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posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @12:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the cue-vim-emacs-war-in-5-4-3-2-1 dept.

Hell_Rok writes:

"Neovim is an effort to aggressively re-factor the Vim source code and improve on:

  • It will provide first class support for embedding.
  • It lets you extend the editor in any programming language.
  • It supports more powerful GUIs.
  • Vim plugins will work with it.

Hosted on Bounty Source it has reached $25,500 of it's goal of $10,000, although there are still 3 days to reach further stretch goals! You can view the projects current progress and even pitch in over at GitHub. As someone who has started using Vim full-time over the last 6 months I feel that this is a very good project for the longevity of Vim."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @12:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @12:40PM (#18942)

    Yep. Emacs is clearly superior and kicking Vi(m)'s ass.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:07PM (#18955)

    Can NeoVim finally be the decent text editor that Emacs has been missing to be a complete OS?

    • (Score: 0, Redundant) by JohnnyComputer on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:09PM

      by JohnnyComputer (3502) on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:09PM (#18958)

      This is sort of funny. +1 man.

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:22PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:22PM (#18998) Homepage

      Unnecessary: You can already run vim inside of emacs, by using "M-x term". Emacs will prompt you with "Run program:", and then you enter in /usr/bin/vim (or wherever you have one), and poof, you now have vim running in emacs.

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      • (Score: 2, Funny) by rufty on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:05PM

        by rufty (381) on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:05PM (#19101)

        So what I need is M-x term find / -type f -name emacs | xargs rm -f ???

      • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday March 21 2014, @05:31AM

        by isostatic (365) on Friday March 21 2014, @05:31AM (#19211)

        That's fine, as I can the type !emacs from vim, and up pops emacs.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by isostatic on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:19PM

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:19PM (#18963)

    Eight megabytes and constantly swapping? No thanks, I like my text editor lean and mean.

    • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:25PM

      by buswolley (848) on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:25PM (#18967)

      /sarcasm?

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      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by DNied on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:45PM

        by DNied (3409) on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:45PM (#19094) Homepage

        /sarcasm?

        I sure hope so. "Lean" is about the last word that comes to mind when thinking of Vim. Gimme Nvi any day of the week (I'm even using it to type this post!)

    • (Score: 2) by lx on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:01PM

      by lx (1915) on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:01PM (#18984)

      I can still (vaguely) remember a time when 8 megabytes was a lot of memory. Like six floppies [tumblr.com].

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:30PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:30PM (#19006)

        If you've ever worked with 8-bit or 16-bit microcontrollers it still is!

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday March 21 2014, @05:01AM

      by TheRaven (270) on Friday March 21 2014, @05:01AM (#19197) Journal
      Escape Meta Alt Control Shift? I prefer an editor designed for human hands...
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      • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday March 21 2014, @05:23AM

        by isostatic (365) on Friday March 21 2014, @05:23AM (#19207)

        Quite, hence using vim with caps lock mapped to escape. Hands never move far.