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Inertia. Such base programs basically need to go through the Debian packaging gauntlet if they want to succeed. What I mean by that is that generally they nee
by oblio 3y ago
Inertia.
Such base programs basically need to go through the Debian packaging gauntlet if they want to succeed.
What I mean by that is that generally they need to persuade distros to be anointed the "official" tool, i.e. Debian or Fedora would have to select Neovim as the new default text instead of Vim.
Then you need a few years for the changes to trickle down everywhere: Debian -> Ubuntu-> Mint -> ..., Fedora -> RHEL, ... After that distro releases need to be cut and people need to upgrade.
I think a full cycle, where a tool becomes ubiquitous if it gets adopted in the base installs, is probably 10 years. See systemd.
- user3939382 3y ago> Inertia. At some point I tried to switch and some setting broke in my config (mouse mode?) I forget what it was. It took me another 3-4 years before I tried again.
- trealira 3y ago> What I mean by that is that generally they need to persuade distros to be anointed the "official" tool, i.e. Debian or Fedora would have to select Neovim as the new default text instead of Vim. You're probably right. However, I think it's more likely that the Linux distros drop Vim entirely and make Nano the default editor than that they replace Vim with Neovim. The BSDs have nvi as the default editor, IIRC, so they won't need to change anything.
- layer8 3y agoNano already is the default editor (via /etc/alternatives/editor).
- planede 3y agoIn what sense vim is default in Debian?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- layer8 3y agoIt’s not, Nano is.