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What awesome new features have I missed out on? (open-source.social)
submitted 2 years ago by cseickel@open-source.social to c/neovim@open-source.social
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I don't really have a good way to keep up with new features in neovim, especially new APIs that really only matter to plugin developers.

Has there been any new functionality that I have missed out on in 0.8+?

Is there a good way to find this out on my own? There 's a lot of activity on the repo so watching PRs doesn't really work for me.

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[–] lukas@open-source.social 2 points 2 years ago

:help news-features gives an overview of the big new features.

[–] stevearc@open-source.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sometimes people will make blog posts or youtube videos about the most exciting new features in a release. You can always go through the release notes for a given version, but it can be a lot and it's not necessarily obvious what the implications of a given line are. For example, "$NVIM_APPNAME" is a pretty opaque changelog entry that actually has some really neat applications as a config switcher.

My personal picks for things that have been interesting to me as a user are:

  • exrc works again (:help exrc)
  • better built-in clipboard support for tmux
  • built-in editorconfig support
  • winbar
[–] SafariKnight@open-source.social 1 points 2 years ago

idk why I find $NVIM_APPNAME pretty slow for some reason

[–] aperum@open-source.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is also https://this-week-in-neovim.org/ with neovim news.

[–] azrathud@open-source.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The author announced that he's not renewing the domain name because he doesn't use neovim anymore 😭

[–] erod@open-source.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The author has announced (in r/neovim…) that someone else is taking over the project.

[–] SafariKnight@open-source.social 1 points 2 years ago

You can now find it on dotfyle)