Newsletter #4 – Thanksvimming Day

My only concern about this is that people are deprecating Vim stuff in favor of NeoVim. My experience with NeoVim is that it's not ready to replace Vim yet - I'm optimistic about NeoVim, but it's too early to start deprecating Vim stuff.

Awesome! I hope they keep this is, it&#x27;s one of the most professional write ups I&#x27;ve ever seen an Open Source project so - especially a new one.<p>I also love that they&#x27;re posting bugs to vim-dev so that they can be fixed in Vim as well.

Regarding the bit about Floobits, it&#x27;s very nice of them to mention us, we love Neovim, and all of the things said are true, but the Neovim remote plugin API recently changed and we&#x27;re rushing to get our plugin to be compatible. They were nice enough to let us know in our own issue tracker so we&#x27;re nearly there. Our current plugin only works with versions of Neovim prior to the remote plugin change from before last week. Note this is the new remote plugin system, not the regular python plugins that have not changed and so vim plugins have no issues.

I&#x27;ve been immensely pleased by the professionalism and high-sense of collaboration on this project. I think ego has been kept out of the gates of Neovim. Happy Thanksvimming!

I actually can&#x27;t get it to build on Fedora 20, at least easily. Not to mention the things I had to figure out to get LinuxBrew working at all. Neovim is not &quot;drop in ready&quot; until it&#x27;s easy to lay hands on, which basically means packaging for distros.

I&#x27;ve been a vim user for a while now, recently started my move over to emacs (evil mode is not bad at all), mostly influenced by the Clojure community.<p>What does neovim do for a not so hardcore user like me who&#x27;s happy with the current state of affairs? Or in other words, what am I not doing right with vim that I fail to see what neovim offers, apart from a modern code base and may be a better way of writing plugins?

Is this an official project -- will this be the new vim? Or is this a parallel, forked project?

Is there a usable GUI version of NeoVim yet? (e.g. like MacVim)?

I&#x27;m a Windows user, and even I&#x27;m not able to use Neovim yet, I&#x27;ll try to contribute. If you are an experienced developer or inexperienced but wanting to learn, visit the GitHub repo and check out the readme, contribute guide, and finally the Wiki to learn more.

It&#x27;s great to know neovim development is going strong and there are a lot of contributors making good progress.<p>I&#x27;ve switched to neovim about a month ago. The installation on OSX is smooth. It&#x27;s fully functional and all the plugins are working.

Has anyone written a tutorial for making a Python plugin for NeoVim?

It took me a few seconds to realise that &quot;issue&quot; in the title didn&#x27;t mean &quot;bug report&quot;, despite all the other occurrences of it in the article that do.