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Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Sep 30
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000024KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000025MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
26Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000028Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000029Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000030POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000031Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000032Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033Various new items |new-items-7|
34
35IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
36
37COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
38
39BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
40
41==============================================================================
42INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
43
44These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000045run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
46
47A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
48unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
49buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
50all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
51":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000053":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
54
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
56name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
57double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
58 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
59 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
60 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
61 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
62
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000063In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
64":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
65results in "a'b".
66
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000067When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
68was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
69
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000070
71Minor incompatibilities:
72
73For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
74*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
75
76":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
77
78Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
79
80Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
81confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000082
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000083When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
84isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
85
86The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000087looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
88"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
89Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000090Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000091
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000092Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
93on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
94changing 'winaltkeys'.
95
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000096When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
97is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
98avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000099
100When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
101now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
102encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
103possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
104non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
105
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000106Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
107a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
108
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000109"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
110Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
111
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000112Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
113disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
114you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
115translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
116<xF1>, etc.
117
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000118":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
119
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000120When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
121file exists.
122
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000123When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
124s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
125compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
126
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000127"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
128that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
129where the type is given.
130
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000131==============================================================================
132NEW FEATURES *new-7*
133
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000134Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
135-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000136
137In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
138
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000139 List ordered list of items |List|
140 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
141 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000142
143Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
144
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000145The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
146variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
147can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
148
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000149The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
150expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
151
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000152With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
153wastes its time.
154
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000155
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000156Spell checking *new-spell*
157--------------
158
159Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
160with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
161
162The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
163The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000164The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000165The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000166
167The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
168The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
169The |z?| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000170The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000171
172The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
173mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
174The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
175background.
176The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
177220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000178with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
179highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000180
181Much more info here: |spell|.
182
183
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000184Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
185-----------------
186
187This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
188smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
189figure out what could be following. This considers struct and class members,
190unions, etc.
191
192Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
193
194The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
195figures out the completion.
196
197Currently only C is supported. |ft-c-omni|
198
199
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000200KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000201-----------
202
203Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
204(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
205
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000206
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000207MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
208------------------
209
210The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
211The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
212The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
213
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000214
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000215Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
216------------------
217
218The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
219The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
220Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
221
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000222
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000223Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
224-----------------------
225
226The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000227several other languages.
228
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000229French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000230Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
231Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000232
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000233The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
234.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
235standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
236is used there as a best guess.
237Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000238The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
239with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
240do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000241
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000242
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000243Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
244-------------
245
246The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
247This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
248better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
249patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
250|:vimgrep|.
251
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000252If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000253|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000254
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000255To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
256expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
257places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
258
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000259
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000260Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
261-----------------------
262
263When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
264'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
265is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
266":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
267commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
268Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
269
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000270The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
271hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
272
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000273
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000274POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
275-------------------
276
277The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
278problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
279conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
280variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
281
282Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
283- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
284 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
285- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
286 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
287- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
288 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
289- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
290 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
291 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
292 digit.
293- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
294- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
295 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000296- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
297- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
298- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
299 above or below the new lines.
300- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
301- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
302 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
303- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
304 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
305- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
306 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
307- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
308 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
309- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
310- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
311- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
312- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
313- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
314- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
315 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000316- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
317- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000318- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000319
320
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000321Debugger support *new-debug-support*
322----------------
323
324The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
325balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
326mouse pointer.
327
328
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000329Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
330--------------------
331
332The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
333Deleting and renaming files is possible.
334
335To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
336integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
337works the same way.
338
339":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
340and a GUI dialog is not possible.
341
342The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
343
344
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000345Various new items *new-items-7*
346-----------------
347
348Normal mode commands: ~
349
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000350a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000351i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000352
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000353CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
354 location of the error under the cursor.
355
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000356|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
357
358
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000359Insert mode commands: ~
360
361CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
362 without moving the cursor.
363
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000364Options: ~
365
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000366'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
367 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
368 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000369'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000370'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
371 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000372'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
373 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000374'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000375'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
376'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000377'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
378 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000379'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
380 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
381 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000382'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
383 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000384'spell' switch spell checking on/off
385'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000386'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000387'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
388 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000389'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000390
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000391
392Ex commands: ~
393
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000394Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
395
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000396|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000397
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000398|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000399
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000400|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
401 windows.
402
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000403|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
404
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000405|:delmarks| Delete marks.
406
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000407|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
408
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000409|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
410
411|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
412
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000413|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
414 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000415
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000416|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
417 external command.
418
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000419|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
420 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
421
422|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
423 Lakshmanan).
424
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000425
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000426New functions: ~
427
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000428|add()| append an item to a List
429|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000430|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
431|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000432|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000433|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
434|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000435|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
436|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
437|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
438|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000439|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000440|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
441 Dictionary to another
442|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000443|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
444|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
445|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000446|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
447|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000448|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000449 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000450|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
451 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000452|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
453|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
454|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
455|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000456|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000457|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000458|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
459|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
460|join()| join List items into a String
461|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
462|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
463|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000464|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000465|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
466|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000467|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000468|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000469|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000470|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000471|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000472|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000473|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000474|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000475|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000476|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000477|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000478|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
479|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000480|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
481|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
482|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
483|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000484|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000485|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000486
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000487User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
488directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
489
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000490
491New autocommand events: ~
492
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000493|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
494|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
495|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000496
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000497|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000498|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
499|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000500
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000501
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000502New items in search patterns: ~
503|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
504|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
505|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
506|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
507|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
508|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
509|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
510|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
511|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
512|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
513 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000514|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
515|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000516
517Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
518
519It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
520useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000521
522
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000523New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
524
525MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
526
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000527ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
528
529SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
530
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000531PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
532
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000533Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
534
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000535Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
536
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000537Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
538
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000539Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
540
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000541Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
542Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
543different value.
544
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000545
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000546New Keymaps: ~
547
548Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
549
550
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000551New message translations: ~
552
553The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
554
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000555Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
556
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000557Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
558
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000559
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000560Others: ~
561
562Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
563character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
564Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
565"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000566
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000567Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
568
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000569Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
570
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000571GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000572
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000573Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
574
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000575Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000576
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000577Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
578event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
579file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
580
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000581Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
582To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
583they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
584
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000585Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
586when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
587|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
588
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000589For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
590|xterm-modifier-keys|
591
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000592When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
593item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000594When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
595":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
596(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000597
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000598":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
599
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000600"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
601the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
602
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000603'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
604window height.
605
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000606==============================================================================
607IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
608
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000609":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
610
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000611Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
612
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000613The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
614iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
615allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
616matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
617
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000618":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
619breakpoint at the cursor.
620
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000621The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
622few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000623
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000624Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
625it. (Johannes Zellner)
626
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000627Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
628
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000629Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
630doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
631autocommands.
632
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000633For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
634- square brackets are recognized properly
635- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
636- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
637
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000638Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
639
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000640winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
641Lakshmanan)
642
643Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
644
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000645When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
646delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
647actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
648
649When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
650Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
651(Michael Geddes)
652
653The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
654
655VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
656upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
657(Zoltan Arpadffy)
658
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000659For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
660of buffers.
661
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000662The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
663have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
664
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000665When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
666the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
667
668Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
669digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
670
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000671When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
672buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
673list.
674
675Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
676(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
677
678When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
679second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
680line is just "/*".
681
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000682When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
683mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
684edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
685the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
686used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
687more reliable.
688
689Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
690in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
691"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
692with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
693
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000694Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
695incremented/decremented each time.
696
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000697Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000698contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
699a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
700
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000701When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
702
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000703Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
704
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000705":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000706invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
707
708":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
709(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000710
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000711":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000712
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000713The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
714messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
715log startup messages.
716
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000717":let g:" lists global variables.
718":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
719":let w:" lists window-local variables.
720":let v:" lists Vim variables.
721
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000722The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
723searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000724
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000725The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
726for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
727
728The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
729the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
730
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000731g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
732bytes.
733
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000734Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
735":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
736
737CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
738ignored.
739
740When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
741will result in a message with the source of the error.
742
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000743When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
744":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
745
746To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
747been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
748
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000749The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +0000750'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000751
752The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
753variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
754to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000755
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000756Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
757possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
758and the * stands for the modifier code.
759Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
760the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
761modifiers.
762
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000763getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
764window.
765
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000766Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
767
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000768GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
769Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
770
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000771Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
772used.
773
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000774Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
775click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
776restarted.
777
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000778When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
779= value" can be used to set the register contents.
780
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000781A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
782pointer position instead of the text cursor.
783
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000784The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
785such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
786prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000787When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000788
789Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
790user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000791Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
792Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000793
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000794Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
795(Sergey Khorev)
796
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000797The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
798' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
799
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000800For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
801character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
802could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
803pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
804included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
805
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000806For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
807sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
808
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000809When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
810characters, using it's own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
811
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000812When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
813COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
814
815Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
816
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000817When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
818closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
819
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000820input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
821completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
822
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000823"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
824'modifiable' is set.
825
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +0000826When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
827matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
828
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000829==============================================================================
830COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
831
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000832Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
833probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
834and merge it back in.
835
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000836Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
837its final destination. (Raf)
838
839Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
840still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
841file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000842
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000843When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
844following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
845
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000846When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
847to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
848allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
849to store the ":quit" command.
850
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000851Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
852
853Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
854what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
855functions.
856
857Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
858without copying the code.
859
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000860Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
861Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
862runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
863
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000864==============================================================================
865BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
866
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000867When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
868instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
869work. Use "LPT1" then.
870
871The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
872size. Use a default size of 10.
873
874This example in the documentation didn't work:
875 :e `=foo . ".c" `
876Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
877
878When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
879
880"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
881
882Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
883when it doesn't support MDI.
884
885Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
886
887"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
888space.
889
890Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
891SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
892for doesn't have an extension.
893
894When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
895may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
896cursor and not putting it back where it was.
897
898When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
899not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
900to make it work the old way.
901
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000902When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
903filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
904
905After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
906
907Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
908fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000909
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000910On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
911Michele)
912
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000913Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
914CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
915
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000916When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
917ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
918
919Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000920characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
921twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000922
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000923When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
924variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
925
926'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
927is indented too much.
928
929When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
930alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
931items.
932
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000933Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
934active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
935
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000936The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
937"cn" or "tw" as intended.
938
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000939When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
940after the last line while it's not there.
941
942Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
943resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
944
945Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
946string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
947
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000948When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
949contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
950and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
951
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000952strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
953
954GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
955just before it is invoked
956
957VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
958environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
959
960UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
961from the first character of the word.
962
963When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
964detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
965
966When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
967but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
968
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000969When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
970list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
971interrupting this.
972
973When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
974used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
975and global options remain unmodified.
976
977Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
978command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
979file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
980
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000981Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
982default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
983
984When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
985xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
986line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
987
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000988Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
989
990When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
991going to be used like a command.
992
993GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
994GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
995
996GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
997
998Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
999line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1000console version.
1001
1002Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1003there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1004
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001005When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1006files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1007directory for the library early in the link flags.
1008
1009With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1010literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1011
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001012When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1013cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1014
1015When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1016buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1017
1018Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1019problems for Terminal.app.
1020
1021When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1022end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1023argument.
1024
1025When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1026has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1027back.
1028
1029When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1030was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1031
1032When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1033"cancel", would still give an error message.
1034
1035The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1036mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1037
1038Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1039keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1040
1041Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1042
1043In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1044selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1045is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1046
1047GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1048GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1049
1050After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1051
1052When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1053doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001054Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1055handle. Added handle_signal().
1056
1057When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
1058line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
1059GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001060
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001061When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1062white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1063
1064When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1065long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1066being found in a library.
1067
1068When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1069may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1070
1071Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1072is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1073
1074When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1075original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1076empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1077be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1078the values when recovering.
1079
1080":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1081message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1082
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001083Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1084when building the ":drop" command.
1085
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001086A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1087E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1088
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001089"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1090does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1091
1092When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1093moved the cursor to another column.
1094
1095When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1096quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1097fold.
1098
1099In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1100break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1101
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001102Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001103
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001104Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001105(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001106
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001107When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1108not included.
1109
1110Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1111Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1112
1113When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1114the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1115
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001116Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1117
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001118When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1119(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1120mode. (Peter Winters)
1121
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001122"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1123
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001124Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1125not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001126Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001127
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001128When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1129lines" overwrites the message.
1130
1131Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1132
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001133When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1134after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1135column in the wrong line.
1136
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001137When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1138starts with "sl".
1139
1140When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1141'paste' when starting the GUI.
1142
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001143A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1144
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001145When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1146Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1147mapping.
1148
1149Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1150
1151":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1152
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001153When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1154in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1155
1156When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1157empty $SHELL value.
1158
1159A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1160file.
1161
1162When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1163moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1164
1165When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1166the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1167is Vi compatible.
1168
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001169Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1170Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1171$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1172
1173Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1174flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1175
1176Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1177compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1178
1179When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1180leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1181'cpoptions' for this.
1182
1183Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1184
1185Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1186be Vi compatible.
1187
1188When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1189request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1190shell and caused trouble there.
1191
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001192When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1193still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1194Lakshmanan)
1195
1196It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1197sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1198
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001199When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1200from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1201
1202When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1203
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001204Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1205unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1206
1207":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1208
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001209The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1210are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1211
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001212Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1213indirectly invokes ":normal".
1214
1215Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1216before invoking "diff".
1217
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001218Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1219&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1220
1221When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1222locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1223mouse model.
1224
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001225When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1226characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1227is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1228character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1229
1230Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001231":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001232
1233Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1234
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001235Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1236real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1237
1238Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1239always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1240
1241When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1242detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1243compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1244decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1245
1246Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1247to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1248Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1249
1250"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1251
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001252When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1253Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1254
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001255In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1256and reset it in nv_home().
1257
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001258Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1259spaces inside backticks.
1260
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001261After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1262let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1263This should be the most useful thing to do.
1264
1265":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1266an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1267
1268In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1269reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1270
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001271When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1272call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001273This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001274
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001275GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1276after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1277win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1278
1279Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1280column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1281mouse column to 10000.
1282
1283searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1284we find the same position again and advance one character.
1285
1286When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1287to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1288
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001289When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1290prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1291
1292When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1293substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1294
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001295Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1296when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1297checks where invoking them
1298
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001299":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1300show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1301
1302When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1303
1304GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1305removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1306change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1307Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1308'lines' to undo this.
1309
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001310After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1311":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1312
1313When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1314may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1315character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1316so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1317
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001318setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1319
1320It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001321It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1322
1323CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001324
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001325When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1326given. Now report the first encountered error.
1327
1328When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
1329caused a fallback to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
1330continue.
1331
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001332When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1333the global value.
1334
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001335Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1336200 characters.
1337
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001338When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1339the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1340\+foo".
1341
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001342When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1343message would be in the wrong position.
1344
1345At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1346
1347When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1348were not set.
1349
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001350Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1351
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001352The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1353
1354Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1355and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1356Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1357
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001358For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1359in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1360while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1361highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1362
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001363Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1364Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1365
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001366Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1367Lakshmanan)
1368
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001369When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1370would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1371
1372When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1373searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1374
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001375GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1376redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1377
Bram Moolenaar60a795a2005-09-16 21:55:43 +00001378"dFxd;" deleted the character under the cursor, "d;" didn't remember the
1379exclusiveness of the motion.
1380
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001381Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1382Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1383reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1384
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001385 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: