[haberman]

> Neovim is being sold as a VIM refactor, but apparently with no new functionality

Where did you get that idea? When I read the project page (https://github.com/neovim/neovim), two of the explicit goals are:

"Enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source.

"Improve the extensibility power with a new plugin architecture based on coprocesses. Plugins will be written in any programming language without any explicit support from the editor. "

It is exactly designed to be a playground for new features, but with the goal of them not having to be in the core.

[pit]

The original mailing list message says:

"There's a new project that is called Neovim that seeks to refactor and modernize the codebase"

[zimbatm]

That's the necessary step 1 to allow further enhancements

[username223]

"Try blue - it's the new red!"

Someone should try to make some money replacing tabs with spaces and snake_case with camelCase.

[pit]

The original mailing list post says:

"There's a new project that is called Neovim that seeks to refactor and modernize the codebase."