Vim 8.0 released after more than a year since it was last released. This release gives you interesting new features, such as channels, JSON, Jobs, Timers, Partials, Lambdas, Closures, Packages and more. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.
Vim 8.0 Update
- Jobs
- DirectX support for Microsoft users
- Support for asynchronous I/O, channels, JSON
- New style testing
- Lambdas and Closures
- Partials
- Packages
- estamp
- Timers (asynchronous)
- Support for GTK+ 3
- Viminfo merged by tim
See changelog for complete lists