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Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0c. Last change: 2006 Apr 06
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000024MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
25Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000026Tab pages |new-tab-pages|
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +000027Undo branches |new-undo-branches|
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +000028Extended Unicode support |new-more-unicode|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029More highlighting |new-more-highlighting|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000031Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000032Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +000033Cursor past end of the line |new-onemore|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000034POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000035Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000036Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +000037Define an operator |new-define-operator|
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000038Mapping to an expression |new-map-expression|
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +000039Visual and Select mode mappings |new-map-select|
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +000040Location list |new-location-list|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041Various new items |new-items-7|
42
43IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
44
45COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
46
47BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
48
49==============================================================================
50INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
51
52These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000053run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
54
55A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
56unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
57buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
58all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
59":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000061":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
62
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000063In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
64name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
65double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
66 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
67 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
68 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
69 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
70
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000071In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
72":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
73results in "a'b".
74
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000075When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
76was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
77
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000078The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
79
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +000080Files ending in .tex now have 'filetype' set to "context", "plaintex", or
81"tex". |ft-tex-plugin|
82
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000083
84Minor incompatibilities:
85
86For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
87*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
88
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000089For quite a few filetypes the indent settings have been moved from the
90filetype plugin to the indent plugin. If you used: >
91 :filetype plugin on
92Then some indent settings may be missing. You need to use: >
93 :filetype plugin indent on
94
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000095":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
96
97Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
98
99Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
100confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000101
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000102When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
103isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
104
105The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +0000106looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
107"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
108Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000109Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000110
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000111Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
112on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
113changing 'winaltkeys'.
114
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000115When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
116is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
117avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000118
119When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
120now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
121encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
122possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
123non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
124
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000125Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
126a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
127
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000128"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
129Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
130
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000131Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
132disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
133you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
134translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
135<xF1>, etc.
136
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000137":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
138
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000139When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
140file exists.
141
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000142When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
143s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
144compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
145
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000146"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
147that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
148where the type is given.
149
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000150The line continuation in functions was not taken into account, line numbers in
151errors were logical lines, not lines in the sourced file. That made it
152difficult to locate errors. Now the line number in the sourced file is
153reported, relative to the function start. This also means that line numbers
154for ":breakadd func" are different.
155
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000156When defining a user command with |:command| the special items could be
157abbreviated. This caused unexpected behavior, such as <li> being recognized
158as <line1>. The items can no longer be abbreviated.
159
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000160When executing a FileChangedRO autocommand it is no longer allowed to switch
161to another buffer or edit another file. This is to prevent crashes (the event
162is triggered deep down in the code where changing buffers is not anticipated).
163
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000164==============================================================================
165NEW FEATURES *new-7*
166
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000167Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
168-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000169
170In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
171
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000172 List ordered list of items |List|
173 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
174 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000175
176Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
177
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000178The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
179variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
180can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
181
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000182The |:let| command can now use "+=". ":let var += expr" works like
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000183":let var = var + expr". "-=" and ".=" work in a similar way.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000184
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000185With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
186wastes its time.
187
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000188In the Python interface vim.eval() also handles Dictionaries and Lists.
189|python-eval| (G. Sumner Hayes)
190
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000191The |getscript| plugin was added as a convenient way to update scripts from
192www.vim.org automatically. (Charles Campbell)
193
194The |vimball| plugin was added as a convenient way to distribute a set of
195files for a plugin (plugin file, autoload script, documentation). (Charles
196Campbell)
197
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000198
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000199Spell checking *new-spell*
200--------------
201
202Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
203with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
204
205The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
206The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000207The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000208The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000209
210The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
211The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000212The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000213The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000214
215The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
216mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
217The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
218background.
219The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
220220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000221with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
222highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000223
224Much more info here: |spell|.
225
226
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000227Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
228-----------------
229
230This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
231smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000232figure out what could be following. This may suggest struct and class
233members, system functions, etc.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000234
235Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
236
237The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
238figures out the completion.
239
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000240Currently supported languages:
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000241 C |ft-c-omni|
242 (X)HTML with CSS |ft-html-omni|
243 JavaScript |ft-javascript-omni|
244 any language wih syntax highligting |ft-syntax-omni|
245 XML |ft-xml-omni|
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000246
247When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
248completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000249
250
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000251MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
252------------------
253
254The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
255The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
256The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
257
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000258
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000259Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
260------------------
261
262The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
263The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
264Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
265
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000266
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000267Tab pages *new-tab-pages*
268---------
269
270A tab page is page with one or more windows with a label (aka tab) at the top.
271By clicking on the label you can quickly switch between the tab pages. And
272with the keyboard, using the |gt| (Goto Tab) command. This is a convenient
273way to work with many windows.
274
275To start Vim with each file argument in a separate tab page use the |-p|
276argument. The maximum number of pages can be set with 'tabpagemax'.
277
278The line with tab labels is either made with plain text an highlighting or
279with a GUI mechanism. The GUI labels look better but are only available on a
280few systems. The line can be customized with 'tabline' and 'guitablabel'.
281Whether it is displayed is set with 'showtabline'. Whether to use the GUI
282labels is set with the "e" flag in 'guioptions'.
283
284The |:tab| command modifier can be used to have most commands that open a new
285window open a new tab instead.
286
Bram Moolenaar0ce29932006-03-13 22:18:45 +0000287The |--remote-tab| argument can be used to edit a file in a new tab page in an
288already running Vim server.
289
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000290Variables starting with "t:" are local to a tab page.
291
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000292More info here: |tabpage|
Bram Moolenaar3991dab2006-03-27 17:01:56 +0000293The Win32 GUI tabs were implemented by Yegappan Lakshmanan.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000294
295
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000296Undo branches *new-undo-branches*
297-------------
298
299Previously there was only one line of undo-redo. If, after undoing a number
300of changes, a new change was made all the undone changes were lost. This
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000301could lead to accidentally losing work.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000302
303Vim now makes an undo branch in this situation. Thus you can go back to the
304text after any change, even if they were undone. So long as you do not run
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000305into 'undolevels', undo information is freed up to limit the memory used.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000306
307To be able to navigate the undo branches each change is numbered sequentially.
308The commands |g-| and |:earlier| go back in time, to older changes. The
309commands |g+| and |:later| go forward in time, to newer changes.
310
311The changes are also timestamped. Use ":earlier 10m" to go to the text as it
312was about ten minutes earlier.
313
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000314The |:undolist| command can be used to get an idea of which undo branches
315exist. The |:undo| command now takes an argument to directly jump to a
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000316specific position in this list. The |changenr()| function can be used to
317obtain the change number.
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000318
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000319There is no graphical display of the tree with changes, navigation can be
320quite confusing.
321
322
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000323Extended Unicode support *new-more-unicode*
324------------------------
325
326Previously only two combining characters were displayed. The limit is now
327raised to 6. This can be set with the 'maxcombine' option. The default is
328still 2.
329
330|ga| now shows all combining characters, not just the first two.
331
332Previously only 16 bit Unicode characters were supported for displaying. Now
333the full 32 bit character set can be used. Unless manually disabled at
334compile time.
335
336For pattern matching it is now possible to search for individual composing
337characters. |patterns-composing|
338
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000339The |8g8| command searches for an illegal UTF-8 byte sequence.
340
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000341
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000342More highlighting *new-more-highlighting*
343-----------------
344
345Highlighting matching parens
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000346
347When moving the cursor through the text and it is on a paren, then the
348matching paren can be highlighted. This uses the new |CursorMoved|
349autocommand event.
350
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000351See |matchparen| for more information.
352
353The plugin uses the |:match| command. It now supports three match patterns.
354The plugin uses the third one. The first one is for the user and the second
355one can be used by another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000356
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000357Highlighting the cursor line and column
358
359The 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' options have been added. These highlight
360the screen line and screen column of the cursor. This makes the cursor
361position easier to spot. 'cursorcolumn' is also useful to align text. The
362CursorColumn and CursorLine highlighting allow changing the colors used.
363|hl-CursorColumn| |hl-CursorLine|
364
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000365
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000366Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
367-----------------------
368
369The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000370several other languages.
371
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000372French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000373Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
374Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +0000375Polish - translated by Mikolaj Machowski
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000376
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000377The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
378.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
379standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
380is used there as a best guess.
381Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000382The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
383with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
384do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000385
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000386
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000387Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
388-------------
389
390The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
391This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
392better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
393patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
394|:vimgrep|.
395
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000396If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000397|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000398
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000399To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
400expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
401places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
402
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000403
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000404Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
405-----------------------
406
407When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
408'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
409is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
410":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
411commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
412Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
413
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000414The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
415hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
416
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000417
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000418Cursor past end of the line *new-onemore*
419---------------------------
420
421When the 'virtualedit' option contains "onemore" the cursor can move just past
422the end of the line. As if it's on top of the line break.
423
424This makes some commands more consistent. Previously the cursor was always
425past the end of the line if the line was empty. But it is far from Vi
426compatible. It may also break some plugins or Vim scripts. Use with care!
427
428The patch was provided by Mattias Flodin.
429
430
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000431POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
432-------------------
433
434The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
435problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
436conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
437variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
438
439Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
440- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
441 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
442- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
443 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
444- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
445 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
446- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
447 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
448 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
449 digit.
450- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
451- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
452 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000453- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
454- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
455- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
456 above or below the new lines.
457- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
458- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
459 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
460- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
461 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
462- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
463 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
464- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
465 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
466- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
467- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
468- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
469- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
470- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
471- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
472 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000473- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
474- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000475- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000476
477
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000478Debugger support *new-debug-support*
479----------------
480
481The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
482balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
483mouse pointer.
484
485
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000486Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
487--------------------
488
489The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
490Deleting and renaming files is possible.
491
492To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
493integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
494works the same way.
495
496":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
497and a GUI dialog is not possible.
498
499The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
500
501
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000502Define an operator *new-define-operator*
503------------------
504
505Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
506followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
507|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
508operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
509through the |g@| operator.
510
511See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
512
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000513
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000514Mapping to an expression *new-map-expression*
515------------------------
516
517The {rhs} argument of a mapping can be an expression. That means the
518resulting characters can depend on the context. Example: >
519 :inoremap <expr> . InsertDot()
520Here the dot will be mapped to whatever InsertDot() returns.
521
522Also works for abbreviations. See |:map-<expr>| for the details.
523
524
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000525Visual and Select mode mappings *new-map-select*
526-------------------------------
527
528Previously Visual mode mappings applied both to Visual and Select mode. With
529a trick to have the mappings work in Select mode like they would in Visual
530mode.
531
532Commands have been added to define mappings for Visual and Select mode
533separately: |:xmap| and |:smap|. With the associated "noremap" and "unmap"
534commands.
535
536The same is done for menus: |:xmenu|, |:smenu|, etc.
537
538
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000539Location list *new-location-list*
540-------------
541
542The support for a per-window quickfix list (location list) is added. The
543location list can be displayed in a location window (similar to the quickfix
544window). You can open more than one location list window. A set of commands
545similar to the quickfix commands are added to browse the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000546(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
547
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000548
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000549Various new items *new-items-7*
550-----------------
551
552Normal mode commands: ~
553
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000554a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000555i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000556
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000557CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
558 location of the error under the cursor.
559
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000560|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
561
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000562<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
563<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
564 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000565
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +0000566gF Start editing the filename under the cursor and jump
567 to the line number following the file name.
568 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
569
570CTRL-W F Start editing the filename under the cursor in a new
571 window and jump to the line number following the file
572 name. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
573
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000574Insert mode commands: ~
575
576CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
577 without moving the cursor.
578
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000579Options: ~
580
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000581'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
582 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
583 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000584'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000585'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000586'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
587 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000588'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
589 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000590'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000591'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
592'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000593'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
594 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000595'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
596 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
597 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000598'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
599 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000600'formatexpr' expression for formatting text with |gq| and when text
601 goes over 'textwidth' in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000602'spell' switch spell checking on/off
603'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000604'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000605'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
606 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000607'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000608'winfixwidth' window with fixed width, similar to 'winfixheight'
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000609
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000610
611Ex commands: ~
612
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000613Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
614
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000615|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000616|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000617
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000618|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000619
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000620|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
621 windows.
622
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000623|:delmarks| Delete marks.
624
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000625|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
626
627|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
628
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000629|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
630 external command.
631
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000632|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
633 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +0000634|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
635 Lakshmanan)
636|:cgetbuffer| Create a quickfix list from a buffer but don't jump to
637 the first error.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000638|:caddbuffer| Add errors from the current buffer to the quickfix
639 list.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +0000640|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
641 Lakshmanan).
642|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
643 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
644|:cgetexpr| Create a quickfix list from a Vim expression, but
645 don't jump to the first error. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000646
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000647|:lfile| Like |:cfile| but use the location list.
648|:lgetfile| Like |:cgetfile| but use the location list.
649|:laddfile| Like |:caddfile| but use the location list.
650|:lbuffer| Like |:cbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +0000651|:lgetbuffer| Like |:cgetbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000652|:laddbuffer| Like |:caddbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000653|:lexpr| Like |:cexpr| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +0000654|:lgetexpr| Like |:cgetexpr| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000655|:laddexpr| Like |:caddexpr| but use the location list.
656|:ll| Like |:cc| but use the location list.
657|:llist| Like |:clist| but use the location list.
658|:lnext| Like |:cnext| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000659|:lprevious| Like |:cprevious| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000660|:lNext| Like |:cNext| but use the location list.
661|:lfirst| Like |:cfirst| but use the location list.
662|:lrewind| Like |:crewind| but use the location list.
663|:llast| Like |:clast| but use the location list.
664|:lnfile| Like |:cnfile| but use the location list.
665|:lpfile| Like |:cpfile| but use the location list.
666|:lNfile| Like |:cNfile| but use the location list.
667|:lolder| Like |:colder| but use the location list.
668|:lnewer| Like |:cnewer| but use the location list.
669|:lwindow| Like |:cwindow| but use the location list.
670|:lopen| Like |:copen| but use the location list.
671|:lclose| Like |:cclose| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000672|:lmake| Like |:make| but use the location list.
673|:lgrep| Like |:grep| but use the location list.
674|:lgrepadd| Like |:grepadd| but use the location list.
675|:lvimgrep| Like |:vimgrep| but use the location list.
676|:lvimgrepadd| Like |:vimgrepadd| but use the location list.
677|:lhelpgrep| Like |:helpgrep| but use the location list.
678|:lcscope| Like |:cscope| but use the location list.
679|:ltag| Jump to a tag and add matching tags to a location list.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000680
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000681|:undojoin| Join a change with the previous undo block.
682
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000683
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000684Ex command modifiers: ~
685
686|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
687
688|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
689
690|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
691
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000692
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000693Ex command arguments: ~
694
695|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
696 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
697 Matsumoto)
698 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
699 are found include the line number in the error
700 message.
701
702
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000703New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000704
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000705|add()| append an item to a List
706|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +0000707|argv()| without an argument return the whole argument list
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000708|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000709|bufnr()| takes an extra argument: create buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000710|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000711|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000712|changenr()| number of current change
713|complete()| set matches for Insert mode completion
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000714|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
715|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000716|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
717|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000718|cursor()| also accepts an offset for 'virtualedit', and
719 the first argument can be a list: [lnum, col, off]
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000720|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000721|diff_filler()| returns number of filler lines above line {lnum}.
722|diff_hlID()| returns the highlight ID for diff mode
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000723|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000724|eval()| evaluate {string} and return the result
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000725|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
726 Dictionary to another
727|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000728|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
729|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
730|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000731|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000732|garbagecollect()| cleanup unused |Lists| and |Dictionaries| with circular
733 references
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000734|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000735|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000736 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000737|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
738 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000739|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
740|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
741|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
742|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000743|getloclist()| list of location list items (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000744|getpos()| return a list with the position of cursor, mark, etc.
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000745|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
746|getreg()| get contents of a register
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000747|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000748|hasmapto()| check for a mapping to a string
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000749|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000750|index()| index of item in List
751|inputlist()| prompt the user to make a selection from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000752|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000753|islocked()| check if a variable is locked
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000754|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
755|join()| join List items into a String
756|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
757|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
758|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000759|maparg()| extra argument: use abbreviation
760|mapcheck()| extra argument: use abbreviation
761|match()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000762|matcharg()| return arguments of |:match| command
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000763|matchend()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000764|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000765|matchstr()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000766|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
767|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000768|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000769|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000770|pumvisible()| check whether the popup menu is displayed
771|range()| generate a List with numbers
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000772|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000773|reltime()| get time value, possibly relative
774|reltimestr()| turn a time value into a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000775|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000776|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000777|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000778|search()| extra argument:
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000779|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000780|searchpair()| extra argument: line to stop searching
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000781|searchpairpos()| return a List with the position of the match
782|searchpos()| return a List with the position of the match
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000783|setloclist()| modify a location list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000784|setpos()| set cursor or mark to a position
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000785|setqflist()| modify a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000786|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000787|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000788|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
789|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000790|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000791|str2nr()| convert a string to a number, base 8, 10 or 16
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000792|stridx()| extra argument: start position
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000793|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000794|system()| extra argument: filters {input} through a shell command
795|tabpagebuflist()| List of buffers in a tab page
796|tabpagenr()| number of current or last tab page
797|tabpagewinnr()| window number in a tab page
798|tagfiles()| List with tags file names
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000799|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
800|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000801|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000802|winnr()| takes an argument: what window to use
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000803|winrestview()| restore the view of the current window
804|winsaveview()| save the view of the current window
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000805|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000806
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000807User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
808directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
809
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000810
811New autocommand events: ~
812
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000813|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000814
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +0000815|CursorHoldI| the user doesn't press a key for a while in Insert mode
816|CursorMoved| the cursor was moved in Normal mode
817|CursorMovedI| the cursor was moved in Insert mode
818
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000819|FileChangedShellPost| after handling a file changed outside of Vim
820
821|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
822|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
823|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
824
825|MenuPopup| just before showing popup menu
826
827|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
828|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
829
830|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
831
832|ShellCmdPost| after executing a shell command
833|ShellFilterPost| after filtering with a shell command
834
835|SourcePre| before sourcing a Vim script
836
837|SpellFileMissing| when a spell file can't be found
838
839|SwapExists| found existing swap file when editing a file
840
841|TabEnter| just after entering a tab page
842|TabLeave| just before leaving a tab page
843
844|VimResized| after the Vim window size changed (Yakov Lerner)
845
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000846
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000847New items in search patterns: ~
848|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
849|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
850|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
851|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
852|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
853|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
854|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
855|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
856|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
857|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
858 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000859
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000860|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
861|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000862
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000863|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
864|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
865|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
866|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
867
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000868Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
869
870It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
871useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000872
873
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000874New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
875
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000876Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
877Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
878different value.
879
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000880a2ps syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
881ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
882alsaconf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
883AppendMatchGroup ftplugin file. (Dave Silvia)
884arch ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
885asterisk and asteriskvm syntax file. (Tilghman Lesher)
886BDF ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
887BibTeX indent file. (Dorai Sitaram)
888BTM ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
889calendar ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
890Changelog indent file. (Nikolai Weibull)
891conf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
892context syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
893CRM114 ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
894cvs RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
895D indent file. (Jason Mills)
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +0000896Debian Sources.list syntax file. (Matthijs Mohlmann)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000897dictconf and dictdconf syntax, indent and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
898diff ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
899dircolors ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
900django and htmldjango syntax file. (Dave Hodder)
901elinks ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
902eterm ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
903eviews syntax file. (Vaidotas Zemlys)
904fetchmail RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
905Generic indent file. (Dave Silvia)
906gpg ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
907gretl syntax file. (Vaidotas Zemlys)
908groovy syntax file. (Alessio Pace)
909group syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
910grub ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
911Haskell ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
912help ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
913indent ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
914Javascript ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
915ld syntax, indent and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
916lftp ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
917libao config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
918limits syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
919Lisp indent file. (Sergey Khorev)
920loginaccess and logindefs syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
921m4 ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +0000922mailaliases syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000923mailcap ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
924manconf syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
925matlab ftplugin file. (Jake Wasserman)
Bram Moolenaar2a3f7ee2006-02-23 21:34:44 +0000926MGL syntax file. (Gero Kuhlmann)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000927modconf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
928mplayer config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
929MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
930mutt RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
931nanorc syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
932netrc ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
933pamconf syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
934Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
935passwd syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
936PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
937pinfo ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +0000938plaintex syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull, Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000939procmail ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
940prolog ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
941protocols syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
942quake ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
943racc syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000944rd syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000945readline ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
946rhelp syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
947Relax NG compact ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
948Scheme indent file. (Sergey Khorev)
949screen ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
950sensors syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
951services syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
952setserial syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
953sieve syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
954Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
955slp config, reg and spi syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
956SML indent file. (Saikat Guha)
957SQL anywhere syntax and indent file. (David Fishburn)
958SQL indent file.
959SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
960SQL: Handling of various variants. (David Fishburn)
961sshconfig ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
962sudoers ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
963sysctl syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
964terminfo ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
965trustees syntax file. (Nima Talebi)
966udev config, permissions and rules syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
967updatedb syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
968VHDL indent file (Gerald Lai)
969WSML syntax file. (Thomas Haselwanter)
970Xdefaults ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
971XFree86 config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
972xinetd syntax, indent and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
973xmodmap ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
974Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
975xsd (XML schema) indent file.
976YAML ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
977Zsh ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
978
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000979
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000980New Keymaps: ~
981
982Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +0000983Tamil in TSCII encoding (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000984Greek in cp737 (Panagiotis Louridas)
985Polish-slash (HS6_06)
986Ukrainian-jcuken (Anatoli Sakhnik)
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +0000987
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000988
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000989New message translations: ~
990
991The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000992Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
993
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000994
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000995Others: ~
996
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000997The |:read| command has the |++edit| argument. This means it will use the
998detected 'fileformat', 'fileencoding' and other options for the buffer. This
999also fixes the problem that editing a compressed file didn't set these
1000options.
1001
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001002The Netbeans interface was updated for Sun Studio 10. The protocol number
1003goes from 2.2 to 2.3. (Gordon Prieur)
1004
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +00001005Mac: When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +00001006define default command-key mappings. (mostly by Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +00001007
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001008Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
1009character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
1010Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
1011"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001012
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001013Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00001014
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001015Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
1016
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001017Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001018
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001019Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
1020event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
1021file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
1022
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +00001023Mac: When started from Finder change directory to the file being edited or the
1024user home directory.
1025
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001026Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001027GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
1028
1029Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
1030
1031Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
1032
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001033To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
1034they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
1035
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001036Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
1037when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
1038|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
1039
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001040For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
1041|xterm-modifier-keys|
1042
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001043When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
1044item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001045When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
1046":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
1047(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001048
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +00001049":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
1050
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +00001051"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
1052the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
1053
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001054'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
1055window height.
1056
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001057The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
1058your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
1059
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001060To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
1061is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
1062been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
1063can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
1064other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001065When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
1066the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001067
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001068Undo now also restores the '< and '> marks. "gv" selects the same area as
1069before the change and undo.
1070
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001071When editing a search pattern for a "/" or "?" command and 'incsearch' is set
1072CTRL-L can be used to add a character from the current match. CTRL-R CTRL-W
1073will add a word, but exclude the part of the word that was already typed.
1074
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001075Ruby interface: add line number methods. (Ryan Paul)
1076
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00001077The $MYVIMRC environment variable is set to the first found vimrc file.
1078The $MYGVIMRC environment variable is set to the first found gvimrc file.
1079
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001080==============================================================================
1081IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
1082
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001083":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
1084
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +00001085Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
1086
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001087When doing completion for ":!cmd", ":r !cmd" or ":w !cmd" executable files are
1088found in $PATH instead of looking for ordinary files in the current directlry.
1089
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001090When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
1091range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
1092
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001093The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
1094iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
1095allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
1096matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
1097
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001098Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
1099happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
1100'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
1101
1102Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
1103CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
1104that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
1105from happening.
1106
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001107":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
1108breakpoint at the cursor.
1109
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00001110It is now possible to define a function with: >
1111 :exe "func Test()\n ...\n endfunc"
1112
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001113The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
1114few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001115
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +00001116Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
1117it. (Johannes Zellner)
1118
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00001119Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
1120of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
1121"os_unix.c".
1122
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00001123Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
1124
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001125Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001126does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001127autocommands.
1128
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001129For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
1130- square brackets are recognized properly
1131- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
1132- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
1133
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +00001134Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
1135
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001136winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
1137Lakshmanan)
1138
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001139Added 's' flag to search(): set ' mark if cursor moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001140Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001141Added 'c' flag to search(): accept match at the cursor.
1142Added 'e' flag to search(): move to end of the match. (Benji Fisher)
1143Added 'p' flag to search(): return number of sub-pattern. (Benji Fisher)
1144These also apply to searchpos(), searchpair() and searchpairpos().
1145The search() and searchpair() functions have an extra argument to specify
1146where to stop searching. Speeds up searches that should not continue too far.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001147
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001148When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
1149delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
1150actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
1151
1152When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001153(Michael Geddes)
1154
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001155Support setting 'filetype' and 'syntax' to "aaa.bbb" for "aaa" plus "bbb"
1156filetype or syntax.
1157
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001158The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
1159
1160VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
1161upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
1162(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1163
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001164For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
1165of buffers.
1166
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001167When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
1168the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
1169
1170Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
1171digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
1172
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001173When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
1174buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
1175list.
1176
1177Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
1178(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
1179
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001180Win32: Vim was not aware of hard links on NTFS file systems. These are
1181detected now for when 'backupcopy' is "auto". Also fixed a bogus "file has
1182been changed since reading it" error for links.
1183
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001184When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
1185second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
1186line is just "/*".
1187
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001188When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
1189mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
1190edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
1191the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
1192used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
1193more reliable.
1194
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001195Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
1196of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
1197file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
1198
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001199Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
1200in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
1201"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
1202with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
1203
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001204Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
1205incremented/decremented each time.
1206
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001207Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001208contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
1209a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
1210
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001211When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
1212
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001213Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
1214
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001215":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001216invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
1217
1218":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
1219(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001220
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001221":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001222
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +00001223The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
1224messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
1225log startup messages.
1226
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001227":let g:" lists global variables.
1228":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
1229":let w:" lists window-local variables.
1230":let v:" lists Vim variables.
1231
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001232The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
1233searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001234
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001235The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
1236for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
1237
1238The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
1239the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
1240
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001241g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
1242bytes.
1243
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001244Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
1245":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
1246
1247CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
1248ignored.
1249
1250When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
1251will result in a message with the source of the error.
1252
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001253When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
1254":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
1255
1256To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
1257been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
1258
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001259In a |:substitute| command the \u, \U, \l and \L items now also work for
1260multi-byte characters.
1261
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001262The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001263'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001264
1265The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
1266variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
1267to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001268
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001269Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
1270possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
1271and the * stands for the modifier code.
1272Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
1273the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
1274modifiers.
1275
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001276getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
1277window.
1278
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001279Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001280Added the "%>" item to 'errorformat'.
1281
1282For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
1283character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
1284could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
1285pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
1286included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001287
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001288GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
1289Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
1290
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001291Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
1292used.
1293
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +00001294Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
1295click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
1296restarted.
1297
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001298When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
1299= value" can be used to set the register contents.
1300
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001301A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
1302pointer position instead of the text cursor.
1303
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001304The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
1305such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
1306prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001307When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001308
1309Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
1310user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001311Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
1312Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001313
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001314Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
1315(Sergey Khorev)
1316
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001317For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
1318sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
1319
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001320When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001321characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001322
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001323When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
1324COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1325
1326Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1327
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001328When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
1329closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
1330
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +00001331input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
1332completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1333
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001334"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
1335'modifiable' is set.
1336
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001337The 'diffopt' option has three new values: "horizontal", "vertical" and
1338"foldcolumn".
1339
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001340When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
1341matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
1342
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001343Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
1344directory. |load-plugins|
1345
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +00001346In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
1347opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
1348
1349It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
1350in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
1351
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +00001352Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
1353
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +00001354":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
1355added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
1356
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001357In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
1358more logical. (Robert Webb)
1359
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001360When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
1361file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
1362actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
1363'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
1364
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001365When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
1366then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
1367a hint that something might be wrong.
1368
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001369Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
1370
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001371In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
1372then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
1373inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
1374without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001375
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001376The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001377and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +00001378
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001379Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
1380itself.
1381
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001382":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
1383asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
1384
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001385Insert mode completion for whole lines now also searches unloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001386
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001387The colortest.vim script can now be invoked directly with ":source" or
1388":runtime".
1389
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001390The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
1391have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1392
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001393The 'statusline' option and other options that support the same format can now
1394use these new features:
1395- When it starts with "%!" the value is first evaluated as an expression
1396 before parsing the value.
1397- "%#HLname#" can be used to start highlighting with HLname.
1398
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001399When 'statusline' is set to something that causes an error message then it is
1400made empty to avoid an endless redraw loop. Also for other options, such at
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001401'tabline' and 'titlestring'. ":verbose set statusline" will mention that it
1402was set in an error handler.
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001403
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001404When there are several matching tags, the ":tag <name>" and CTRL-] commands
1405jump to the [count] matching tag. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1406
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001407Win32: In the batch files generated by the install program, use $VIMRUNTIME or
1408$VIM if it's set. Example provided by Mathias Michaelis.
1409Also create a vimtutor.bat batch file.
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001410
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001411The 'balloonexpr' option is now |global-local|.
1412
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001413The system() function now runs in cooked mode, thus can be interrupted by
1414CTRL-C.
1415
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001416==============================================================================
1417COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
1418
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001419Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
1420probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
1421and merge it back in.
1422
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001423When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
1424following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
1425
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +00001426When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
1427to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
1428allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
1429to store the ":quit" command.
1430
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001431Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
1432
1433Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
1434what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
1435functions.
1436
1437Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
1438without copying the code.
1439
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001440--- Mac ---
1441
1442"make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to its
1443final destination. (Raf)
1444
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001445Put the runtime directory not directly in Vim.app but in
1446Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim, so that it's according to Mac specs.
1447
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001448Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and still
1449being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c file.
1450
1451When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001452Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
1453runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
1454
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001455Configure will attempt to build Vim for both Intel and PowerPC. The
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001456--with-mac-arch configure argument can change it.
1457
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001458--- Win32 ---
1459
1460The Make_mvc.mak file was adjusted to work with the latest MS compilers,
1461including the free version of Visual Studio 2005. (George Reilly)
1462
1463INSTALLpc.txt was updated for the recent changes. (George Reilly)
1464
1465The distributed executable is now produced with the free Visual C++ Toolkit
14662003 and other free SDK chunks. msvcsetup.bat was added to support this.
1467
1468Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
1469on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
1470
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001471==============================================================================
1472BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
1473
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001474When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
1475instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
1476work. Use "LPT1" then.
1477
1478The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
1479size. Use a default size of 10.
1480
1481This example in the documentation didn't work:
1482 :e `=foo . ".c" `
1483Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
1484
1485When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1486
1487"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1488
1489Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1490when it doesn't support MDI.
1491
1492Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1493
1494"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1495space.
1496
1497Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1498SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1499for doesn't have an extension.
1500
1501When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1502may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1503cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1504
1505When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1506not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1507to make it work the old way.
1508
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001509When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1510filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1511
1512After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1513
1514Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1515fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001516
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001517On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1518Michele)
1519
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001520Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1521CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1522
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001523When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1524ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1525
1526Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001527characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1528twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001529
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001530When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1531variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1532
1533'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1534is indented too much.
1535
1536When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1537alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1538items.
1539
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001540Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1541active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1542
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001543The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1544"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1545
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001546When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1547after the last line while it's not there.
1548
1549Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1550resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1551
1552Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1553string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1554
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001555When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1556contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1557and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1558
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001559strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1560
1561GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1562just before it is invoked
1563
1564VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1565environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1566
1567UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1568from the first character of the word.
1569
1570When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1571detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1572
1573When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1574but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1575
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001576When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1577list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1578interrupting this.
1579
1580When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1581used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1582and global options remain unmodified.
1583
1584Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1585command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1586file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1587
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001588Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1589default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1590
1591When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1592xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1593line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1594
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001595Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1596
1597When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1598going to be used like a command.
1599
1600GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1601GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1602
1603GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1604
1605Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1606line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1607console version.
1608
1609Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1610there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1611
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001612When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1613files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1614directory for the library early in the link flags.
1615
1616With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1617literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1618
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001619When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1620cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1621
1622When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1623buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1624
1625Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1626problems for Terminal.app.
1627
1628When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1629end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1630argument.
1631
1632When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1633has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1634back.
1635
1636When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1637was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1638
1639When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1640"cancel", would still give an error message.
1641
1642The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1643mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1644
1645Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1646keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1647
1648Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1649
1650In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1651selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1652is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1653
1654GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1655GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1656
1657After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1658
1659When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1660doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001661Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1662handle. Added handle_signal().
1663
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001664When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1665white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1666
1667When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1668long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1669being found in a library.
1670
1671When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1672may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1673
1674Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1675is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1676
1677When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1678original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1679empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1680be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1681the values when recovering.
1682
1683":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1684message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1685
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001686Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1687when building the ":drop" command.
1688
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001689A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1690E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1691
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001692"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1693does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1694
1695When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1696moved the cursor to another column.
1697
1698When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1699quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1700fold.
1701
1702In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1703break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1704
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001705Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001706
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001707Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001708(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001709
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001710When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1711not included.
1712
1713Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1714Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1715
1716When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1717the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1718
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001719Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1720
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001721When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1722(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1723mode. (Peter Winters)
1724
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001725"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1726
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001727Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1728not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001729Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001730
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001731When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1732lines" overwrites the message.
1733
1734Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1735
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001736When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1737after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1738column in the wrong line.
1739
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001740When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1741starts with "sl".
1742
1743When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1744'paste' when starting the GUI.
1745
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001746A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1747
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001748When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1749Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1750mapping.
1751
1752Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1753
1754":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1755
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001756When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1757in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1758
1759When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1760empty $SHELL value.
1761
1762A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1763file.
1764
1765When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1766moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1767
1768When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1769the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1770is Vi compatible.
1771
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001772Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1773Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1774$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1775
1776Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1777flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1778
1779Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1780compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1781
1782When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1783leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1784'cpoptions' for this.
1785
1786Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1787
1788Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1789be Vi compatible.
1790
1791When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1792request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1793shell and caused trouble there.
1794
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001795When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1796still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1797Lakshmanan)
1798
1799It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1800sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1801
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001802When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1803from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1804
1805When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1806
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001807Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1808unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1809
1810":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1811
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001812The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1813are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1814
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001815Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1816indirectly invokes ":normal".
1817
1818Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1819before invoking "diff".
1820
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001821Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1822&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1823
1824When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1825locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1826mouse model.
1827
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001828When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1829characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1830is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1831character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1832
1833Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001834":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001835
1836Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1837
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001838Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1839real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1840
1841Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1842always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1843
1844When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1845detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1846compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1847decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1848
1849Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1850to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1851Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1852
1853"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1854
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001855When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1856Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1857
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001858In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1859and reset it in nv_home().
1860
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001861Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1862spaces inside backticks.
1863
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001864After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1865let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1866This should be the most useful thing to do.
1867
1868":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1869an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1870
1871In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1872reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1873
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001874When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1875call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001876This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001877
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001878GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1879after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1880win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1881
1882Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1883column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1884mouse column to 10000.
1885
1886searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1887we find the same position again and advance one character.
1888
1889When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1890to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1891
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001892When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1893prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1894
1895When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1896substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1897
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001898Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1899when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1900checks where invoking them
1901
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001902":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1903show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1904
1905When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1906
1907GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1908removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1909change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1910Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1911'lines' to undo this.
1912
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001913When using the GTK plug mechanism, resizing and focus was not working
1914properly. (Neil Bird)
1915
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001916After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1917":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1918
1919When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1920may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1921character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1922so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1923
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001924setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1925
1926It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001927It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1928
1929CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001930
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001931When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1932given. Now report the first encountered error.
1933
1934When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001935caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001936continue.
1937
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001938When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1939the global value.
1940
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001941Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1942200 characters.
1943
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001944When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1945the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1946\+foo".
1947
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001948When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1949message would be in the wrong position.
1950
1951At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1952
1953When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1954were not set.
1955
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001956Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1957
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001958The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1959
1960Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1961and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1962Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1963
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001964For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1965in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1966while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1967highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1968
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001969Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1970Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1971
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001972Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1973Lakshmanan)
1974
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001975When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1976would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1977
1978When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1979searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1980
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001981GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1982redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1983
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001984Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1985Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1986reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1987
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001988Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1989
1990There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1991existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1992available.
1993
1994In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1995sticking to the first column.
1996
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001997When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1998echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1999
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00002000Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
2001
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00002002When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
2003the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
2004
2005When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
2006":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
2007
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00002008Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
2009causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
2010Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
2011
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00002012The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
2013
2014Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
2015dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
2016of its output.
2017
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00002018When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
2019the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
2020typing the command line.
2021
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00002022'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
2023"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
2024
2025When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
2026appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
2027recording.
2028
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00002029Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
2030that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
2031
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00002032When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
2033writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
2034the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
2035buffer when creating a new file.
2036
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00002037When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
2038string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
2039
2040When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00002041to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00002042incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
2043|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002044to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00002045
2046"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
2047an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
2048
2049Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
2050when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
2051edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
2052getting a beep from the "l" command.
2053
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002054Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
2055the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
2056
2057When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
2058there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
2059
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00002060Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
2061arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
2062until after executing "-c" arguments.
2063
2064When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
2065break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
2066undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
2067
2068Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
2069happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
2070stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
2071Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
2072
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00002073When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
2074change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
2075When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
2076Added mf_set_dirty().
2077
2078Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
2079backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
2080
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00002081A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
2082special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
2083
2084When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
2085!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
2086"!;&()<>".
2087
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00002088When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
2089autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
2090
2091In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
2092the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
2093
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00002094Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
2095value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
2096
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00002097Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
2098After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
2099
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00002100The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
2101normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
2102actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
2103
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00002104The "load session" toolbar item could not handle a space or other special
2105characters in v:this_session.
2106
2107":set sta ts=8 sw=4 sts=2" deleted 4 spaces halfway a line instead of 2.
2108
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00002109In a multi-byte file the foldmarker could be recognized in the trail byte.
2110(Taro Muraoka)
2111
Bram Moolenaar0e5bd962006-02-04 00:59:56 +00002112Pasting with CTRL-V and menu didn't work properly when some commands are
2113mapped. Use ":normal!" instead of ":normal". (Tony Apuzzo)
2114
2115Crashed when expanding a file name argument in backticks.
2116
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +00002117In some situations the menu and scrollbar didn't work, when the value contains
2118a CSI byte. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2119
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00002120GTK GUI: When drawing the balloon focus changes and we might get a key release
2121event that removed the balloon again. Ignore the key release event.
2122
2123'titleold' was included in ":mkexrc" and ":mksession" files.
2124
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00002125":set background&" didn't use the same logic as was used when starting up.
2126
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00002127When "umask" is set such that nothing is writable then the viminfo file would
2128be written without write permission. (Julian Bridle)
2129
Bram Moolenaar7e8fd632006-02-18 22:14:51 +00002130Motif: In diff mode dragging one scrollbar didn't update the scrollbar of the
2131other diff'ed window.
2132
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00002133When editing in an xterm with a different number of colors than expected the
2134screen would be cleared and redrawn, causing the message about the edited file
2135to be cleared. Now set "keep_msg" to redraw the last message.
2136
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00002137For a color terminal: When the Normal HL uses bold, possibly to make the color
2138lighter, and another HL group specifies a color it might become light as well.
2139Now reset bold if a HL group doesn't specify bold itself.
2140
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00002141When using 256 color xterm the color 255 would show up as color 0. Use a
2142short instead of a char to store the color number.
2143
2144ml_get errors when searching for "\n\zs" in an empty file.
2145
Bram Moolenaara5621492006-02-25 21:55:24 +00002146When selecting a block and using "$" to select until the end of every line and
2147not highlighting the character under the cursor the first character of the
2148block could be unhighlighted.
2149
2150When counting words for the Visual block area and using "$" to select until
2151the end of every line only up to the length of the last line was counted.
2152
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002153"dip" in trailing empty lines left one empty line behind.
2154
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002155The script ID was only remembered globally for each option. When a buffer- or
2156window-local option was set the same "last set" location was changed for all
2157buffers and windows. Now remember the script ID for each local option
2158separately.
2159
2160GUI: The "Replace All" button didn't handle backslashes in the replacement in
2161the same way as "Replace". Escape backslashes so that they are taken
2162literally.
2163
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00002164When using Select mode from Insert mode and typing a key, causing lines to be
2165deleted and a message displayed, delayed the effect of inserting the key.
2166Now overwrite the message without delay.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002167
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00002168When 'whichwrap' includes "l" then "dl" and "yl" on a single letter line
2169worked differently. Now recognize all operators when using "l" at the end of
2170a line.
2171
2172GTK GUI: when the font selector returned a font name with a comma in it then
2173it would be handled like two font names. Now put a backslash before the
2174comma.
2175
2176MS-DOS, Win32: When 'encoding' defaults to "latin1" then the value for
2177'iskeyword' was still for CPxxx. And when 'nocompatible' was set 'isprint'
2178would also be the wrong value.
2179
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00002180When a command was defined not to take arguments and no '|' no warning message
2181would be given for using a '|'. Also with ":loadkeymap".
2182
Bram Moolenaara3227e22006-03-08 21:32:40 +00002183Motif: When using a fontset and 'encoding' is "utf-8" and sizeof(wchar_t) !=
2184sizeof(XChar2b) then display was wrong. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2185
Bram Moolenaareb94e552006-03-11 21:35:11 +00002186":all" always set the current window to the first window, even when it
2187contains a buffer that is not in the argument list (can't be closed because it
2188is modified). Now go to the window that has the first item of the argument
2189list.
2190
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +00002191GUI: To avoid left-over pixels from bold text all characters after a character
2192with special attributes were redrawn. Now only do this for characters that
2193actually are bold. Speeds up displaying considerably.
2194
2195When only highlighting changes and the text is scrolled at the same time
2196everything is redraw instead of using a scroll and updating the changed text.
2197E.g., when using ":match" to highlight a paren that the cursor landed on.
2198Added SOME_VALID: Redraw the whole window but also try to scroll to minimize
2199redrawing.
2200
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002201Win32: When using Korean IME making it active didn't work properly. (Moon,
2202Yu-sung, 2005 March 21)
2203
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00002204Ruby interface: when inserting/deleting lines display wasn't updated. (Ryan
2205Paul)
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002206
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002207--- fixes since Vim 7.0b ---
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +00002208
2209Getting the GCC version in configure didn't work with Solaris sed. First
2210strip any "darwin." and then get the version number.
2211
2212The "autoload" directory was missing from the self-installing executable for
2213MS-Windows.
2214
2215The MS-Windows install program would find "vimtutor.bat" in the install
2216directory. After changing to "c:" also change to "\" to avoid looking in the
2217install directory.
2218
2219To make the 16 bit DOS version compile exclude not used highlight
2220initializations and build a tiny instead of small version.
2221
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002222finddir() and findfile() accept a negative cound and return a List then.
2223
2224The Python indent file contained a few debugging statements, removed.
2225
2226Expanding {} for a function name, resulting in a name starting with "s:" was
2227not handled correctly.
2228
2229Spelling: renamed COMPOUNDMAX to COMPOUNDWORDMAX. Added several items to be
2230able to handle the new Hungarian dictionary.
2231
2232Mac: Default to building for the current platform only, that is much faster
2233than building a universal binary. Also, using Perl/Python/etc. only works for
2234the current platform.
2235
Bram Moolenaar3991dab2006-03-27 17:01:56 +00002236The time on undo messages disappeared for someone. Using %T for strftime()
2237apparently doesn't work everywhere. Use %H:%M:%S instead.
2238
2239Typing BS at the "z=" prompt removed the prompt.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002240
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002241--- fixes since Vim 7.0c ---
Bram Moolenaar04a9d452006-03-27 21:03:26 +00002242
2243When jumping to another tab page the Vim window size was always set, even when
2244nothing in the layout changed.
2245
2246Win32 GUI tab pages line wasn't always enabled. Do a proper check for the
2247compiler version.
2248
2249Win32: When switching between tab pages the Vim window was moved when part of
2250it was outside of the screen. Now only do that in the direction of a size
2251change.
2252
2253Win32: added menu to GUI tab pages line. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2254
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +00002255Mac: Added document icons. (Benji Fisher)
2256
2257Insert mode completion: Using Enter to accept the current match causes
2258confusion. Use CTRL-Y instead. Also, use CTRL-E to go back to the typed
2259text.
2260
2261GUI: When there are left and righ scrollbars, ":tabedit" kept them instead of
2262using the one that isn't needed.
Bram Moolenaar04a9d452006-03-27 21:03:26 +00002263
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002264Using "gP" to replace al the text could leave the cursor below the last line,
2265causing ml_get errors.
2266
2267When 'cursorline' is set don't use the highlighting when Visual mode is
2268active, otherwise it's difficult to see the selected area.
2269
2270The matchparen plugin restricts the search to 100 lines, to avoid a long delay
2271when there are closed folds.
2272
2273Sometimes using CTRL-X s to list spelling suggestions used text from another
2274line.
2275
2276Win32: Set the default for 'isprint' back to the wrong default "@,~-255",
2277because many people use Windows-1252 while 'encoding' is "latin1".
2278
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002279GTK: Added a workaround for gvim crashing when used over an untrusted ssh
2280link, caused by GTK doing something nasty. (Ed Catmur)
2281
2282Win32: The font used for the tab page labels is too big. Use the system menu
2283font. (George Reilly)
2284
2285Win32: Adjusting the window position and size to keep it on the screen didn't
2286work properly when the taskbar is on the left or top of the screen.
2287
2288The installman.sh and installml.sh scripts use ${10}, that didn't work with
2289old shells. And use "test -f" instead of "test -e".
2290
2291Win32: When 'encoding' was set in the vimrc then a directory argument for diff
2292mode didn't work.
2293
2294GUI: at the inputlist() prompt the cursorshape was adjusted as if the windows
2295were still at their old position.
2296
2297The parenmatch plugin didn't remember the highlighting per window.
2298
2299Using ":bd" for a buffer that's the current window in another tab page caused
2300a crash.
2301
2302For a new tab page the 'scroll' option wasn't set to a good default.
2303
2304Using an end offset for a search "/pat/e" didn't work properly for multi-byte
2305text. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2306
2307":s/\n/,/" doubled the text when used on the last line.
2308
2309When "search" is in 'foldopen' "[s" and "]s" now open folds.
2310
2311When using a numbered function "dict" can be omitted, but "self" didn't work
2312then. Always add FC_DICT to the function flags when it's part of a
2313dictionary.
2314
2315When "--remote-tab" executes locally it left an empty tab page.
2316
2317"gvim -u NONE", ":set cursorcolumn", "C" in the second line didn't update
2318text. Do update further lines even though the "$" is displayed.
2319
2320VMS: Support GTK better, also enable +clientserver. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2321
2322When highlighting of statusline or tabline is changed there was no redraw to
2323show the effect.
2324
2325Mac: Added "CFBundleIdentifier" to infplist.xml.
2326
2327Added tabpage-local variables t:var.
2328
2329Win32: Added double-click in tab pages line creates new tab. (Yegappan
2330Lakshmanan)
2331
2332Motif: Added GUI tab pages line. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2333
2334Fixed crash when 'lines' was set to 1000 in a modeline.
2335
2336When init_spellfile() finds a writable directory in 'runtimepath' but it
2337doesn't contain a "spell" directory, create one.
2338
2339Win32: executable() also finds "xxd" in the directory where Vim was started,
2340but "!xxd" doesn't work. Append the Vim starting directory to $PATH.
2341
2342The tab page labels are shortened, directory names are reduced to a single
2343letter by default. Added the pathshorten() function to allow a user to do the
2344same.
2345
2346":saveas" now resets 'readonly' if the file was successfully written.
2347
2348Set $MYVIMRC file to the first found .vimrc file.
2349Set $MYGVIMRC file to the first found .gvimrc file.
2350Added menu item "Startup Settings" that edits the $MYVIMRC file
2351
2352Added matcharg().
2353
2354Error message E745 appeared twice. Renamed one to E786.
2355
2356Fixed crash when using "au BufRead * Sexplore" and doing ":help". Was wiping
2357out a buffer that's still in a window.
2358
2359":hardcopy" resulted in an error message when 'encoding' is "utf-8" and
2360'printencoding' is empty. Now it assumes latin1. (Mike Williams)
2361
2362The check for the toolbar feature for Motif, depending on certain included
2363files, wasn't detailed enough, causing building to fail in gui_xmebw.c.
2364
2365Using CTRL-E in Insert mode completion after CTRL-P inserted the first match
2366instead of the original text.
2367
2368When displaying a UTF-8 character with a zero lower byte Vim might think the
2369previous character is double-wide.
2370
2371The "nbsp" item of 'listchars' didn't work when 'encoding' was utf-8.
2372
2373Motif: when Xm/xpm.h is missing gui_xmebw.c would not compile.
2374HAVE_XM_UNHIGHLIGHTT_H was missing a T.
2375
2376Mac: Moved the .icns files into src/os_mac_rsrc, so that they can all be
2377copied at once. Adjusted the Info.plist file for three icons.
2378
2379When Visual mode is active while switching to another tabpage could get ml_get
2380errors.
2381
2382When 'list' is set, 'nowrap' the $ in the first column caused 'cursorcolumn'
2383to move to the right.
2384
2385When a line wraps, 'cursorcolumn' was never displayed past the end of the
2386line.
2387
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002388'autochdir' was only available when compiled with NetBeans and GUI. Now it's
2389a separate feature, also available in the "big" version.
2390
2391Added CTRL-W gf: open file under cursor in new tab page.
2392
2393When using the menu in the tab pages line, "New Tab" opens the new tab before
2394where the click was. Beyond the labels the new tab appears at the end instead
2395of after the current tab page.
2396
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002397 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: