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I could create a terminal with vim by running :term in the vim normal mode. However, this terminal is opened at the top of the window and I would like to open it in the bottom. How could I open it at the bottom? By the way, how could I change the height of this window?

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    Have a look at the great documentation: :help window-resize and read up on the comand modifiers, start reading at :help :vertical – Christian Brabandt Jul 19 '18 at 6:33
  • In neovim :term doesn't open terminals in split buffer; I don't know about vim. And you could look at splitbelow option. – klaus Jul 19 '18 at 7:25
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In your ~/.vimrc add the line

set splitbelow

This will cause all splits to happen below (including term)

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  • Thanks a lot, how could I change the height of the terminal, and I seem to observe that I could not copy contents in the vim-terminal as I did in pure terminal ? – coin cheung Jul 20 '18 at 3:35
  • Read :help termwinsize to answer the first question. It will tell you how to modify that. You can always look up things by :help command in this case term and scroll. For the second I don't actually know the answer but the help page would likely help. – Steven Walton Jul 20 '18 at 14:08
  • I tried but failed before I asked. I simply add the following lines in my vimrc: set termwinsize = "10*0" and when I open vim and run command :ter, the terminal still occupies half the screen. What mistake did I made then? – coin cheung Jul 21 '18 at 2:34
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    See also the :below command, e.g. :below terminal – Rich Sep 13 '18 at 13:15
  • @coincheung 10*0 means at least ten rows high. If you want 10 rows exactly, try :set termwinsize=10x0. – Rich Sep 13 '18 at 13:17

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