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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, @02:43AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @02:43AM (#401085)

    I should clarify before I potentially get roasted. I run cygwin under Win10. Ctags + vim in this environment utterly fail for both Python and Java. As of maybe a year ago, when I last tried to get it to work on Java. Longer for Python.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @05:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @05:11AM (#401134)

    I run cygwin under Win10.

    YOU SHOULD USE LINUX BECAUSE WINDOWS SUCKS AND MICROSOFT SUCKS AND YOU SUCK.

  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday September 13 2016, @07:55AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Tuesday September 13 2016, @07:55AM (#401184) Homepage Journal

    I should clarify before I potentially get roasted. I run cygwin under Win10. Ctags + vim in this environment utterly fail for both Python and Java. As of maybe a year ago, when I last tried to get it to work on Java. Longer for Python.

    have you considered native Windows Emacs [sourceforge.net] instead? It has all the features of vim (with vim key bindings [emacswiki.org] if you like), as well as Exuberant CTags [sourceforge.net] which can even be called from within emacs.

    In fact, once you open emacs, you never have to leave. You can read mail, browse the web, bake cookies, order pizza, control your Fleshlight™, mix margaritas and binge watch Knight Rider [wikipedia.org] (emacs users *love* David Hasselhoff!).

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