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If it works in vim it should work in neovim?

It was forked before vim 8.0 was released and neovim doesn't try to keep its fork compatible with vim. Consequently it is not.

> neovim doesn't try to keep its fork compatible with vim.

Nvim tracks all Vim patches[1]. _Only_ the job-control API differs. All other Vim patches are merged into Nvim reguarly, including new Vimscript features like partials, lambdas, etc.

Nearly all 7.4.x patches (except for job-control) have been merged:

https://neovim.io/doc/reports/vimpatch/

Hundreds of 8.0.x patches have been merged also, but they won't be in that report until we finish the last couple 7.4.x patches.

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Merging-patches-from-u...

It doesn't work in my neovim, sadly.

Lots of errors. Most common seems to be:

E117: Unknown function: funcref

And similar.

funcref() is in Nvim 0.2. Old versions of Vim also don't have funcref() ...

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