patch 8.0.0029
Problem: Code for MS-Windows is complicated because of the exceptions for
old systems.
Solution: Drop support for MS-Windows older than Windows XP. (Ken Takata)
diff --git a/runtime/doc/todo.txt b/runtime/doc/todo.txt
index 694545c..e966361 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/todo.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/todo.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2016 Oct 09
+*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2016 Oct 12
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@
*known-bugs*
-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
-After 8.0 is released:
-- Drop support for older MS-Windows systems, before XP.
- Patch from Ken Takata, updated 2016 Sep 12.
-
+channel:
- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
- Add 'cwd' argument to start_job(): directory to change to in the child.
@@ -1809,10 +1805,6 @@
size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
-Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
-a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
-isn't right?
-
When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
@@ -2418,8 +2410,6 @@
Win32 GUI known bugs:
- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
the screen.
-8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
- file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html