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

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 Snotnose on Tuesday September 13 2016, @02:22AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @02:22AM (#401075)

    Wow. Guess I've been holding some angst in for some 25 years or so. I remember being pissed as hell when Kathleen (yeah, I remember her name, her cat hated me, she dated some dude I thought was a total douche, wouldn't date me) told me about the super sekrit config file they all loved, but didn't realize I held onto it for 25 years.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:48PM (#401390)

    Dude Snotnose, you just make me want to give you a hug. We feel your pain. We all have stories. You're safe with us (well.... maybe...), we commiserate.

    Maybe we should go all confession-time-slash-dailywtf?

    One time I spent a month wondering why my unit would run in tests but not on production hardware. Turns out the boilerplate I'd been told to "just copy over" had a Magic Number that had to be incremented each time it was copy-pasta'd. I found out through a convoluted multi-process gdb session (nothing quite like single-stepping slowly along a rotation processess, checking a set of other processes for watchpoint breaks due to IPC). When I reported it solved I got a big fat "oh you didn't just increment the magic number? that was stupid of you!" Nowhere had this been documented.

    Needless to say, the company folded.

    Anyone else to share some catharsis?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @12:18AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @12:18AM (#401527)

      Sounds like they had interprocess communication figured out, but not interpersonal communication.