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

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @04:27PM   
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."

• Re:For the 21st century? (Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Friday March 21 2014, @09:21AM

  by TheRaven (270) on Friday March 21 2014, @09:21AM (#19204) Journal

  25MB? My Vim binary is 1.9MB. The vim runtime directory is 30MB, but the big parts of that are:

  • 8.MB of localisation files (which you don't need if you only want one language) and
  • 3.8MB of spell checking dictionaries
  • 6.5MB of docs (how much documentation does Notepad++ have?)
  • 2MB of vim tutor (basically more documentation)
  • 5.3MB of syntax highlighting definitions for various languages.
  • 1.8MB of autoload scripts, including remote file I/O, compressed file I/O and some things like the PHP syntax highligting thing that switches between PHP and HTML modes on boundaries.

  The rest comes to a total of 2.6MB. If you don't want documentation, localisation, or spell checking, it's under 5MB.

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