Is there a way to start vim in terminal mode?

Question

I often find myself

1. Opening a terminal
2. Running vim
3. Starting a :terminal

Is there a way to say vim --start-terminal and have Vim automatically run :terminal ++curwin as soon as it starts?

Answer 1

I assume you aren't literally asking for a --start-terminal flag :) ...but you can specify a command for Vim to run after it starts up using the -c flag.

So this should be as easy as

vim -c ':term ++curwin'

When I run it I am indeed in a terminal window on the shell command line and it's the only window open. Hopefully that covers what you're asking for.