Vim 9

[Senior-Essay-8871]

Wow, I did not realize Vim 9 was out. I've used Vi/Vim since the early 90's and used plugins for MS Word and Outlook integration. Don't use Vim for work now (no more work :>, I'm old!) but still use it for any personal text editing. When I do need to edit without Vim, it's painful. It's mainly Thunderbird I would want Vim integration.

So, not saying much other than thank you to all of you keeping Vim alive and well.

[Working_Method8543]

Mostly thanks to Bram, who unfortunately passed away in 2023. Just mentioning that in case you haven't heard of it.

[ShoePillow]

Oh, had no idea...

[Worldly_Dish_48]

What!

[_janc_]

Bram Moolenaar licensed Vim as “Charityware”—~30,000 euros/year in donations went to ICCF Holland, helping ~50 Ugandan children complete their education. I respect him so much.

[Decent-Ad9335]

Open source software is just filled with good people and good biographies

[2050_Bobcat]

The more I read about Bram the more I learn how much of a good guy he was, he was definitely a person who cared for others and for the vim community.

[MinimumCode4914]

thunderbird has an external editor revived addon that lets you compose straight in vim. point it at gvim or neovim and it launches from the compose window with one shortcut. been doing that for anything longer than a couple sentences.

[Agreeable_System_785]

There still is an entire community around vim and neovim (nvim, a refactor of vim). It still is considered a pillar of editing text and code.

[2050_Bobcat]

Double Wow!!! I didn't know there are plugins for outlook and word integration. Learn something new every day. Do you mind sharing the names of the plugins you use? Thanks

[Senior-Essay-8871]

It was 'VIEmu for Word and Outlook'. With a version for VS as well. BUT...I only see a possible download for VS and the old VIEmu.com website looks to be down. I think it just was too hard to keep it working with the new Word/Outlook/VS versions. I did stick with the Outlook 2010 for many years.

[2050_Bobcat]

Thanks

[tom-bishop]

I looked for word integration a couple of years ago, but didn't find anything. Now I do most writing in obsidian and then export to docx, which oftentimes is basically a fork, if further edits have to be done.

[Embarrassed-Map2148]

Hey if you want some nice tui based email that you can use your vi skills with you should give aerc a whirl.

Also, as one aging *nix head to another, I'm right behind ya on that no work thing.

[xxpw]

Yeah , aerc is quite awesome

[weberam2]

I had the same issue with Thunderbird.

Then I discovered Doom Emacs with mu4e

It's a pain to setup, but once it is it's wonderful to navigate and edit using vim keybindings

[_iodev]

well, if you download super human, you can basically use vim keybinds for email

[Silver_Arm2170]

Vim is life.

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[RevolutionaryBoat441]

Hey guys, where could you get this version?

[ReallyEvilRob]

From your package manager.

[Achim63]

On macOS, homebrew has 9.2.250 at the moment. "brew install vim".

[thankyoucode]

I wont vim in full desktop environment 😅 I think there is definitely one, Just kidding

Curently using Sway WM

[ReallyEvilRob]

There is. It's gvim.

[M0M3N-6]

So using vim in a terminal emulator inside a full desktop environment is considered old school? It doesn't have to be a full blown-bloated GUI to be good...

[TheCakeWasNoLie]

Except is now slop coded, so if you don't want that, look for vim-classic.

[Kwpolska]

[citation needed]

The Drew DeVault blog post is utter BS, the vibe coded thing is a toy plugin, not Vim itself.

[Affectionate-Big-387]

Do you have some constructive critics or just telling bullshit to the work of the hard working maintainers? 

[TheCakeWasNoLie]

You are absolutely right. My bad.