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layout: post
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title: "A terminal in your editor in your terminal"
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tags:
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- vim
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---
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I discovered today that since version 8.1, Vim apparently supports spawning a
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terminal from within the Vim editor. This is a handy little feature that could
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make life easier for checking documentation, running tests, and so on.
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From [box.matto.nl](https://box.matto.nl/):
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> With ":terminal" you open a terminal in the current
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> window.
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>
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> To create a vertical split, with a terminal in the
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> newly opened window, use ":vertical terminal".
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>
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> With some easy Vim scripting you can open the
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> external URL that is under the cursor with the
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> awesome textmode browser w3m in a Vim terminal. I
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> liked to have that in a vertical split.
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I have modified their function slightly to open horizontal, and automatically close the terminal when the `w3m` command exits:
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```vim
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function s:vertopen_url()
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normal! "uyiW
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let mycommand = "w3m " . @u
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execute "terminal++close " . mycommand
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endfunction
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```
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I have utilized the use of `tmux` and its builtin `send-keys` commands to send
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interactions between terminals in my development environment. Scripting and
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integrating with a terminal from Vim is a different twist on the same use-case.
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I have only started to play with this functionality, but I'm interested to see
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what I can improve with `:terminal`.
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