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Is there a way to change which terminal emulator neovim uses for its :terminal command? I am running neovim on Windows 10, and it used cmd by default; however, I would rather use cmder or another linux-style emulator if I can.

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Neovim uses its own internal terminal emulator for :term. You can not change that (as far as I know). The thing you can change is the command interpreter/shell that runs in that terminal. See Wikipedia for the difference: Terminal vs Shell.

You can start any command (that you have installed) in the terminal if you just specify it as the argument: :terminal bash

I don't know how to do that by default but you can read the docs in order to find out if that's possible: :help :terminal.

Or you can define a custom command:

:command MyTerm terminal bash

If you instead want to start cmder in its own window from within Neovim just run :!cmder & (I suppose the & also works in windows?).

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  • how does it determine which shell is launched? For me it's rather unsuccessfully trying to open C:Program FilesGitusr^Hin^Hash.exe
    – CervEd
    Dec 12, 2021 at 18:14
  • @CervEd Please read the help link I provided and also the help about 'shell'.
    – Lucas
    Dec 13, 2021 at 21:56
  • not exactly the most helpful comment in the world
    – CervEd
    Dec 14, 2021 at 9:26

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