Vim 8.2 • Hacker News Board

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by tcbawo » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

p1esk wrote: post #10

I'm using plain vim occasionally, but never tried to do any coding in it, just because I'm not sure how to configure it for that. Which plugins for Python coding are universally agreed on as "must haves" Preferably just one, or two at most.

I used vim for a development IDE and customized extensively. These days, I've had to relearn stock vim, since I tend to log onto many corporate servers that aren't guaranteed to have my environment/plugins/settings. Also, the state of C++ syntax/symbol parsing wasn't where I needed it to be. Maybe it's gotten better?

I've found Nerdtree to be most indispensable. Other good ones are pathogen, ctrlp, a.vim, and vim-gitgutter

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by dmortin » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

__s wrote: post #2

https://www.vim.org/vim-8.2-released.php

The pink color of those popups is brutal.

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by p1esk » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #19

p1esk wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it better than the good old remote deployment feature in Pycharm?

Pycharm still requires and assumes you have a local python environment.

I'm confused, is vscode not a local environment?

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by Blaiz0r » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #5

With vscode recent remote capabilities its hard to push(come up with a argument) vim/emacs for programmers who do dev in remote VMs.

With Vim being such a complete and powerful piece of software that still receives useful yet light features and is extensible to a dizzying degree, it's hard to push vscode on programmers that want an efficient tool.

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by haldora » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC

p1esk wrote: post #10

I'm using plain vim occasionally, but never tried to do any coding in it, just because I'm not sure how to configure it for that. Which plugins for Python coding are universally agreed on as "must haves" Preferably just one, or two at most.

Check out VimAwesome (https://vimawesome.com) for finding plugins. They provide instructions for installing each plugin via Vundle, NeoBundle, VimPlug, and Pathogen.

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by oblio » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC

p1esk wrote: post #23

Scarbutt wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pycharm still requires and assumes you have a local python environment.

I'm confused, is vscode not a local environment?

VS Code is local but I assume OP means with VS Code remote extensions you don't need Python locally.

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by weinzierl » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:24 PM UTC

The really big news is that vim is now a game engine too;-)

> To show what is possible with popup windows (and because I sometimes get bored fixing bugs), I created a silly game. This uses popup windows that move across the display, text properties to highlight the animals and even sound to make it more fun!

https://github.com/vim/killersheep

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by oblio » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

Say what you want about Neovim, but it sure motivated Bram to make Vim better again. Almost everything listed here looks like a direct reaction to features Neovim has added. Same for older releases (async, terminal, etc.).

Competition is good and I'm glad we're having it.

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by dogwhistle » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:26 PM UTC

At this point, vim is hindering progress. While they finally compied almost all of additional features of neovim, there is no sense of innovation and progress there and unfortunately the diff with neovim is right now minimal so neovim loses contributors that would otherwise be

Re: Vim 8.2

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Post by vr46 » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:33 PM UTC

I switched to NeoVim a few years ago and I'm not entirely sure whether Vim has caught up in features, diverged, or what ratio of the two. That said, I'm not switching back. The only editor I'm really interested in is VSCode. Not that I use it much, but I am very impressed.