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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 NotSanguine on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:20AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:20AM (#401102) Homepage Journal

    Do not forget to double the >

    What? That's just crazy talk!

    Next you'll be telling him to make sure to put a '.' when doing an 'rm -rf ./'

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @05:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @05:27AM (#401139)

    It doesn't matter anyway because you wrote cat instead of echo.

    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday September 13 2016, @07:06AM

      by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Tuesday September 13 2016, @07:06AM (#401163) Homepage Journal

      It doesn't matter anyway because you wrote cat instead of echo.

      And so I did. It absolutely should have been
      $ echo "export EDITOR=/bin/nano" >> ~/.bashrc

      Thank you AC.

      I know you just wrote that to be snarky, but I still appreciate it.

      You have my gratitude. Come on over and I'll slip you the tongue! Smooches! :)

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      No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr