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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 Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000603==============================================================================
604IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
605
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000606":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
607
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000608Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
609
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000610The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
611iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
612allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
613matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
614
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000615":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
616breakpoint at the cursor.
617
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000618The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
619few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000620
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000621Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
622it. (Johannes Zellner)
623
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000624Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
625
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000626Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
627doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
628autocommands.
629
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000630For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
631- square brackets are recognized properly
632- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
633- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
634
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000635Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
636
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000637winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
638Lakshmanan)
639
640Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
641
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000642When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
643delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
644actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
645
646When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
647Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
648(Michael Geddes)
649
650The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
651
652VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
653upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
654(Zoltan Arpadffy)
655
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000656For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
657of buffers.
658
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000659The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
660have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
661
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000662When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
663the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
664
665Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
666digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
667
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000668When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
669buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
670list.
671
672Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
673(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
674
675When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
676second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
677line is just "/*".
678
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000679When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
680mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
681edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
682the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
683used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
684more reliable.
685
686Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
687in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
688"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
689with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
690
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000691Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
692incremented/decremented each time.
693
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000694Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000695contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
696a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
697
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000698When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
699
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000700Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
701
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000702":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000703invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
704
705":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
706(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000707
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000708":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000709
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000710The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
711messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
712log startup messages.
713
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000714":let g:" lists global variables.
715":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
716":let w:" lists window-local variables.
717":let v:" lists Vim variables.
718
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000719The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
720searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000721
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000722The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
723for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
724
725The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
726the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
727
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000728g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
729bytes.
730
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000731Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
732":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
733
734CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
735ignored.
736
737When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
738will result in a message with the source of the error.
739
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000740When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
741":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
742
743To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
744been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
745
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000746The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000747'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin".
748
749The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
750variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
751to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000752
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000753Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
754possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
755and the * stands for the modifier code.
756Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
757the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
758modifiers.
759
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000760getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
761window.
762
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000763Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
764
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000765GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
766Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
767
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000768Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
769used.
770
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000771Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
772click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
773restarted.
774
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000775When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
776= value" can be used to set the register contents.
777
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000778A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
779pointer position instead of the text cursor.
780
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000781The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
782such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
783prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000784When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000785
786Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
787user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000788Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
789Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000790
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000791Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
792(Sergey Khorev)
793
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000794The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
795' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
796
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000797For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
798character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
799could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
800pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
801included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
802
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000803For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
804sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
805
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000806When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
807characters, using it's own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
808
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000809When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
810COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
811
812Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
813
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000814When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
815closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
816
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000817input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
818completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
819
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000820==============================================================================
821COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
822
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000823Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
824probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
825and merge it back in.
826
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000827Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
828its final destination. (Raf)
829
830Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
831still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
832file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000833
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000834When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
835following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
836
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000837When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
838to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
839allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
840to store the ":quit" command.
841
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000842Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
843
844Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
845what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
846functions.
847
848Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
849without copying the code.
850
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000851Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
852Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
853runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
854
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000855==============================================================================
856BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
857
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000858When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
859instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
860work. Use "LPT1" then.
861
862The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
863size. Use a default size of 10.
864
865This example in the documentation didn't work:
866 :e `=foo . ".c" `
867Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
868
869When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
870
871"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
872
873Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
874when it doesn't support MDI.
875
876Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
877
878"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
879space.
880
881Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
882SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
883for doesn't have an extension.
884
885When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
886may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
887cursor and not putting it back where it was.
888
889When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
890not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
891to make it work the old way.
892
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000893When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
894filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
895
896After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
897
898Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
899fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000900
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000901On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
902Michele)
903
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000904Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
905CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
906
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000907When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
908ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
909
910Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000911characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
912twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000913
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000914When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
915variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
916
917'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
918is indented too much.
919
920When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
921alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
922items.
923
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000924Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
925active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
926
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000927The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
928"cn" or "tw" as intended.
929
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000930When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
931after the last line while it's not there.
932
933Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
934resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
935
936Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
937string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
938
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000939When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
940contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
941and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
942
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000943strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
944
945GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
946just before it is invoked
947
948VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
949environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
950
951UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
952from the first character of the word.
953
954When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
955detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
956
957When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
958but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
959
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000960When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
961list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
962interrupting this.
963
964When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
965used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
966and global options remain unmodified.
967
968Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
969command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
970file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
971
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000972Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
973default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
974
975When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
976xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
977line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
978
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000979Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
980
981When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
982going to be used like a command.
983
984GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
985GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
986
987GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
988
989Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
990line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
991console version.
992
993Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
994there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
995
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000996When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
997files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
998directory for the library early in the link flags.
999
1000With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1001literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1002
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001003When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1004cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1005
1006When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1007buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1008
1009Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1010problems for Terminal.app.
1011
1012When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1013end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1014argument.
1015
1016When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1017has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1018back.
1019
1020When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1021was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1022
1023When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1024"cancel", would still give an error message.
1025
1026The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1027mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1028
1029Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1030keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1031
1032Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1033
1034In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1035selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1036is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1037
1038GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1039GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1040
1041After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1042
1043When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1044doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001045Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1046handle. Added handle_signal().
1047
1048When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
1049line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
1050GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001051
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001052When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1053white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1054
1055When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1056long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1057being found in a library.
1058
1059When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1060may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1061
1062Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1063is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1064
1065When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1066original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1067empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1068be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1069the values when recovering.
1070
1071":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1072message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1073
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001074Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1075when building the ":drop" command.
1076
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001077A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1078E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1079
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001080"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1081does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1082
1083When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1084moved the cursor to another column.
1085
1086When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1087quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1088fold.
1089
1090In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1091break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1092
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001093Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001094
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001095Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001096(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001097
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001098When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1099not included.
1100
1101Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1102Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1103
1104When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1105the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1106
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001107Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1108
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001109When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1110(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1111mode. (Peter Winters)
1112
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001113"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1114
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001115Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1116not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001117Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001118
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001119When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1120lines" overwrites the message.
1121
1122Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1123
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001124When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1125after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1126column in the wrong line.
1127
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001128When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1129starts with "sl".
1130
1131When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1132'paste' when starting the GUI.
1133
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001134A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1135
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001136When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1137Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1138mapping.
1139
1140Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1141
1142":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1143
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001144When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1145in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1146
1147When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1148empty $SHELL value.
1149
1150A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1151file.
1152
1153When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1154moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1155
1156When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1157the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1158is Vi compatible.
1159
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001160Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1161Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1162$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1163
1164Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1165flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1166
1167Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1168compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1169
1170When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1171leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1172'cpoptions' for this.
1173
1174Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1175
1176Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1177be Vi compatible.
1178
1179When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1180request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1181shell and caused trouble there.
1182
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001183When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1184still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1185Lakshmanan)
1186
1187It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1188sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1189
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001190When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1191from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1192
1193When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1194
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001195Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1196unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1197
1198":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1199
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001200The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1201are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1202
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001203Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1204indirectly invokes ":normal".
1205
1206Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1207before invoking "diff".
1208
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001209Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1210&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1211
1212When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1213locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1214mouse model.
1215
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001216When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1217characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1218is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1219character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1220
1221Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001222":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001223
1224Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1225
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001226Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1227real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1228
1229Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1230always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1231
1232When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1233detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1234compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1235decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1236
1237Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1238to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1239Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1240
1241"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1242
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001243When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1244Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1245
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001246In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1247and reset it in nv_home().
1248
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001249Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1250spaces inside backticks.
1251
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001252After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1253let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1254This should be the most useful thing to do.
1255
1256":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1257an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1258
1259In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1260reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1261
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001262When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1263call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001264This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001265
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001266GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1267after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1268win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1269
1270Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1271column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1272mouse column to 10000.
1273
1274searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1275we find the same position again and advance one character.
1276
1277When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1278to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1279
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001280When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1281prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1282
1283When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1284substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1285
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001286Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1287when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1288checks where invoking them
1289
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001290":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1291show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1292
1293When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1294
1295GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1296removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1297change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1298Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1299'lines' to undo this.
1300
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001301After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1302":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1303
1304When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1305may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1306character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1307so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1308
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001309setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1310
1311It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001312It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1313
1314CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001315
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001316When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1317given. Now report the first encountered error.
1318
1319When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
1320caused a fallback to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
1321continue.
1322
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001323When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1324the global value.
1325
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001326Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1327200 characters.
1328
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001329When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1330the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1331\+foo".
1332
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001333When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1334message would be in the wrong position.
1335
1336At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1337
1338When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1339were not set.
1340
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001341Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1342
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001343The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1344
1345Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1346and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1347Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1348
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001349For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1350in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1351while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1352highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1353
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001354Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1355Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1356
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001357Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1358Lakshmanan)
1359
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001360When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1361would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1362
1363When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1364searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1365
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001366GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1367redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1368
Bram Moolenaar60a795a2005-09-16 21:55:43 +00001369"dFxd;" deleted the character under the cursor, "d;" didn't remember the
1370exclusiveness of the motion.
1371
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001372 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: