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Vim 8.0 Released

posted by takyon on Monday September 12 2016, @10:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the asynchronous-release dept.

CoolHand writes:

Vim 8.0 has been released. This is the first major Vim release in 10 years.

New features include:

  • Asynchronous I/O support, channels, JSON
  • Jobs
  • Timers
  • Partials, Lambdas and Closures
  • Packages
  • New style testing
  • Viminfo merged by timestamp
  • GTK+ 3 support
  • MS-Windows DirectX support

Even if Neovim never becomes status quo in the vi world, has the competition at least given Vim developers a shot in the arm?

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 13 2016, @02:55PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @02:55PM (#401322)

    Ouch.

    For anybody wondering, to dismiss a help screen, Ctrl-k [enter] will do it as long as point is still in the buffer.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:38PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:38PM (#401347)

    Um, my comment was more on help systems should tell newbies how to exit the help system. Not that I don't know how to close a help window.

    And keep in mind this was 90/91, I'm sure Emacs has changed quite a bit since then.

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    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 13 2016, @06:06PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @06:06PM (#401422)

      Not that vi is any better in that regard...at least if you open a file in emacs the cursor keys work and when you type some characters it probably does what you expect.

      vi has two modes -- "beep repeatedly" and "break everything"

      - editor wars [wikipedia.org]

      Anyway, personal preference and all that.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 15 2016, @02:39PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday September 15 2016, @02:39PM (#402290)

    Grah, make that Ctrl-x k [enter].

    Ctrl-k is delete to end of line :P

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