Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
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Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
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Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#2For those who, like me, had never heard of Ex-mode:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/Vim/Mod...
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#3For those who, like me, had never heard of Ex-mode: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/Vim/Mod...
aka "Oh, that's the key I have been hitting by accident"
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#4Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#5I've been using vim for 7 years and I've never even attempted to use this mode. Am I missing out?
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#6Removing pretty powerful feature just because author of fork doesn't use it sounds… well, actually author of fork can remove whatever he likes, but presenting neovim like "refactord vim with more features" isn't fair or even plausible in this case. And for what reasons? Oh, I see, it makes code complicated. Did he think vim'c codebase is scary for no reason? Removing all the code from vim would be the ultimate simplification in that case. It's not popular feature? Well, I believe that there can still be more vim users that don't use macros, maybe remove them as well? Or maybe just replace vim with nano?
I, personally, used ex-mode only a couple of times, so even if I will use neovim I don't think I would care. But that just doesn't sound like a right think to do.
Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#7Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#8For those who, like me, had never heard of Ex-mode: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/Vim/Mod...
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Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
#9Good riddance. It's cruft. I've used it exactly twice, and never was it something I couldn't have done on the command line. It might be useful on Windows, I'm not sure? But if you're on a *nix, there really isn't any point.