vimux VS vim-dispatch

There's also https://github.com/preservim/vimux, which works very well IMHO.

Not sure if you want another plugin but vimux lets you run a command in a tmux split again and again. I find it super useful

I've written something similar trying to mimic Vimux/vim-slime in my quest to learn vimscript and ditch plugins; because It's nice to have a terminal split like tmux.

So I use tmux and use the vimux plugin to create panes for the code to run (similar to vscode).

Might want to checkout https://github.com/preservim/vimux also, but if these commands meet your needs, don’t worry about it and enjoy

P.S. I tried the vimux plugin, but it doesn't have this feature. Seems though that it would be a great place to add it.

Tis is good for the compilation to make it async( otherwise it blocks) https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch it wraps around the built in make/makeprg feature. Would recommend that you dont do it with large builds/outputs.

vim-dispatch by the legend Tim Pope. send the task to the background, keep using editor. once the task is finished, it output to qflist buffer

The other answer here covers everything you need, but if you want a plugin-based solution you might be interested in vim-dispatch which runs command line tools asynchronously, and offers the option to run the command in the background instead with :Dispatch!.

You should check :h compiler :h make and :h 'errorformat'. You could also check vim dispatch, a plugin that enhances this features

Also plugin supports asynchronous execution (using terminal, jobs or vim-dispatch).

Do note that :make is blocking, and you need to wait until it finishes before it sends you back to the editor. If you want it to be asynchronouns, you can install vim-dispatch + vim-dispatch-neovim for Neovim support in vim-dispatch.

if you want something to work out of the box, is async and is already configured per language, check out TPope's dispatch

For long-running programs, like compiling, or running full test suites, or running terraform on a decently sized infrastructure project, I may run them with :Make (courtesy of tpope/vim-dispatch) so I can keep working on the project while the external program is running. If I'm in an environment without vim plugins, I may spawn a new tmux pane/window. As a last resort, I will ctrl-z/fg if I don't have tmux on the remote system (e.g. dev containers).