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Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by sshine »

DicIfTEx wrote: post #125
OskarS wrote: post #13

My brother passed away very suddenly a few years ago, and I was put in charge of wrapping up and archiving his "digital" life. We were very lucky that we had access to a recovery email for his main gmail account (as well as a couple of passwords that his partner knew) and was able to access and archive virtually all data we could think of (services like Google Takeout were invaluable). I realized that if this had hap…

Useful checklist: https://getyourshittogether.org/ Others in this thread have talked about safety deposit boxes and buried crates. I'd add that you can just give some trusted party a normal encrypted USB flash drive, and eliminate the risk of getting absolutely rinsed out in the event of a house burglary by splitting the password amongst an arbitrary number of your other contacts using the Shamir's Secret Sharing alg…

I call this a Horcrux.

Also, unless your arbitrary number of friends are cryptographers, it's a sure way for them to collectively lose your shit.

Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by imbnwa »

halostatue wrote: post #160
Aissen wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

async is water under the bridge since Vim 8, both Neovim and Vim have async apis. I foresee native LSP and everything-lua to be a bigger schism between Neovim and Vim.

Also the deliberate lack of GUI for neovim. The currently extant neovim GUI shells are all universally broken, and some of them crash more than they run. I have yet to find one that is remotely as good as MacVim on macOS. I suspect that most of them are merely tolerable on Linux and some might be barely acceptable on Windows.

With their recent release a few days ago, Neovide has become my daily driver for Neovim on my personal cpu. It were definitely rough edges a few versions ago, but I’m rather pleased where they are now.

I find a lot of Rust GUI projects are slow-going but this has had a good pace

Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by thejammahimself »

majewsky wrote: post #124

Can someone copy-paste the text, please? I cannot read it because Google hates Firefox users apparently. EDIT: The Internet Archive has a functional copy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230810094255/groups.google.com...

I've tried loading on Chromium but that doesn't work either it seems.

Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by EtienneK »

rokizero wrote: post #137
bombcar wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no worry about the funds being lost. It’s just imagining my heirs having to contact and close fifty+ accounts.

Serious question: How common is having dozens of accounts? I live in NL and have 3 at the same bank. Why would anyone have 50+ accounts?

Not so uncommon in NL. As a Dutchy you should have heard of Bunq which allows you to open unlimited accounts. The idea is to use each as savings pots for specific things such as a holiday, car, groceries, etc.

Other banks allow the same thing via virtual accounts.

Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by kps »

devnullbrain wrote: post #155
kzrdude wrote: post #40

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One "meta feature" that was dropped was the ability to build the editor with or without different features. vim --version shows a long list of +/- features, neovim doesn't do that. I'm sure neovim dropped a lot but I don't have the full overview. Prominently it dropped support for giving !commands access to the actual tty. Commands that access the tty have to be used through the command :term instead. Neovim prominen…

!pwd works for me in nvim, I use it every day

Try something that uses input, e.g. a pager (`:!git log`), or a password (`:!sudo something`), or `:!top`, or something with even the simplest formatted output (`:!watch -n1 lsusb`).

Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by em-bee »

bombcar wrote: post #95
dumpster_fire wrote: post #54

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Yeah I used to have a massive spreadsheet tracking the entirety of household finances. I was worried that no one would know where the money was if I suddenly died, so I started a monthly finance 1:1 with my spouse. Even wrote an "upon death or incapacitation" playbook for her. The second session was just her saying WTF I can't keep track of the location, ownership and tax benefits of 40 accounts! I've since closed 3/…

The killer for me was working out how much time I was spending playing Excel Warrior and how much it was “making” me and realizing that I was working in my free time for Pennie’s.

that is what keeps me from getting into all this detailed finance management or worse trading, likewise any other side business that could earn some money but just isn't the kind of work i want to do.

making a budget is useful, as is tracking your expenses, but that's about it for me.

Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by imbnwa »

beej71 wrote: post #136
fortunateregard wrote: post #17

What is it that prevents the rest of the vim community from adopting neovim? From what I can observe, a great deal already have. But for the folks holding out, what is it that outweighs all that neovim has to offer?

If neovim had the same keystrokes to move out of a terminal window as it does to move out of editor windows, I'd switch. But as it is, it's super clunky compared to vim. I know about rebinding to alt, but that doesn't work in all my terminals. So for me, it's that one lousy thing that keeps me from switching. And if someone knows the magic setting to make it mimic vim, please let me know.

I hear this and the workaround has been opening terminals in a floating window. The “toggleterm.nvim” plugin wraps a bunch of good behavior around this.

Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by em-bee »

macinjosh wrote: post #165
JohnMakin wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a deadman switch where if I don’t log into a service for 90 days it sends all my passwords and information to my closest living relative.

If you'd be willing I'd be interested to know more about how you did this.

i am interested too.

Re: The Future of the Vim Project

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Post by xmdx »

bombcar wrote: post #44
OJFord wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Banks are the last thing I'd worry about (I wouldn't) - they're highly regulated, audited, and have been dealing with this forever, since before 'passwords'.

I have no worry about the funds being lost. It’s just imagining my heirs having to contact and close fifty+ accounts.

In the UK you can use something like this: https://www.deathnotificationservice.co.uk/

There are a few of these, one official one for notifying the government and a few private ones.

I imagine this services exists in other countries, if not then might an opportunity to create it.

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