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Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Feb 11
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 Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000022KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000023Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000024Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000025POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026Various new items |new-items-7|
27
28IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
29
30COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
31
32BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
33
34==============================================================================
35INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
36
37These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000038run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
39
40A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
41unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
42buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
43all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
44":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000046":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
47
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
49name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
50double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
51 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
52 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
53 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
54 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
55
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000056In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
57":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
58results in "a'b".
59
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000060
61Minor incompatibilities:
62
63For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
64*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
65
66":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
67
68Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
69
70Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
71confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000072
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000073When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
74isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
75
76The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
77looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR" if no
78folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000079Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000080
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000081Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
82on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
83changing 'winaltkeys'.
84
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000085When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
86is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
87avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000088
89When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
90now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
91encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
92possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
93non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
94
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +000095Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
96a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
97
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000098"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
99Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
100
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000101==============================================================================
102NEW FEATURES *new-7*
103
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000104Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
105-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000106
107In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
108
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000109 List ordered list of items |List|
110 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
111 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000112
113Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
114
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000115The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
116variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
117can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
118
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000119The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
120expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
121
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000122
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000123KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000124-----------
125
126Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
127(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
128
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000129
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000130MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
131------------------
132
133The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
134The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
135The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
136
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000137
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000138Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
139------------------
140
141The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
142The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
143Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
144
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000145
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000146Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
147-----------------------
148
149The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
150Italian (translated by Antonio Colombo). More languages will follow.
151
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000152The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/.
153
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000154
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000155Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
156-------------
157
158The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
159This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
160better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
161patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
162|:vimgrep|.
163
164
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000165POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
166-------------------
167
168The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
169problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
170conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
171variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
172
173Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
174- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
175 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
176- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
177 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
178- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
179 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
180- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
181 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
182 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
183 digit.
184- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
185- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
186 'cpoptions'.
187
188
189
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000190Various new items *new-items-7*
191-----------------
192
193Normal mode commands: ~
194
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000195a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
196i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000197
198Options: ~
199
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000200'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
201 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
202 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
203'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
204 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000205'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
206 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000207'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000208'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
209'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000210'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
211 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000212'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
213 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
214 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000215'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
216 (idea by Hugo Haas)
217
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000218
219Ex commands: ~
220
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000221Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
222
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000223|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000224
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000225|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000226
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000227|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
228 windows.
229
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000230|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
231
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000232|:delmarks| Delete marks.
233
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000234|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
235
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000236|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
237
238|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
239
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000240|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
241 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000242
243New functions: ~
244
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000245|add()| append an item to a List
246|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
247|browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
248|byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
249|call()| call a function with List as arguments
250|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
251|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
252|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
253|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
254|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
255 Dictionary to another
256|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
257|finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
258|findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes Zellner)
259|foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum".
260|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
261|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
262|getfontname()| Get actual font name being used.
263|getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai Weibull)
264|getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
265|getline()| get List with buffer lines
266|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
267|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
268|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
269|join()| join List items into a String
270|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
271|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
272|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000273|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000274|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
275|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000276|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000277|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
278|repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times. (Christophe Poucet)
279|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
280|sort()| sort a List
281|split()| split a String into a List
282|string()| String representation of a List or Dictionary
283|system()| Filters {input} through a shell command.
284|tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
285|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000286|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000287
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000288User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
289directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
290
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000291
292New autocommand events: ~
293
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000294|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
295|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
296|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000297
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000298|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000299|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
300|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000301
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000302
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000303New items in search patterns: ~
304|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
305|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
306|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
307|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
308|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
309|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
310|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
311|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
312|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
313|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
314 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
315
316
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000317New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
318
319MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
320
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000321ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
322
323SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
324
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000325PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
326
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000327Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
328
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000329
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000330New Keymaps: ~
331
332Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
333
334
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000335New message translations: ~
336
337The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
338
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000339
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000340Others: ~
341
342Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
343character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
344Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
345"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000346
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000347Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
348
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000349GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000350
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000351Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
352
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000353Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000354
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000355Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
356event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
357file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
358
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000359The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
360Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
361
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000362Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
363To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
364they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
365
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000366Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
367when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
368|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
369
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000370==============================================================================
371IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
372
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000373":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
374
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000375Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
376
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000377":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
378breakpoint at the cursor.
379
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000380The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
381few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000382
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000383Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
384it. (Johannes Zellner)
385
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000386Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
387
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000388Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
389doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
390autocommands.
391
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000392For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
393- square brackets are recognized properly
394- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
395- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
396
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000397Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
398
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000399winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
400Lakshmanan)
401
402Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
403
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000404When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
405delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
406actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
407
408When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
409Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
410(Michael Geddes)
411
412The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
413
414VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
415upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
416(Zoltan Arpadffy)
417
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000418For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
419of buffers.
420
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000421The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
422have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
423
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000424When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
425the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
426
427Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
428digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
429
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000430When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
431buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
432list.
433
434Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
435(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
436
437When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
438second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
439line is just "/*".
440
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000441When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
442mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
443edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
444the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
445used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
446more reliable.
447
448Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
449in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
450"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
451with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
452
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000453Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
454incremented/decremented each time.
455
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000456Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000457contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
458a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
459
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000460When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
461
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000462Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
463
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000464":redir @*>" and ":redir @+>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
465invalid characters after the register name.
466
467":let g:" lists global variables.
468":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
469":let w:" lists window-local variables.
470":let v:" lists Vim variables.
471
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000472The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
473searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000474
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000475g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
476bytes.
477
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000478==============================================================================
479COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
480
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000481Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
482probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
483and merge it back in.
484
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000485Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
486its final destination. (Raf)
487
488Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
489still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
490file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000491
492==============================================================================
493BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
494
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000495When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
496instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
497work. Use "LPT1" then.
498
499The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
500size. Use a default size of 10.
501
502This example in the documentation didn't work:
503 :e `=foo . ".c" `
504Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
505
506When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
507
508"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
509
510Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
511when it doesn't support MDI.
512
513Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
514
515"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
516space.
517
518Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
519SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
520for doesn't have an extension.
521
522When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
523may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
524cursor and not putting it back where it was.
525
526When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
527not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
528to make it work the old way.
529
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000530When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
531filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
532
533After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
534
535Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
536fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000537
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000538On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
539Michele)
540
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000541Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
542CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
543
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000544When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
545ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
546
547Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
548characters.
549
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000550When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
551variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
552
553'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
554is indented too much.
555
556When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
557alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
558items.
559
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000560The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
561"cn" or "tw" as intended.
562
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000563When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
564after the last line while it's not there.
565
566Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
567resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
568
569Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
570string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
571
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000572When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
573contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
574and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
575
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000576strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
577
578GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
579just before it is invoked
580
581VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
582environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
583
584UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
585from the first character of the word.
586
587When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
588detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
589
590When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
591but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
592
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000593When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
594list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
595interrupting this.
596
597When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
598used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
599and global options remain unmodified.
600
601Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
602command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
603file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
604
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000605Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
606default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
607
608When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
609xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
610line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
611
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000612Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
613
614When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
615going to be used like a command.
616
617GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
618GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
619
620GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
621
622Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
623line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
624console version.
625
626Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
627there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
628
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000629When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
630files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
631directory for the library early in the link flags.
632
633With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
634literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
635
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000636When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
637cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
638
639When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
640buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
641
642Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
643problems for Terminal.app.
644
645When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
646end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
647argument.
648
649When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
650has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
651back.
652
653When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
654was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
655
656When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
657"cancel", would still give an error message.
658
659The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
660mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
661
662Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
663keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
664
665Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
666
667In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
668selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
669is included, e.g., after "v$o".
670
671GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
672GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
673
674After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
675
676When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
677doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000678Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
679handle. Added handle_signal().
680
681When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
682line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
683GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000684
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000685When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
686white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
687
688When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
689long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
690being found in a library.
691
692When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
693may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
694
695Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
696is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
697
698When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
699original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
700empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
701be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
702the values when recovering.
703
704":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
705message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
706
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000707Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
708when building the ":drop" command.
709
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000710A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
711E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
712
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000713"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
714does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
715
716When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
717moved the cursor to another column.
718
719When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
720quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
721fold.
722
723In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
724break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
725
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000726Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000727
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000728Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000729(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000730
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000731When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
732not included.
733
734Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
735Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
736
737When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
738the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
739
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +0000740Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
741
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +0000742When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
743(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
744mode. (Peter Winters)
745
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000746"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
747
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000748Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
749not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000750Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000751
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000752When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
753lines" overwrites the message.
754
755Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
756
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000757When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
758after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
759column in the wrong line.
760
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000761When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
762starts with "sl".
763
764When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
765'paste' when starting the GUI.
766
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +0000767A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
768
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000769When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
770Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
771mapping.
772
773Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
774
775":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
776
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000777When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
778in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
779
780When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
781empty $SHELL value.
782
783A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
784file.
785
786When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
787moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
788
789When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
790the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
791is Vi compatible.
792
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000793Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
794Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
795$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
796
797Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
798flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
799
800Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
801compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
802
803When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
804leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
805'cpoptions' for this.
806
807Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
808
809Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
810be Vi compatible.
811
812When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
813request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
814shell and caused trouble there.
815
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000816 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: