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@@ -76,6 +76,15 @@ Python plugins |provider-python|
Clipboard integration |provider-clipboard|
+USER EXPERIENCE ~
+
+A major goal of Nvim is to work intuitively and consistently. For example,
+Nvim does not have `-X`, a platform-specific option available in some Vim
+builds (with potential surprises: http://stackoverflow.com/q/14635295). Nvim
+avoids features that cannot be provided on all platforms--instead that is
+delegated to external plugins/extensions.
+
+
OTHER FEATURES ~
|bracketed-paste-mode| is built-in and enabled by default.
@@ -99,6 +108,7 @@ Options:
Commands:
|:CheckHealth|
+ |:drop| is available on all platforms
|:Man| is available by default, with many improvements such as completion
Functions:
@@ -131,10 +141,10 @@ are always available and may be used simultaneously in separate plugins. The
`neovim` pip package must be installed to use Python plugins in Nvim (see
|provider-python|).
-|:!| and |system()| do not support "interactive" commands; use |:terminal| for
-that instead. Terminal Vim supports interactive |:!| and |system()|, but gui
-Vim does not. See ":help gui-pty" in Vim:
- http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui_x11.html#gui-pty
+|:!| does not support "interactive" commands. Use |:terminal| instead.
+(GUI Vim has a similar limitation, see ":help gui-pty" in Vim.)
+
+|system()| does not support writing/reading "backgrounded" commands. |E5677|
|mkdir()| behaviour changed:
1. Assuming /tmp/foo does not exist and /tmp can be written to