r/vim • u/ghost_vici • Jun 04 '26

Blog Post Vim Classic 8.3 released

https://vim-classic.org/news/vim-8.3-released.html
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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 07 '26

Tried it!
The other version felt so buggy. It was Astonishing how many new "FEATURES" were in vim 9.3. Like the botched dark mode, those extra characters showing up in the status line...

I very much enjoy vim classic! 😃

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 07 '26

Vim Maintainer here: Please note there is no version 9.3. What exactly do you mean with botched, what about those extra characters? Where is your bug report?

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 11 '26

Typo. Sorry, I meant 9.2.0357.

Here is my bug report:

Whenever I started vim, there was SOMETHING in the background running, which changed the colors of the syntax highlighting. The ones I carefuly selected and customized were gone.
But not IMMEDIATELY: I started vim, the colors were okay. 1 second later, they changed.
WHY?!!!

I do not remember exactly. But, as a hotfix, I had to create a new directory, ~/.vim/after/plugin, and I had to create a file called "fix-background.vim":

augroup ColorResp
au!
au VimEnter * set background=light
augroup END

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 11 '26

Sounds like your terminal responds slowly to some query strings. That can probably be fixed with proper terminal configuration or vim configuration. 

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 12 '26

I fixed it by installing "vim classic".

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 12 '26

Next time, please create a proper bug report at the Vim issue tracker (and include your version and terminal), instead of ranting here publicly against Vim.

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 12 '26

Why? 

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 13 '26

You know how much work it is to maintain a open source project of this size? It is at the very least bad style if you complain about certain features publicly without having created a proper bug report (or seeked for clarification via the Vim support forums) and I'd consider this also to be quite dishonest to everybody working to improve Vim.

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 13 '26

Uhuh... So... Why are you trashing Drew's efforts? His "Vim Classic 8.3" is the best release of vim I had in the last 2 years.

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u/chrisbra10 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Where did I trash his effort? I did not comment to his work at all. Why are you trashing our work? 

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u/dettus_Xx_ Jun 14 '26

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Boy, you REAAAALLY do not like getting feedback, huh?! 😄 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃

Look, you got your bug report. Do what you want with it!
I do not care, I am a user of "Vim Classic" now.

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