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Vim 8.0 released

Vim 8.0 released

Posted Sep 14, 2016 12:18 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Vim 8.0 released by jpnp
Parent article: Vim 8.0 released

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).

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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


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