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Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0f. Last change: 2006 Apr 27
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).
Bram Moolenaar61660ea2006-04-07 21:40:07 +0000163It is possible to reload the buffer.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000164
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000165==============================================================================
166NEW FEATURES *new-7*
167
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000168Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
169-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000170
171In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
172
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000173 List ordered list of items |List|
174 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
175 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000176
177Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
178
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000179The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
180variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
181can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
182
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000183The |:let| command can now use "+=". ":let var += expr" works like
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000184":let var = var + expr". "-=" and ".=" work in a similar way.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000185
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000186With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
187wastes its time.
188
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000189In the Python interface vim.eval() also handles Dictionaries and Lists.
190|python-eval| (G. Sumner Hayes)
191
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000192The |getscript| plugin was added as a convenient way to update scripts from
193www.vim.org automatically. (Charles Campbell)
194
195The |vimball| plugin was added as a convenient way to distribute a set of
196files for a plugin (plugin file, autoload script, documentation). (Charles
197Campbell)
198
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000199
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000200Spell checking *new-spell*
201--------------
202
203Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
204with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
205
206The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
207The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000208The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000209The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000210
211The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
212The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000213The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000214The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000215
216The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
217mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
218The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
219background.
220The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
221220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000222with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
223highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000224
225Much more info here: |spell|.
226
227
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000228Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
229-----------------
230
231This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
232smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000233figure out what could be following. This may suggest struct and class
234members, system functions, etc.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000235
236Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
237
238The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
239figures out the completion.
240
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000241Currently supported languages:
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000242 C |ft-c-omni|
243 (X)HTML with CSS |ft-html-omni|
244 JavaScript |ft-javascript-omni|
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +0000245 Python
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +0000246 Ruby |ft-ruby-omni|
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000247 XML |ft-xml-omni|
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +0000248 any language wih syntax highligting |ft-syntax-omni|
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000249
250When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
251completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000252
253
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000254MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
255------------------
256
257The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
258The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
259The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
260
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000261
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000262Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
263------------------
264
265The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
266The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
267Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
268
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000269
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000270Tab pages *new-tab-pages*
271---------
272
273A tab page is page with one or more windows with a label (aka tab) at the top.
274By clicking on the label you can quickly switch between the tab pages. And
275with the keyboard, using the |gt| (Goto Tab) command. This is a convenient
276way to work with many windows.
277
278To start Vim with each file argument in a separate tab page use the |-p|
279argument. The maximum number of pages can be set with 'tabpagemax'.
280
281The line with tab labels is either made with plain text an highlighting or
282with a GUI mechanism. The GUI labels look better but are only available on a
Bram Moolenaar57657d82006-04-21 22:12:41 +0000283few systems. The line can be customized with 'tabline', 'guitablabel' and
284'guitabtooltip'. Whether it is displayed is set with 'showtabline'. Whether
285to use the GUI labels is set with the "e" flag in 'guioptions'.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000286
287The |:tab| command modifier can be used to have most commands that open a new
288window open a new tab instead.
289
Bram Moolenaar0ce29932006-03-13 22:18:45 +0000290The |--remote-tab| argument can be used to edit a file in a new tab page in an
291already running Vim server.
292
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000293Variables starting with "t:" are local to a tab page.
294
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000295More info here: |tabpage|
Bram Moolenaar3991dab2006-03-27 17:01:56 +0000296The Win32 GUI tabs were implemented by Yegappan Lakshmanan.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000297
298
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000299Undo branches *new-undo-branches*
300-------------
301
302Previously there was only one line of undo-redo. If, after undoing a number
303of changes, a new change was made all the undone changes were lost. This
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000304could lead to accidentally losing work.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000305
306Vim now makes an undo branch in this situation. Thus you can go back to the
307text after any change, even if they were undone. So long as you do not run
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000308into 'undolevels', undo information is freed up to limit the memory used.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000309
310To be able to navigate the undo branches each change is numbered sequentially.
311The commands |g-| and |:earlier| go back in time, to older changes. The
312commands |g+| and |:later| go forward in time, to newer changes.
313
314The changes are also timestamped. Use ":earlier 10m" to go to the text as it
315was about ten minutes earlier.
316
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000317The |:undolist| command can be used to get an idea of which undo branches
318exist. The |:undo| command now takes an argument to directly jump to a
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000319specific position in this list. The |changenr()| function can be used to
320obtain the change number.
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000321
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000322There is no graphical display of the tree with changes, navigation can be
323quite confusing.
324
325
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000326Extended Unicode support *new-more-unicode*
327------------------------
328
329Previously only two combining characters were displayed. The limit is now
330raised to 6. This can be set with the 'maxcombine' option. The default is
331still 2.
332
333|ga| now shows all combining characters, not just the first two.
334
335Previously only 16 bit Unicode characters were supported for displaying. Now
336the full 32 bit character set can be used. Unless manually disabled at
337compile time.
338
339For pattern matching it is now possible to search for individual composing
340characters. |patterns-composing|
341
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000342The |8g8| command searches for an illegal UTF-8 byte sequence.
343
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000344
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000345More highlighting *new-more-highlighting*
346-----------------
347
348Highlighting matching parens
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000349
350When moving the cursor through the text and it is on a paren, then the
351matching paren can be highlighted. This uses the new |CursorMoved|
352autocommand event.
353
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +0000354This means some commands are executed every time you move the cursor. If this
355slows you down too much switch it off with: >
356 :NoMatchParen
357
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000358See |matchparen| for more information.
359
360The plugin uses the |:match| command. It now supports three match patterns.
361The plugin uses the third one. The first one is for the user and the second
362one can be used by another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000363
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000364Highlighting the cursor line and column
365
366The 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' options have been added. These highlight
367the screen line and screen column of the cursor. This makes the cursor
368position easier to spot. 'cursorcolumn' is also useful to align text. The
369CursorColumn and CursorLine highlighting allow changing the colors used.
370|hl-CursorColumn| |hl-CursorLine|
371
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000372
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000373Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
374-----------------------
375
376The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000377several other languages.
378
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000379French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000380Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
381Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +0000382Polish - translated by Mikolaj Machowski
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000383
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000384The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
385.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
386standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
387is used there as a best guess.
388Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000389The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
390with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
391do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000392
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000393
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000394Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
395-------------
396
397The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
398This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
399better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
400patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
401|:vimgrep|.
402
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000403If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000404|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000405
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000406To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
407expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
408places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
409
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000410
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000411Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
412-----------------------
413
414When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
415'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
416is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
417":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
418commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
419Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
420
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000421The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
422hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
423
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000424
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000425Cursor past end of the line *new-onemore*
426---------------------------
427
428When the 'virtualedit' option contains "onemore" the cursor can move just past
429the end of the line. As if it's on top of the line break.
430
431This makes some commands more consistent. Previously the cursor was always
432past the end of the line if the line was empty. But it is far from Vi
433compatible. It may also break some plugins or Vim scripts. Use with care!
434
435The patch was provided by Mattias Flodin.
436
437
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000438POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
439-------------------
440
441The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
442problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
443conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
444variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
445
446Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
447- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
448 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
449- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
450 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
451- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
452 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
453- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
454 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
455 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
456 digit.
457- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
458- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
459 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000460- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
461- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
462- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
463 above or below the new lines.
464- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
465- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
466 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
467- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
468 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
469- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
470 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
471- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
472 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
473- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
474- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
475- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
476- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
477- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
478- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
479 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000480- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
481- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000482- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000483
484
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000485Debugger support *new-debug-support*
486----------------
487
488The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
489balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
490mouse pointer.
491
492
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000493Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
494--------------------
495
496The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
497Deleting and renaming files is possible.
498
499To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
500integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
501works the same way.
502
503":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
504and a GUI dialog is not possible.
505
506The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
507
508
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000509Define an operator *new-define-operator*
510------------------
511
512Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
513followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
514|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
515operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
516through the |g@| operator.
517
518See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
519
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000520
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000521Mapping to an expression *new-map-expression*
522------------------------
523
524The {rhs} argument of a mapping can be an expression. That means the
525resulting characters can depend on the context. Example: >
526 :inoremap <expr> . InsertDot()
527Here the dot will be mapped to whatever InsertDot() returns.
528
529Also works for abbreviations. See |:map-<expr>| for the details.
530
531
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000532Visual and Select mode mappings *new-map-select*
533-------------------------------
534
535Previously Visual mode mappings applied both to Visual and Select mode. With
536a trick to have the mappings work in Select mode like they would in Visual
537mode.
538
539Commands have been added to define mappings for Visual and Select mode
540separately: |:xmap| and |:smap|. With the associated "noremap" and "unmap"
541commands.
542
543The same is done for menus: |:xmenu|, |:smenu|, etc.
544
545
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000546Location list *new-location-list*
547-------------
548
549The support for a per-window quickfix list (location list) is added. The
550location list can be displayed in a location window (similar to the quickfix
551window). You can open more than one location list window. A set of commands
552similar to the quickfix commands are added to browse the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000553(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
554
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000555
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000556Various new items *new-items-7*
557-----------------
558
559Normal mode commands: ~
560
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000561a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000562i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000563
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000564CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
565 location of the error under the cursor.
566
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000567|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
568
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000569<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
570<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
571 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000572
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +0000573gF Start editing the filename under the cursor and jump
574 to the line number following the file name.
575 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
576
577CTRL-W F Start editing the filename under the cursor in a new
578 window and jump to the line number following the file
579 name. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
580
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000581Insert mode commands: ~
582
583CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
584 without moving the cursor.
585
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000586Options: ~
587
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000588'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
589 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
590 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000591'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000592'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000593'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
594 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000595'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
596 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000597'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000598'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
599'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000600'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
601 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000602'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
603 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
604 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000605'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
606 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000607'formatexpr' expression for formatting text with |gq| and when text
608 goes over 'textwidth' in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000609'spell' switch spell checking on/off
610'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000611'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000612'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
613 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000614'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000615'winfixwidth' window with fixed width, similar to 'winfixheight'
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000616
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000617
618Ex commands: ~
619
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000620Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
621
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000622|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000623|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000624
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000625|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000626
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000627|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
628 windows.
629
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000630|:delmarks| Delete marks.
631
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000632|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
633
634|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
635
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000636|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
Bram Moolenaar4c3f5362006-04-11 21:38:50 +0000637 external command. (partly by Bryce Wagner)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000638
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000639|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
640 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +0000641|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
642 Lakshmanan)
643|:cgetbuffer| Create a quickfix list from a buffer but don't jump to
644 the first error.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000645|:caddbuffer| Add errors from the current buffer to the quickfix
646 list.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +0000647|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
648 Lakshmanan).
649|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
650 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
651|:cgetexpr| Create a quickfix list from a Vim expression, but
652 don't jump to the first error. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000653
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000654|:lfile| Like |:cfile| but use the location list.
655|:lgetfile| Like |:cgetfile| but use the location list.
656|:laddfile| Like |:caddfile| but use the location list.
657|:lbuffer| Like |:cbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +0000658|:lgetbuffer| Like |:cgetbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000659|:laddbuffer| Like |:caddbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000660|:lexpr| Like |:cexpr| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +0000661|:lgetexpr| Like |:cgetexpr| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000662|:laddexpr| Like |:caddexpr| but use the location list.
663|:ll| Like |:cc| but use the location list.
664|:llist| Like |:clist| but use the location list.
665|:lnext| Like |:cnext| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000666|:lprevious| Like |:cprevious| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000667|:lNext| Like |:cNext| but use the location list.
668|:lfirst| Like |:cfirst| but use the location list.
669|:lrewind| Like |:crewind| but use the location list.
670|:llast| Like |:clast| but use the location list.
671|:lnfile| Like |:cnfile| but use the location list.
672|:lpfile| Like |:cpfile| but use the location list.
673|:lNfile| Like |:cNfile| but use the location list.
674|:lolder| Like |:colder| but use the location list.
675|:lnewer| Like |:cnewer| but use the location list.
676|:lwindow| Like |:cwindow| but use the location list.
677|:lopen| Like |:copen| but use the location list.
678|:lclose| Like |:cclose| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000679|:lmake| Like |:make| but use the location list.
680|:lgrep| Like |:grep| but use the location list.
681|:lgrepadd| Like |:grepadd| but use the location list.
682|:lvimgrep| Like |:vimgrep| but use the location list.
683|:lvimgrepadd| Like |:vimgrepadd| but use the location list.
684|:lhelpgrep| Like |:helpgrep| but use the location list.
685|:lcscope| Like |:cscope| but use the location list.
686|:ltag| Jump to a tag and add matching tags to a location list.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000687
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000688|:undojoin| Join a change with the previous undo block.
689
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000690
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000691Ex command modifiers: ~
692
693|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
694
695|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
696
697|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
698
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000699
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000700Ex command arguments: ~
701
702|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
703 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
704 Matsumoto)
705 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
706 are found include the line number in the error
707 message.
708
709
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000710New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000711
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000712|add()| append an item to a List
713|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +0000714|argv()| without an argument return the whole argument list
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000715|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000716|bufnr()| takes an extra argument: create buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000717|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000718|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000719|changenr()| number of current change
720|complete()| set matches for Insert mode completion
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000721|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
722|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000723|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
724|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000725|cursor()| also accepts an offset for 'virtualedit', and
726 the first argument can be a list: [lnum, col, off]
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000727|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000728|diff_filler()| returns number of filler lines above line {lnum}.
729|diff_hlID()| returns the highlight ID for diff mode
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000730|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000731|eval()| evaluate {string} and return the result
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000732|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
733 Dictionary to another
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +0000734|feedkeys()| put characters in the typeahead buffer
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000735|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000736|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
737|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
738|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000739|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000740|garbagecollect()| cleanup unused |Lists| and |Dictionaries| with circular
741 references
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000742|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000743|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000744 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000745|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
746 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000747|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
748|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
749|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
750|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000751|getloclist()| list of location list items (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000752|getpos()| return a list with the position of cursor, mark, etc.
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000753|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
754|getreg()| get contents of a register
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000755|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000756|hasmapto()| check for a mapping to a string
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000757|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000758|index()| index of item in List
759|inputlist()| prompt the user to make a selection from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000760|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000761|islocked()| check if a variable is locked
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000762|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
763|join()| join List items into a String
764|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
765|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
766|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000767|maparg()| extra argument: use abbreviation
768|mapcheck()| extra argument: use abbreviation
769|match()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000770|matcharg()| return arguments of |:match| command
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000771|matchend()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000772|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000773|matchstr()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000774|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
775|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000776|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000777|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000778|pumvisible()| check whether the popup menu is displayed
779|range()| generate a List with numbers
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000780|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000781|reltime()| get time value, possibly relative
782|reltimestr()| turn a time value into a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000783|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000784|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000785|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000786|search()| extra argument:
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000787|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000788|searchpair()| extra argument: line to stop searching
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000789|searchpairpos()| return a List with the position of the match
790|searchpos()| return a List with the position of the match
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000791|setloclist()| modify a location list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000792|setpos()| set cursor or mark to a position
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000793|setqflist()| modify a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000794|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000795|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000796|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
797|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000798|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000799|str2nr()| convert a string to a number, base 8, 10 or 16
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000800|stridx()| extra argument: start position
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000801|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000802|system()| extra argument: filters {input} through a shell command
803|tabpagebuflist()| List of buffers in a tab page
804|tabpagenr()| number of current or last tab page
805|tabpagewinnr()| window number in a tab page
806|tagfiles()| List with tags file names
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000807|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
808|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000809|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000810|winnr()| takes an argument: what window to use
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000811|winrestview()| restore the view of the current window
812|winsaveview()| save the view of the current window
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000813|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000814
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000815User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
816directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
817
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000818
819New autocommand events: ~
820
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000821|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000822
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +0000823|CursorHoldI| the user doesn't press a key for a while in Insert mode
824|CursorMoved| the cursor was moved in Normal mode
825|CursorMovedI| the cursor was moved in Insert mode
826
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000827|FileChangedShellPost| after handling a file changed outside of Vim
828
829|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
830|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
831|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
832
833|MenuPopup| just before showing popup menu
834
835|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
836|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
837
838|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
839
840|ShellCmdPost| after executing a shell command
841|ShellFilterPost| after filtering with a shell command
842
843|SourcePre| before sourcing a Vim script
844
845|SpellFileMissing| when a spell file can't be found
846
847|SwapExists| found existing swap file when editing a file
848
849|TabEnter| just after entering a tab page
850|TabLeave| just before leaving a tab page
851
852|VimResized| after the Vim window size changed (Yakov Lerner)
853
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000854
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000855New items in search patterns: ~
856|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
857|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
858|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
859|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
860|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
861|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
862|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
863|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
864|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
865|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
866 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000867
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000868|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
869|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000870
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000871|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
872|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
873|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
874|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
875
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000876Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
877
878It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
879useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000880
881
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000882New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
883
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000884Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
885Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
886different value.
887
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000888a2ps syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
889ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
890alsaconf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
891AppendMatchGroup ftplugin file. (Dave Silvia)
892arch ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
893asterisk and asteriskvm syntax file. (Tilghman Lesher)
894BDF ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
895BibTeX indent file. (Dorai Sitaram)
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +0000896BibTeX Bibliography Style syntax file. (Tim Pope)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000897BTM ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
898calendar ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
899Changelog indent file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar57657d82006-04-21 22:12:41 +0000900ChordPro syntax file. (Niels Bo Andersen)
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +0000901Cmake indent and syntax file. (Andy Cedilnik)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000902conf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
903context syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
904CRM114 ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
905cvs RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
906D indent file. (Jason Mills)
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +0000907Debian Sources.list syntax file. (Matthijs Mohlmann)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000908dictconf and dictdconf syntax, indent and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
909diff ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
910dircolors ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
911django and htmldjango syntax file. (Dave Hodder)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +0000912doxygen syntax file. (Michael Geddes)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000913elinks ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
914eterm ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
915eviews syntax file. (Vaidotas Zemlys)
916fetchmail RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +0000917FlexWiki syntax and ftplugin file. (George Reilly)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000918Generic indent file. (Dave Silvia)
919gpg ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
920gretl syntax file. (Vaidotas Zemlys)
921groovy syntax file. (Alessio Pace)
922group syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
923grub ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
924Haskell ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
925help ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
926indent ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
927Javascript ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
Bram Moolenaar4c3f5362006-04-11 21:38:50 +0000928Kconfig ftplugin and syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000929ld syntax, indent and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
930lftp ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
931libao config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
932limits syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
933Lisp indent file. (Sergey Khorev)
934loginaccess and logindefs syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
935m4 ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +0000936mailaliases syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000937mailcap ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
938manconf syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
939matlab ftplugin file. (Jake Wasserman)
Bram Moolenaar779b74b2006-04-10 14:55:34 +0000940Maxima syntax file. (Robert Dodier)
Bram Moolenaar2a3f7ee2006-02-23 21:34:44 +0000941MGL syntax file. (Gero Kuhlmann)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000942modconf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
943mplayer config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +0000944Mrxvtrc syntax and ftplugin file. (Gautam Iyer)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000945MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
946mutt RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
947nanorc syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
948netrc ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
949pamconf syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
950Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
951passwd syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
952PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
953pinfo ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +0000954plaintex syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull, Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000955procmail ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
956prolog ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
957protocols syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
958quake ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
959racc syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000960rd syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000961readline ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
962rhelp syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +0000963rnoweb syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000964Relax NG compact ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
965Scheme indent file. (Sergey Khorev)
966screen ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
967sensors syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
968services syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
969setserial syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
970sieve syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar61660ea2006-04-07 21:40:07 +0000971SiSU syntax file (Ralph Amissah)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000972Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
973slp config, reg and spi syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
974SML indent file. (Saikat Guha)
975SQL anywhere syntax and indent file. (David Fishburn)
976SQL indent file.
977SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
978SQL: Handling of various variants. (David Fishburn)
979sshconfig ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +0000980Stata and SMCL syntax files. (Jeff Pitblado)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000981sudoers ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
982sysctl syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
983terminfo ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
984trustees syntax file. (Nima Talebi)
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +0000985Vera syntax file. (David Eggum)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000986udev config, permissions and rules syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
987updatedb syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
988VHDL indent file (Gerald Lai)
989WSML syntax file. (Thomas Haselwanter)
990Xdefaults ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
991XFree86 config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
992xinetd syntax, indent and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
993xmodmap ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
994Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
995xsd (XML schema) indent file.
996YAML ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
997Zsh ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
998
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000999
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +00001000New Keymaps: ~
1001
1002Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001003Tamil in TSCII encoding (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +00001004Greek in cp737 (Panagiotis Louridas)
1005Polish-slash (HS6_06)
1006Ukrainian-jcuken (Anatoli Sakhnik)
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001007
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +00001008
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001009New message translations: ~
1010
1011The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001012Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
1013
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001014
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001015Others: ~
1016
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00001017The |:read| command has the |++edit| argument. This means it will use the
1018detected 'fileformat', 'fileencoding' and other options for the buffer. This
1019also fixes the problem that editing a compressed file didn't set these
1020options.
1021
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001022The Netbeans interface was updated for Sun Studio 10. The protocol number
1023goes from 2.2 to 2.3. (Gordon Prieur)
1024
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +00001025Mac: When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +00001026define default command-key mappings. (mostly by Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +00001027
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001028Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
1029character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
1030Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
1031"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001032
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001033Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00001034
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001035Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +00001036This doesn't always work properly. If you see text drawing problems try
1037switching the 'macatsui' option off.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001038
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001039Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001040
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001041Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
1042event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
1043file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
1044
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +00001045Mac: When started from Finder change directory to the file being edited or the
1046user home directory.
1047
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001048Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001049GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
1050
1051Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
1052
1053Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
1054
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001055To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
1056they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
1057
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001058Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
1059when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
1060|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
1061
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001062For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
1063|xterm-modifier-keys|
1064
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001065When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
1066item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001067When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
1068":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
1069(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001070
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +00001071":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
1072
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +00001073"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
1074the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
1075
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001076'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
1077window height.
1078
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001079The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
1080your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
1081
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001082To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
1083is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
1084been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
1085can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
1086other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001087When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
1088the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001089
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001090Undo now also restores the '< and '> marks. "gv" selects the same area as
1091before the change and undo.
1092
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001093When editing a search pattern for a "/" or "?" command and 'incsearch' is set
1094CTRL-L can be used to add a character from the current match. CTRL-R CTRL-W
1095will add a word, but exclude the part of the word that was already typed.
1096
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001097Ruby interface: add line number methods. (Ryan Paul)
1098
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00001099The $MYVIMRC environment variable is set to the first found vimrc file.
1100The $MYGVIMRC environment variable is set to the first found gvimrc file.
1101
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001102==============================================================================
1103IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
1104
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001105":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
1106
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +00001107Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
1108
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001109When doing completion for ":!cmd", ":r !cmd" or ":w !cmd" executable files are
Bram Moolenaar551dbcc2006-04-25 22:13:59 +00001110found in $PATH instead of looking for ordinary files in the current directory.
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001111
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001112When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
1113range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
1114
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001115The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
1116iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
1117allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
1118matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
1119
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001120Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
1121happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
1122'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
1123
1124Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
1125CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
1126that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
1127from happening.
1128
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001129":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
1130breakpoint at the cursor.
1131
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00001132It is now possible to define a function with: >
1133 :exe "func Test()\n ...\n endfunc"
1134
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001135The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
1136few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001137
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +00001138Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
1139it. (Johannes Zellner)
1140
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00001141Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
1142of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
1143"os_unix.c".
1144
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00001145Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
1146
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001147Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001148does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001149autocommands.
1150
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001151For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
1152- square brackets are recognized properly
1153- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
1154- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
1155
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +00001156Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
1157
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001158winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
1159Lakshmanan)
1160
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001161Added 's' flag to search(): set ' mark if cursor moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001162Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001163Added 'c' flag to search(): accept match at the cursor.
1164Added 'e' flag to search(): move to end of the match. (Benji Fisher)
1165Added 'p' flag to search(): return number of sub-pattern. (Benji Fisher)
1166These also apply to searchpos(), searchpair() and searchpairpos().
1167The search() and searchpair() functions have an extra argument to specify
1168where to stop searching. Speeds up searches that should not continue too far.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001169
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001170When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
1171delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
1172actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
1173
1174When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001175(Michael Geddes)
1176
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001177Support setting 'filetype' and 'syntax' to "aaa.bbb" for "aaa" plus "bbb"
1178filetype or syntax.
1179
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001180The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
1181
1182VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
1183upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
1184(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1185
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001186For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
1187of buffers.
1188
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001189When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
1190the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
1191
1192Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
1193digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
1194
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001195When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
1196buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
1197list.
1198
1199Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
1200(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
1201
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001202Win32: Vim was not aware of hard links on NTFS file systems. These are
1203detected now for when 'backupcopy' is "auto". Also fixed a bogus "file has
1204been changed since reading it" error for links.
1205
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001206When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
1207second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
1208line is just "/*".
1209
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001210When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
1211mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
1212edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
1213the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
1214used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
1215more reliable.
1216
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001217Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
1218of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
1219file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
1220
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001221Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
1222in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
1223"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
1224with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
1225
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001226Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
1227incremented/decremented each time.
1228
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001229Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001230contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
1231a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
1232
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001233When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
1234
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001235Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
1236
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001237":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001238invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
1239
1240":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
1241(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001242
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001243":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001244
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +00001245The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
1246messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
1247log startup messages.
1248
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001249":let g:" lists global variables.
1250":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
1251":let w:" lists window-local variables.
1252":let v:" lists Vim variables.
1253
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001254The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
1255searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001256
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001257The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
1258for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
1259
1260The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
1261the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
1262
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001263g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
1264bytes.
1265
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001266Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
1267":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
1268
1269CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
1270ignored.
1271
1272When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
1273will result in a message with the source of the error.
1274
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001275When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
1276":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
1277
1278To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
1279been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
1280
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001281In a |:substitute| command the \u, \U, \l and \L items now also work for
1282multi-byte characters.
1283
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001284The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001285'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001286
1287The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
1288variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
1289to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001290
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001291Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
1292possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
1293and the * stands for the modifier code.
1294Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
1295the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
1296modifiers.
1297
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001298getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
1299window.
1300
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001301Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001302Added the "%>" item to 'errorformat'.
1303
1304For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
1305character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
1306could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
1307pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
1308included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001309
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001310GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
1311Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
1312
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001313Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
1314used.
1315
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +00001316Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
1317click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
1318restarted.
1319
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001320When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
1321= value" can be used to set the register contents.
1322
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001323A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
1324pointer position instead of the text cursor.
1325
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001326The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
1327such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
1328prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001329When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001330
1331Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
1332user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001333Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
1334Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001335
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001336Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
1337(Sergey Khorev)
1338
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001339For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
1340sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
1341
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001342When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001343characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001344
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001345When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
1346COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1347
1348Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1349
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001350When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
1351closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
1352
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +00001353input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
1354completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1355
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001356"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
1357'modifiable' is set.
1358
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001359The 'diffopt' option has three new values: "horizontal", "vertical" and
1360"foldcolumn".
1361
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001362When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
1363matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
1364
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001365Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
1366directory. |load-plugins|
1367
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +00001368In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
1369opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
1370
1371It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
1372in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
1373
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +00001374Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
1375
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +00001376":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
1377added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
1378
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001379In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
1380more logical. (Robert Webb)
1381
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001382When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
1383file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
1384actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
1385'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
1386
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001387When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
1388then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
1389a hint that something might be wrong.
1390
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001391Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
1392
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001393In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
1394then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
1395inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
1396without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001397
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001398The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001399and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +00001400
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001401Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
1402itself.
1403
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001404":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
1405asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
1406
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001407Insert mode completion for whole lines now also searches unloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001408
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001409The colortest.vim script can now be invoked directly with ":source" or
1410":runtime".
1411
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001412The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
1413have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1414
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001415The 'statusline' option and other options that support the same format can now
1416use these new features:
1417- When it starts with "%!" the value is first evaluated as an expression
1418 before parsing the value.
1419- "%#HLname#" can be used to start highlighting with HLname.
1420
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001421When 'statusline' is set to something that causes an error message then it is
1422made empty to avoid an endless redraw loop. Also for other options, such at
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001423'tabline' and 'titlestring'. ":verbose set statusline" will mention that it
1424was set in an error handler.
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001425
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001426When there are several matching tags, the ":tag <name>" and CTRL-] commands
1427jump to the [count] matching tag. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1428
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001429Win32: In the batch files generated by the install program, use $VIMRUNTIME or
1430$VIM if it's set. Example provided by Mathias Michaelis.
1431Also create a vimtutor.bat batch file.
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001432
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001433The 'balloonexpr' option is now |global-local|.
1434
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001435The system() function now runs in cooked mode, thus can be interrupted by
1436CTRL-C.
1437
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001438==============================================================================
1439COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
1440
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001441Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
1442probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
1443and merge it back in.
1444
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001445When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
1446following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
1447
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +00001448When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
1449to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
1450allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
1451to store the ":quit" command.
1452
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001453Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
1454
1455Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
1456what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
1457functions.
1458
1459Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
1460without copying the code.
1461
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001462--- Mac ---
1463
1464"make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to its
1465final destination. (Raf)
1466
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001467Put the runtime directory not directly in Vim.app but in
1468Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim, so that it's according to Mac specs.
1469
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001470Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and still
1471being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c file.
1472
1473When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001474Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
1475runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
1476
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001477Configure will attempt to build Vim for both Intel and PowerPC. The
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001478--with-mac-arch configure argument can change it.
1479
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001480--- Win32 ---
1481
1482The Make_mvc.mak file was adjusted to work with the latest MS compilers,
1483including the free version of Visual Studio 2005. (George Reilly)
1484
1485INSTALLpc.txt was updated for the recent changes. (George Reilly)
1486
1487The distributed executable is now produced with the free Visual C++ Toolkit
14882003 and other free SDK chunks. msvcsetup.bat was added to support this.
1489
1490Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
1491on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
1492
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001493==============================================================================
1494BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
1495
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001496When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
1497instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
1498work. Use "LPT1" then.
1499
1500The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
1501size. Use a default size of 10.
1502
1503This example in the documentation didn't work:
1504 :e `=foo . ".c" `
1505Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
1506
1507When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1508
1509"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1510
1511Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1512when it doesn't support MDI.
1513
1514Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1515
1516"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1517space.
1518
1519Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1520SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1521for doesn't have an extension.
1522
1523When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1524may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1525cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1526
1527When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1528not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1529to make it work the old way.
1530
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001531When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1532filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1533
1534After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1535
1536Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1537fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001538
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001539On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1540Michele)
1541
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001542Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1543CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1544
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001545When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1546ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1547
1548Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001549characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1550twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001551
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001552When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1553variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1554
1555'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1556is indented too much.
1557
1558When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1559alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1560items.
1561
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001562Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1563active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1564
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001565The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1566"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1567
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001568When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1569after the last line while it's not there.
1570
1571Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1572resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1573
1574Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1575string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1576
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001577When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1578contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1579and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1580
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001581strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1582
1583GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1584just before it is invoked
1585
1586VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1587environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1588
1589UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1590from the first character of the word.
1591
1592When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1593detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1594
1595When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1596but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1597
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001598When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1599list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1600interrupting this.
1601
1602When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1603used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1604and global options remain unmodified.
1605
1606Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1607command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1608file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1609
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001610Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1611default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1612
1613When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1614xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1615line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1616
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001617Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1618
1619When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1620going to be used like a command.
1621
1622GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1623GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1624
1625GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1626
1627Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1628line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1629console version.
1630
1631Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1632there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1633
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001634When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1635files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1636directory for the library early in the link flags.
1637
1638With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1639literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1640
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001641When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1642cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1643
1644When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1645buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1646
1647Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1648problems for Terminal.app.
1649
1650When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1651end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1652argument.
1653
1654When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1655has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1656back.
1657
1658When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1659was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1660
1661When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1662"cancel", would still give an error message.
1663
1664The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1665mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1666
1667Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1668keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1669
1670Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1671
1672In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1673selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1674is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1675
1676GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1677GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1678
1679After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1680
1681When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1682doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001683Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1684handle. Added handle_signal().
1685
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001686When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1687white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1688
1689When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1690long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1691being found in a library.
1692
1693When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1694may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1695
1696Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1697is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1698
1699When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1700original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1701empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1702be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1703the values when recovering.
1704
1705":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1706message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1707
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001708Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1709when building the ":drop" command.
1710
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001711A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1712E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1713
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001714"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1715does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1716
1717When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1718moved the cursor to another column.
1719
1720When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1721quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1722fold.
1723
1724In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1725break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1726
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001727Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001728
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001729Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001730(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001731
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001732When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1733not included.
1734
1735Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1736Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1737
1738When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1739the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1740
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001741Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1742
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001743When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1744(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1745mode. (Peter Winters)
1746
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001747"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1748
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001749Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1750not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001751Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001752
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001753When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1754lines" overwrites the message.
1755
1756Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1757
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001758When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1759after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1760column in the wrong line.
1761
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001762When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1763starts with "sl".
1764
1765When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1766'paste' when starting the GUI.
1767
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001768A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1769
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001770When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1771Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1772mapping.
1773
1774Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1775
1776":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1777
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001778When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1779in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1780
1781When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1782empty $SHELL value.
1783
1784A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1785file.
1786
1787When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1788moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1789
1790When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1791the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1792is Vi compatible.
1793
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001794Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1795Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1796$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1797
1798Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1799flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1800
1801Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1802compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1803
1804When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1805leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1806'cpoptions' for this.
1807
1808Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1809
1810Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1811be Vi compatible.
1812
1813When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1814request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1815shell and caused trouble there.
1816
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001817When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1818still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1819Lakshmanan)
1820
1821It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1822sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1823
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001824When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1825from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1826
1827When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1828
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001829Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1830unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1831
1832":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1833
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001834The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1835are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1836
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001837Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1838indirectly invokes ":normal".
1839
1840Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1841before invoking "diff".
1842
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001843Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1844&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1845
1846When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1847locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1848mouse model.
1849
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001850When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1851characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1852is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1853character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1854
1855Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001856":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001857
1858Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1859
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001860Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1861real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1862
1863Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1864always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1865
1866When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1867detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1868compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1869decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1870
1871Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1872to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1873Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1874
1875"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1876
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001877When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1878Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1879
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001880In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1881and reset it in nv_home().
1882
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001883Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1884spaces inside backticks.
1885
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001886After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1887let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1888This should be the most useful thing to do.
1889
1890":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1891an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1892
1893In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1894reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1895
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001896When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1897call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001898This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001899
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001900GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1901after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1902win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1903
1904Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1905column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1906mouse column to 10000.
1907
1908searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1909we find the same position again and advance one character.
1910
1911When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1912to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1913
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001914When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1915prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1916
1917When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1918substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1919
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001920Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1921when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1922checks where invoking them
1923
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001924":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1925show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1926
1927When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1928
1929GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1930removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1931change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1932Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1933'lines' to undo this.
1934
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001935When using the GTK plug mechanism, resizing and focus was not working
1936properly. (Neil Bird)
1937
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001938After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1939":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1940
1941When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1942may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1943character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1944so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1945
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001946setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1947
1948It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001949It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1950
1951CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001952
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001953When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1954given. Now report the first encountered error.
1955
1956When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001957caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001958continue.
1959
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001960When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1961the global value.
1962
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001963Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1964200 characters.
1965
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001966When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1967the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1968\+foo".
1969
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001970When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1971message would be in the wrong position.
1972
1973At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1974
1975When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1976were not set.
1977
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001978Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1979
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001980The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1981
1982Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1983and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1984Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1985
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001986For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1987in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1988while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1989highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1990
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001991Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1992Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1993
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001994Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1995Lakshmanan)
1996
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001997When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1998would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1999
2000When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
2001searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
2002
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00002003GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
2004redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
2005
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00002006Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
2007Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
2008reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
2009
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002010Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
2011
2012There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
2013existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
2014available.
2015
2016In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
2017sticking to the first column.
2018
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00002019When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
2020echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
2021
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00002022Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
2023
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00002024When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
2025the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
2026
2027When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
2028":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
2029
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00002030Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
2031causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
2032Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
2033
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00002034The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
2035
2036Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
2037dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
2038of its output.
2039
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00002040When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
2041the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
2042typing the command line.
2043
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00002044'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
2045"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
2046
2047When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
2048appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
2049recording.
2050
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00002051Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
2052that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
2053
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00002054When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
2055writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
2056the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
2057buffer when creating a new file.
2058
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00002059When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
2060string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
2061
2062When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00002063to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00002064incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
2065|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002066to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00002067
2068"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
2069an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
2070
2071Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
2072when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
2073edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
2074getting a beep from the "l" command.
2075
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002076Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
2077the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
2078
2079When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
2080there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
2081
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00002082Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
2083arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
2084until after executing "-c" arguments.
2085
2086When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
2087break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
2088undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
2089
2090Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
2091happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
2092stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
2093Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
2094
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00002095When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
2096change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
2097When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
2098Added mf_set_dirty().
2099
2100Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
2101backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
2102
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00002103A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
2104special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
2105
2106When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
2107!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
2108"!;&()<>".
2109
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00002110When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
2111autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
2112
2113In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
2114the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
2115
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00002116Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
2117value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
2118
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00002119Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
2120After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
2121
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00002122The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
2123normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
2124actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
2125
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00002126The "load session" toolbar item could not handle a space or other special
2127characters in v:this_session.
2128
2129":set sta ts=8 sw=4 sts=2" deleted 4 spaces halfway a line instead of 2.
2130
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00002131In a multi-byte file the foldmarker could be recognized in the trail byte.
2132(Taro Muraoka)
2133
Bram Moolenaar0e5bd962006-02-04 00:59:56 +00002134Pasting with CTRL-V and menu didn't work properly when some commands are
2135mapped. Use ":normal!" instead of ":normal". (Tony Apuzzo)
2136
2137Crashed when expanding a file name argument in backticks.
2138
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +00002139In some situations the menu and scrollbar didn't work, when the value contains
2140a CSI byte. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2141
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00002142GTK GUI: When drawing the balloon focus changes and we might get a key release
2143event that removed the balloon again. Ignore the key release event.
2144
2145'titleold' was included in ":mkexrc" and ":mksession" files.
2146
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00002147":set background&" didn't use the same logic as was used when starting up.
2148
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00002149When "umask" is set such that nothing is writable then the viminfo file would
2150be written without write permission. (Julian Bridle)
2151
Bram Moolenaar7e8fd632006-02-18 22:14:51 +00002152Motif: In diff mode dragging one scrollbar didn't update the scrollbar of the
2153other diff'ed window.
2154
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00002155When editing in an xterm with a different number of colors than expected the
2156screen would be cleared and redrawn, causing the message about the edited file
2157to be cleared. Now set "keep_msg" to redraw the last message.
2158
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00002159For a color terminal: When the Normal HL uses bold, possibly to make the color
2160lighter, and another HL group specifies a color it might become light as well.
2161Now reset bold if a HL group doesn't specify bold itself.
2162
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00002163When using 256 color xterm the color 255 would show up as color 0. Use a
2164short instead of a char to store the color number.
2165
2166ml_get errors when searching for "\n\zs" in an empty file.
2167
Bram Moolenaara5621492006-02-25 21:55:24 +00002168When selecting a block and using "$" to select until the end of every line and
2169not highlighting the character under the cursor the first character of the
2170block could be unhighlighted.
2171
2172When counting words for the Visual block area and using "$" to select until
2173the end of every line only up to the length of the last line was counted.
2174
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002175"dip" in trailing empty lines left one empty line behind.
2176
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002177The script ID was only remembered globally for each option. When a buffer- or
2178window-local option was set the same "last set" location was changed for all
2179buffers and windows. Now remember the script ID for each local option
2180separately.
2181
2182GUI: The "Replace All" button didn't handle backslashes in the replacement in
2183the same way as "Replace". Escape backslashes so that they are taken
2184literally.
2185
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00002186When using Select mode from Insert mode and typing a key, causing lines to be
2187deleted and a message displayed, delayed the effect of inserting the key.
2188Now overwrite the message without delay.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002189
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00002190When 'whichwrap' includes "l" then "dl" and "yl" on a single letter line
2191worked differently. Now recognize all operators when using "l" at the end of
2192a line.
2193
2194GTK GUI: when the font selector returned a font name with a comma in it then
2195it would be handled like two font names. Now put a backslash before the
2196comma.
2197
2198MS-DOS, Win32: When 'encoding' defaults to "latin1" then the value for
2199'iskeyword' was still for CPxxx. And when 'nocompatible' was set 'isprint'
2200would also be the wrong value.
2201
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00002202When a command was defined not to take arguments and no '|' no warning message
2203would be given for using a '|'. Also with ":loadkeymap".
2204
Bram Moolenaara3227e22006-03-08 21:32:40 +00002205Motif: When using a fontset and 'encoding' is "utf-8" and sizeof(wchar_t) !=
2206sizeof(XChar2b) then display was wrong. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2207
Bram Moolenaareb94e552006-03-11 21:35:11 +00002208":all" always set the current window to the first window, even when it
2209contains a buffer that is not in the argument list (can't be closed because it
2210is modified). Now go to the window that has the first item of the argument
2211list.
2212
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +00002213GUI: To avoid left-over pixels from bold text all characters after a character
2214with special attributes were redrawn. Now only do this for characters that
2215actually are bold. Speeds up displaying considerably.
2216
2217When only highlighting changes and the text is scrolled at the same time
2218everything is redraw instead of using a scroll and updating the changed text.
2219E.g., when using ":match" to highlight a paren that the cursor landed on.
2220Added SOME_VALID: Redraw the whole window but also try to scroll to minimize
2221redrawing.
2222
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002223Win32: When using Korean IME making it active didn't work properly. (Moon,
2224Yu-sung, 2005 March 21)
2225
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00002226Ruby interface: when inserting/deleting lines display wasn't updated. (Ryan
2227Paul)
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002228
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002229--- fixes since Vim 7.0b ---
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +00002230
2231Getting the GCC version in configure didn't work with Solaris sed. First
2232strip any "darwin." and then get the version number.
2233
2234The "autoload" directory was missing from the self-installing executable for
2235MS-Windows.
2236
2237The MS-Windows install program would find "vimtutor.bat" in the install
2238directory. After changing to "c:" also change to "\" to avoid looking in the
2239install directory.
2240
2241To make the 16 bit DOS version compile exclude not used highlight
2242initializations and build a tiny instead of small version.
2243
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002244finddir() and findfile() accept a negative cound and return a List then.
2245
2246The Python indent file contained a few debugging statements, removed.
2247
2248Expanding {} for a function name, resulting in a name starting with "s:" was
2249not handled correctly.
2250
2251Spelling: renamed COMPOUNDMAX to COMPOUNDWORDMAX. Added several items to be
2252able to handle the new Hungarian dictionary.
2253
2254Mac: Default to building for the current platform only, that is much faster
2255than building a universal binary. Also, using Perl/Python/etc. only works for
2256the current platform.
2257
Bram Moolenaar3991dab2006-03-27 17:01:56 +00002258The time on undo messages disappeared for someone. Using %T for strftime()
2259apparently doesn't work everywhere. Use %H:%M:%S instead.
2260
2261Typing BS at the "z=" prompt removed the prompt.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002262
Bram Moolenaar779b74b2006-04-10 14:55:34 +00002263--- fixes and changes since Vim 7.0c ---
Bram Moolenaar04a9d452006-03-27 21:03:26 +00002264
2265When jumping to another tab page the Vim window size was always set, even when
2266nothing in the layout changed.
2267
2268Win32 GUI tab pages line wasn't always enabled. Do a proper check for the
2269compiler version.
2270
2271Win32: When switching between tab pages the Vim window was moved when part of
2272it was outside of the screen. Now only do that in the direction of a size
2273change.
2274
2275Win32: added menu to GUI tab pages line. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2276
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +00002277Mac: Added document icons. (Benji Fisher)
2278
2279Insert mode completion: Using Enter to accept the current match causes
2280confusion. Use CTRL-Y instead. Also, use CTRL-E to go back to the typed
2281text.
2282
2283GUI: When there are left and righ scrollbars, ":tabedit" kept them instead of
2284using the one that isn't needed.
Bram Moolenaar04a9d452006-03-27 21:03:26 +00002285
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002286Using "gP" to replace al the text could leave the cursor below the last line,
2287causing ml_get errors.
2288
2289When 'cursorline' is set don't use the highlighting when Visual mode is
2290active, otherwise it's difficult to see the selected area.
2291
2292The matchparen plugin restricts the search to 100 lines, to avoid a long delay
2293when there are closed folds.
2294
2295Sometimes using CTRL-X s to list spelling suggestions used text from another
2296line.
2297
2298Win32: Set the default for 'isprint' back to the wrong default "@,~-255",
2299because many people use Windows-1252 while 'encoding' is "latin1".
2300
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002301GTK: Added a workaround for gvim crashing when used over an untrusted ssh
2302link, caused by GTK doing something nasty. (Ed Catmur)
2303
2304Win32: The font used for the tab page labels is too big. Use the system menu
2305font. (George Reilly)
2306
2307Win32: Adjusting the window position and size to keep it on the screen didn't
2308work properly when the taskbar is on the left or top of the screen.
2309
2310The installman.sh and installml.sh scripts use ${10}, that didn't work with
2311old shells. And use "test -f" instead of "test -e".
2312
2313Win32: When 'encoding' was set in the vimrc then a directory argument for diff
2314mode didn't work.
2315
2316GUI: at the inputlist() prompt the cursorshape was adjusted as if the windows
2317were still at their old position.
2318
2319The parenmatch plugin didn't remember the highlighting per window.
2320
2321Using ":bd" for a buffer that's the current window in another tab page caused
2322a crash.
2323
2324For a new tab page the 'scroll' option wasn't set to a good default.
2325
2326Using an end offset for a search "/pat/e" didn't work properly for multi-byte
2327text. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2328
2329":s/\n/,/" doubled the text when used on the last line.
2330
2331When "search" is in 'foldopen' "[s" and "]s" now open folds.
2332
2333When using a numbered function "dict" can be omitted, but "self" didn't work
2334then. Always add FC_DICT to the function flags when it's part of a
2335dictionary.
2336
2337When "--remote-tab" executes locally it left an empty tab page.
2338
2339"gvim -u NONE", ":set cursorcolumn", "C" in the second line didn't update
2340text. Do update further lines even though the "$" is displayed.
2341
2342VMS: Support GTK better, also enable +clientserver. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2343
2344When highlighting of statusline or tabline is changed there was no redraw to
2345show the effect.
2346
2347Mac: Added "CFBundleIdentifier" to infplist.xml.
2348
2349Added tabpage-local variables t:var.
2350
2351Win32: Added double-click in tab pages line creates new tab. (Yegappan
2352Lakshmanan)
2353
2354Motif: Added GUI tab pages line. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2355
2356Fixed crash when 'lines' was set to 1000 in a modeline.
2357
2358When init_spellfile() finds a writable directory in 'runtimepath' but it
2359doesn't contain a "spell" directory, create one.
2360
2361Win32: executable() also finds "xxd" in the directory where Vim was started,
2362but "!xxd" doesn't work. Append the Vim starting directory to $PATH.
2363
2364The tab page labels are shortened, directory names are reduced to a single
2365letter by default. Added the pathshorten() function to allow a user to do the
2366same.
2367
2368":saveas" now resets 'readonly' if the file was successfully written.
2369
2370Set $MYVIMRC file to the first found .vimrc file.
2371Set $MYGVIMRC file to the first found .gvimrc file.
2372Added menu item "Startup Settings" that edits the $MYVIMRC file
2373
2374Added matcharg().
2375
2376Error message E745 appeared twice. Renamed one to E786.
2377
2378Fixed crash when using "au BufRead * Sexplore" and doing ":help". Was wiping
2379out a buffer that's still in a window.
2380
2381":hardcopy" resulted in an error message when 'encoding' is "utf-8" and
2382'printencoding' is empty. Now it assumes latin1. (Mike Williams)
2383
2384The check for the toolbar feature for Motif, depending on certain included
2385files, wasn't detailed enough, causing building to fail in gui_xmebw.c.
2386
2387Using CTRL-E in Insert mode completion after CTRL-P inserted the first match
2388instead of the original text.
2389
2390When displaying a UTF-8 character with a zero lower byte Vim might think the
2391previous character is double-wide.
2392
2393The "nbsp" item of 'listchars' didn't work when 'encoding' was utf-8.
2394
2395Motif: when Xm/xpm.h is missing gui_xmebw.c would not compile.
2396HAVE_XM_UNHIGHLIGHTT_H was missing a T.
2397
2398Mac: Moved the .icns files into src/os_mac_rsrc, so that they can all be
2399copied at once. Adjusted the Info.plist file for three icons.
2400
2401When Visual mode is active while switching to another tabpage could get ml_get
2402errors.
2403
2404When 'list' is set, 'nowrap' the $ in the first column caused 'cursorcolumn'
2405to move to the right.
2406
2407When a line wraps, 'cursorcolumn' was never displayed past the end of the
2408line.
2409
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002410'autochdir' was only available when compiled with NetBeans and GUI. Now it's
2411a separate feature, also available in the "big" version.
2412
2413Added CTRL-W gf: open file under cursor in new tab page.
2414
2415When using the menu in the tab pages line, "New Tab" opens the new tab before
2416where the click was. Beyond the labels the new tab appears at the end instead
2417of after the current tab page.
2418
Bram Moolenaar61660ea2006-04-07 21:40:07 +00002419Inside a mapping with an expression getchar() could not be used.
2420
2421When vgetc is used recursively vgetc_busy protects it from being used
2422recursively. But after a ":normal" command the protection was reset.
2423
2424":s/a/b/n" didn't work when 'modifiable' was off.
2425
2426When $VIMRUNTIME includes a multi-byte character then rgb.txt could not be
2427found. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2428
2429":mkspell" didn't work correctly for non-ASCII affix flags when conversion is
2430needed on the spell file.
2431
2432glob('/dir/\$ABC/*') didn't work.
2433
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +00002434When using several tab pages and changing 'cmdheight' the display could become
2435messed up. Now store the value of 'cmdheight' separately for each tab page.
2436
Bram Moolenaar779b74b2006-04-10 14:55:34 +00002437The user of the Enter key while the popup menu is visible was still confusing.
2438Now use Enter to select the match after using a cursor key.
2439
2440Added "usetab" to 'switchbuf'.
2441
Bram Moolenaar4c3f5362006-04-11 21:38:50 +00002442
2443--- fixes and changes since Vim 7.0d ---
2444
2445Added CTRL-W T: move a window to a new tab page.
2446
2447Using CTRL-X s in Insert mode to complete spelling suggestions and using BS
2448deleted characters before the bad word.
2449
2450A few small fixes for the VMS makefile. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2451
2452With a window of 91 lines 45 cols, ":vsp" scrolled the window. Copy w_wrow
2453when splitting a window and skip setting the height when it's already at the
2454right value.
2455
2456Using <silent> in a mapping with a shell command and the GUI caused redraw
2457to use wrong attributes.
2458
2459Win32: Using MSVC 4.1 for install.exe resulted in the start menu items to be
2460created in the administrator directory instead of "All Users". Define the
2461CSIDL_ items if they are missing.
2462
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002463Motif: The GUI tabline did not use the space above the right scrollbar. Work
2464around a bug in the Motif library. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2465
2466The extra files for XML Omni completion are now also installed.
2467|xml-omni-datafile|
2468
2469GTK GUI: when 'm' is missing from 'guioptions' during startup and pressing
2470<F10> GTK produced error messages. Now do create the menu but disable it just
2471after the first gui_mch_update().
2472
2473":mkspell" doesn't work well with the Hungarian dictionary from the Hunspell
2474project. Back to the Myspell dictionary.
2475
2476In help files hide the | used around tags.
2477
2478Renamed pycomplete to pythoncomplete.
2479
2480Added "tabpages" to 'sessionoptions'.
2481
2482When 'guitablabel' is set the effect wasn't visible right away.
2483
2484Fixed a few 'cindent' errors.
2485
Bram Moolenaar7fc904b2006-04-13 20:37:35 +00002486When completing menu names, e.g., after ":emenu", don't sort the entries but
2487keep them in the original order.
2488
2489Fixed a crash when editing a directory in diff mode. Don't trigger
2490autocommands when executing the diff command.
2491
2492Getting a keystroke could get stuck if 'encoding' is a multi-byte encoding and
2493typing a special key.
2494
2495When 'foldignore' is set the folds were not updated right away.
Bram Moolenaar4c3f5362006-04-11 21:38:50 +00002496
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00002497When a list is indexed with [a : b] and b was greater than the length an error
Bram Moolenaarb21e5842006-04-16 18:30:08 +00002498message was given. Now silently truncate the result.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00002499
2500When using BS during Insert mode completion go back to the original text, so
2501that CTRL-N selects the first matching entry.
2502
Bram Moolenaarb21e5842006-04-16 18:30:08 +00002503Added the 'M' flag to 'cinoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00002504
2505Win32: Make the "gvim --help" window appear in the middle of the screen
2506instead of at an arbitrary position. (Randall W. Morris)
2507
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002508Added gettabwinvar() and settabwinvar().
2509
2510Command line completion: pressing <Tab> after ":e /usr/*" expands the whole
2511tree, because it becomes ":e /usr/**". Don't add a star if there already is
2512one.
2513
Bram Moolenaarb21e5842006-04-16 18:30:08 +00002514Added grey10 to grey90 to all GUIs, so that they can all be used for
2515initializing highlighting. Use grey40 for CursorColumn and CursorLine when
2516'background' is "dark".
2517
2518When reading a file and using iconv for conversion, an incomplete byte
2519sequence at the end caused problems. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2520
2521
2522--- fixes and changes since Vim 7.0e ---
2523
2524Default color for MatchParen when 'background' is "dark" is now DarkCyan.
2525
2526":syn off" had to be used twice in a file that sets 'syntax' in a modeline.
2527(Michael Geddes)
2528
2529When using ":vsp" or ":sp" the available space wasn't used equally between
2530windows. (Servatius Brandt)
2531
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002532Expanding <cWORD> on a trailing blank resulted in the first word in the line
2533if 'encoding' is a multi-byte encoding.
2534
2535Spell checking: spellbadword() didn't see a missing capital in the first word
2536of a line. Popup menu now only suggest the capitalized word when appropriate.
2537
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +00002538When using whole line completion CTRL-L moves through the matches but it
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +00002539didn't work when at the original text.
2540
2541When completion finds the longest match, don't go to the first match but stick
2542at the original text, so that CTRL-N selects the first one.
2543
2544Recognize "zsh-beta" like "zsh" for setting the 'shellpipe' default. (James
2545Vega)
2546
2547When using ":map <expr>" and the expression results in something with a
2548special byte (NUL or CSI) then it didn't work properly. Now escape special
2549bytes.
2550
2551The default Visual highlighting for a color xterm with 8 colors was a magenta
2552background, which made magenta text disappear. Now use reverse in this
2553specific situation.
2554
2555After completing the longest match "." didn't insert the same text. Repeating
2556also didn't work correctly for multi-byte text.
2557
2558When using Insert mode completion and BS the whole word that was completed
2559would result in all possible matches. Now stop completion. Also fixes that
2560for spell completion the previous word was deleted.
2561
2562GTK: When 'encoding' is "latin1" and using non-ASCII characters in a file name
2563the tab page label was wrong and an error message would be given.
2564
2565The taglist() function could hang on a tags line with a non-ASCII character.
2566
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +00002567Win32: When 'encoding' differs from the system encoding tab page labels with
2568non-ASCII characters looked wrong. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2569
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00002570Motif: building failed when Xm/Notebook.h doesn't exist. Added a configure
2571check, disable GUI tabline when it's missing.
2572
2573Mac: When compiled without multi-byte feature the clipboard didn't work.
2574
2575It was possible to switch to another tab page when the cmdline window is open.
2576
2577Completion could hang when 'lines' is 6 and a preview window was opened.
2578
Bram Moolenaar57657d82006-04-21 22:12:41 +00002579Added CTRL-W gF: open file under cursor in new tab page and jump to the line
2580number following the file name.
Bram Moolenaareb3593b2006-04-22 22:33:57 +00002581Added 'guitabtooltip'. Implemented for Win32 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar57657d82006-04-21 22:12:41 +00002582
2583Added "throw" to 'debug' option: thow an exception for error messages even
2584whey they would otherwise be ignored.
2585
2586When 'keymap' is set and a line contains an invalid entry could get a "No
2587mapping found" warning instead of a proper error message.
2588
2589Motif: default to using XpmAttributes instead of XpmAttributes_21.
2590
Bram Moolenaareb3593b2006-04-22 22:33:57 +00002591A few more changes for 64 bit MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
2592
2593Got ml_get errors when doing "o" and selecting in other window where there are
2594less line shorter than the cursor position in the other window. ins_mouse()
2595was using position in wrong window.
2596
2597Win32 GUI: Crash when giving a lot of messages during startup. Allocate twice
2598as much memory for the dialog template.
2599
2600Fixed a few leaks and wrong pointer use reported by coverity.
2601
2602When showing menus the mode character was sometimes wrong.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00002603
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +00002604Added feedkeys(). (Yakov Lerner)
2605
2606Made matchlist() always return all submatches.
2607
2608Moved triggering QuickFixCmdPost to before jumping to the first location.
2609
2610Mac: Added the 'macatsui' option as a temporary work around for text drawing
2611problems.
2612
2613Line completion on "/**" gave error messages when scanning an unloaded buffer.
Bram Moolenaar4a85b412006-04-23 22:40:29 +00002614
Bram Moolenaar551dbcc2006-04-25 22:13:59 +00002615--- fixes and changes since Vim 7.0f ---
2616
2617Win32: The height of the tab page labels is now adjusted to the font height.
2618(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2619
2620Win32: selecting the tab label was off by one. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar4a85b412006-04-23 22:40:29 +00002621
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +00002622Added tooltips for Motif and GTK tab page labels. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +00002623
2624When 'encoding' is "utf-8" then ":help spell" would report an illegal byte and
2625the file was not converted from latin1 to utf-8. Now retry with latin1 if
2626reading the file as utf-8 results in illegal bytes.
2627
2628Escape argument of feedkeys() before putting it in the typeahead buffer.
2629(Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2630
2631Add v:char variable for evaluating 'formatexpr'. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2632
2633With 8 colors Search highlighting combined with Statement highlighted text
2634made the text disappear.
2635
2636VMS: avoid warnings for redefining MAX and MIN. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2637
2638When 'virtualedit' includes "onemore", stopping Visual selection would still
2639move the cursor left.
2640
2641Prevent that using CTRL-R = in Insert mode can start Visual mode.
2642
2643Fixed a crash that occured when in Insert mode with completion active a
2644mapping caused edit() to be called recursively.
2645
2646When using CTRL-O in Insert mode just after the last character while
2647'virtualedit' is "all", then typing CR moved the last character to the next
2648line. Call coladvance() before starting the new line.
2649
2650When using ":shell" and in the command line window ignore clicks on the tab
2651page labels.
2652
2653When 'eventignore' is "all" then ignoring some events, e.g., for ":vimgrep",
2654would actually trigger more events.
2655
2656Win32: When a running Vim uses server name GVIM1 then "gvim --remote fname"
2657doesn't find it. When looking for a server name that doesn't end in a digit
2658and it is not found then use another server that is found (just like Unix).
2659
2660When using "double" in 'spellsuggest' when the language doesn't support sound
2661folding resulted in too many suggestions.
2662
2663Win32: Dropping a shortcut on the Vim icon did't edit the referred file like
2664editing it in another way would. Use fname_expand() in buf_set_name() instead
2665of simply make the file name a full path.
2666
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +00002667Using feedkeys() could cause Vim to hang.
2668
2669When closing another tab page from the tabline menu in Insert mode the tabline
2670was not updated right away.
2671
2672The syntax menu didn't work in compatible mode.
2673
2674After using ":ta id" twice with the same "id", ":ts" and then ":pop" a ":ts"
2675reported no matching tag. Clear the cached tag name.
2676
2677In Insert mode the matchparen plugin highlighted the wrong paren when there is
2678a string just next to a paren.
2679
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +00002680
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002681 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: