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On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

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fooblaster · 1790522817 · focus · HN ↗
How does one use persistent undo in vim?
1. fooblaster · 1790522930 · focus · HN ↗
  Talk about poor duty of care to users... been using him for 20 years and I have to enable it in my vimrc to take effect. So stupid. Why would I want this to be off?
  Such amazing design...
  " Enable persistent undo set undofile
  1. oblio · 1790523241 · focus · HN ↗
    Emacs and Vim are basically like that.
    They have very vocal and entrenched users so that practically no defaults can be changed lest the single Amiga user will start a huge uproar.
    And since they don't really have a BDFL or commercial pressure, they can be super detached even from standards or expectations that appeared 40 years ago.
    Neovim was basically a reaction to that, for Vim, where they updated defaults to stuff basically every Unix editor since 2005 has.
    tommyage · 1790601750 · focus · HN ↗
    Maybe neovim should advertise like: Your fully configurable vim instance as a full IDE on your developer machine, only.
    Driven by <3, passion and bravery.
    Anyhow; I switched back to vim after one year of neovim shrugs. Still a Junior, here.

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