Hadn't heard of nvim until today.
Can anyone sell me on this project? I looked at the homepage and README, but they're both pretty hand-wavey.
What problems does nvim solve for experienced vim users?
Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
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Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, rant and occasional surprise aside, I've found evil-mode to truly be a better implementation of vi than vim itself, at least where it concerns me (as formerly a pretty advanced vim user and plugin developer, it took me some adapting to stop using all the ex vim idioms and the like.) It's faster to handle big files and execute macros, overall snappier and has a profoundly better %s///g with real time preview. I…
Thanks for the insight, much appreciated. Out of curiosity, what do you mean by 'verbosity' in this case? I just Googled and it looks like Elisp uses the same (lambda (arg ) form ) syntax, like CL---is this what you're referring to?
Lexical binding is a "new" feature for elisp. See:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LexicalBinding
...for some of the issues.
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#93Hadn't heard of nvim until today. Can anyone sell me on this project? I looked at the homepage and README, but they're both pretty hand-wavey. What problems does nvim solve for experienced vim users?
Search Neovim in the Hacker news search, there was a lengthy discussion less then a year ago here.
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#94Removing "NeoVim" from the title removed the context as well. As it is, the title doesn't make any sense.
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#95Removing "NeoVim" from the title removed the context as well. As it is, the title doesn't make any sense.
We put it back. The real problem here is that "neovim" doesn't show in the domain, which is part of the title row. "github.com" is far too generic to be meaningful. We may experiment with making the domain say, e.g., "github.com/neovim" for github.com and one or two other popular sites.
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I usually record my throwaway macros to q (because hitting qq is so easy), so I've bound Q to 'call the most recently defined macro'. I would post something to put in your .vimrc, but I use the vim emulator evil-mode in Emacs. This way, I can skip the awkward @q step, and keep hitting Q instead of @@ to re-run the macro.
I use for this. It's very gratifying, mashing the spacebar to repeat a macro.
using space for the leader is one thing that I absolutely love... I was using , for it but space is so much easier and nicer to use. you are not limited to one finger to start the leader command so it makes both sides of the keyboard nice to use for leader chords.
it only took about a week to retrain myself for it.
here's the command... put it at the top of your vimrc before anything else so it works with your plugins.
let mapleader=" "
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
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I'm the project founder and also dislike it. I admit it was one of the first things that came to my head(The name was inspired by some of @Shougo plugins). If I knew the project would get so popular, I would have put more thought into it. Too late now :( I hope eventually the community will just use the 'nvim' abbreviation to refer to Neovim, just like 'vim' is 'vi improved' abbreviated
Considering that there's already an "nvi", that might be confusing... but I agree, a name change may be warranted. (personally I like it) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi
There isn't usually too much confusion, at least among users, about the different between vi and vim. Also, have never heard of nvi, whereas nvim seems like it's going places.
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use for this. It's very gratifying, mashing the spacebar to repeat a macro.
using space for the leader is one thing that I absolutely love... I was using , for it but space is so much easier and nicer to use. you are not limited to one finger to start the leader command so it makes both sides of the keyboard nice to use for leader chords. it only took about a week to retrain myself for it. here's the command... put it at the top of your vimrc before anything else so it works with your plugin…
Hm, this is actually a really neat idea. I'm going to try this!
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#99Removing "NeoVim" from the title removed the context as well. As it is, the title doesn't make any sense.
We put it back. The real problem here is that "neovim" doesn't show in the domain, which is part of the title row. "github.com" is far too generic to be meaningful. We may experiment with making the domain say, e.g., "github.com/neovim" for github.com and one or two other popular sites.
That would definitely help.