On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:10:04 PM UTC-6, kans wrote:
> Ultimately, we gave up for a few reasons:
> 
> 1. A large percent of the Vim community was outright hostile to the idea.

I don't remember that at all! I think a lot of people liked the idea in 
general, but didn't like the idea of an uninterruptable task that would 
potentially take over Vim every 100 milliseconds or something. I think you were 
well on the way to fixing that.

There was pretty universal dislike for the idea of any "official" runtime 
plugin using the timed events, I think. People like their "out of the box" Vim 
to be very predictable.

> 2. Bram was disinterested

If I recall, Bram wanted to see tests. And the crashes fixed.

> 3. Vim was unstable with the patch (segfaults outside of the patched code) AND
> 4. The Vim code base is abysmal.
> 

Yeah that's a problem, and the complexity of the patch made it hard to solve. 
So for this sort of thing, simpler is probably better, even if not as fully 
featured.

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