Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim

Re:Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim by hrokr on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:29AM (#37524541)

It's interesting that the increase in Vim commits is concurrent with the fist release of NeoVim. They've certainly both been good for each other and I'm hoping this won't change with Bram's passing.

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Re:Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim by The_Colonel on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:32PM (#37525651)

Vim was mostly a one man show. I doubt it will be meaningully developed apart from bugfixes and such.

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Re:Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim by arp242 on Friday September 15, 2023 @01:07PM (#37526153)

> Vim was mostly a one man show.

No, it wasn't, and hasn't been since the 90s (most of the gvim code was written by others back in the day, to give an example of a large body of code not written by Bram). There have been many people contributing, and some of them for years.

Yes, Bram was the BFDL and the only one committing patches, but don't confuse that with "one man show".

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Re:Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim by The_Colonel on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:30PM (#37527299)

There were of courses patches by other people, but most big features were driven by him. Do you have some example of a big feature more recent than 20 years old gvim?

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Re:Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim by arp242 on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:38PM (#37527411)

Most of the multibyte from the last few years for example.

Bram didn't really record these things very well until quite recently (and even then, rather inconsistently) by just listing the author in the commit message rather than the git author field, so there's no easy way to check.

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Re:Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim by turndown on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:19PM (#37529258)

Forking is usually good for the community around a piece of software but I struggle to find who made this argument originally

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Re:Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim by kaba0 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:58AM (#37533156)

I think it is only good when the software has slowed down development. Otherwise it just needlessly splits the community.

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Re:Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim by goku12 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @12:55AM (#37541645)

Specifically in the case of vim, Bram took decisions that forced the community to choose one or the other. Like the implementation of async and the choice of a second extension language.

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