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by justinmk 79 days ago
Changing default mappings is not a "breaking" change.
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tovej 78 days ago
It is. And iirc, neovim themselves mark them as such.
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justinmk 78 days ago
We may mention them in `:help news-breaking` for visibility, but that's only because I don't care about pedantry. API breakage != UI changes (e.g. mappings).
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tovej 78 days ago
API breakage != UI breakage, yes, ofc. Because API != UI.

But the UI is also an interface, and the user is part of the total system. That system interface is broken if you change default mappings.

It doesn't matter if the interfacing component is software or a user.

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