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Vim 8.0 Released

Accepted submission by CoolHand https://Soylentnews.org/~CoolHand at 2016-09-12 14:02:23
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CoolHand [soylentnews.org] writes:

Vim 8.0 has been released [google.com]. 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 [neovim.io] 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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