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It feels faster to me, but I haven't compared to vim 8. I don't use any plugins doing work in the background, so that's not the difference here.

you can do that in vim as well http://pastebin.com/LLm0tx88

That's interesting! I guess, neovim's behavior is just a convenience wrapper around this, then.

TBF that is non standard behavior and won't work everywhere.