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Re:Vim 8.0 released by flukus on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:18AM (#12485603)
Look at the linked mailing list thread. It wasn't rejected, there were several adjustments for coding conventions, naming, etc and the last thing Bram mentioned was basically "we'll consider it".

Then the developer threw a hissy fit a few days later and created a fork because his patch wasn't accepted right away.

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Re:Vim 8.0 released by VarFarYonder on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:09AM (#12487368)
> Then the developer threw a hissy fit a few days later and created a fork because his patch wasn't accepted right away.

According to the Geoff Greer, they didn't fork Vim. The fork happened a couple of months after their patch wasn't accepted, and they joined: "A couple of months after my disillusionment with Vim, Thiago de Arruda submitted a similar patch. It was likewise rejected. But unlike me, Thiago didn’t give up. He started NeoVim and created a Bountysource for it." http://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-v...

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Re:Vim 8.0 released by brazzledazzle on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @01:06AM (#12485753)
I remember when that went down and I was sympathetic. It was a shit show and a total waste of their time. I would have been angry enough to start a competing project too.
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