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NeoVim: Vim's Re-birth for the 21st Century

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @04:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the cue-vim-emacs-war-in-5-4-3-2-1 dept.

Hell_Rok writes:

"Neovim is an effort to aggressively re-factor the Vim source code and improve on:

  • It will provide first class support for embedding.
  • It lets you extend the editor in any programming language.
  • It supports more powerful GUIs.
  • Vim plugins will work with it.

Hosted on Bounty Source it has reached $25,500 of it's goal of $10,000, although there are still 3 days to reach further stretch goals! You can view the projects current progress and even pitch in over at GitHub. As someone who has started using Vim full-time over the last 6 months I feel that this is a very good project for the longevity of Vim."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by isostatic on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:19PM

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:19PM (#18963) Journal

    Eight megabytes and constantly swapping? No thanks, I like my text editor lean and mean.

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  • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:25PM

    by buswolley (848) on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:25PM (#18967)

    /sarcasm?

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by DNied on Thursday March 20 2014, @10:45PM

      by DNied (3409) on Thursday March 20 2014, @10:45PM (#19094)

      /sarcasm?

      I sure hope so. "Lean" is about the last word that comes to mind when thinking of Vim. Gimme Nvi any day of the week (I'm even using it to type this post!)

  • (Score: 2) by lx on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:01PM

    by lx (1915) on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:01PM (#18984)

    I can still (vaguely) remember a time when 8 megabytes was a lot of memory. Like six floppies [tumblr.com].

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:30PM (#19006)

      If you've ever worked with 8-bit or 16-bit microcontrollers it still is!

  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday March 21 2014, @09:01AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday March 21 2014, @09:01AM (#19197) Journal
    Escape Meta Alt Control Shift? I prefer an editor designed for human hands...
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    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday March 21 2014, @09:23AM

      by isostatic (365) on Friday March 21 2014, @09:23AM (#19207) Journal

      Quite, hence using vim with caps lock mapped to escape. Hands never move far.