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Neovim

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Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.

The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.

Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.

The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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The r***it neovim community is fab and taking part in the go-dark outage protest. I think open source communities are better served by open not for profit, decentralized community-apps like this. The corporaate ones always go bad in the end. Reddit and Github both allowed their data to feed the big tech power grab that is LLMs.

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[–] phario@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

In the grander scheme i truly believe Forums are where it’s at. It’s a space controlled by the community, can be Open Source and has all the benefits of archival and threads. I hate that every community is moving to Discord or other things where information just can’t be found anymore. If lemmy is any better in that regard remains to be seen. The name “Lemmy” is one of the worst they could have picked when it comes to searching though. Motörhead is just to big in comparison.

I grew up with the phpforum model as well. It worked well, but I recall that there were reasons why it didn't continue. I think spam was one issue, but there are still a number of successful forum boards.

When it comes to forums, who would be hosting them? My understanding is that the advantage of lemmy is that it is hosted on a distributed level.