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Should we make [neovim] non-exclusive?
This is to propose to remove the exclusivity clause from neovim.
Starting from the current version of the tag guidance, I'd specifically want to remove the following parts:
Use this tag for questions ...
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I have been asked to write a post on meta. Here it is
This is nothing but a constructive feedback to the community, which
I am leaving due to the orthogonal values that evidence has, without a shade
of doubt, shown.
I'll start from the end. Few days ago ...
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10th Anniversary of Vi & Vim SE!
Last month (February) Vi & Vim SE turned 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade!
Whenever a Stack Exchange site turns 10 we like ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #4 on Vi and Vim has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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How to use [neovim] and how to make it more useful?
As has been pointed out time and again, neovim is the most popular tag on this site.
I'd argue it's also the most abused tag on this site.
Its tag guidance reads:
Use this tag for questions ...
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Can we make the upvote/downvote buttons show k and j instead of triangles?
Title says it all.
I don't know how to contact the SO graphics design team. Maybe this Meta is the right place for such a question?
The placement above and below the vote count should make it kind of ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Vi and Vim Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Motion to lower close vote threshold to 3
(Copied from Wordpress.meta.SE, following Can we lower the number of votes required to close a question?)
Related to the discussion Can we lower the number of votes required to close a question?, I ...
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Can't use tag called window to refer to Vim windows
I can't use tag window on Vi StackExchange, it says it's too similar to microsoft-windows.
window is about Vim windows (:new, :vnew, <C-w>w and the like), different from microsoft-windows.
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Is the asker notified when the Community bot bumps a question to the homepage?
Some bumped questions really have no answer but most actually have one or more, some or most being perfectly valid, and the asker simply disappeared many years ago, without clicking on the checkmark ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Can we lower the number of votes required to close a question?
To close a question, it takes five votes from users with at least 500 reputation or one moderator vote, which is final.
(Edit: As noted in D. Ben Knoble's answer, users with a gold tag badge can dupe ...
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Do we need tags for Copilot?
Reading the recent question How to accept autocompletion suggestions in Vim from Github Copilot with TAB key?, I had the feeling it needed a tag related to GitHub Copilot. As these things are now ...
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The site logo for the third time
I know this has been brought up at least twice before: the site logo.
Or, more generally, this site's overall design.
There was
Any ideas for a logo?
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Could we get a logo for our stack exchange?
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