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Vim 8.0 Released! (google.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the speaking-of-text-editors dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader MrKaos writes: The venerable and essential vim has had it's first major release in 10 years. Lots of new and interesting features including, vim script improvements, JSON support, messages exchange with background processes, a test framework and a bunch of Windows DirectX compatibility improvements. A package manager has been added to handle the ever-growing plug-in library, start-up changes and support for a lot of old platforms has been dropped. Many Vimprovements!

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  1. Rivalry by colinrichardday · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emacs releases an upgrade and vi has to do the same. Ooh.

    1. Re:Rivalry by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's a conspiracy, I tells ya. They put GPS and tracking in it.

      Of course, emacs has had GPS support for 15 years now...

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    2. Re:Rivalry by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 3, Funny

      Pretty sure they run vim in emacs.

    3. Re:Rivalry by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

      That makes sense. Emacs is a great OS, just needs a good editor. Vim fills that need.

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  2. Re:WTF??! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emacs users have more time for commenting on slashdot.
    What else are they going to do while waiting for Emacs to load?

  3. Relevant xkcd by johnsmithperson123 · · Score: 4, Funny

    https://xkcd.com/378/

  4. New feature by BlackPignouf · · Score: 5, Funny

    "MS-Windows DirectX support"
    Wait, what?

  5. Re:Grammar note by fisted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its been a pleasure reading your comment and from now on, I'll use your heuristic.
    Thanks!

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