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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 Appalbarry on Tuesday September 13 2016, @02:38AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @02:38AM (#401083) Journal

    I'd never call myself a true neckbeard, but a month or so back I found myself in situation where I actually wound up using vi (or vim - honestly don't recall) for the first time, and found it fairly easy to grok, and felt right at home.

    Maybe it's because I long ago mastered a substantial chunk of WordPerfect's keyboard shortcuts (Acerson anyone?), or even some loooong buried memories of WordStar, but I found that the essentials of vi just felt quite natural.

    I still feel that GUI interfaces are slower and more cumbersome for many things.

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