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by jbermudes 4083 days ago
Now that vim is on github, I think it'd be cool if eventually the vim logic/model could be abstracted into a library that could then be used by any text editor to instantly provide the basic vim experience without all the edge cases that current reproductions tend to have.
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neovim is trying to do just that via libuv -- https://github.com/neovim/neovim
Honestly that's the most exciting part of neovim, but with the current milestone (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/milestones/libnvim), libnvim might be a few seasons away
It'd be cool to see native vim commands for browsing / email clients etc, not sure of the point behind adding it to a text editor. Seems like a good way to lose users to the real thing in a slow hurry.