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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:30AM (#401122)

    What I'm waiting for is for crontab and all the other utilities to have nano swapped into it instead of vi. At the moment the only thing in vi worth knowing to me is x:x[enter] to force crontab to apply my changes after removing the whitespace character I left in nano.

    What whitespace character? Are you saying you're not using nano -L ?

           -L (--nonewlines)
                  Don't add newlines to the ends of files.

    So basically, you don't know how to use nano either?

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