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Re:Neovim by chongli on Friday February 21, 2014 @05:35PM (#7279920)
First, every vim plugin would break. But if you look at how many Vim plugins are actually used, I would be surprised if the top 100 Vim plugins covered less than 99.99% of all Vim users. That means we only have to upgrade 100 Vim plugins, and probably just a couple of lines if they're written well.

Please don't invent fake statistics in order to support your argument. Vim's plugin ecosystem has a long tail distribution[0]. After just a cursory glance at vim.org's script repository you'll notice that even the 141st ranked plugin[1] has over 10,000 downloads. To find the first plugin with less than 1,000 downloads, you'll have to drop all the way down to sql.vim[2] which happens to be ranked 1501!

Personally, I happen to use (daily) multiple plugins which are ranked outside the top 1000.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=483

[2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=905

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Re:Neovim by devcjohnson on Saturday February 22, 2014 @12:55AM (#7281117)
Please do not invoke factual information that contradicts the myopic view of the world as I see it. K thanx bye.

(Sarcasm aside, ^this)

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