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Congratulations neovim team!
Is there a "top 5 features" of 0.6? Seems like a million bugfixes and lsp/tree sitter tweaks... But what new things will come from here?
Random neovim maintainer here:
These are just my top 5.
* vim.diagnostic (see gpanders talk at
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1220189913?t=00h58m27s
)
* vim.json (api-fast safe json deserialization with vendored lua-cjson)
* virtual lines (
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/15351
)
* lua bindings to xdiff (
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/14536
)
* a million bugfixes as you say :)
I personally worked on fixing utf handling around the built-in language server client, rewriting the incremental sync algorithm, vim.json (the built-in language server client is now fine with typescript-language-server thanks to the deserialization improvements), amongst various other small improvements.
Thank you for all y'all hardwork. Neovim has become my workhorse since 0.5 and I am loving it.
I am excited about the virtual lines. Quite a few possibilities there.
I don't understand what the new virtual lines feature does. Can anyone explain?
The way I picture it is having true N number of lines on your working buffer that does not interfere with the actual line count in your file. We already have virtual-texts in neovim that only can show up on the same line as existing texts.
Pay close attention to the line counts in the image (from original PR)
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1363104/129208266-...
In my skimming, it sounds like its mostly targeted at plugin developers. The main directly user-impacting part seems to be the adjustments to defaults.
Nice! I bet this feels good for the team after the almost year between 0.4 to 0.5. Hopefully they take some time off this winter!
