Vim 8.1 Adds Support For Running A Terminal In The Vim Window

[kpedersen]

For windows this is great news. There is no native terminal multiplexer on windows and using ConEmu etc.. as a replacement feels a tad messy, likewise installing Cygwin etc... just for GNU screen or tmux.

On MSDOS I just used DESQview but Windows has simply not had a decent solution. Not to mention no job control or anything like that. The cmd history is also not flexible enough to ignore the " exit" command when going back into vim after a :shell. There is also no "bind" functionality to go back to vim in a key press. This made me wonder if using Vim effectively was even feasible on Windows without plugins.

I used an official build once (I think it was 7.x) that so long as I did not create a vimrc file, would run the :shell session in the same vim windows. This was really nice to use but without editing the vimrc was a tad inflexible for other things.

[starshipeleven]

... and with Vim 8.2, support for emulating C64 will be added:
Yet the best Editor there is

Nano master race.

[starshipeleven]

That's no text editor, it's a IDE.

[shmerl]

nvim supports it for a while already.

[cybertraveler]

I wonder if some people will now use vim as a replacement for GNU screen.

[Candy]

... and with Vim 8.2, support for emulating C64 will be added:

Yet the best Editor there is

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Vim 8.1 Adds Support For Running A Terminal In The Vim Window

Vim 8.1 is out today as the latest stable feature update to this advanced cross-platform text editor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vim-8.1-Released