NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#1

Post by eugene_pirogov » Tue, May 02, 2017, 7:27 AM UTC

NeoVim 0.2.0 released
github.com

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#2

Post by oblio » Tue, May 02, 2017, 8:25 AM UTC

My God, it's full of stars :)

> Windows support:

> Windows is no longer "experimental", it is fully supported.

> Windows package includes a GUI, curl.exe and other utilities.

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#3

Post by shakna » Tue, May 02, 2017, 8:27 AM UTC

> This release features a macOS pre-built package.

Yay, no more compiling to upgrade!

> Windows is no longer "experimental", it is fully supported. > Windows package includes a GUI, curl.exe and other utilities.

Awesome. Well thought-out.

> 1215084 backtick-expansion works with shell=fish #6224

Solves one of my main problems.

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#4

Post by adrianN » Tue, May 02, 2017, 8:41 AM UTC

I'm currently using vim and I'm quite happy with it. I don't use many plugins, so better support for plugins is not very helpful to me. Are there other reasons why I should switch to Neovim?

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#5

Post by mikaelj » Tue, May 02, 2017, 8:50 AM UTC

Hope someone (not me!) starts working on a nvimclient (akin to emacsclient) soon.

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#6

Post by oblio » Tue, May 02, 2017, 8:51 AM UTC

adrianN wrote: post #4

I'm currently using vim and I'm quite happy with it. I don't use many plugins, so better support for plugins is not very helpful to me. Are there other reasons why I should switch to Neovim?

For your use case, probably not many reasons. Maybe the built in terminal?

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#7

Post by RubenSandwich » Tue, May 02, 2017, 8:55 AM UTC

Regardless if you feel like if the NeoVim refactor is worth it or not we can all agree that it is tremendous effort to modernize code written over the course of decades. Great job guys on another release!

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#8

Post by fcanela » Tue, May 02, 2017, 8:56 AM UTC

Major version can make someone think nvim is still unstable. My experience is the opposite.

I have being using it for 2-4 years (can't remember exactly) and got the same 0 problems I run into Vim. Earlier versions required you to recompile NeoVim to enable new features for plugins.

Yesterday I installed NeoVim in my new laptop and it was a smooth experience: Installed it using Ubuntu package manager, installed Vim-Plug for managing plugins, copied my old init.vim (or .vimrc), run vim and everything in order.

I am really happy with NeoVim. I faced no problem with it that Vim could not resolve but I know the insides being a better ecosystem for core and plugins developers, so I will stick with it.

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#9

Post by agumonkey » Tue, May 02, 2017, 8:57 AM UTC

RubenSandwich wrote: post #7

Regardless if you feel like if the NeoVim refactor is worth it or not we can all agree that it is tremendous effort to modernize code written over the course of decades. Great job guys on another release!

The versionning repository should be a book about software engineering.

Re: NeoVim 0.2.0 released

#10

Post by knlje » Tue, May 02, 2017, 9:04 AM UTC

adrianN wrote: post #4

I'm currently using vim and I'm quite happy with it. I don't use many plugins, so better support for plugins is not very helpful to me. Are there other reasons why I should switch to Neovim?

On the other hand there are not many reasons for not doing the switch. Thus, it's more like choosing whether you want to support the project or not.