Hi, On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been wondering if the next release should be called 7.5 or 8. > We have quite a few new features, but not that many as with the Vim 7 > release. Well, that was a big release. I think the most important > addition since then is persistent undo in 7.3. Now we have more new > features than in 7.3 or 7.4. 7.1 and 7.2 were mostly bug fixes. > > I have made a list of the most important improvements compared to Vim > 7.4. I might still be missing some (let me know!). > > Also, now is a good time to check out the new features, we can still > make changes. Especially the Channel, Job and timer support. Once the > release is out we can't really make changes that break backwards > compatibility. >
Just my 2 cents: There are still quite a few interesting features in the todo list and they are sitting in the queue for quite some time (e.g. the variable tabstop feature). As it takes several years to release major Vim versions, it will be useful to include few more major features now. The developers of these features may not be around when the next major Vim version is released and these patches will not be maintained and lost. Over the years (20 years), I have seen this happen several times. - Yegappan -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
