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Honest question: why would anyone use Vim and not NeoVim nowadays? I've switched what, 12 years ago? And I've never had to look back. Just curious, to be honest. Especially since neovim is full of new features, while the Vim9 scripting language kind of tanked
Sure, switching might not be that troublesome, but I can tell you the first 48 hours or so will be painful, you'll insert stray ":" and "i" characters everywhere :)
Honest question: why would anyone use Vim and not NeoVim nowadays? I've switched what, 12 years ago? And I've never had to look back. Just curious, to be honest. Especially since neovim is full of new features, while the Vim9 scripting language kind of tanked
I've never seen Vim users do that. If I had to choose, I'd use Vim.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given githubs stance on AI "coding" it would be hypocritical to host the project on github.
So it's a fork based on principle ? I'm a slop hater as much as the next one but that really does seem petty.
Honest question: why would anyone use Vim and not NeoVim nowadays? I've switched what, 12 years ago? And I've never had to look back. Just curious, to be honest. Especially since neovim is full of new features, while the Vim9 scripting language kind of tanked
What is AI-taint and why is regular vim tainted?
I would guess it means they accepted AI generated submissions into the vim codebase. There's a discussion in the EVi repo about needing to find people who know vimscript. Funny enough, I am planning to use contributing some vimscript to an extension as my first AI coding agent project partly because I don't know vimscript well. Although that does mean it'll be hard to critically evaluate the output. I can compare it…
The new defaults drive me crazy and I had to update ~/.vimrc to disable them.
This is what I had to add, but once in great while a default will be reset which I have yet to figure out why that happens.
:let no_man_maps=1
:let loaded_matchparen = 1
:set comments=""
:set matchpairs=""
:set mouse=
:set nocin
:set nohlsearch
:set noincsearch
:set nois
:set paste
:syntax off
""" disable autocomments
:au FileType * setl fo-=cro
""" turn off brace match comment matching
set noshowmatch
""" stop autoindent
set noautoindent
:filetype indent off
""set columns=80
set noundofile
set showmode ruler
" turn off a new vim 8 default
set scrolloff=0"AI Taint" you mean code that is written better and faster than humans? I've been programming since 2002 and I consider myself a better than average programmer and I have no problem admitting that using Claude Code has dramatically improved the quality and speed of my output.
Genuine question but is it really your output anymore?
There are projects where the output is all what matters for example (Some script/basic project-prototyping/idea-validation) and then there are outputs where you want to feel the ownership "my code, my software"
AI has definitely tainted the latter and depressed people into not releasing source code anymore because they feel like AI will just train on it/ AI issues and even read the Sam and matplotlib on that whole controversy. So in my opinion, AI has definitely tainted some pretty valuable priceless things.
Honest question: why would anyone use Vim and not NeoVim nowadays? I've switched what, 12 years ago? And I've never had to look back. Just curious, to be honest. Especially since neovim is full of new features, while the Vim9 scripting language kind of tanked