opening powershell from inside vim

Question

I want to run powershell from vim and I have achieved it using the following mapping:

map <leader>cd :cd %:p:h<cr>:silent !powershell<cr>

The problem is that I can't do anything inside vim until I close the powershell window which somehow defeats the purpose. How can I tell vim to let go of the opened powershell so I could make changes in the file open in vim.

Maybe I am searching with wrong keywords and that's why I couldn't find a solution. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Try using:

:silent !start powershell

Which should run a new powershell command in its own window, detached from the current vim instance.

See also:

• Q&A on :!start on Windows;
• Documentation of the Windows start command, in particular you might want to look into /D to specify the startup directory for the command.