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. > >