Questions with Vim’s Creator, Bram Moolenaar

Re:Questions with Vim’s Creator, Bram Moolenaar by farresito on Thursday November 20, 2014 @08:50AM (#8635649)

I'm not aware of any vim developer that uses the ex mode, to be honest. Simplicity is a feature, and when something like ex mode is bloating the code, the best option is to remove it. There are other better ways to script neovim.

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Re:Questions with Vim’s Creator, Bram Moolenaar by dllthomas on Thursday November 20, 2014 @12:57PM (#8637058)

Hi! I am a developer who uses ex mode from time to time. Now you're aware of one.

I objected when I thought they were removing all support for ex; as it turns out, they're only removing support for switching between visual mode and ex mode - making them two separate front-ends. That's not a problem.

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Re:Questions with Vim’s Creator, Bram Moolenaar by exDM69 on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:16AM (#8635749)

This has been discussed before and several people said they use ex for scripting (with pipes). However, NeoVim is not removing that, only the UI for ex mode.

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