prompt within gvim/vim/vi
 

My instructor get the linux prompt in emacs. I like to use vi instead. Is there a way to get the prompt in vi?

hi there,

if by prompt, you mean shell... yes
note that in emacs this feature is a bit more complete. :D

regards

slackie1000

[edit] forgot the exclamation. sorry.

I'm guessing you mean can I start a shell session from within vi.

If so, the answer is yes you can.

Type

:!sh

That's colon exclamation sh

Thanks Disillusionist,

How do you get out of shell back into editing your text file? The idea here is to write code and compile it in all from vi.


thx

Tried exit ? Was the first thing that came to my mind.

Yes just typing exit bring you back to the editor.

BTW: you can run single commands the same way

Example:

:!ls -l

colon exclamation (LS -L)

Great, this is exactly what I was hoping to find about vim. Thx everyone