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by vr46 2376 days ago
I switched to NeoVim a few years ago and I'm not entirely sure whether Vim has caught up in features, diverged, or what ratio of the two. That said, I'm not switching back. The only editor I'm really interested in is VSCode. Not that I use it much, but I am very impressed.
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onebot 2375 days ago
> That said, I'm not switching back.

Me either.

If you go back to early stories of Bram, the BDFL, when others tried to add Neovim features to vim. He wasn't onboard. Not to discount all the amazing contributions he has done and his importance. But I just think it is karma.

Here is another hacker news post discussing the backstory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12481084

Here is a bit of shade tossed on the Neovim project back in 2014 by Bram: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/vim_dev/x0BF9Y0Uby...

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mempko 2374 days ago
If you read Thiagos's message about job/channel features you will notice a couple of points he made.

1. NeoVim made the channel/job feature first, so vim should follow it. 2. Vim's design is broken. 3. Bram should write new features for NeoVim first, why no PR's Bram?? Why no PRs to neovim?

Thiago is clearly an asshole. Sorry but I think Bram was reasonable and polite with his responses. His opinion about NeoVim's version is that it was too complicated, and he was right.

The problem is NeoVim started off on the wrong foot trying to throw away decades of work and then expecting Bram to implement new vim features? Seriously Thiago?

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Devagamster 2375 days ago
May I interest you in https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim which let's you use some of the most popular bits of vs code in neovim
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WorldMaker 2375 days ago
In the other direction the VSCodeVim plugin has options to experimentally use Neovim to power some vim features inside of VS Code.

https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim

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onebot 2375 days ago
I use this with neovim, it is very nice. So far so good.
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petre 2375 days ago
I still use both but lately Neovim just works better although I think it uses more memory. It could be the appimage though. Most of the extensions that I use in Neovim are written in VimL (Pathogen and Lightline and the Monokai Tasty color scheme). In some terminals (Xfce term) nvim messes up vim paste until you reset the term. It's very annoying.
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