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Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by zem »

mixedCase wrote: post #105
DiabloD3 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given Vim powers our industry, it'd be neat if pg or any of the other big members of our community donated a non-trivial amount. There is very few pieces of software I could never imagine replacing in my toolkit. Linux? I use Windows, too. GCC? Clang gets some love sometimes. Languages themselves? I'm fluent in several. Shell? I used Bash for years, now I switched to ZSH, but could go back to Bash if I needed. Tmux?…

JetBrain's Vim plugin is very high quality.

so is netbeans's - it's a straight port of the vim source code to java

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by roryokane »

bch wrote: post #179
JoshTriplett wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nvi definitely provides more features than the original vi, just not nearly as much as vim. And it doesn't have a comparable ecosystem of plugin/package developers around it, either.

Is there a popularity dashboard of plugins that one could check to see what features vim users are enjoying that I've been living without?

http://vimawesome.com/ has a list of Vim plugins sorted by their popularity, measured by presence in dotfiles repos on GitHub.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by zem »

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?

having lua as the native scripting language is pretty big too

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by data_hope »

reflexive wrote: post #148
znpy wrote: post #8

Given the occasion, and given that vim is charity-ware software ( http://charityware.info/ ), it would be cool to have some sort of HN-wide donation to ICCF ( http://iccf-holland.org/ ). Donation page: http://iccf-holland.org/donate.html It seems that you can send bitcoins too: http://iccf-holland.org/bitcoin.html Imho just mentioning HN in the payment description would be okay :)

I understand that assisting AIDS sufferers in Uganda is a favorite cause of Bram Moolenaar. However in the absence of an overall plan to help the country develop, such short-term interventions may be a net harm to the very populations they're intended to help. http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2161334... I would encourage folks to read up on factors surrounding the causes they support. Perhaps orga…

I don't even...

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by elliotec »

davb wrote: post #145
typon wrote: post #72

Neovim for life. On my Mac it performs so much better than Macvim.

I use tmux + vim on my Macbook and it runs really well! (vim built from MacPorts).

Have you tried tmux + neovim yet though? It's way faster and smoother in just about every aspect I can think of. Strongly recommend it.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by Lio »

kozikow wrote: post #177
Lio wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing is, having tried Evil/Spacemacs, they're still really Emacs not Vim. At some point you have drop out of the pseudo Vim world do things the Emacs way, keybindings and all. For me personally, that's not what I want. e.g. I like to use C-h as an alternative to backspace, it helps relieves my RSA not have to reach for backspace. Spacemacs provides that binding in some places but not all. To get get C-h to consi…

> At some point you have drop out of the pseudo Vim world do things the Emacs way, keybindings and all. or many packages there are many "vim-optimized" packages nowadays, e.g. evil-ediff, evil-org or evil-magit. > e.g. I like to use C-h as an alternative to backspace, it helps relieves my RSA not have to reach for backspace. I would do such remapping on the system level. E.g. I personally have my layout implemented i…

Yeah I'm pretty sure Emacs can be made to do anything.

I love that idea and I keep telling myself I'll go back and give give it another try sometime. Would love to get really into org-mode, etc.

It's just that Vim is so comfortable! ...like a nice old pair of Goodyear welted shoes.

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by anuragsoni »

Lio wrote: post #106

I didn't see anything in the release notes but does anyone know if Vim 8 adds true colour terminal support? (I realise that NeoVim has this.)

I haven't searched for vim 8 specifically. But starting with vim v7.4.1770 there was a `set guicolors` option.

Update: Looking at the version8.txt[1] on github, the option seems to be `set termguicolors`

Change seemed to take place at version 7.4.1799[2]

[1]https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8....

[2]https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/version8....

Re: Vim 8.0 released

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Post by sigzero »

Lio wrote: post #106

I didn't see anything in the release notes but does anyone know if Vim 8 adds true colour terminal support? (I realise that NeoVim has this.)

Patch 7.4.1770

  Problem:    Cannot use true color in the terminal.
  Solution:   Add the 'guicolors' option. (Nikolai Pavlov)
  Files:      runtime/doc/options.txt, runtime/doc/term.txt,
            runtime/doc/various.txt, src/auto/configure, src/config.h.in,
            src/configure.in, src/eval.c, src/globals.h, src/hardcopy.c,
            src/option.c, src/option.h, src/proto/term.pro, src/screen.c,
            src/structs.h, src/syntax.c, src/term.c, src/term.h,
            src/version.c, src/vim.h
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