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Depends on the tool. Text editing gets improvements here and there but overall it doesn't change much. I do try out new things here and there, in the long term
by alpaca128 3y ago
Depends on the tool. Text editing gets improvements here and there but overall it doesn't change much. I do try out new things here and there, in the long term some tools and workflows survive an OS reinstall and some do not.
> Migrating from Vim to Neovim looked like it would take almost as much time as migrating from NEdit to Vim, but with many fewer benefits
This puzzles me a bit, for me the biggest obstacle was looking up how to make NeoVim use the .vimrc file and figuring out how to exit terminal mode.
The biggest annoyance I have faced so far is also causing issues in Vim: NeoVim adopted a configuration for .zig files that auto-formats the entire file every time it gets saved, without asking. On top of that it automatically invokes the zig compiler to show bright orange compiler error messages in the status bar, again without asking. Vim seems to have gotten the same treatment but the call to zig fmt fails, resulting in an error message each time I save a .zig file.
Before that I'd only gotten issues like that from optional third-party plugins.
It's disappointing, so far I've been using (Neo)Vim exactly because it was one of the rare tools that don't do this kind of thing.