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Re:Neovim by kansface on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:43PM (#7279287)
Bram shows no interest in these sorts of things. Frequently, devs post to the vim mailing with a month or two of work on some new feature with no comment from the BDFL.
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Re:Neovim by iso8859-1 on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:14PM (#7279482)
So why don't all these people get together and fork?
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Re:Neovim by gkya on Friday February 21, 2014 @06:25PM (#7280145)
I have only superficially browsed vim sources some months ago. Vim source code is literally disgusting. The number of platforms vim runs on is close to Avogadro's number. It supports 5 or sth languages for customisation. I always had in my mind to fork the thing and remove all those languages, and strip off the compatibility stuff so it will be a pure Unix program, but I never got to do it.

Also, the source repository contains binary (.a, .dll) files, which I did not inspect. I always search the web for an alternative editor when I somehow browse the vim source repository.

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Re:Neovim by count on Friday February 21, 2014 @09:47PM (#7280784)
The stripped down version is called 'vi' :)
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Re:Neovim by gkya on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:18PM (#7280970)
Well, I decided I'll play with acme* editor a little bit, if I can't get on well with it, I'll probably go that way.

* http://research.swtch.com/acme

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