Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] NeoVim and vim-syntax

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 04:17:10PM +0200, Patrice Clement wrote:
> Hi Vadim and thank for your email.
> 
> Sorry for taking so long to respond, been busy with work, life, etc.
> 
> Thursday 01 Jun 2017 02:32:24, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote :
> > Currently, we have a situation, that there are two Vim's: "old" one (vim8) and 
> > NeoVim (for those who do not know: a fork of Vim with much and much more clean 
> > code, many neat features and so on).
> Vim8 is here to stay and has served us well until now. Calling him "old" is
> unfair. :)
> 
> To be honest, I haven't given NeoVim a try yet (should I?).
> > 
> > Unfortunately, both of them have different runtimedirs: XDG ones for NeoVim 
> > and the ones you know for Vim8, while NeoVim is fully compatible with Vim's 
> > plugins, and epecially with vimscripts (like syntax definitions and ftdetect 
> > scripts).
> ACK. I have one question though: will this retrocompatibility last forever?
 
If we aren't sure that compatibility will go both ways forever, e.g.
neovim will always support vim8 files and vim8 will always support
neovim files,  I do not recommend making them both use the same runtime
directory. I imagine upstream neovim set a different runtime directory
so that if they diverge things won't break, and I wouldn't try to merge
the runtime directories.

William

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