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I tried jumping boat to nvim something like a year ago. One of my plugins ran into an issue, so I came back. A better question for us "old-vimers" is not "is nv

by dmos62 10y ago

I tried jumping boat to nvim something like a year ago. One of my plugins ran into an issue, so I came back. A better question for us "old-vimers" is not "is nvim stable, because I'd like something modernized", but rather "what does nvim have that vim doesnt". I'm actually asking. My short glance led me to believe that it's got two things going for it: a) smoother interop with other "modern" tools b) cleaned up codebase. I'm using the word "modern" in a derogatory fashion to underline that we often mistake new for good.

ramy_d 10y ago
I'm interested in neovim as well and I think you're asking a legitimate question. I would also add that if neovim is developer-friendly(er?) then that could also be a reason.
apazzolini 10y ago
inccommand is one of the coolest features I've seen. I haven't made the switch to nvim yet, but this is high up on the reasons to do so for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9dME3l-iQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9dME3l-iQ
placeybordeaux 10y ago
The major reason I use neovim is because with the addition of :terminal command I no longer need to remember tmux commands and with the add-on neoterm I have a one button command to send the current selection (or line) to whatever terminal I please. This means that when developing code in any language that has a REPL I can test it out as I develop line by line.
- yamaneko 10y ago
  I've been looking for something like this in vim for a while (something like Emacs + ESS). I've found a few plugins and workarounds using tmux, but nothing as smooth as you said. I'll try it out.
chousuke 10y ago
I switched to neovim for faster syntax checking with Neomake. Syntastic with vim was unusably slow. I don't know if anything has improved with vim since (probably, with 8.0), but I have no reason to go back, either.
- mcjiggerlog 10y ago
  I got frustrated with how slow syntastic was too, but I have just upgraded 8.0 and have switched to using https://github.com/w0rp/ale https://github.com/w0rp/ale for asynchronous linting and it's working very well.
thomastjeffery 10y ago
AFAIK, the main feature neovim will have is the ability to replace viml with lua wherever you want to. According to the roadmap[1], lua will be built-in in 0.3. [1] https://neovim.io/roadmap/ https://neovim.io/roadmap/

by dmos62 10y ago

ramy_d 10y ago

I'm interested in neovim as well and I think you're asking a legitimate question. I would also add that if neovim is developer-friendly(er?) then that could also be a reason.

apazzolini 10y ago

inccommand is one of the coolest features I've seen. I haven't made the switch to nvim yet, but this is high up on the reasons to do so for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9dME3l-iQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9dME3l-iQ

placeybordeaux 10y ago

The major reason I use neovim is because with the addition of :terminal command I no longer need to remember tmux commands and with the add-on neoterm I have a one button command to send the current selection (or line) to whatever terminal I please. This means that when developing code in any language that has a REPL I can test it out as I develop line by line.

yamaneko 10y ago
I've been looking for something like this in vim for a while (something like Emacs + ESS). I've found a few plugins and workarounds using tmux, but nothing as smooth as you said. I'll try it out.

chousuke 10y ago

I switched to neovim for faster syntax checking with Neomake. Syntastic with vim was unusably slow. I don't know if anything has improved with vim since (probably, with 8.0), but I have no reason to go back, either.

mcjiggerlog 10y ago
I got frustrated with how slow syntastic was too, but I have just upgraded 8.0 and have switched to using https://github.com/w0rp/ale https://github.com/w0rp/ale for asynchronous linting and it's working very well.

thomastjeffery 10y ago

AFAIK, the main feature neovim will have is the ability to replace viml with lua wherever you want to. According to the roadmap[1], lua will be built-in in 0.3. [1] https://neovim.io/roadmap/ https://neovim.io/roadmap/