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I've been using vim for 15 years so I know neovim. But ... can you make changes in neovim while it's running? Let me take it a step further. Imagine a text ed
by Yuioup 6y ago
I've been using vim for 15 years so I know neovim.
But ... can you make changes in neovim while it's running?
Let me take it a step further. Imagine a text editor in which you can, while it's running, literally go into its source code and make changes and that those changes immediately take effect. If I'm not mistaken you can do that in emacs. That's what I find intriguing about it, not the text editor.
- samatman 6y agoI believe so, yes. Neovim is less programmable than Emacs insofar as more of it is written in C, it's substantially less documented, and Emacs has a substantial head start. But yeah, still fundamentally a programmable text editor. If you wanted to set up a file watcher over source code that automatically reloads it when files change, there's nothing stopping you. It's true that nothing other than Emacs is quite like Emacs. Neovim is evolving in the right direction though.