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Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by jpambrun »

vegabook wrote: post #18
thedz wrote: post #6

Notable improvements: - Async /Io - Async Jobs - "Packages", which allow easier built-in bundling of plugins I'm pretty excited for this release! I've been using Neovim for several months now, but really great to see mainline Vim get these (IMO long overdue) enhancements.

this async thing was Neovim's main selling point, right? I mean cruft-removal is all well and good but vim works fast and fine for me so not important. What does Neovim now offer that this doesn't?

I think neovim just offered us VIM 8.0.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by dominotw »

vegabook wrote: post #18
thedz wrote: post #6

Notable improvements: - Async /Io - Async Jobs - "Packages", which allow easier built-in bundling of plugins I'm pretty excited for this release! I've been using Neovim for several months now, but really great to see mainline Vim get these (IMO long overdue) enhancements.

this async thing was Neovim's main selling point, right? I mean cruft-removal is all well and good but vim works fast and fine for me so not important. What does Neovim now offer that this doesn't?

'transform Vim into an embeddable text editor engine'

I think that was the main objective of the project. Would be nice to real vim in IntelliJ idea.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by spdy »

nerdponx wrote: post #3

Is there feature/API parity between Vim 8 and NeoVim? I would hate to see the community fragment and disintegrate.

The main devs of NeoVim offered to work out an api for both versions but it never happend.

Seems like we are now in a feature war between both lets see who comes out winning. This whole thing could have happend so much smoother for the community but stubbornness sometimes lead to interesting innovations :).

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by catern »

kozikow wrote: post #11

I moved to http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Evil and I am happy with the transition. Spacemacs seems to be a good choice nowadays. Magit and org-mode are worth it.

I did the same. These advancements in vim are too little, too late for me.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by tux1968 »

vegabook wrote: post #18
thedz wrote: post #6

Notable improvements: - Async /Io - Async Jobs - "Packages", which allow easier built-in bundling of plugins I'm pretty excited for this release! I've been using Neovim for several months now, but really great to see mainline Vim get these (IMO long overdue) enhancements.

this async thing was Neovim's main selling point, right? I mean cruft-removal is all well and good but vim works fast and fine for me so not important. What does Neovim now offer that this doesn't?

Vim was in a virtual lock down of maintenance mode before Neovim came along and offered some competition. I'm happy to see Vim woken up out of its slumber, but let us not dismiss what Neovim offers or has already accomplished.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by spdy »

kozikow wrote: post #11

I moved to http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Evil and I am happy with the transition. Spacemacs seems to be a good choice nowadays. Magit and org-mode are worth it.

Did the same best of both worlds.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by micku »

dominotw wrote: post #22
vegabook wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this async thing was Neovim's main selling point, right? I mean cruft-removal is all well and good but vim works fast and fine for me so not important. What does Neovim now offer that this doesn't?

'transform Vim into an embeddable text editor engine' I think that was the main objective of the project. Would be nice to real vim in IntelliJ idea.

This. And the scripting language I suppose?

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by dominotw »

yankcrime wrote: post #17
dominotw wrote: post #10

anyway to get this on osx now Readme seems incomplete https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/READMEdir/README_mac....

If you're using Homebrew[1], then it's simply a case of: $ brew install --HEAD vim [1] http://brew.sh

  cd /usr/local/Cellar/vim/HEAD/share/vim/vim80/compiler; chmod   644 *.vim README.txt
  -bash: cd: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/HEAD/share/vim/vim80/compiler: No such file or directory
  chmod: *.vim: No such file or directory
  chmod: README.txt: No such file or directory
Eh..I'll probably wait a little bit longer.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by micku »

desireco42 wrote: post #13
thedz wrote: post #6

Notable improvements: - Async /Io - Async Jobs - "Packages", which allow easier built-in bundling of plugins I'm pretty excited for this release! I've been using Neovim for several months now, but really great to see mainline Vim get these (IMO long overdue) enhancements.

How is Neovim working out for you? I remember using it at one point and it was really smooth experience.

I'm using it every day for a couple of months now, never crashed and loads faster than Vim 7.

Anyway, the things I appreciate more are the fast evolution and the community, no more than one year ago I tried it but was too lazy to compile, wait, configure...

This time I ran homebrew, linked my .vimrc in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim, and forgot I was using Neovim instead of Vim, except for the async compiling/linting.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by thomasahle »

vegabook wrote: post #18
thedz wrote: post #6

Notable improvements: - Async /Io - Async Jobs - "Packages", which allow easier built-in bundling of plugins I'm pretty excited for this release! I've been using Neovim for several months now, but really great to see mainline Vim get these (IMO long overdue) enhancements.

this async thing was Neovim's main selling point, right? I mean cruft-removal is all well and good but vim works fast and fine for me so not important. What does Neovim now offer that this doesn't?

Neovim is still a lot faster for me. A simple example is always commenting out a block 10jI#, which takes 5 seconds or so in vim (including 8.0), but is instant in neovim.
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