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When I'm working with lets say 4 files, all are open in tabs(VIM). I want to save the changes and compile it without having to close the tabs, i.e I want to open a terminal in new tab along with the existing 4?
How should I do this in VIM?
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Opening instance of Terminal within Vim. The terminal can be opened in various ways the most preferred way is by typing in :term from Vim. This will create a horizontal split from the current editor and split it into half. You can change the size of the split using the mouse according to your preference.
Use ctrl-w N to switch to "terminal-normal mode", which will let you navigate around. It could be useful to then copy content to the clipboard. Then return to regular terminal mode, simply type i just like how you'd enter insert mode from a regular window. ctrl-w : will open command mode like in regular Vim.
You can just press Ctrl + D in terminal to close it. But if you don't want to close it, just want to switch windows you can do Ctrl-W w (if you have multiple panes you can specify to which you switch with the seccond letter (h,j,k,l), W just switches vim windows.
Vim 8.1 now has a built in terminal that can be opened with the :term command. This provides much more complete integration with the rest of the Vim features.
Original Answer:
I would suggest looking at tmux or screen. I use tmux myself and along with vim-tmux-navigator moving between the terminal and vim is very easy.
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