Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by Philipp__ on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:17PM (#16268618)

Wow, just gave iTerm2 Nightly with Metal renderer a spin! Holy shiet it's fast and smooth! FINALY! Opened 20k C file in Vim (stock vim 8 that comes with macOS High Sierra), pushed that scroll down and let it roll, it was soooo smooth! Amazing!

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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by bhoeting on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:49PM (#16270708)

I tried it after reading this comment. You weren't kidding. Unfortunately, my Vim isn't rendering properly. About 10 lines in the middle of the screen are blank for some reason. Both in and out of Tmux. Oh well. I'm just happy that I can look forward to Metal rendering being merged into stable.

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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by neoncontrails on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:32PM (#16271069)

Not sure if it's the same issue I had recently with iTerm2 periodically going black, but consider disabling the Core Text renderer with the following command:

$ defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMUseCGLayerAlways -bool YES

This was the developers' suggestion and it solved my issue. There's an informative discussion of the root causes here: https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/557.

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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by bhoeting on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:30PM (#16276786)

Hmm, that didn't see to work for me. I think I have a different issue. Thanks, though!

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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by wyclif on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:36PM (#16270662)

Is there a way to install that with homebrew?

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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by bhoeting on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:40PM (#16270675)

    brew cask install iterm2-nightly

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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by myko on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @09:06PM (#16270762)

I had to:

    brew tap caskroom/versions

as well

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Re:Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] by wyclif on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:13AM (#16271867)

Thanks guys, I was a bit embarrassed to ask that question but I suspected the answer wasn't quite intuitive.

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