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"ERROR: Terminal is not available in this vim" in redhat 8

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Issue type
Bug
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Tech stack
vim
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Reproduce the failure using output=terminal and the :term command in Vim 8.0.1763 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 with kernel 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64. Trace how the plugin checks terminal availability, then confirm that output=terminal works in this environment without the reported error.

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Description

Hi,

I liked your plugin. It's very useful to run simple commands in vim. I've transferred from redhat 6 to 8 recently, but the output=terminal option no longer works. It always shows the error as in the title.

My environment is:
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
VERSION="8.2 (Ootpa)"

The linux kernel version is:
4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64

And my vim version is (this is the default version provided by rhat 8)
version 8.0.1763

I checked that the terminal is actually available in my vim by typing ":term".

Could you please help me check what's the issue?

Thanks,
Yanshen

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