Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] NeoVim and vim-syntax

[Peter Volkov]

Hi.

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <gentoo@×××.name>
wrote:
> Currently, we have a situation, that there are two Vim's: "old" one
(vim8) and
> NeoVim... Unfortunately, both of them have different runtimedirs...
>
> ... NeoVim supports Vim's plugins/scripts very well (although I
> didn't find any evidence of the opposite), so it is possible to fix that
> situation by many of "kludge" ways, including:
>
> - patching NeoVim source to include Vim's runtimedirs (incl. "after" dir),
> // NeoVim upstream highly disagree with such way, if any

But what is the reasoning for upstream from this way? If NeoVim supports
vim plugins but not vice versa this looks as a very logical step.

--
Peter.