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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 1 place · today 07:34 EDT

Vim 9.2 Released

"More than two years after the last major 9.1 release, the Vim project has announced Vim 9.2," reports the blog Linuxiac:



A big part of this update focuses on improving Vim9 Script as Vim 9.2 adds support for enums, generic functions, and tuple types.

On top of that, you can now use built-in functions as methods, and class handling includes features like protected constructors with _new(). The :defcompile command has also been improved to fully compile methods, which boosts performance and consistency.

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