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+title: Strategies to use a terminal alongside (Neo)Vim
+date: "2021-02-23"
+---
+
+One thing that bothered me about vim for a long time, was the lack of a terminal
+directly in your editor. If I'm not using Vim, I'm most definetely using VSCode
+and its built-in Terminal. After searching the webs for possible solutions, I
+came across a couple of strategies to achive this.
+
+## Executing single commands
+
+If you just want to issue a single command without spawning an entire shell,
+you can just use the `:!` command:
+
+```
+:! printf "Hello Sailor"
+```
+
+## Vims builtin terminal
+
+I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this, but Vim ships with a builtin
+terminal! Executing `:term` will spawn it in your current buffer. How you 
+integrate it in your workflow is up to you. You could use tabs or open a 
+horizontal buffer and spawn it there. I must say that it is rather clunky to
+use, since its literally a Vim buffer that forwards stdin and stdout to the
+buffer, but it's there for you to use.
+
+## Vim x Tmux
+
+Another great alternative is to set up Tmux with two windows, one for Vim and 
+one for your terminal, and switch between them. This works great on a minimal
+system, but on MacOS for example, it is easier to simply use cmd+1 and cmd+2 to
+switch between two tabs of the Terminal application.
+
+## Pausing and resuming Vim
+
+This one is my personal favorite. The idea comes from
+[this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1258318/9046809) stackoverflow answer.
+
+The plan is to pause the Vim process and resume it later. To pause Vim, you 
+press `<ctrl>-z`. This sends the process in the background. Then, to resume the
+process, simply issue the `fg` command and Vims process resumes in the 
+foreground.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+I'm sure there are many more strategies that could be added to this list. I'd be
+interested to hear how your setup works! If you liked these techniques, you 
+might be interested in 
+[@lopeztel](https://fosstodon.org/web/accounts/211905)s 
+[cheat sheet](https://lopeztel.xyz/2021/02/21/my-neovim-cheatsheet/) for Vim.
+
+
+
+
+This is post 014 of [#100DaysToOffload](https://100daystooffload.com/).