And in newer versions of vim you can even run a terminal inside a vim buffer. Use :term to get started. ^w N to go from terminal insert mode to buffer mode where you can treat all terminal contents as regular text. Useful when you want to grab bits of program/script output and put it into a different buffer, or search the output with / and ?. You can also paste register contents directly into the terminal command line, e.g., if you have a text file with a list of long file names, you can yank one into register a with "ayy, move to the terminal window and do a cat ^w"a to cat the file name. (Or just yy to yank and ^w"" to paste in term if you're in a hurry). Handy in some circumstances.