On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 04:17:10PM +0200, Patrice Clement wrote: > Hi Vadim and thank for your email. > > Sorry for taking so long to respond, been busy with work, life, etc. > > Thursday 01 Jun 2017 02:32:24, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote : > > Currently, we have a situation, that there are two Vim's: "old" one (vim8) > > and > > NeoVim (for those who do not know: a fork of Vim with much and much more > > clean > > code, many neat features and so on). > Vim8 is here to stay and has served us well until now. Calling him "old" is > unfair. :) > > To be honest, I haven't given NeoVim a try yet (should I?). > > > > Unfortunately, both of them have different runtimedirs: XDG ones for NeoVim > > and the ones you know for Vim8, while NeoVim is fully compatible with Vim's > > plugins, and epecially with vimscripts (like syntax definitions and > > ftdetect > > scripts). > ACK. I have one question though: will this retrocompatibility last forever? If we aren't sure that compatibility will go both ways forever, e.g. neovim will always support vim8 files and vim8 will always support neovim files, I do not recommend making them both use the same runtime directory. I imagine upstream neovim set a different runtime directory so that if they diverge things won't break, and I wouldn't try to merge the runtime directories.
William
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