alt Hacker NewsVim 9.2
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I'm glad to see that Vim9 continues to make progress. The center of gravity may have shifted somewhat towards Neovim, but the Neovim ecosystem currently seems targeted towards people who want something more IDE-like.
One question is: will more plugin authors move to Vim9Script? It seems that Neovim users have generally moved towards Lua-based plugins, so there's less of a motivation to produce plugins that support both Neovim and Vim9.
As a die-hard vim fan, I feel bitter-sour saying that I switched to nvim. Honestly, I think the vim maintainers should find a way to merge in nvim.
But where are the AI features?? Gonna get left behind!
Only joking of course, actually quite refreshing to see a new version announcement of something this major without any AI nonsense.
After many years being interested, I finally invest a good amount of time learning vim properly. Thanks to AI, I got more time to learn in between request and it become painfully slow to use IDE or ask AI simple change. To me the agentic workflow make it even more valuable to learn vim since I can fix and iterate on small details way faster.
Strange that there's no v9.2 tag in https://github.com/vim/vim/tags.
Delighted to see vim continuing.
> The MS-Windows GUI now supports native dark mode for the menu and title bars, along with improved fullscreen support and higher-quality toolbar icons.
Congratulations on the new release! Looking forward to applying these awesome improvements.
this is a richer changeset than I would have expected, I'm glad to see that.
> Vim now adheres to the XDG Base Directory Specification,
cool
Congratulations!
>Full support for the Wayland UI
I really hope they never deprecate X11 support :) I doubt they will, but if they do, it will leave the BSDs without a good alternative.
I am a lay user or vim. I use it daily for editing text files and a bit of code, but I always found the plugins and the scripting language rather daunting. There are different, conflicting, plugin management systems; and of course there's the scripting language that's vim-specific, and the few times I tried to delve into this stuff, I quickly found myself in over my head.
So - on the occasion of VIm 9.2 coming out - do people have a recommendation for a gentle path to "leveling up" one's VIm skills and engagement?
i have been using vim since v4 (1999?), but in the last year+ - maybe since v9? - there's some weird defect happening only once in a while:
While walking around a file with keyboard, sometimes a random line's indent is removed - that is, text goes left-flushed. AND it's not a tracked change that can be UNDOne - as if it never happened / always has-been-so. Have not been able to correlate this to any other thing. It happens like once a few days, very rarely it might happen twice within minutes. Sometimes i notice that, sometimes i don't and (luckily) python screams of broken indentation. If the file isn't deeply nested python.. good luck.
Has anyone "achieved" such a thing?
YES. Wayland support.
> For over 30 years, Vim has been "Charityware," supporting children in Kibaale, Uganda. Following the passing of Bram Moolenaar, the ICCF Holland foundation was dissolved […] and its remaining funds were transferred to ensure continued support for the Kibaale project. […] Vim remains Charityware. We encourage users to continue supporting the needy children in Uganda through this new transition.
I settled on vim for its technical merits but Bram using his goodwill to fund a charity like this for so long always made me feel good about my choice.