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Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

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Re: Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

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Post by chairmanwow »

xwvvvvwx wrote: post #2

Slow, incremental, consistent, disciplined hard work leads to amazing results. Congratulations and huge thanks to the maintainers, I use neovim every day and love it.

I read that article and didn't get a good handle on any features that would motivate a transition from Vim. Any links you could provide?

Re: Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

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Post by JoshTriplett »

virtualwhys wrote: post #3

For better or worse they awoke the sleeping giant[1]. Curious to see how things play out with the fork (i.e. will vim users stay put or move on to neovim in the coming months/years). [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors

It's unfortunate that vim introduced similar features for managing running processes, but in a completely incompatible way, such that one vim module can't easily support both.

Re: Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

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Post by JoshTriplett »

chairmanwow wrote: post #4
xwvvvvwx wrote: post #2

Slow, incremental, consistent, disciplined hard work leads to amazing results. Congratulations and huge thanks to the maintainers, I use neovim every day and love it.

I read that article and didn't get a good handle on any features that would motivate a transition from Vim. Any links you could provide?

:term to run a terminal in a vim window.

Also, much more sensible defaults.

Re: Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

#7

Post by erikb »

chairmanwow wrote: post #4
xwvvvvwx wrote: post #2

Slow, incremental, consistent, disciplined hard work leads to amazing results. Congratulations and huge thanks to the maintainers, I use neovim every day and love it.

I read that article and didn't get a good handle on any features that would motivate a transition from Vim. Any links you could provide?

Same here. Scrolled through it and the only thing I got is that there is a command called ":smile" which is not worth switching to me.

Doesn't mean there is none, it's just hard to find.

Re: Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

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Post by rrradical »

virtualwhys wrote: post #3

For better or worse they awoke the sleeping giant[1]. Curious to see how things play out with the fork (i.e. will vim users stay put or move on to neovim in the coming months/years). [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/graphs/contributors

I'm not sure how it could be 'for worse'? Even Neovim benefits from the uptick in Vim patches, because they actually merge many of them into Neovim. So it seems like it can only be a good thing. Better editors for everyone.

Re: Newsletter #7 - Summer of Road

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Post by brotherjerky »

chairmanwow wrote: post #4
xwvvvvwx wrote: post #2

Slow, incremental, consistent, disciplined hard work leads to amazing results. Congratulations and huge thanks to the maintainers, I use neovim every day and love it.

I read that article and didn't get a good handle on any features that would motivate a transition from Vim. Any links you could provide?

For me, I like:

- Neomake ( https://github.com/neomake/neomake ) which I use for async linting. I know this is now working in Vim 8, but I've been using Neovim for a while and this was exclusive for a while.

- Vim-test ( https://github.com/janko-m/vim-test ) uses `:term` for running your tests from within vim -- this is most useful because I have a shortcut to test from current editing file, etc. I know this is also possible in vim now.

- Mapping Meta keys in terminal -- opens up a bunch more shortcuts that weren't available before

- `inccommand` This I believe is only in neovim, and likely not enough for anyone to switch for

Cons: - Not in distros, gotta install manually via their PPA

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