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I was really excited as well, until they decided to remove the encryption completely. The nice thing about the encryption in vim was that it was a cross platfo

by gnur 12y ago

I was really excited as well, until they decided to remove the encryption completely. The nice thing about the encryption in vim was that it was a cross platform way for encrypting and decrypting plain text. I use it nearly everyday on my (work) windows pc, headless ubuntu server, macbook pro and nexus 5. And the only thing I have to do is open the file with vim.

dasil003 12y ago
That's a bummer for you, but does it really kill it completely? The way they are going it seems like they are making significant tradeoffs to remove legacy code in order to support modern features on modern systems. This should make it possible to be a true competitor in the GUI space to Sublime, but at the cost of ubiquity. I expect vim will continue to live on in most Linux distributions for the foreseeable future, even if neovim gets major traction amongst developers. And personally I am fine using neovim on my dev box, and firing up vim on the server. Is that a non-starter for you? Do you really need automatic encryption on all your daily editing tasks on your dev machine? And if so, why are you not using full disk encryption?