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Re: Vim 9.2

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Post by PlatoIsADisease »

simoncrypta wrote: post #86

After many years being interested, I finally invest a good amount of time learning vim properly. Thanks to AI, I got more time to learn in between request and it become painfully slow to use IDE or ask AI simple change. To me the agentic workflow make it even more valuable to learn vim since I can fix and iterate on small details way faster.

I think with AI, its eliminated my need for Vim. Sorry to say.

I was such a proponent.

If I'm entirely reading code for bugs, then using voice to text to the AI to correct the problem... What typing am I doing?

Still love the idea of Vim.

Re: Vim 9.2

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Post by cmovq »

LexiMax wrote: post #91
actinium226 wrote: post #23

But where are the AI features?? Gonna get left behind! Only joking of course, actually quite refreshing to see a new version announcement of something this major without any AI nonsense.

> But where are the AI features?? Gonna get left behind! Obviously vim doesn't need AI, but one feature I really wish vim had was native support for multiple cursors. It's the feature that lured me away to Sublime Text in the first place many years ago, and it's a pre-requisite for pretty much every editor I use these days, from VSCode to Zed. There are plugins, but multicursor is such a powerful force-multiplier tha…

Vim (kind of) has it though it doesn’t render the cursors:

Ctrl-V, then move down the lines you want to edit, Shift-I to insert text on multiple lines at once.

Re: Vim 9.2

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Post by sodapopcan »

andrewla wrote: post #129
gfiorav wrote: post #72

As a die-hard vim fan, I feel bitter-sour saying that I switched to nvim. Honestly, I think the vim maintainers should find a way to merge in nvim.

I have also switched to nvim, but every release I consider moving back. Honestly a lot of this is that I hate Lua. With so much of the infrastructure moving in that direction it's basically unavoidable. XDG support was honestly one of the things holding me back; I'm glad that this is finally fixed.

XDG was added somewhat quietly almost two years ago now. It was announced on www.vim.org but that was it as far as I know. They don't keep news that far back but here's the commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c9df1fb35

Re: Vim 9.2

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Post by synergy20 »

gfiorav wrote: post #72

As a die-hard vim fan, I feel bitter-sour saying that I switched to nvim. Honestly, I think the vim maintainers should find a way to merge in nvim.

I use vim and nvim in parallel, just ask init.nvim to read from ~/.vimrc, all is good

Re: Vim 9.2

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Post by saila »

wvlia5 wrote: post #147

There was a time when Bram Moleenar refused to do any updates to Vim, until Neovim came along.

Now that he's no longer with us, I don't think comments like this are necessary.

Re: Vim 9.2

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Post by wvlia5 »

saila wrote: post #148
wvlia5 wrote: post #147

There was a time when Bram Moleenar refused to do any updates to Vim, until Neovim came along.

Now that he's no longer with us, I don't think comments like this are necessary.

I just learned that he passed from Wikipedia.

I remember he used to get a lot of flak on HN for not wanting to update vim, back in the days.

Re: Vim 9.2

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Post by cpncrunch »

wvlia5 wrote: post #149
saila wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now that he's no longer with us, I don't think comments like this are necessary.

I just learned that he passed from Wikipedia. I remember he used to get a lot of flak on HN for not wanting to update vim, back in the days.

Well, it works really well, most of us don't need any fancy new features, and we certainly don't want anything breaking.
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