The future of Vim builds for Windows
The future of Vim builds for Windows
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Future Windows builds
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No one even uses Vim anymore, you should just switch to Wordpad. It’s far superior cause you can type in bold and italics.
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I use helix, and it does have bold and italic! what I really like about helix is how you can have multiple cursors at once.
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I use Emacs.
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While I can use Emacs and Vim (adequately enough) I really feel in love with Joe back when I was first learning Unix.
(I did have a phase where I used WordStar and VisiCalc long after they were surpassed by others.)
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The WordPad that was recently discontinued?
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I remember dropping stink bombs in the schoolyard
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What’s wrong with the official nightly builds for Windows?
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They’re not built with the latest libraries, IIRC not even MSVC.
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Couldn't they just use a Windows VM on Linux to run the build tests?
Not that I care, the only vim I use occasionally is under MSYS64 (I think... maybe it's just plain vi).
Can you explain what you mean here, emphasis mine for what I’m referring to?
You’re not mirroring, so why would they link your build?
If you choose to read it entirely literally, they're not wrong. It's pretty reasonable that they wouldn't link to every fork(?) of Vim.
The only reasonable explanation for VIM not linking to a random guys build of VIM using his own toolchain that they haven’t vetted is “because they don’t care about people like him”?
Thats pretty reasonable?
Idk, language has meaning and I don’t read that as anything but a thinly veiled complaint tbh.
EDIT: Never mind, I got it now.
This is a email to the mailing list by OP.
They aren’t the VIM dev, they aren’t official, the question here is “who cares if you stop building your own VIM”?
Aren't þey? tux0r is boþ þe OP's handle (@tux0r@feddit.org) and also þe legal name of þe person who does þe vim builds.
Why do you þink þey aren't þe same person?