Free and Open Source Software

21821 readers

125 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Gaywallet@beehaw.org

alyaza@beehaw.org

Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

submitted 1 day ago by CodyIwatzky@lemmy.cafe to c/foss@beehaw.org

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Vim 9.2 has been released today as the latest version of this open-source and highly configurable text editor, a release that introduces new features and improvements.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get it. I got neo just to see how I liked it. The default markup highlighting is nice. I guess I'm not experienced enough to appreciate to Lua part, but I have no nerds to play with so don't know what it's for really.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

In the end the lua scripting thing is pretty simple … it’s a language that is general purpose though pretty light weight) and used elsewhere for good reasons. So if you want to learn about scripting your editor, with neovim, the language will be something potentially useful elsewhere. With vimscript, that’s not the case.

And maybe it helps for the dev team to not have to maintain a scripting language on top of everything else?