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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
3
4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
5
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 Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000023KDE support |new-KDE|
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 Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000028POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000029Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030Various new items |new-items-7|
31
32IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
33
34COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
35
36BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
37
38==============================================================================
39INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
40
41These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000042run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
43
44A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
45unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
46buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
47all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
48":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000050":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
51
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
53name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
54double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
55 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
56 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
57 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
58 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
59
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000060In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
61":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
62results in "a'b".
63
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000064
65Minor incompatibilities:
66
67For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
68*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
69
70":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
71
72Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
73
74Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
75confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000076
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000077When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
78isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
79
80The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000081looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
82"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
83Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000084Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000085
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000086Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
87on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
88changing 'winaltkeys'.
89
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000090When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
91is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
92avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000093
94When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
95now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
96encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
97possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
98non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
99
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000100Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
101a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
102
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000103"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
104Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
105
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000106Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
107disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
108you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
109translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
110<xF1>, etc.
111
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000112":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
113
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000114When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
115file exists.
116
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000117==============================================================================
118NEW FEATURES *new-7*
119
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000120Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
121-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000122
123In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
124
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000125 List ordered list of items |List|
126 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
127 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000128
129Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
130
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000131The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
132variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
133can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
134
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000135The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
136expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
137
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000138With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
139wastes its time.
140
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000141
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000142Spell checking *new-spell*
143--------------
144
145Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
146with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
147
148The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
149The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000150The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000151The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000152
153The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
154The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
155The |z?| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000156The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000157
158The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
159mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
160The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
161background.
162The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
163220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000164with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
165highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000166
167Much more info here: |spell|.
168
169
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000170KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000171-----------
172
173Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
174(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
175
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000176
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000177MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
178------------------
179
180The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
181The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
182The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
183
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000184
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000185Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
186------------------
187
188The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
189The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
190Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
191
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000192
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000193Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
194-----------------------
195
196The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000197several other languages.
198
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000199French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000200Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
201Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000202
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000203The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
204.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
205standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
206is used there as a best guess.
207Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000208The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
209with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
210do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000211
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000212
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000213Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
214-------------
215
216The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
217This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
218better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
219patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
220|:vimgrep|.
221
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000222If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000223|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000224
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000225
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000226POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
227-------------------
228
229The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
230problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
231conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
232variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
233
234Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
235- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
236 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
237- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
238 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
239- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
240 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
241- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
242 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
243 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
244 digit.
245- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
246- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
247 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000248- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
249- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
250- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
251 above or below the new lines.
252- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
253- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
254 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
255- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
256 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
257- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
258 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
259- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
260 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
261- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
262- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
263- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
264- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
265- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
266- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
267 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000268- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
269- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000270- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000271
272
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000273Debugger support *new-debug-support*
274----------------
275
276The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
277balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
278mouse pointer.
279
280
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000281Various new items *new-items-7*
282-----------------
283
284Normal mode commands: ~
285
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000286a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
287i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000288
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000289CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
290 location of the error under the cursor.
291
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000292Options: ~
293
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000294'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
295 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
296 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
297'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
298 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000299'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
300 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000301'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000302'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
303'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000304'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
305 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000306'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
307 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
308 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000309'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
310 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000311'spell' switch spell checking on/off
312'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000313'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000314'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000315
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000316
317Ex commands: ~
318
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000319Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
320
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000321|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000322
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000323|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000324
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000325|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
326 windows.
327
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000328|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
329
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000330|:delmarks| Delete marks.
331
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000332|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
333
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000334|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
335
336|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
337
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000338|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
339 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000340
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000341|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
342 external command.
343
344
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000345New functions: ~
346
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000347|add()| append an item to a List
348|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
349|browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
350|byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
351|call()| call a function with List as arguments
352|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
353|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
354|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
355|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000356|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000357|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
358 Dictionary to another
359|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
360|finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
361|findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes Zellner)
362|foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum".
363|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
364|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
365|getfontname()| Get actual font name being used.
366|getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai Weibull)
367|getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000368|getline()| With second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000369|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
370|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
371|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
372|join()| join List items into a String
373|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
374|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
375|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000376|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000377|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
378|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000379|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000380|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000381|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
382|repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times. (Christophe Poucet)
383|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000384|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000385|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000386|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000387|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000388|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
389|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000390|string()| String representation of a List or Dictionary
391|system()| Filters {input} through a shell command.
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +0000392|taglist()| Get list of matching tags. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000393|tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
394|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000395|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000396
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000397User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
398directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
399
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000400
401New autocommand events: ~
402
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000403|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
404|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
405|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000406
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000407|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000408|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
409|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000410
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000411
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000412New items in search patterns: ~
413|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
414|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
415|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
416|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
417|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
418|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
419|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
420|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
421|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
422|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
423 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000424|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
425|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000426
427Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
428
429It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
430useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000431
432
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000433New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
434
435MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
436
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000437ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
438
439SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
440
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000441PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
442
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000443Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
444
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000445Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
446
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000447Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
448
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000449Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
450Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
451different value.
452
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000453
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000454New Keymaps: ~
455
456Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
457
458
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000459New message translations: ~
460
461The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
462
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000463Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
464
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000465Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
466
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000467
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000468Others: ~
469
470Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
471character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
472Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
473"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000474
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000475Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
476
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000477Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
478
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000479GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000480
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000481Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
482
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000483Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000484
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000485Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
486event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
487file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
488
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000489The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
490Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
491
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000492Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
493To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
494they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
495
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000496Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
497when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
498|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
499
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000500For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
501|xterm-modifier-keys|
502
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000503==============================================================================
504IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
505
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000506":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
507
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000508Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
509
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000510The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
511iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
512allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
513matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
514
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000515":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
516breakpoint at the cursor.
517
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000518The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
519few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000520
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000521Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
522it. (Johannes Zellner)
523
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000524Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
525
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000526Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
527doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
528autocommands.
529
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000530For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
531- square brackets are recognized properly
532- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
533- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
534
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000535Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
536
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000537winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
538Lakshmanan)
539
540Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
541
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000542When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
543delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
544actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
545
546When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
547Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
548(Michael Geddes)
549
550The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
551
552VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
553upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
554(Zoltan Arpadffy)
555
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000556For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
557of buffers.
558
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000559The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
560have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
561
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000562When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
563the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
564
565Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
566digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
567
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000568When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
569buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
570list.
571
572Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
573(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
574
575When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
576second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
577line is just "/*".
578
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000579When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
580mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
581edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
582the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
583used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
584more reliable.
585
586Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
587in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
588"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
589with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
590
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000591Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
592incremented/decremented each time.
593
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000594Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000595contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
596a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
597
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000598When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
599
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000600Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
601
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000602":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000603invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
604
605":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
606(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000607
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000608":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z.
609
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000610The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
611messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
612log startup messages.
613
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000614":let g:" lists global variables.
615":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
616":let w:" lists window-local variables.
617":let v:" lists Vim variables.
618
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000619The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
620searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000621
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000622The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
623for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
624
625The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
626the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
627
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000628g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
629bytes.
630
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000631Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
632":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
633
634CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
635ignored.
636
637When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
638will result in a message with the source of the error.
639
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000640When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
641":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
642
643To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
644been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
645
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000646The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000647'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin".
648
649The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
650variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
651to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000652
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000653Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
654possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
655and the * stands for the modifier code.
656Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
657the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
658modifiers.
659
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000660getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
661window.
662
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000663Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
664
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000665GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
666Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
667
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000668Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
669used.
670
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000671Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
672click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
673restarted.
674
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000675When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
676= value" can be used to set the register contents.
677
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000678==============================================================================
679COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
680
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000681Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
682probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
683and merge it back in.
684
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000685Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
686its final destination. (Raf)
687
688Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
689still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
690file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000691
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000692When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
693following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
694
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000695When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
696to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
697allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
698to store the ":quit" command.
699
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000700==============================================================================
701BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
702
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000703When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
704instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
705work. Use "LPT1" then.
706
707The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
708size. Use a default size of 10.
709
710This example in the documentation didn't work:
711 :e `=foo . ".c" `
712Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
713
714When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
715
716"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
717
718Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
719when it doesn't support MDI.
720
721Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
722
723"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
724space.
725
726Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
727SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
728for doesn't have an extension.
729
730When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
731may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
732cursor and not putting it back where it was.
733
734When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
735not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
736to make it work the old way.
737
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000738When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
739filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
740
741After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
742
743Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
744fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000745
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000746On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
747Michele)
748
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000749Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
750CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
751
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000752When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
753ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
754
755Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
756characters.
757
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000758When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
759variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
760
761'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
762is indented too much.
763
764When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
765alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
766items.
767
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000768Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
769active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
770
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000771The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
772"cn" or "tw" as intended.
773
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000774When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
775after the last line while it's not there.
776
777Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
778resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
779
780Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
781string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
782
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000783When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
784contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
785and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
786
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000787strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
788
789GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
790just before it is invoked
791
792VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
793environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
794
795UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
796from the first character of the word.
797
798When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
799detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
800
801When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
802but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
803
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000804When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
805list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
806interrupting this.
807
808When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
809used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
810and global options remain unmodified.
811
812Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
813command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
814file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
815
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000816Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
817default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
818
819When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
820xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
821line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
822
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000823Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
824
825When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
826going to be used like a command.
827
828GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
829GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
830
831GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
832
833Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
834line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
835console version.
836
837Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
838there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
839
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000840When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
841files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
842directory for the library early in the link flags.
843
844With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
845literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
846
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000847When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
848cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
849
850When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
851buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
852
853Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
854problems for Terminal.app.
855
856When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
857end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
858argument.
859
860When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
861has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
862back.
863
864When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
865was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
866
867When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
868"cancel", would still give an error message.
869
870The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
871mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
872
873Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
874keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
875
876Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
877
878In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
879selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
880is included, e.g., after "v$o".
881
882GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
883GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
884
885After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
886
887When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
888doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000889Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
890handle. Added handle_signal().
891
892When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
893line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
894GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000895
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000896When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
897white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
898
899When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
900long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
901being found in a library.
902
903When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
904may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
905
906Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
907is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
908
909When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
910original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
911empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
912be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
913the values when recovering.
914
915":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
916message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
917
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000918Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
919when building the ":drop" command.
920
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000921A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
922E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
923
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000924"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
925does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
926
927When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
928moved the cursor to another column.
929
930When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
931quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
932fold.
933
934In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
935break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
936
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000937Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000938
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000939Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000940(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000941
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000942When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
943not included.
944
945Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
946Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
947
948When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
949the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
950
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +0000951Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
952
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +0000953When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
954(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
955mode. (Peter Winters)
956
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000957"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
958
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000959Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
960not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000961Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000962
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000963When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
964lines" overwrites the message.
965
966Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
967
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000968When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
969after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
970column in the wrong line.
971
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000972When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
973starts with "sl".
974
975When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
976'paste' when starting the GUI.
977
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +0000978A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
979
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000980When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
981Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
982mapping.
983
984Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
985
986":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
987
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000988When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
989in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
990
991When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
992empty $SHELL value.
993
994A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
995file.
996
997When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
998moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
999
1000When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1001the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1002is Vi compatible.
1003
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001004Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1005Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1006$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1007
1008Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1009flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1010
1011Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1012compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1013
1014When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1015leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1016'cpoptions' for this.
1017
1018Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1019
1020Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1021be Vi compatible.
1022
1023When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1024request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1025shell and caused trouble there.
1026
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001027When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1028still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1029Lakshmanan)
1030
1031It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1032sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1033
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001034When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1035from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1036
1037When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1038
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001039Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1040unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1041
1042":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1043
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001044The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1045are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1046
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001047Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1048indirectly invokes ":normal".
1049
1050Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1051before invoking "diff".
1052
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001053Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1054&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1055
1056When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1057locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1058mouse model.
1059
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001060When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1061characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1062is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1063character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1064
1065Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001066":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001067
1068Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1069
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001070Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1071real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1072
1073Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1074always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1075
1076When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1077detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1078compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1079decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1080
1081Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1082to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1083Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1084
1085"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1086
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001087When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1088Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1089
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001090In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1091and reset it in nv_home().
1092
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001093Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1094spaces inside backticks.
1095
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001096After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1097let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1098This should be the most useful thing to do.
1099
1100":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1101an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1102
1103In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1104reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1105
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001106When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1107call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001108This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001109
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001110GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1111after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1112win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1113
1114Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1115column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1116mouse column to 10000.
1117
1118searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1119we find the same position again and advance one character.
1120
1121When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1122to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1123
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001124When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1125prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1126
1127When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1128substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1129
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001130Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1131when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1132checks where invoking them
1133
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001134":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1135show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1136
1137When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1138
1139GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1140removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1141change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1142Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1143'lines' to undo this.
1144
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001145After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1146":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1147
1148When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1149may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1150character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1151so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1152
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001153setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1154
1155It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001156It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1157
1158CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001159
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001160When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1161given. Now report the first encountered error.
1162
1163When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
1164caused a fallback to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
1165continue.
1166
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001167 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: