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I understand the annoyance, but my workflow for years has been running (n)vim in tmux. So I never need to run terminal commands from the editor, that’s what other tmux panes/windows are for.

:Silent [0] is an effort to work similarly in Neovim to Vim's `:!`

[0] https://gist.github.com/Konfekt/8e484af2955a0c7bfe82114df683...

What are you doing with ! that requires this? Some alternatives I can think of depending on the use case are ^Z or :term.

I do a bunch of stuff with !

!make !ps aux Etc.

The new ! just isn't as useful, and it's harder to get back to see the outputs. The old ! Was just a drop in way quickly do something like ctrl-z command fg.

the thread here may be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565813