Talk:Vim (text editor)

message: That's not an improvement to the topic, nor especially of interest to anyone other than would-be bloggers TEDickey (talk) 21:44, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  trimmed advert for course 

message: What is not WP:ELYES ?
External link to free courseware on topic. What does "would-be bloggers" mean? "advert" is NPOV, any link is an  "advert"? Let others improve this article.
*  - Vim College Course
external link to free textbook on topic... 
* 
:Oko5ekmi5 (talk) 22:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Tedickey''' reverts 

message: What, no mention of Vim Assistant?????
https://www.vim.org/images/vimassistant.gif
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18:16, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vim Assistant 

message: Something is wrong with the date and I honestly can't make heads or tails of the syntax sorry. 111.220.175.144 (talk) 23:26, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: , it was a missing Wikidata parameter (version type), I fixed it.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 23:36, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox for neovim needs fixing 

message: I believe paragraph on Clipboard should be moved to the Neovim subsection as the latter isn't compiled with built-in support for clipboard. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 16:34, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Why should this article mention system clipboard support at all? That's not something that sets (Neo)vim apart from other editors. It's true though that one of Neovim goals is to "reduce friction for users" by not letting distros disable the +clipboard compile-time option (and other options). Dexxor (talk) 17:02, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well it does. There is no builtin support for it in neovim by default. This might be an unexpected feature for many newcomers.  AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 10:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This quote shows that Neovim does support the system clipboard. The fact that Neovim uses shell commands to achieve this is an implementation detail. Since system clipboard support is inherently platform-dependent, it's only natural for Neovim to shell out to xclip, wl-copy or whatever tool the platform uses. Many programs implement clipboard support this way. Dexxor (talk) 11:36, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Well let's just mention tha neovim's clipboard depends on third party tools. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 12:04, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clipboard 

message: I changed "improved clone of" to "enhanced clone of" in the intro, but I botched the change log (ironically, because I hit escape, as I do habitually while using 'vi').  I meant to say that "enhanced" was not denigrating, as "improved" might taken to be.  (OK, all done inserting -- but don't hit escape!)  BMJ-pdx (talk) 07:43, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enhanced vs. improved 

message: It is weird that Neovim is a section inside Vim. It is the fact that Neovim is a fork of Vim, but it has been not just a simple "improvement" of Vim and should no longer be inside the Vim entry.
Neovim is currently a project with enormous updates and its own community base, making it nowadays very different from Vim. Therefore, I truly believe that the merger back in 2016 was a mistake.
There are real cases on Wikipedia:
* GNU Emacs is based on the original Emacs, but GNU Emacs has a separate entry unlike Neovim.
* Vim is based on vi, but Vim is not inside the Vi entry.
* Sway is a drop-in replacement of i3, but Sway is not inside the i3 entry.
Charles Dong (talk) 14:49, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I support a split. Neovim has progressed a long way beyond vim. Wire723 (talk) 17:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split Neovim back into a separate entry