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by semisight 3879 days ago
Good to see this project making progress, but I don't see a changelog. What's new?
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fmoralesc 3879 days ago
There will be a post commenting on the release later this week, but the main things are:

- neovim now follows the XDG spec: ~/.vimrc is now ~/.config/nvim/init.vim, etc.

- the viminfo files were replaced by a new system, "shada" (for shared data)

- lots of default settings have changed so it is more sensible[^1] by default

The rest is all the new features (when compared with vim):

- async execution (`jobstart()` et al),

- the extensions to the plugin system, so plugins can run truly asynchronously,

- the rpc api, that allows for extended clients.

I might be fogetting some things, but these are imho the most outstanding things.

[^1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible

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icholy 3879 days ago
There's also the "Smart UI protocol" http://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/
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fmoralesc 3879 days ago
Yes, but that is not yet implemented. I'm really waiting for that, though!
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z1mm32m4n 3879 days ago
I've been using NeoVim for a while now and have been all in all pretty impressed.

One thing I haven't been able to get to work though has been asynchronous plugins. It'd be great if I could get syntastic running in the background. Are there any good articles to read about getting this up and running?

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brynedwards 3879 days ago
The idea is that the plugins themselves implement asynchronous functionality. Neomake is a new plugin that checks syntax just like syntastic, but does so asynchronously. Another popular async plugin is vim-plug.

https://github.com/benekastah/neomake

https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

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RexRollman 3879 days ago
"neovim now follows the XDG spec"

Speaking as someone who only runs straight window managers and Xterms, I hate that XDG bullshit.

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privong 3879 days ago
> Good to see this project making progress, but I don't see a changelog. What's new?

This appears to be the first release, so there's no previous neovim release to issue a changelog against.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases

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heinrich5991 3879 days ago
One could write a changelog against vim though.
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justinmk 3879 days ago
This command will show documentation for that:

    :help vim-differences
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dignati 3879 days ago
I can't find one either but this issue filter should be helpful: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues?q=milestone%3A0.1-fi...
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