A Note on Vim Versions
To follow the tips in this book, you’re going to need an up-to-date installation of Vim. (The clue is right there in the book’s title!) You have two options: use version 8 of Vim or version 0.2 of Neovim.
Vim Version 8
Version 8 of Vim was released in September 2016. It introduced some new features that you’ll learn about in this book, such as packages and job control. As a minimum requirement, you’ll need to be running version 8 of Vim, compiled with the huge feature set. You’ll find instructions on how to install Vim 8 in Tip 1, Installing Vim 8.
All of the tips in this book have been tested with version 8.0 of Vim, apart from a handful of tips which have been written especially for Neovim.
Neovim
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