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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @04:22PM (#401370)

    > all of these keys turn into directional arrows like vi is a video game and you need to find the secret keys that can destroy the letters before moving on to the boss stage where you figure out how to save, or do anything else.

    That sounds really fun! You're saying I could do this AT WORK under guise of "I need a text editor to write code"?!

    OMG - maybe I could find a way to get nethack to output C. It only compiles when the amulet of yendor is worn?

    Thanks for this cool advice, I'll grab vim asap to play around with!