How can I open files within vim's terminal emulator

Question

Using vim, I use :term to open the terminal emulator. After cd /path/to/project within the terminal emulator, I have a file called foo.txt. If I did vim foo.txt to open it as I would in a normal terminal, it would open vim within vim which causes a variety of issues. I see two potential solutions:

• Find some way to open a file in a split from the terminal emulator
• Find some way to change the cwd of vim to the cwd of the terminal emulator.

Does anyone have tips on either solution?

Answer 1

Inside Vim's builtin terminal, do

vim --remote foo.txt

This assume that your Vim was compiled with the +clientserver option. You can check with :version or :echo has('clientserver').

Answer 2

vim --remote works on vim, but neovim compiles without clientserver. neovim-remote seems to be an alternative for neovim.