atom-vim-mode-plus VS vim-floaterm

atom's vim-mode-plus occurrence modifier is the gold standard as far as i'm concerned.

I can share two of my vim-user solutions with you. First one is a Atom based and is a bit more convinient if you have to do some plotting. I have vim-mode-plus plugin for vim-like navigation in the code, atom ex-mode plugin for ex commands within atom and a top of that I use Hydrogen for in place code execution.

Taste on: https://atom.io/packages/vim-mode-plus

Or to Atom - with its lightness and speed and a very well made vim emulation package.

Using https://github.com/voldikss/vim-floaterm and remap the same shortcuts to (un)toggle the terminal would be interesting for you, also about compatibility, because if tomorrow you use nvim in the terminal you have the same key maps.

vim-floaterm has wrappers around some terminal filemanagers.

If you don't like distro's and want to use something of your own, make sure that you have a few plugins like telescope.nvim, lazy.nvim, toggleterm.nvim Or vim-floaterm, gitsigns.nvim, which-key.nvim, which will make your neovim journey smooth. Again these are just few, but I highly recommend it.

My personal favorite is ranger, a multi-panel console file manager that works nicely in a Neovim terminal. I also use floaterm to get floating terminal windows for ranger and lazygit, but that's optional. A Neovim tab with a terminal would work equally well.

For simple tasks like opening a dirty file in nvim I prefer vim-floaterm. It has a really nice integration with a bunch of TUI tools.

The two obvious candidates are vim-floaterm and toggleterm.nvim.

I’d suggest taking a look at vim-floaterm. While I don’t use this feature, it should have the ability to do what you’ve described

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