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		ossusermivami 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The State of Vim :! itself has not been stripped from neovim, it's the "interactive" :! that has been stripped (as the OP said) i.e if you do :!bash in vim you enter bash in neovim you won't

Anthony-G 10 months ago [–]

Thanks for the clarification. That makes sense and seems like a reasonable change to me.

sodapopcan 10 months ago | [–]

I wouldn't say that `:!bash` is the most illustrative example of its impact. It bites you when you run any command that spits out a prompt, most commonly a [Yn] prompt. You can't use `:!` for these in nvim.

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