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I know there's a number of ways you can suspend a Neovim/Vim session.

One way being CTRL-Z to jump back into the command prompt, and press fg and ENTER to go back into your Neovim/Vim session.

However....Doing this on Windows seems to freeze my console entirely to the point where I have to end the process by force. I don't want to use the :! command in neovim because that's not what I'm trying to do, and the :sus command essentially does the same thing as CTRL-Z.

Is there a way to do this on Windows ? I know for sure that it can be done on Linux, and from a little research apparently CTRL-Z means end of input on DOS/Windows machines.

EDIT: 3/12/18 Also, as additional info I used both ConEmu and the default Windows command line

EDIT: 3/14/18 Using the :shell or :sus command seems to get it to work fine in regular vanilla Vim 8.0 in combination with exit, but that's only in regular Vim. CTRL-Z also works as well if I edit my _vimrc to get rid of source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim and behave mswin. I still will like this to be able to work in neovim

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    How do you use Neovim on Windows? Do you use it in cygwin (where ctrl-z should work), in the Windows Linux subsystem, in a Windows command line, etc?
    – statox
    Mar 12, 2018 at 8:01
  • @statox I tried it in ConEmu and in the default Windows command line
    – PrimRock
    Mar 12, 2018 at 8:19
  • It's worth adding this info to your question. I don't really know how to help you with this issue, but knowing which terminal emulator you use will help other people to help you :)
    – statox
    Mar 12, 2018 at 8:59
  • FWIW, this works fine for me (using either Ctrl-Z or :sus) in regular Vim 7.4, running both under the Windows Command Prompt or in the bash provided by Git for Windows (on Windows 10). You might also like to try :shell which does something slightly different but similar.
    – Rich
    Mar 13, 2018 at 10:03
  • It's always worked for me in Vim. One difference is that to exit the shell in Windows, you execute exit instead of fg.
    – dash-tom-bang
    Mar 13, 2018 at 17:40

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I found an answer, and apparently suspending the console doesn't work on Windows TUI as of yet.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/6660

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