Newsletter #4 – Thanksvimming Day

Post by fizzbatter » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 4:56 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #9

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #8

My only concern about this is that people are deprecating Vim stuff in favor of NeoVim. My experience with NeoVim is that it's not ready to replace Vim yet - I'm optimistic about NeoVim, but it's too early to start deprecating Vim stuff.

> My experience with NeoVim is that it's not ready to replace Vim yet And when did you last try Neovim? Because I use it everyday with all of my plugins from vim with 0 problems. The new remote plugin system with python support is making huge strides. People have already started on Go support and I imagine JavaScript, lua, etc is not far behind. It's a very exciting time. I recently even got a commit merged, it's a g…

Post by davis » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

reledi wrote: post #5

userbinator wrote: post #3

It took me a few seconds to realise that "issue" in the title didn't mean "bug report", despite all the other occurrences of it in the article that do.

Same. "Neovim Newsletter #4: Thanksvimming Day" would be a better title.

Post by fizzbatter » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

bru wrote: post #12

fizzbatter wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for this, i had no idea it was even possible to use NeoVim yet! Think i'll spend some time this holiday setting it up, appreciated!

>Think i'll spend some time this holiday setting it up, appreciated! That's not needed. With the default config or a simple vimrc it's a drop-in replacement. Some extensions don't work yet (even Syntastic) but that should be resolved soon.

Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 5:42 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #9

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #8

My only concern about this is that people are deprecating Vim stuff in favor of NeoVim. My experience with NeoVim is that it's not ready to replace Vim yet - I'm optimistic about NeoVim, but it's too early to start deprecating Vim stuff.

> My experience with NeoVim is that it's not ready to replace Vim yet And when did you last try Neovim? Because I use it everyday with all of my plugins from vim with 0 problems. The new remote plugin system with python support is making huge strides. People have already started on Go support and I imagine JavaScript, lua, etc is not far behind. It's a very exciting time. I recently even got a commit merged, it's a g…

Post by bru » Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

Spiritus wrote: post #16

bru wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Think i'll spend some time this holiday setting it up, appreciated! That's not needed. With the default config or a simple vimrc it's a drop-in replacement. Some extensions don't work yet (even Syntastic) but that should be resolved soon.

I have no problems running Syntastic. What are you running in to?