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>Neovim started out as a large clean up and refactor of Vim code, plus the addition of async code. I don't think that is actually true. As far as I remember J
by nzach 3y ago
>Neovim started out as a large clean up and refactor of Vim code, plus the addition of async code.
I don't think that is actually true.
As far as I remember Justin and Thiago (I think) wanted to implement the ':term' into vim and Bram just shut them off because he didn't wanted to lead Vim into the road that Emacs went.
And this was what prompted the Neovim fork. And they took the oportunity to also make a big refactor in the codebase.
- fatbird 3y agoIt was async that Justin and Thiago tried to add to vim, and spent several months wrestling with Bram to get their patch included. At the end, they concluded that they weren't going to get it in and that a fork was necessary. Including the terminal followed quickly after neovim was set up and organized.