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Neovim v0.6.0 Released

45 points by ziihrs 5y ago

deckiedan 5y ago
Congratulations neovim team! Is there a "top 5 features" of 0.6? Seems like a million bugfixes and lsp/tree sitter tweaks... But what new things will come from here?
- mjlbach 5y ago
  Random neovim maintainer here: These are just my top 5. * vim.diagnostic (see gpanders talk at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1220189913?t=00h58m27s https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1220189913?t=00h58m27s) * vim.json (api-fast safe json deserialization with vendored lua-cjson) * virtual lines (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/15351 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/15351) * lua bindings to xdiff (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/14536 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/14536) * a million bugfixes as you say :) I personally worked on fixing utf handling around the built-in language server client, rewriting the incremental sync algorithm, vim.json (the built-in language server client is now fine with typescript-language-server thanks to the deserialization improvements), amongst various other small improvements.
  - ahurmazda 5y ago
    Thank you for all y'all hardwork. Neovim has become my workhorse since 0.5 and I am loving it. I am excited about the virtual lines. Quite a few possibilities there.
    - sieste 5y ago
      I don't understand what the new virtual lines feature does. Can anyone explain?
      - ahurmazda 5y ago
        The way I picture it is having true N number of lines on your working buffer that does not interfere with the actual line count in your file. We already have virtual-texts in neovim that only can show up on the same line as existing texts. Pay close attention to the line counts in the image (from original PR) https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1363104/129208266-8c6aabfa-9d5c-49b1-b51d-6e04a95a7269.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1363104/129208266-...
- epage 5y ago
  In my skimming, it sounds like its mostly targeted at plugin developers. The main directly user-impacting part seems to be the adjustments to defaults.
maxioatic 5y ago
Nice! I bet this feels good for the team after the almost year between 0.4 to 0.5. Hopefully they take some time off this winter!

45 points by ziihrs 5y ago

Congratulations neovim team! Is there a "top 5 features" of 0.6? Seems like a million bugfixes and lsp/tree sitter tweaks... But what new things will come from here?

mjlbach 5y ago
Random neovim maintainer here: These are just my top 5. * vim.diagnostic (see gpanders talk at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1220189913?t=00h58m27s https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1220189913?t=00h58m27s) * vim.json (api-fast safe json deserialization with vendored lua-cjson) * virtual lines (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/15351 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/15351) * lua bindings to xdiff (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/14536 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/14536) * a million bugfixes as you say :) I personally worked on fixing utf handling around the built-in language server client, rewriting the incremental sync algorithm, vim.json (the built-in language server client is now fine with typescript-language-server thanks to the deserialization improvements), amongst various other small improvements.
- ahurmazda 5y ago
  Thank you for all y'all hardwork. Neovim has become my workhorse since 0.5 and I am loving it. I am excited about the virtual lines. Quite a few possibilities there.
  - sieste 5y ago
    I don't understand what the new virtual lines feature does. Can anyone explain?
    - ahurmazda 5y ago
      The way I picture it is having true N number of lines on your working buffer that does not interfere with the actual line count in your file. We already have virtual-texts in neovim that only can show up on the same line as existing texts. Pay close attention to the line counts in the image (from original PR) https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1363104/129208266-8c6aabfa-9d5c-49b1-b51d-6e04a95a7269.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1363104/129208266-...
epage 5y ago
In my skimming, it sounds like its mostly targeted at plugin developers. The main directly user-impacting part seems to be the adjustments to defaults.

maxioatic 5y ago

Nice! I bet this feels good for the team after the almost year between 0.4 to 0.5. Hopefully they take some time off this winter!