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by dmos62 3337 days ago
I tried jumping boat to nvim something like a year ago. One of my plugins ran into an issue, so I came back. A better question for us "old-vimers" is not "is nvim stable, because I'd like something modernized", but rather "what does nvim have that vim doesnt". I'm actually asking. My short glance led me to believe that it's got two things going for it: a) smoother interop with other "modern" tools b) cleaned up codebase.

I'm using the word "modern" in a derogatory fashion to underline that we often mistake new for good.
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placeybordeaux 3337 days ago
The major reason I use neovim is because with the addition of :terminal command I no longer need to remember tmux commands and with the add-on neoterm I have a one button command to send the current selection (or line) to whatever terminal I please.

This means that when developing code in any language that has a REPL I can test it out as I develop line by line.

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yamaneko 3337 days ago
I've been looking for something like this in vim for a while (something like Emacs + ESS). I've found a few plugins and workarounds using tmux, but nothing as smooth as you said. I'll try it out.
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thomastjeffery 3337 days ago
AFAIK, the main feature neovim will have is the ability to replace viml with lua wherever you want to.

According to the roadmap[1], lua will be built-in in 0.3.

[1] https://neovim.io/roadmap/

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apazzolini 3337 days ago
inccommand is one of the coolest features I've seen. I haven't made the switch to nvim yet, but this is high up on the reasons to do so for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9dME3l-iQ

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chousuke 3337 days ago
I switched to neovim for faster syntax checking with Neomake. Syntastic with vim was unusably slow.

I don't know if anything has improved with vim since (probably, with 8.0), but I have no reason to go back, either.

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mcjiggerlog 3337 days ago
I got frustrated with how slow syntastic was too, but I have just upgraded 8.0 and have switched to using https://github.com/w0rp/ale for asynchronous linting and it's working very well.
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ramy_d 3337 days ago
I'm interested in neovim as well and I think you're asking a legitimate question. I would also add that if neovim is developer-friendly(er?) then that could also be a reason.
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