You can do :shell, but currently it's impossible to switch between the
shell window and your buffers.

Kent.

On 4/29/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk / gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps you mean something different, but wouldn't
> 
> !bash
> 
> work just fine in vim?
> 
> Although, I just have one gvim window open all the time and one
> terminal running screen.  Works for me.
> 
>