Vim 8.0 released [LWN.net]

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 13, 2016 11:06 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576)
Parent article: Vim 8.0 released

Damn there's some good stuff here. Async I/O in particular should make a number of more complex plugins significantly less painful (and in some cases, less impossible). To be honest I didn't realise Vim was getting this level of development.

Also:
>When no vimrc file is found ... Vim no longer starts up in Vi compatible mode
And there was much rejoicing.

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Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 13, 2016 13:50 UTC (Tue) by jhoblitt (guest, #77733) [Link] (1 responses)

Does the new asynchronous support mean that something like neomake is now possible?

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 13, 2016 14:18 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

It looks like it should do, although obviously plugins will need to be updated to support it, which could take a long time.

I'm also hoping for things like being able to run pep8 when saving, which currently blocks the UI for too long to be a realistic option unless you're running on a super powerful machine.

Actually there are quite a few checkers that I have running at save, where blocking for a second or two isn't too awful, which perhaps will be able to run near-continuously in the glorious async future.

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2016 12:02 UTC (Wed) by jpnp (guest, #63341) [Link] (2 responses)

I don't think it was, until, frustrated by the fact that patches for features such as async were being turned down, Neovim forked the code and set about some major refactoring as well as adding new features. This element of competition does seem to have spurred the development of the original vim on.

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2016 12:18 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

Not to mention that Neovim, IIRC, dropped support for…obscure things like EBCDIC, old OS support, uses things like C99, etc. and is apparently a nicer place to develop in (the few times I've been in the Vim codebase were, thankfully, brief).

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2016 23:19 UTC (Wed) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844) [Link]

The release notes for Vim 8.0 mention that support for OS/2, MS-DOS and 16 bit Windows (95 and older) has been removed. The reason given for DOS removal is that "Vim doesn't fit in memory" :D