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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: 4, Insightful) by Marand on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:10AM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:10AM (#401097) Journal

    I forgot to also note that this isn't exactly obscure, arcane *nix knowledge or anything. From crontab's manpage:

    The -e option is used to edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VIS‐
    UAL or EDITOR environment variables. After you exit from the editor, the modified
    crontab will be installed automatically. If neither of the environment variables is
    defined, then the default editor /usr/bin/editor is used.

    So, you've been annoyed by this problem long enough to rant about it online and talk about how big an issue it is, but apparently never even tried to look for a solution.

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