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diff --git a/runtime/doc/tips.txt b/runtime/doc/tips.txt index 3698348ea7..619c95506d 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/tips.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/tips.txt @@ -408,14 +408,13 @@ when they are not in the same location as the compressed "doc" directory. See ============================================================================== Executing shell commands in a window *shell-window* -There have been questions for the possibility to execute a shell in a window -inside Vim. The answer: you can't! Including this would add a lot of code to -Vim, which is a good reason not to do this. After all, Vim is an editor, it -is not supposed to do non-editing tasks. However, to get something like this, -you might try splitting your terminal screen or display window with the +See |terminal|. + +Another solution is splitting your terminal screen or display window with the "splitvt" program. You can probably find it on some ftp server. The person that knows more about this is Sam Lantinga <slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu>. -An alternative is the "window" command, found on BSD Unix systems, which + +Another alternative is the "window" command, found on BSD Unix systems, which supports multiple overlapped windows. Or the "screen" program, found at www.uni-erlangen.de, which supports a stack of windows. |