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Currently when I use :terminal to quickly open a terminal in vim, it opens in a new pane. Is it possible to change this behaviour so that it replaces the current one? I realise this would be undesirable for most, but I would rather open the new pane and get it where I want it first (maybe I'll need it open for a little while on the far right of the screen, but if I call :terminal it'll split horizontally and put the terminal on the bottom. It's also much quicker and easier to resize the pane with shortcuts before calling :terminal)

Is this possible?

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You can replace the current window with a terminal using

:terminal ++curwin
:ter ++curwin     " shorter form

You can create a mapping or command for convenience

nnoremap \t :terminal ++curwin<cr>
command! Terminal terminal ++curwin

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