Re: [Help-bash] Current working directory echoed to the terminal

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:37:01AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> I just want to be able to issue single ???shell commands??? from Vim as if
> I was at the bash prompt. This means everything that's available at the
> shell prompt, including aliases and functions. 

Another approach would be to convert all your aliases to functions, and
then export them through the environment.  As long as vim escapes to
bash and not sh, your functions will be inherited.