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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by figgis on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:07AM (#14693481)
If it works in vim it should work in neovim?
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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by clishem on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:41AM (#14695497)
It was forked before vim 8.0 was released and neovim doesn't try to keep its fork compatible with vim. Consequently it is not.
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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by justinmk on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:47PM (#14696892)
> neovim doesn't try to keep its fork compatible with vim.

Nvim tracks all Vim patches[1]. _Only_ the job-control API differs. All other Vim patches are merged into Nvim reguarly, including new Vimscript features like partials, lambdas, etc.

Nearly all 7.4.x patches (except for job-control) have been merged:

https://neovim.io/doc/reports/vimpatch/

Hundreds of 8.0.x patches have been merged also, but they won't be in that report until we finish the last couple 7.4.x patches.

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Merging-patches-from-u...

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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by davidbanham on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:23AM (#14693706)
It doesn't work in my neovim, sadly.

Lots of errors. Most common seems to be:

E117: Unknown function: funcref

And similar.

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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by justinmk on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:50PM (#14696915)
funcref() is in Nvim 0.2. Old versions of Vim also don't have funcref() ...
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