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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 shrewdsheep on Tuesday September 13 2016, @09:04AM
Your experience seconded. In principle, I am agnostic to emacs/vi. However, I do use vi because, first, like for yourself it took me half an hour to read the help just to safe a file and exist emacs several times and vi was easier for me at the time, and second, vi seems to be more broadly installed (remember a bare non-booting NextStep machine for which vi was the only hope). Nano seems to be what I would have liked all along - it seems I am too deeply entrenched by now.