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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000024KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000025MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
26Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000028Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000029Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000030POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000031Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000032Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033Various new items |new-items-7|
34
35IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
36
37COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
38
39BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
40
41==============================================================================
42INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
43
44These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000045run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
46
47A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
48unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
49buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
50all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
51":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000053":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
54
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
56name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
57double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
58 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
59 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
60 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
61 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
62
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000063In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
64":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
65results in "a'b".
66
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000067When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
68was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
69
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000070
71Minor incompatibilities:
72
73For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
74*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
75
76":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
77
78Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
79
80Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
81confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000082
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000083When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
84isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
85
86The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000087looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
88"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
89Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000090Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000091
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000092Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
93on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
94changing 'winaltkeys'.
95
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000096When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
97is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
98avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000099
100When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
101now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
102encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
103possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
104non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
105
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000106Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
107a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
108
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000109"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
110Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
111
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000112Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
113disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
114you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
115translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
116<xF1>, etc.
117
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000118":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
119
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000120When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
121file exists.
122
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000123When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
124s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
125compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
126
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000127"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
128that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
129where the type is given.
130
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000131==============================================================================
132NEW FEATURES *new-7*
133
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000134Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
135-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000136
137In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
138
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000139 List ordered list of items |List|
140 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
141 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000142
143Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
144
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000145The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
146variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
147can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
148
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000149The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
150expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
151
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000152With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
153wastes its time.
154
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000155
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000156Spell checking *new-spell*
157--------------
158
159Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
160with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
161
162The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
163The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000164The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000165The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000166
167The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
168The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
169The |z?| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000170The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000171
172The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
173mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
174The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
175background.
176The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
177220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000178with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
179highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000180
181Much more info here: |spell|.
182
183
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000184Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
185-----------------
186
187This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
188smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
189figure out what could be following. This considers struct and class members,
190unions, etc.
191
192Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
193
194The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
195figures out the completion.
196
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000197Currently supported languages:
198 C |ft-c-omni|
199 XHTML |ft-html-omni|
200
201When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
202completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000203
204
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000205KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000206-----------
207
208Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
209(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
210
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000211
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000212MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
213------------------
214
215The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
216The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
217The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
218
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000219
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000220Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
221------------------
222
223The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
224The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
225Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
226
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000227
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000228Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
229-----------------------
230
231The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000232several other languages.
233
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000234French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000235Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
236Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000237
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000238The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
239.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
240standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
241is used there as a best guess.
242Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000243The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
244with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
245do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000246
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000247
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000248Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
249-------------
250
251The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
252This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
253better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
254patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
255|:vimgrep|.
256
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000257If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000258|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000259
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000260To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
261expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
262places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
263
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000264
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000265Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
266-----------------------
267
268When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
269'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
270is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
271":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
272commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
273Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
274
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000275The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
276hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
277
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000278
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000279POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
280-------------------
281
282The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
283problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
284conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
285variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
286
287Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
288- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
289 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
290- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
291 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
292- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
293 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
294- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
295 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
296 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
297 digit.
298- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
299- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
300 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000301- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
302- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
303- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
304 above or below the new lines.
305- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
306- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
307 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
308- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
309 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
310- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
311 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
312- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
313 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
314- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
315- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
316- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
317- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
318- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
319- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
320 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000321- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
322- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000323- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000324
325
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000326Debugger support *new-debug-support*
327----------------
328
329The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
330balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
331mouse pointer.
332
333
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000334Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
335--------------------
336
337The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
338Deleting and renaming files is possible.
339
340To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
341integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
342works the same way.
343
344":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
345and a GUI dialog is not possible.
346
347The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
348
349
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000350Various new items *new-items-7*
351-----------------
352
353Normal mode commands: ~
354
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000355a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000356i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000357
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000358CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
359 location of the error under the cursor.
360
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000361|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
362
363
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000364Insert mode commands: ~
365
366CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
367 without moving the cursor.
368
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000369Options: ~
370
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000371'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
372 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
373 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000374'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000375'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000376'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
377 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000378'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
379 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000380'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000381'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
382'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000383'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
384 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000385'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
386 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
387 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000388'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
389 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000390'spell' switch spell checking on/off
391'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000392'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000393'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
394 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000395'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000396
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000397
398Ex commands: ~
399
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000400Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
401
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000402|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000403
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000404|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000405
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000406|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
407 windows.
408
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000409|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
410
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000411|:delmarks| Delete marks.
412
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000413|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
414
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000415|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
416
417|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
418
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000419|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
420 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000421
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000422|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
423 external command.
424
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000425|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
426 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
427
428|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
429 Lakshmanan).
430
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000431
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000432New functions: ~
433
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000434|add()| append an item to a List
435|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000436|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
437|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000438|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000439|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
440|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000441|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
442|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
443|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
444|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000445|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000446|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
447 Dictionary to another
448|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000449|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
450|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
451|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000452|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
453|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000454|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000455 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000456|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
457 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000458|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
459|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
460|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
461|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000462|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000463|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000464|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
465|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
466|join()| join List items into a String
467|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
468|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
469|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000470|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000471|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
472|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000473|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000474|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000475|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000476|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000477|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000478|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000479|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000480|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000481|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000482|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000483|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000484|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
485|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000486|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
487|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
488|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
489|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000490|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000491|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000492
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000493User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
494directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
495
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000496
497New autocommand events: ~
498
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000499|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
500|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
501|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000502
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000503|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000504|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
505|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000506
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000507
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000508New items in search patterns: ~
509|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
510|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
511|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
512|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
513|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
514|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
515|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
516|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
517|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
518|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
519 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000520|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
521|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000522
523Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
524
525It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
526useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000527
528
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000529New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
530
531MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
532
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000533ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
534
535SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
536
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000537PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
538
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000539Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
540
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000541Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
542
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000543Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
544
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000545Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
546
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000547Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
548Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
549different value.
550
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000551
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000552New Keymaps: ~
553
554Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
555
556
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000557New message translations: ~
558
559The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
560
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000561Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
562
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000563Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
564
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000565
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000566Others: ~
567
568Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
569character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
570Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
571"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000572
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000573Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
574
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000575Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
576
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000577GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000578
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000579Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
580
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000581Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000582
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000583Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
584event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
585file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
586
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000587Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
588To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
589they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
590
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000591Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
592when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
593|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
594
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000595For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
596|xterm-modifier-keys|
597
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000598When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
599item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000600When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
601":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
602(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000603
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000604":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
605
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000606"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
607the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
608
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000609'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
610window height.
611
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000612The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
613your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
614
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000615==============================================================================
616IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
617
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000618":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
619
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000620Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
621
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000622The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
623iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
624allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
625matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
626
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000627":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
628breakpoint at the cursor.
629
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000630The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
631few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000632
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000633Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
634it. (Johannes Zellner)
635
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000636Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
637
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000638Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
639doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
640autocommands.
641
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000642For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
643- square brackets are recognized properly
644- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
645- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
646
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000647Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
648
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000649winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
650Lakshmanan)
651
652Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
653
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000654When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
655delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
656actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
657
658When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
659Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
660(Michael Geddes)
661
662The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
663
664VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
665upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
666(Zoltan Arpadffy)
667
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000668For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
669of buffers.
670
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000671The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
672have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
673
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000674When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
675the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
676
677Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
678digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
679
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000680When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
681buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
682list.
683
684Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
685(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
686
687When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
688second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
689line is just "/*".
690
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000691When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
692mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
693edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
694the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
695used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
696more reliable.
697
698Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
699in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
700"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
701with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
702
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000703Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
704incremented/decremented each time.
705
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000706Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000707contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
708a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
709
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000710When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
711
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000712Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
713
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000714":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000715invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
716
717":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
718(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000719
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000720":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000721
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000722The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
723messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
724log startup messages.
725
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000726":let g:" lists global variables.
727":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
728":let w:" lists window-local variables.
729":let v:" lists Vim variables.
730
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000731The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
732searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000733
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000734The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
735for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
736
737The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
738the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
739
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000740g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
741bytes.
742
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000743Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
744":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
745
746CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
747ignored.
748
749When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
750will result in a message with the source of the error.
751
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000752When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
753":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
754
755To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
756been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
757
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000758The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +0000759'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000760
761The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
762variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
763to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000764
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000765Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
766possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
767and the * stands for the modifier code.
768Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
769the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
770modifiers.
771
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000772getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
773window.
774
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000775Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
776
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000777GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
778Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
779
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000780Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
781used.
782
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000783Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
784click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
785restarted.
786
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000787When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
788= value" can be used to set the register contents.
789
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000790A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
791pointer position instead of the text cursor.
792
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000793The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
794such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
795prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000796When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000797
798Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
799user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000800Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
801Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000802
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000803Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
804(Sergey Khorev)
805
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000806The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
807' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
808
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000809For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
810character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
811could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
812pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
813included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
814
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000815For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
816sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
817
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000818When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
819characters, using it's own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
820
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000821When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
822COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
823
824Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
825
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000826When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
827closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
828
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000829input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
830completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
831
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000832"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
833'modifiable' is set.
834
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +0000835When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
836matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
837
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000838Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
839directory. |load-plugins|
840
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +0000841In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
842opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
843
844It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
845in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
846
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000847==============================================================================
848COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
849
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000850Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
851probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
852and merge it back in.
853
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000854Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
855its final destination. (Raf)
856
857Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
858still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
859file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000860
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000861When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
862following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
863
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000864When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
865to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
866allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
867to store the ":quit" command.
868
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000869Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
870
871Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
872what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
873functions.
874
875Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
876without copying the code.
877
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000878Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
879Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
880runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
881
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000882==============================================================================
883BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
884
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000885When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
886instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
887work. Use "LPT1" then.
888
889The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
890size. Use a default size of 10.
891
892This example in the documentation didn't work:
893 :e `=foo . ".c" `
894Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
895
896When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
897
898"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
899
900Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
901when it doesn't support MDI.
902
903Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
904
905"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
906space.
907
908Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
909SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
910for doesn't have an extension.
911
912When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
913may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
914cursor and not putting it back where it was.
915
916When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
917not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
918to make it work the old way.
919
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000920When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
921filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
922
923After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
924
925Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
926fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000927
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000928On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
929Michele)
930
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000931Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
932CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
933
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000934When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
935ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
936
937Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000938characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
939twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000940
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000941When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
942variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
943
944'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
945is indented too much.
946
947When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
948alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
949items.
950
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000951Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
952active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
953
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000954The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
955"cn" or "tw" as intended.
956
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000957When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
958after the last line while it's not there.
959
960Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
961resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
962
963Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
964string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
965
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000966When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
967contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
968and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
969
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000970strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
971
972GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
973just before it is invoked
974
975VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
976environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
977
978UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
979from the first character of the word.
980
981When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
982detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
983
984When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
985but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
986
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000987When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
988list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
989interrupting this.
990
991When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
992used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
993and global options remain unmodified.
994
995Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
996command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
997file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
998
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000999Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1000default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1001
1002When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1003xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1004line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1005
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001006Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1007
1008When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1009going to be used like a command.
1010
1011GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1012GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1013
1014GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1015
1016Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1017line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1018console version.
1019
1020Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1021there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1022
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001023When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1024files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1025directory for the library early in the link flags.
1026
1027With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1028literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1029
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001030When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1031cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1032
1033When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1034buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1035
1036Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1037problems for Terminal.app.
1038
1039When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1040end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1041argument.
1042
1043When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1044has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1045back.
1046
1047When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1048was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1049
1050When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1051"cancel", would still give an error message.
1052
1053The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1054mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1055
1056Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1057keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1058
1059Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1060
1061In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1062selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1063is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1064
1065GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1066GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1067
1068After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1069
1070When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1071doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001072Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1073handle. Added handle_signal().
1074
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001075When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1076white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1077
1078When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1079long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1080being found in a library.
1081
1082When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1083may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1084
1085Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1086is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1087
1088When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1089original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1090empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1091be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1092the values when recovering.
1093
1094":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1095message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1096
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001097Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1098when building the ":drop" command.
1099
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001100A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1101E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1102
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001103"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1104does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1105
1106When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1107moved the cursor to another column.
1108
1109When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1110quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1111fold.
1112
1113In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1114break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1115
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001116Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001117
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001118Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001119(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001120
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001121When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1122not included.
1123
1124Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1125Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1126
1127When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1128the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1129
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001130Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1131
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001132When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1133(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1134mode. (Peter Winters)
1135
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001136"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1137
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001138Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1139not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001140Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001141
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001142When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1143lines" overwrites the message.
1144
1145Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1146
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001147When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1148after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1149column in the wrong line.
1150
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001151When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1152starts with "sl".
1153
1154When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1155'paste' when starting the GUI.
1156
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001157A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1158
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001159When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1160Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1161mapping.
1162
1163Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1164
1165":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1166
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001167When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1168in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1169
1170When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1171empty $SHELL value.
1172
1173A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1174file.
1175
1176When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1177moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1178
1179When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1180the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1181is Vi compatible.
1182
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001183Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1184Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1185$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1186
1187Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1188flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1189
1190Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1191compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1192
1193When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1194leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1195'cpoptions' for this.
1196
1197Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1198
1199Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1200be Vi compatible.
1201
1202When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1203request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1204shell and caused trouble there.
1205
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001206When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1207still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1208Lakshmanan)
1209
1210It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1211sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1212
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001213When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1214from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1215
1216When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1217
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001218Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1219unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1220
1221":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1222
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001223The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1224are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1225
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001226Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1227indirectly invokes ":normal".
1228
1229Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1230before invoking "diff".
1231
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001232Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1233&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1234
1235When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1236locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1237mouse model.
1238
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001239When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1240characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1241is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1242character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1243
1244Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001245":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001246
1247Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1248
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001249Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1250real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1251
1252Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1253always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1254
1255When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1256detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1257compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1258decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1259
1260Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1261to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1262Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1263
1264"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1265
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001266When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1267Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1268
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001269In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1270and reset it in nv_home().
1271
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001272Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1273spaces inside backticks.
1274
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001275After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1276let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1277This should be the most useful thing to do.
1278
1279":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1280an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1281
1282In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1283reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1284
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001285When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1286call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001287This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001288
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001289GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1290after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1291win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1292
1293Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1294column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1295mouse column to 10000.
1296
1297searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1298we find the same position again and advance one character.
1299
1300When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1301to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1302
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001303When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1304prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1305
1306When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1307substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1308
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001309Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1310when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1311checks where invoking them
1312
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001313":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1314show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1315
1316When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1317
1318GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1319removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1320change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1321Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1322'lines' to undo this.
1323
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001324After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1325":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1326
1327When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1328may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1329character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1330so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1331
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001332setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1333
1334It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001335It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1336
1337CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001338
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001339When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1340given. Now report the first encountered error.
1341
1342When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
1343caused a fallback to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
1344continue.
1345
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001346When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1347the global value.
1348
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001349Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1350200 characters.
1351
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001352When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1353the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1354\+foo".
1355
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001356When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1357message would be in the wrong position.
1358
1359At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1360
1361When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1362were not set.
1363
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001364Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1365
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001366The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1367
1368Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1369and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1370Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1371
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001372For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1373in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1374while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1375highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1376
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001377Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1378Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1379
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001380Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1381Lakshmanan)
1382
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001383When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1384would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1385
1386When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1387searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1388
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001389GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1390redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1391
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001392Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1393Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1394reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1395
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001396 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: