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There is no :shell command in neovim. :terminal opens a shell without previous output, while :shell contains all the output of the parent shell and all previous shells. Is there any way to emulate :shell behavior with :term?

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    It would be useful to give us more details on your use case and why you want :shell instead of :terminal. Maybe using CTRL-z to put neovim in background and then using fg to bring it back would be what you want? :h CTRL-Z
    – statox
    Apr 23 '19 at 7:14
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As @statox mentioned, you can use CTRL-z. If you want to spawn a new shell from vim, as :shell does, you can do: :!sh, :!bash, :!zsh (pick your favourite), which has pretty much the same effect as :shell.

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    There are no such commands in my (recent) neovim
    – ephemerr
    Apr 29 '19 at 5:13
  • My apologies, I forgot a very important ! in the commands!
    – padawin
    Apr 29 '19 at 7:50
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    thanks @padawin - but when I enter :!sh in nvim I just see "Press ENTER or type command to continue" in the status line, but not the interactive shell I get when entering :shell in vim (or also :!sh). Any ideas?
    – Red Pill
    Oct 25 '19 at 8:00
  • :! will not work with interactive commands. The closest you will get to vim's :shell is probably using CTRL-z.
    – crater2150
    Oct 25 '19 at 11:14
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My solution for this need of shell integration is to use neovim terminal tab as main shell.

I use also skywind3000/vim-terminal-help plugin and drop command to open new files in same instance of vim and not in nested ones.

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