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The API level is disconnected from the NVIM version. The API metadata
holds the current API level, and the lowest backwards-compatible level
supported by this instance.
Release 0.1.6 will be the first release reporting the Nvim version and
API level.
metadata['version'] = {
major: 0,
minor: 1,
patch: 6,
prerelease: true,
api_level: 1,
api_compatible: 0,
}
The API level may remain unchanged across Neovim releases if the API has
not changed.
When changing the API the CMake variable NVIM_API_PRERELEASE is set to
true, and NVIM_API_CURRENT/NVIM_API_COMPATIBILITY are incremented
accordingly.
The functional tests check the API table against fixtures of past
versions of Neovim. It compares all the functions in the old table with
the new one, it does ignore some metadata attributes that do not alter
the function signature or were removed since 0.1.5. Currently the only
fixture is 0.mpack, generated from Neovim 0.1.5 with nvim --api-info.
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DebianNeovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:
- Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions
- Split the work between multiple developers
- Enable advanced external UIs without modifications to the core
- Improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture
For more details, see the wiki!
What's been done so far
- RPC API based on MessagePack
- Embedded terminal emulator
- Asynchronous job control
- Shared data (shada) among multiple editor instances
- XDG base directories support
- libuv-based platform/OS/"mch" layer
- Pushdown automaton input model
- 1000s of new tests
- Legacy tests converted to Lua tests
See :help nvim-features for a comprehensive list.
What's being worked on now
See the Roadmap.
How do I get it?
There is a Debian package, homebrew formula, PKGBUILD for Arch Linux, RPM, and more. See the wiki!
License
Neovim is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, except for parts that were contributed under the Vim license.
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Contributions committed before b17d96 remain under the Vim license.
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Contributions committed after b17d96 are licensed under Apache 2.0 unless those contributions were copied from Vim (identified in the commit logs by the
vim-patchtoken).
See LICENSE for details.
Vim is Charityware. You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are
encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda. Please see the
kcc section of the vim docs or visit the ICCF web site, available at these URLs:
http://iccf-holland.org/
http://www.vim.org/iccf/
http://www.iccf.nl/
You can also sponsor the development of Vim. Vim sponsors can vote for
features. The money goes to Uganda anyway.