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Why Neovim? (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Is There a Trend to Porting Patches Over to Neovim?

In certain areas of the code, i would see us still porting patches for a long time. It might be literally just applying style differences and putting them in and then worting. Like tests written in vimel in talua, because we write most of or tests in lua. So some of those patches are alike, very simple, and they like our almost direct applications. But in other areas, there already exists no way to port patches. For example, like for floating windows code, we have two separate implementations,. so it makes no sense to port any of those patches into neovim. They get marked as applicable for niovin. And may be that we in effect

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