How to open a vim terminal in the full area of the vim buffer?

Question

I really like the built-in :terminal in recent vim versions. I have one pain point though: sometimes (often?), I would like the terminal to take the full vim window size. However, usually, using :terminal only uses a partial split on half the vim window size, even if I start from an empty buffer. From an empty buffer, using ctrl-w o maximizes.

Any way to open at once into a "full size split" that takes the full vim buffer, instead of needing the extra ctrl-w o step?

Answer 1

You can do :tab terminal to open a terminal window in a new tab page.

You can do :terminal ++curwin to open a terminal in the current window.