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Re: neovim (Was: Editor learning curves)

From gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
Newsgroups comp.editors
Subject Re: neovim (Was: Editor learning curves)
Date 2026-04-06 15:15 +0000
Organization The official candy of the new Millennium
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In article <10r0g8n$in2o$3@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
...
>A friend not long ago made positive comment about Neovim. So I
>inspected its "features" (or notable differences) list just to
>recognize that it provides nothing at all new and relevant for
>me as an editor user.
>
>I seem to recall that some folks wanted features in Vim that
>Bram had rejected, and so they decided to create an own variant
>of Vi.
>
>The same effect you see if someone is enthusiastic by some own
>idea and decides to create an own completely new variant of some
>product. This focus-splitting behavior for own satisfaction I
>generally consider not to be the best decision for the community.

Very interesting.  Thanks for posting.

I agree with what you wrote.

Note, BTW, that I've made lots of changes to both bash and GAWK at the
source code level for my own purposes, but I've never felt an urge to
create any kind of official fork.

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  The Emacs spiral (Was: Editor learning curves) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-04 21:16 +0000
  Re: Editor learning curves Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2026-04-05 15:39 +0000
    Re: Editor learning curves Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-05 21:47 +0000
      neovim (Was: Editor learning curves) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-05 22:18 +0000
        Re: neovim (Was: Editor learning curves) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-06 16:33 +0200
          Re: neovim (Was: Editor learning curves) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-06 15:15 +0000

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