Neovim

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. Split the work between multiple developers.

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Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:

Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions.Split the work between multiple developers.Enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source.Improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture.

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Visual Studio Code

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