
Vim 8.1 now has a built in terminal that can be opened with the :term command. This provides much more complete integration with the rest of the Vim features.
Original Answer:
I would suggest looking at tmux or screen . I use tmux myself and along with vim-tmux-navigator moving between the terminal and vim is very easy.
A more vim like way of doing this would be to use :make
:make
will execute the 'makeprg'
. It defaults to make
which is great of C projects:make
the quickfix list will be contain any errors.:compiler
command.:make foo-command
%
. eg :make %
:cnext
and :cprev
to move between your errors.:copen
to open up the quickfix list in a window ( :cclose
to close) :cwindow
to open quickfix list window only if there are errors :cnext
and friends. I suggest Tim Pope's unimpaired plugin<cz>
to suspend vim and run your build system. (Cons: loose out on the quickfix list) :!
to compile. (Same cons as suspending) eg :!make
:make
If you are just starting out I would suggest you learn how to use :make
and the quickfix list. There is a nice Vimcast episode that intros the quickfix list: Search multiple files with :vimgrep . Additionally Syntastic is a great way to get up and running with linters quickly.
Vim's tabs are not like most text editors tab. They are more like viewports into a group of windows/splits. Additionally, Vim is buffer centric, not tab centric like most editors. Therefore using features like the quickfix list is often easier without tabs (See :h 'switchbuf
if you must use tabs). Vim's tabs often get in the way of using a splits as there are better window and buffer navigation commands available. I personally have many files open (sometimes 100+) use no tabs and use on average 1-2 splits without any issue. Bottom line: Learn to use buffers effectively .
For more help see the following:
:h :make
:h 'makeprg
:h quickfix
:h :cnext
:h :cope
I was particularly looking for something like this.
Open all the files in tabs. Then switch to terminal mode by ctrl z
, play whatever you want and get back to the tabs mode by typing fg
in terminal.
The highest voted answer uses :tab ter
. This doesn't work on NeoVim (at least for me). However, it's still fairly simple:
:tabe term://bash
tabe
is open a new tab
and e
dit file.
term://
is a NeoVim way of opening a terminal
bash
is the kind of shell you want to use (eg I use zsh, so my command is actually :tabe term://zsh
)
Some helpful commands that I created:
" open terminal
if has('nvim')
command Terminal vsplit term://zsh
command TerminalTab tabe term://zsh
else
command Terminal vert term
command TerminalTab tab ter
endif
Another way
Ctrl-w :
That gets me to the command line, then one can enter tablast tabnext or tabprevious
or the short versions tabl, tabn, tabp
Or this way:
Ctrl-w gt and Ctrl-w gT (Next tab and Previous Tab)
Or Ctrl-w Number gt (for a specific tab)
That works too.
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