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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 Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000024MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
25Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000026Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000027Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000028Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000029POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000030Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000031Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +000032Define an operator |new-define-operator|
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 Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000070The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
71
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000072
73Minor incompatibilities:
74
75For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
76*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
77
78":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
79
80Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
81
82Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
83confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000084
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000085When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
86isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
87
88The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000089looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
90"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
91Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000092Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000093
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000094Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
95on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
96changing 'winaltkeys'.
97
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000098When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
99is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
100avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000101
102When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
103now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
104encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
105possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
106non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
107
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000108Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
109a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
110
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000111"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
112Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
113
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000114Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
115disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
116you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
117translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
118<xF1>, etc.
119
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000120":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
121
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000122When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
123file exists.
124
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000125When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
126s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
127compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
128
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000129"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
130that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
131where the type is given.
132
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000133==============================================================================
134NEW FEATURES *new-7*
135
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000136Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
137-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000138
139In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
140
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000141 List ordered list of items |List|
142 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
143 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000144
145Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
146
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000147The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
148variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
149can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
150
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000151The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
152expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
153
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000154With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
155wastes its time.
156
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000157In the Python interface vim.eval() also handles Dictionaries and Lists.
158|python-eval| (G. Sumner Hayes)
159
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000160
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000161Spell checking *new-spell*
162--------------
163
164Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
165with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
166
167The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
168The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000169The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000170The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000171
172The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
173The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000174The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000175The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000176
177The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
178mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
179The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
180background.
181The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
182220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000183with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
184highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000185
186Much more info here: |spell|.
187
188
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000189Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
190-----------------
191
192This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
193smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
194figure out what could be following. This considers struct and class members,
195unions, etc.
196
197Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
198
199The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
200figures out the completion.
201
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000202Currently supported languages:
203 C |ft-c-omni|
204 XHTML |ft-html-omni|
205
206When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
207completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000208
209
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000210MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
211------------------
212
213The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
214The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
215The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
216
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000217
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000218Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
219------------------
220
221The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
222The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
223Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
224
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000225
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000226Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
227-----------------------
228
229The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000230several other languages.
231
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000232French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000233Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
234Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000235
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000236The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
237.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
238standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
239is used there as a best guess.
240Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000241The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
242with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
243do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000244
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000245
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000246Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
247-------------
248
249The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
250This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
251better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
252patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
253|:vimgrep|.
254
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000255If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000256|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000257
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000258To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
259expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
260places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
261
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000262
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000263Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
264-----------------------
265
266When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
267'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
268is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
269":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
270commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
271Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
272
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000273The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
274hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
275
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000276
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000277POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
278-------------------
279
280The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
281problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
282conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
283variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
284
285Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
286- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
287 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
288- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
289 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
290- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
291 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
292- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
293 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
294 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
295 digit.
296- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
297- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
298 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000299- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
300- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
301- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
302 above or below the new lines.
303- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
304- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
305 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
306- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
307 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
308- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
309 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
310- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
311 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
312- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
313- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
314- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
315- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
316- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
317- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
318 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000319- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
320- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000321- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000322
323
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000324Debugger support *new-debug-support*
325----------------
326
327The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
328balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
329mouse pointer.
330
331
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000332Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
333--------------------
334
335The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
336Deleting and renaming files is possible.
337
338To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
339integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
340works the same way.
341
342":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
343and a GUI dialog is not possible.
344
345The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
346
347
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000348Define an operator *new-define-operator*
349------------------
350
351Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
352followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
353|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
354operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
355through the |g@| operator.
356
357See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
358
359
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000360Various new items *new-items-7*
361-----------------
362
363Normal mode commands: ~
364
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000365a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000366i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000367
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000368CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
369 location of the error under the cursor.
370
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000371|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
372
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000373<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
374<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
375 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000376
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000377Insert mode commands: ~
378
379CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
380 without moving the cursor.
381
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000382Options: ~
383
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000384'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
385 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
386 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000387'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000388'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000389'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
390 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000391'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
392 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000393'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000394'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
395'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000396'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
397 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000398'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
399 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
400 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000401'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
402 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000403'spell' switch spell checking on/off
404'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000405'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000406'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
407 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000408'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000409
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000410
411Ex commands: ~
412
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000413Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
414
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000415|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000416|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000417
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000418|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000419
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000420|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
421 windows.
422
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000423|:delmarks| Delete marks.
424
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000425|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
426
427|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
428
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000429|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
430 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000431
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000432|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
433 external command.
434
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000435|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
436 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
437
438|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
439 Lakshmanan).
440
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000441|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
442 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
443
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000444
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000445Ex command modifiers: ~
446
447|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
448
449|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
450
451|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
452
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000453
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000454Ex command arguments: ~
455
456|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
457 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
458 Matsumoto)
459 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
460 are found include the line number in the error
461 message.
462
463
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000464New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000465
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000466|add()| append an item to a List
467|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000468|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
469|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000470|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000471|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
472|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000473|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
474|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
475|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
476|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000477|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000478|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
479 Dictionary to another
480|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000481|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
482|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
483|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000484|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
485|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000486|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000487 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000488|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
489 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000490|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
491|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
492|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
493|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000494|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000495|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000496|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
497|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
498|join()| join List items into a String
499|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
500|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
501|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000502|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000503|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
504|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000505|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000506|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000507|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000508|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000509|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000510|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000511|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000512|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000513|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000514|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000515|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000516|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
517|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000518|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
519|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
520|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
521|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000522|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000523|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000524
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000525User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
526directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
527
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000528
529New autocommand events: ~
530
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000531|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
532|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
533|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000534
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000535|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000536|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
537|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000538|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000539
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000540
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000541New items in search patterns: ~
542|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
543|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
544|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
545|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
546|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
547|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
548|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
549|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
550|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
551|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
552 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000553
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000554|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
555|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000556
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000557|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
558|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
559|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
560|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
561
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000562Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
563
564It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
565useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000566
567
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000568New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
569
570MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
571
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000572ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
573
574SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
575
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000576PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
577
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000578Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
579
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000580Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
581
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000582Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
583
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000584Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
585
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000586Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
587Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
588different value.
589
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000590
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000591New Keymaps: ~
592
593Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
594
595
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000596New message translations: ~
597
598The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
599
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000600Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
601
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000602Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
603
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000604
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000605Others: ~
606
607Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
608character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
609Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
610"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000611
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000612Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000613
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000614Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
615
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000616Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000617
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000618Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
619event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
620file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
621
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000622Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000623GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
624
625Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
626
627Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
628
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000629To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
630they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
631
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000632Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
633when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
634|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
635
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000636For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
637|xterm-modifier-keys|
638
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000639When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
640item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000641When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
642":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
643(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000644
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000645":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
646
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000647"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
648the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
649
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000650'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
651window height.
652
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000653The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
654your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
655
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000656To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
657is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
658been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
659can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
660other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +0000661When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
662the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000663
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000664==============================================================================
665IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
666
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000667":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
668
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000669Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
670
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000671When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
672range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
673
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000674The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
675iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
676allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
677matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
678
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000679Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
680happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
681'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
682
683Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
684CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
685that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
686from happening.
687
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000688":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
689breakpoint at the cursor.
690
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000691The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
692few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000693
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000694Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
695it. (Johannes Zellner)
696
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +0000697Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
698of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
699"os_unix.c".
700
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000701Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
702
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000703Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000704does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000705autocommands.
706
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000707For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
708- square brackets are recognized properly
709- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
710- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
711
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000712Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
713
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000714winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
715Lakshmanan)
716
717Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
718
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000719When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
720delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
721actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
722
723When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
724Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
725(Michael Geddes)
726
727The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
728
729VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
730upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
731(Zoltan Arpadffy)
732
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000733For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
734of buffers.
735
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000736The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
737have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
738
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000739When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
740the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
741
742Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
743digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
744
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000745When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
746buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
747list.
748
749Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
750(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
751
752When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
753second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
754line is just "/*".
755
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000756When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
757mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
758edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
759the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
760used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
761more reliable.
762
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000763Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
764of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
765file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
766
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000767Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
768in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
769"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
770with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
771
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000772Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
773incremented/decremented each time.
774
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000775Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000776contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
777a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
778
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000779When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
780
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000781Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
782
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000783":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000784invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
785
786":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
787(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000788
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000789":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000790
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000791The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
792messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
793log startup messages.
794
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000795":let g:" lists global variables.
796":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
797":let w:" lists window-local variables.
798":let v:" lists Vim variables.
799
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000800The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
801searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000802
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000803The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
804for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
805
806The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
807the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
808
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000809g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
810bytes.
811
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000812Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
813":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
814
815CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
816ignored.
817
818When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
819will result in a message with the source of the error.
820
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000821When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
822":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
823
824To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
825been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
826
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000827The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +0000828'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000829
830The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
831variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
832to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000833
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000834Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
835possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
836and the * stands for the modifier code.
837Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
838the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
839modifiers.
840
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000841getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
842window.
843
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000844Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
845
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000846GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
847Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
848
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000849Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
850used.
851
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000852Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
853click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
854restarted.
855
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000856When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
857= value" can be used to set the register contents.
858
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000859A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
860pointer position instead of the text cursor.
861
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000862The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
863such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
864prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000865When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000866
867Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
868user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000869Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
870Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000871
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000872Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
873(Sergey Khorev)
874
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000875The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
876' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
877
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000878For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
879character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
880could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
881pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
882included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
883
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000884For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
885sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
886
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000887When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000888characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000889
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000890When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
891COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
892
893Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
894
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000895When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
896closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
897
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000898input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
899completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
900
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000901"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
902'modifiable' is set.
903
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +0000904When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
905matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
906
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000907Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
908directory. |load-plugins|
909
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +0000910In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
911opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
912
913It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
914in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
915
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +0000916Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
917
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000918":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
919added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
920
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +0000921In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
922more logical. (Robert Webb)
923
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000924When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
925file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
926actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
927'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
928
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000929When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
930then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
931a hint that something might be wrong.
932
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000933Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
934
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +0000935In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
936then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
937inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
938without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000939
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +0000940The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +0000941and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +0000942
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000943Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
944itself.
945
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000946":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
947asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
948
949
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000950==============================================================================
951COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
952
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000953Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
954probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
955and merge it back in.
956
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000957Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
958its final destination. (Raf)
959
960Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
961still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
962file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000963
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000964When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
965following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
966
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000967When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
968to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
969allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
970to store the ":quit" command.
971
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000972Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
973
974Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
975what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
976functions.
977
978Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
979without copying the code.
980
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000981Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
982Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
983runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
984
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000985==============================================================================
986BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
987
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000988When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
989instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
990work. Use "LPT1" then.
991
992The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
993size. Use a default size of 10.
994
995This example in the documentation didn't work:
996 :e `=foo . ".c" `
997Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
998
999When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1000
1001"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1002
1003Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1004when it doesn't support MDI.
1005
1006Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1007
1008"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1009space.
1010
1011Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1012SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1013for doesn't have an extension.
1014
1015When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1016may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1017cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1018
1019When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1020not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1021to make it work the old way.
1022
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001023When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1024filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1025
1026After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1027
1028Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1029fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001030
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001031On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1032Michele)
1033
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001034Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1035CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1036
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001037When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1038ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1039
1040Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001041characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1042twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001043
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001044When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1045variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1046
1047'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1048is indented too much.
1049
1050When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1051alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1052items.
1053
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001054Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1055active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1056
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001057The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1058"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1059
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001060When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1061after the last line while it's not there.
1062
1063Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1064resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1065
1066Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1067string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1068
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001069When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1070contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1071and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1072
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001073strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1074
1075GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1076just before it is invoked
1077
1078VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1079environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1080
1081UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1082from the first character of the word.
1083
1084When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1085detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1086
1087When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1088but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1089
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001090When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1091list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1092interrupting this.
1093
1094When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1095used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1096and global options remain unmodified.
1097
1098Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1099command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1100file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1101
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001102Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1103default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1104
1105When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1106xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1107line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1108
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001109Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1110
1111When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1112going to be used like a command.
1113
1114GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1115GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1116
1117GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1118
1119Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1120line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1121console version.
1122
1123Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1124there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1125
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001126When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1127files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1128directory for the library early in the link flags.
1129
1130With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1131literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1132
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001133When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1134cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1135
1136When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1137buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1138
1139Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1140problems for Terminal.app.
1141
1142When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1143end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1144argument.
1145
1146When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1147has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1148back.
1149
1150When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1151was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1152
1153When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1154"cancel", would still give an error message.
1155
1156The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1157mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1158
1159Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1160keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1161
1162Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1163
1164In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1165selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1166is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1167
1168GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1169GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1170
1171After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1172
1173When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1174doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001175Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1176handle. Added handle_signal().
1177
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001178When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1179white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1180
1181When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1182long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1183being found in a library.
1184
1185When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1186may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1187
1188Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1189is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1190
1191When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1192original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1193empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1194be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1195the values when recovering.
1196
1197":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1198message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1199
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001200Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1201when building the ":drop" command.
1202
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001203A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1204E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1205
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001206"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1207does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1208
1209When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1210moved the cursor to another column.
1211
1212When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1213quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1214fold.
1215
1216In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1217break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1218
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001219Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001220
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001221Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001222(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001223
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001224When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1225not included.
1226
1227Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1228Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1229
1230When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1231the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1232
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001233Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1234
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001235When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1236(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1237mode. (Peter Winters)
1238
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001239"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1240
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001241Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1242not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001243Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001244
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001245When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1246lines" overwrites the message.
1247
1248Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1249
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001250When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1251after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1252column in the wrong line.
1253
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001254When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1255starts with "sl".
1256
1257When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1258'paste' when starting the GUI.
1259
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001260A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1261
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001262When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1263Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1264mapping.
1265
1266Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1267
1268":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1269
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001270When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1271in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1272
1273When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1274empty $SHELL value.
1275
1276A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1277file.
1278
1279When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1280moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1281
1282When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1283the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1284is Vi compatible.
1285
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001286Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1287Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1288$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1289
1290Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1291flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1292
1293Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1294compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1295
1296When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1297leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1298'cpoptions' for this.
1299
1300Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1301
1302Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1303be Vi compatible.
1304
1305When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1306request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1307shell and caused trouble there.
1308
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001309When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1310still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1311Lakshmanan)
1312
1313It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1314sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1315
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001316When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1317from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1318
1319When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1320
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001321Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1322unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1323
1324":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1325
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001326The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1327are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1328
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001329Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1330indirectly invokes ":normal".
1331
1332Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1333before invoking "diff".
1334
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001335Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1336&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1337
1338When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1339locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1340mouse model.
1341
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001342When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1343characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1344is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1345character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1346
1347Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001348":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001349
1350Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1351
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001352Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1353real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1354
1355Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1356always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1357
1358When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1359detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1360compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1361decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1362
1363Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1364to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1365Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1366
1367"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1368
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001369When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1370Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1371
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001372In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1373and reset it in nv_home().
1374
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001375Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1376spaces inside backticks.
1377
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001378After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1379let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1380This should be the most useful thing to do.
1381
1382":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1383an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1384
1385In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1386reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1387
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001388When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1389call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001390This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001391
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001392GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1393after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1394win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1395
1396Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1397column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1398mouse column to 10000.
1399
1400searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1401we find the same position again and advance one character.
1402
1403When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1404to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1405
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001406When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1407prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1408
1409When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1410substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1411
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001412Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1413when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1414checks where invoking them
1415
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001416":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1417show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1418
1419When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1420
1421GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1422removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1423change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1424Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1425'lines' to undo this.
1426
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001427After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1428":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1429
1430When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1431may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1432character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1433so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1434
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001435setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1436
1437It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001438It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1439
1440CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001441
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001442When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1443given. Now report the first encountered error.
1444
1445When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001446caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001447continue.
1448
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001449When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1450the global value.
1451
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001452Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1453200 characters.
1454
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001455When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1456the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1457\+foo".
1458
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001459When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1460message would be in the wrong position.
1461
1462At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1463
1464When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1465were not set.
1466
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001467Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1468
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001469The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1470
1471Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1472and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1473Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1474
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001475For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1476in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1477while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1478highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1479
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001480Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1481Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1482
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001483Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1484Lakshmanan)
1485
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001486When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1487would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1488
1489When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1490searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1491
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001492GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1493redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1494
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001495Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1496Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1497reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1498
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001499Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1500
1501There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1502existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1503available.
1504
1505In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1506sticking to the first column.
1507
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001508When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1509echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1510
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001511Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1512
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001513When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
1514the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
1515
1516When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
1517":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
1518
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001519Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
1520causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
1521Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
1522
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001523The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
1524
1525Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
1526dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
1527of its output.
1528
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00001529When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
1530the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
1531typing the command line.
1532
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00001533'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
1534"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
1535
1536When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
1537appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
1538recording.
1539
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001540Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
1541that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
1542
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001543When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
1544writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
1545the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
1546buffer when creating a new file.
1547
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001548When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
1549string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
1550
1551When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001552to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001553incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
1554|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001555to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001556
1557"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
1558an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
1559
1560Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
1561when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
1562edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
1563getting a beep from the "l" command.
1564
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001565Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
1566the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
1567
1568When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
1569there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
1570
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00001571Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
1572arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
1573until after executing "-c" arguments.
1574
1575When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
1576break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
1577undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
1578
1579Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
1580happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
1581stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
1582Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
1583
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00001584When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
1585change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
1586When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
1587Added mf_set_dirty().
1588
1589Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
1590backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
1591
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001592A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
1593special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
1594
1595When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
1596!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
1597"!;&()<>".
1598
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001599When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
1600autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
1601
1602In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
1603the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
1604
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00001605Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
1606value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
1607
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00001608Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
1609After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
1610
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00001611The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
1612normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
1613actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
1614
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001615 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: