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Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Dec 11
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram 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 Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000026Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000027Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000028Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000029POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000030Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000031Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032Various new items |new-items-7|
33
34IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
35
36COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
37
38BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
39
40==============================================================================
41INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
42
43These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000044run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
45
46A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
47unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
48buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
49all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
50":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000052":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
53
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
55name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
56double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
57 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
58 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
59 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
60 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
61
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000062In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
63":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
64results in "a'b".
65
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000066When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
67was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
68
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000069The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
70
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000071
72Minor incompatibilities:
73
74For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
75*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
76
77":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
78
79Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
80
81Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
82confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000083
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000084When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
85isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
86
87The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000088looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
89"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
90Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000091Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000092
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000093Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
94on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
95changing 'winaltkeys'.
96
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000097When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
98is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
99avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000100
101When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
102now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
103encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
104possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
105non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
106
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000107Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
108a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
109
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000110"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
111Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
112
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000113Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
114disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
115you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
116translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
117<xF1>, etc.
118
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000119":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
120
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000121When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
122file exists.
123
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000124When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
125s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
126compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
127
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000128"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
129that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
130where the type is given.
131
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000132==============================================================================
133NEW FEATURES *new-7*
134
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000135Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
136-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000137
138In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
139
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000140 List ordered list of items |List|
141 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
142 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000143
144Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
145
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000146The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
147variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
148can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
149
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000150The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
151expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
152
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000153With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
154wastes its time.
155
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000156
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000157Spell checking *new-spell*
158--------------
159
160Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
161with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
162
163The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
164The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000165The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000166The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000167
168The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
169The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
170The |z?| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000171The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000172
173The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
174mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
175The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
176background.
177The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
178220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000179with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
180highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000181
182Much more info here: |spell|.
183
184
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000185Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
186-----------------
187
188This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
189smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
190figure out what could be following. This considers struct and class members,
191unions, etc.
192
193Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
194
195The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
196figures out the completion.
197
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000198Currently supported languages:
199 C |ft-c-omni|
200 XHTML |ft-html-omni|
201
202When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
203completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000204
205
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000206MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
207------------------
208
209The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
210The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
211The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
212
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000213
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000214Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
215------------------
216
217The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
218The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
219Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
220
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000221
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000222Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
223-----------------------
224
225The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000226several other languages.
227
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000228French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000229Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
230Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000231
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000232The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
233.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
234standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
235is used there as a best guess.
236Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000237The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
238with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
239do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000240
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000241
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000242Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
243-------------
244
245The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
246This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
247better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
248patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
249|:vimgrep|.
250
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000251If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000252|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000253
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000254To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
255expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
256places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
257
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000258
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000259Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
260-----------------------
261
262When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
263'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
264is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
265":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
266commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
267Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
268
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000269The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
270hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
271
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000272
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000273POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
274-------------------
275
276The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
277problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
278conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
279variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
280
281Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
282- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
283 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
284- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
285 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
286- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
287 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
288- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
289 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
290 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
291 digit.
292- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
293- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
294 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000295- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
296- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
297- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
298 above or below the new lines.
299- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
300- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
301 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
302- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
303 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
304- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
305 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
306- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
307 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
308- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
309- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
310- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
311- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
312- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
313- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
314 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000315- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
316- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000317- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000318
319
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000320Debugger support *new-debug-support*
321----------------
322
323The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
324balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
325mouse pointer.
326
327
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000328Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
329--------------------
330
331The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
332Deleting and renaming files is possible.
333
334To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
335integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
336works the same way.
337
338":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
339and a GUI dialog is not possible.
340
341The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
342
343
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000344Various new items *new-items-7*
345-----------------
346
347Normal mode commands: ~
348
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000349a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000350i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000351
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000352CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
353 location of the error under the cursor.
354
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000355|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
356
357
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000358Insert mode commands: ~
359
360CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
361 without moving the cursor.
362
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000363Options: ~
364
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000365'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
366 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
367 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000368'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000369'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000370'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
371 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000372'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
373 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000374'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000375'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
376'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000377'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
378 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000379'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
380 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
381 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000382'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
383 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000384'spell' switch spell checking on/off
385'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000386'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000387'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
388 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000389'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000390
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000391
392Ex commands: ~
393
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000394Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
395
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000396|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000397
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000398|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000399
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000400|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
401 windows.
402
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000403|:delmarks| Delete marks.
404
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000405|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
406
407|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
408
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000409|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
410 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000411
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000412|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
413 external command.
414
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000415|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
416 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
417
418|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
419 Lakshmanan).
420
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000421Ex command modifiers: ~
422
423|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
424
425|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
426
427|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
428
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000429
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000430New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000431
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000432|add()| append an item to a List
433|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000434|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
435|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000436|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000437|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
438|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000439|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
440|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
441|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
442|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000443|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000444|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
445 Dictionary to another
446|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000447|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
448|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
449|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000450|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
451|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000452|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000453 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000454|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
455 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000456|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
457|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
458|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
459|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000460|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000461|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000462|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
463|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
464|join()| join List items into a String
465|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
466|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
467|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000468|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000469|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
470|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000471|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000472|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000473|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000474|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000475|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000476|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000477|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000478|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000479|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000480|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000481|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000482|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
483|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000484|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
485|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
486|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
487|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000488|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000489|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000490
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000491User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
492directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
493
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000494
495New autocommand events: ~
496
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000497|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
498|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
499|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000500
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000501|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000502|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
503|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000504|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000505
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000506
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000507New items in search patterns: ~
508|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
509|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
510|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
511|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
512|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
513|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
514|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
515|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
516|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
517|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
518 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000519|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
520|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000521
522Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
523
524It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
525useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000526
527
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000528New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
529
530MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
531
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000532ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
533
534SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
535
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000536PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
537
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000538Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
539
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000540Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
541
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000542Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
543
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000544Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
545
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000546Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
547Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
548different value.
549
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000550
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000551New Keymaps: ~
552
553Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
554
555
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000556New message translations: ~
557
558The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
559
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000560Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
561
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000562Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
563
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000564
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000565Others: ~
566
567Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
568character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
569Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
570"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000571
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000572Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000573
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000574Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
575
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000576GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000577
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000578Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
579
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000580Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000581
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000582Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
583event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
584file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
585
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000586Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
587To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
588they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
589
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000590Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
591when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
592|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
593
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000594For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
595|xterm-modifier-keys|
596
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000597When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
598item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000599When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
600":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
601(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000602
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000603":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
604
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000605"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
606the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
607
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000608'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
609window height.
610
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000611The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
612your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
613
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000614To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
615is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
616been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
617can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
618other Vim to the foreground.
619
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000620==============================================================================
621IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
622
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000623":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
624
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000625Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
626
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000627When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
628range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
629
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000630The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
631iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
632allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
633matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
634
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000635":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
636breakpoint at the cursor.
637
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000638The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
639few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000640
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000641Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
642it. (Johannes Zellner)
643
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +0000644Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
645of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
646"os_unix.c".
647
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000648Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
649
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000650Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000651does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000652autocommands.
653
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000654For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
655- square brackets are recognized properly
656- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
657- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
658
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000659Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
660
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000661winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
662Lakshmanan)
663
664Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
665
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000666When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
667delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
668actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
669
670When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
671Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
672(Michael Geddes)
673
674The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
675
676VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
677upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
678(Zoltan Arpadffy)
679
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000680For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
681of buffers.
682
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000683The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
684have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
685
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000686When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
687the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
688
689Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
690digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
691
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000692When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
693buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
694list.
695
696Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
697(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
698
699When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
700second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
701line is just "/*".
702
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000703When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
704mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
705edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
706the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
707used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
708more reliable.
709
710Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
711in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
712"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
713with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
714
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000715Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
716incremented/decremented each time.
717
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000718Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000719contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
720a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
721
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000722When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
723
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000724Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
725
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000726":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000727invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
728
729":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
730(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000731
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000732":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000733
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000734The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
735messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
736log startup messages.
737
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000738":let g:" lists global variables.
739":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
740":let w:" lists window-local variables.
741":let v:" lists Vim variables.
742
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000743The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
744searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000745
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000746The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
747for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
748
749The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
750the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
751
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000752g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
753bytes.
754
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000755Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
756":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
757
758CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
759ignored.
760
761When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
762will result in a message with the source of the error.
763
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000764When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
765":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
766
767To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
768been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
769
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000770The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +0000771'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000772
773The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
774variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
775to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000776
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000777Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
778possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
779and the * stands for the modifier code.
780Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
781the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
782modifiers.
783
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000784getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
785window.
786
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000787Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
788
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000789GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
790Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
791
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000792Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
793used.
794
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000795Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
796click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
797restarted.
798
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000799When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
800= value" can be used to set the register contents.
801
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000802A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
803pointer position instead of the text cursor.
804
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000805The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
806such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
807prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000808When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000809
810Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
811user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000812Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
813Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000814
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000815Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
816(Sergey Khorev)
817
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000818The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
819' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
820
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000821For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
822character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
823could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
824pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
825included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
826
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000827For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
828sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
829
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000830When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000831characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000832
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000833When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
834COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
835
836Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
837
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000838When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
839closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
840
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000841input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
842completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
843
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000844"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
845'modifiable' is set.
846
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +0000847When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
848matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
849
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000850Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
851directory. |load-plugins|
852
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +0000853In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
854opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
855
856It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
857in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
858
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +0000859Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
860
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000861":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
862added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
863
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +0000864In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
865more logical. (Robert Webb)
866
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000867When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
868file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
869actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
870'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
871
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000872==============================================================================
873COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
874
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000875Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
876probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
877and merge it back in.
878
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000879Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
880its final destination. (Raf)
881
882Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
883still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
884file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000885
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000886When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
887following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
888
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000889When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
890to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
891allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
892to store the ":quit" command.
893
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000894Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
895
896Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
897what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
898functions.
899
900Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
901without copying the code.
902
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000903Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
904Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
905runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
906
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000907==============================================================================
908BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
909
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000910When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
911instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
912work. Use "LPT1" then.
913
914The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
915size. Use a default size of 10.
916
917This example in the documentation didn't work:
918 :e `=foo . ".c" `
919Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
920
921When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
922
923"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
924
925Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
926when it doesn't support MDI.
927
928Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
929
930"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
931space.
932
933Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
934SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
935for doesn't have an extension.
936
937When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
938may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
939cursor and not putting it back where it was.
940
941When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
942not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
943to make it work the old way.
944
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000945When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
946filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
947
948After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
949
950Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
951fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000952
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000953On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
954Michele)
955
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000956Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
957CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
958
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000959When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
960ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
961
962Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000963characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
964twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000965
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000966When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
967variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
968
969'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
970is indented too much.
971
972When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
973alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
974items.
975
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000976Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
977active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
978
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000979The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
980"cn" or "tw" as intended.
981
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000982When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
983after the last line while it's not there.
984
985Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
986resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
987
988Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
989string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
990
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000991When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
992contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
993and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
994
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000995strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
996
997GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
998just before it is invoked
999
1000VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1001environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1002
1003UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1004from the first character of the word.
1005
1006When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1007detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1008
1009When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1010but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1011
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001012When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1013list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1014interrupting this.
1015
1016When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1017used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1018and global options remain unmodified.
1019
1020Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1021command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1022file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1023
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001024Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1025default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1026
1027When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1028xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1029line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1030
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001031Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1032
1033When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1034going to be used like a command.
1035
1036GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1037GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1038
1039GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1040
1041Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1042line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1043console version.
1044
1045Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1046there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1047
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001048When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1049files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1050directory for the library early in the link flags.
1051
1052With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1053literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1054
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001055When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1056cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1057
1058When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1059buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1060
1061Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1062problems for Terminal.app.
1063
1064When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1065end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1066argument.
1067
1068When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1069has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1070back.
1071
1072When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1073was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1074
1075When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1076"cancel", would still give an error message.
1077
1078The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1079mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1080
1081Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1082keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1083
1084Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1085
1086In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1087selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1088is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1089
1090GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1091GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1092
1093After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1094
1095When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1096doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001097Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1098handle. Added handle_signal().
1099
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001100When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1101white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1102
1103When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1104long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1105being found in a library.
1106
1107When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1108may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1109
1110Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1111is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1112
1113When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1114original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1115empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1116be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1117the values when recovering.
1118
1119":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1120message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1121
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001122Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1123when building the ":drop" command.
1124
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001125A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1126E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1127
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001128"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1129does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1130
1131When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1132moved the cursor to another column.
1133
1134When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1135quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1136fold.
1137
1138In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1139break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1140
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001141Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001142
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001143Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001144(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001145
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001146When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1147not included.
1148
1149Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1150Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1151
1152When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1153the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1154
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001155Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1156
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001157When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1158(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1159mode. (Peter Winters)
1160
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001161"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1162
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001163Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1164not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001165Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001166
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001167When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1168lines" overwrites the message.
1169
1170Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1171
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001172When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1173after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1174column in the wrong line.
1175
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001176When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1177starts with "sl".
1178
1179When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1180'paste' when starting the GUI.
1181
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001182A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1183
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001184When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1185Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1186mapping.
1187
1188Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1189
1190":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1191
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001192When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1193in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1194
1195When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1196empty $SHELL value.
1197
1198A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1199file.
1200
1201When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1202moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1203
1204When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1205the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1206is Vi compatible.
1207
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001208Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1209Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1210$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1211
1212Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1213flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1214
1215Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1216compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1217
1218When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1219leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1220'cpoptions' for this.
1221
1222Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1223
1224Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1225be Vi compatible.
1226
1227When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1228request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1229shell and caused trouble there.
1230
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001231When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1232still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1233Lakshmanan)
1234
1235It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1236sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1237
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001238When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1239from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1240
1241When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1242
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001243Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1244unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1245
1246":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1247
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001248The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1249are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1250
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001251Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1252indirectly invokes ":normal".
1253
1254Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1255before invoking "diff".
1256
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001257Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1258&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1259
1260When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1261locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1262mouse model.
1263
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001264When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1265characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1266is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1267character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1268
1269Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001270":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001271
1272Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1273
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001274Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1275real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1276
1277Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1278always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1279
1280When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1281detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1282compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1283decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1284
1285Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1286to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1287Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1288
1289"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1290
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001291When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1292Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1293
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001294In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1295and reset it in nv_home().
1296
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001297Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1298spaces inside backticks.
1299
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001300After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1301let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1302This should be the most useful thing to do.
1303
1304":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1305an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1306
1307In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1308reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1309
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001310When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1311call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001312This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001313
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001314GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1315after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1316win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1317
1318Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1319column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1320mouse column to 10000.
1321
1322searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1323we find the same position again and advance one character.
1324
1325When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1326to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1327
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001328When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1329prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1330
1331When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1332substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1333
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001334Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1335when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1336checks where invoking them
1337
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001338":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1339show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1340
1341When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1342
1343GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1344removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1345change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1346Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1347'lines' to undo this.
1348
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001349After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1350":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1351
1352When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1353may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1354character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1355so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1356
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001357setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1358
1359It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001360It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1361
1362CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001363
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001364When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1365given. Now report the first encountered error.
1366
1367When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001368caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001369continue.
1370
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001371When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1372the global value.
1373
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001374Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1375200 characters.
1376
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001377When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1378the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1379\+foo".
1380
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001381When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1382message would be in the wrong position.
1383
1384At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1385
1386When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1387were not set.
1388
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001389Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1390
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001391The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1392
1393Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1394and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1395Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1396
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001397For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1398in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1399while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1400highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1401
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001402Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1403Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1404
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001405Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1406Lakshmanan)
1407
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001408When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1409would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1410
1411When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1412searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1413
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001414GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1415redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1416
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001417Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1418Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1419reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1420
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001421Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1422
1423There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1424existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1425available.
1426
1427In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1428sticking to the first column.
1429
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001430When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1431echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1432
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001433Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1434
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001435When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
1436the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
1437
1438When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
1439":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
1440
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001441 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: