| - It is a fork of Vim.
- It is omitting some features.
- It is adding a number of high level features.
- It will not be fully backwards compatible. Prefixing 'new' to the name of the forked project is as lazy as it can get [1]. 'Neo' is one step from that. Vim itself wouldn't be a good name if it was just meaning "Vi iMproved", but 'Vim' is also a dictionary word meaning "energy; enthusiasm". A positive dictionary word, and a pseudo-acronym. That works well. The dictionary has many words that start with Vi, or have it as a substring: http://www.scrabblefinder.com/starts-with/vi/ While just using a dictionary word may be a bit lazy, it is the allusion I was referring to in my previous comment. It would be an allusion to Vim also being a dictionary word, chosen because it starts with 'vi'. The cycle of improvement would continue. For example, 'Vigor' would be a decent name, as "Vim and Vigor"[2] are a common phrase. Definitely not saying that should be the name, but it's a path to try and see what the community might like. [1]: The laziest is Nintendo's "New 3DS": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Nintendo_3DS
[2]: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vim+and+vigor |