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Published inNov 2018
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ISBN-139781789341096
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Ruslan Osipov
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Ruslan Osipov

Ruslan Osipov is a software engineer at Google, an avid traveler, and a part-time blogger. He is a self-taught engineer. He started publishing personal Vim notes in 2012, and became increasingly interested in the intricacies of the editor and its applications in optimizing development workflows.
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Why make another Vim?

Neovim is a fork of Vim, that branched out into its own thing in 2014. Neovim aims to address a few core issues about Vim:

  • Working with a 30-year-old code base while maintaining backward compatibility is hard.
  • It's very difficult to write certain kinds of plugins, asynchronous operations being a huge culprit (asynchronous support has been added to Vim in version 8.0, some time after Neovim was forked).
  • In fact, writing plugins is difficult overall, and requires the developer to be comfortable in Vimscript.
  • Vim is difficult to use on modern systems without tinkering with .vimrc.

Neovim aims to solve these problems with the following methods:

  • Large-scale refactoring of the Vim code base, including choosing a single style guide, increasing test coverage
  • Removing support for legacy systems
  • Shipping Neovim with modern defaults
  • Providing a rich API for...
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Published in: Nov 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789341096

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Ruslan Osipov

Ruslan Osipov is a software engineer at Google, an avid traveler, and a part-time blogger. He is a self-taught engineer. He started publishing personal Vim notes in 2012, and became increasingly interested in the intricacies of the editor and its applications in optimizing development workflows.
Read more about Ruslan Osipov