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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000024KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000025MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
26Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000028Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000029Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000030POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000031Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000032Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033Various new items |new-items-7|
34
35IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
36
37COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
38
39BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
40
41==============================================================================
42INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
43
44These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000045run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
46
47A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
48unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
49buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
50all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
51":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000053":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
54
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
56name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
57double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
58 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
59 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
60 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
61 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
62
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000063In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
64":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
65results in "a'b".
66
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000067When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
68was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
69
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000070
71Minor incompatibilities:
72
73For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
74*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
75
76":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
77
78Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
79
80Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
81confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000082
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000083When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
84isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
85
86The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000087looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
88"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
89Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000090Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000091
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000092Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
93on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
94changing 'winaltkeys'.
95
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000096When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
97is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
98avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000099
100When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
101now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
102encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
103possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
104non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
105
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000106Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
107a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
108
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000109"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
110Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
111
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000112Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
113disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
114you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
115translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
116<xF1>, etc.
117
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000118":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
119
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000120When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
121file exists.
122
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000123When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
124s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
125compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
126
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000127"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
128that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
129where the type is given.
130
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000131==============================================================================
132NEW FEATURES *new-7*
133
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000134Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
135-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000136
137In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
138
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000139 List ordered list of items |List|
140 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
141 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000142
143Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
144
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000145The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
146variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
147can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
148
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000149The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
150expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
151
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000152With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
153wastes its time.
154
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000155
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000156Spell checking *new-spell*
157--------------
158
159Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
160with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
161
162The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
163The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000164The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000165The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000166
167The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
168The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
169The |z?| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000170The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000171
172The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
173mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
174The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
175background.
176The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
177220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000178with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
179highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000180
181Much more info here: |spell|.
182
183
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000184Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
185-----------------
186
187This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
188smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
189figure out what could be following. This considers struct and class members,
190unions, etc.
191
192Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
193
194The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
195figures out the completion.
196
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000197Currently supported languages:
198 C |ft-c-omni|
199 XHTML |ft-html-omni|
200
201When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
202completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000203
204
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000205KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000206-----------
207
208Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
209(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
210
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000211
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000212MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
213------------------
214
215The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
216The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
217The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
218
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000219
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000220Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
221------------------
222
223The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
224The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
225Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
226
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000227
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000228Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
229-----------------------
230
231The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000232several other languages.
233
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000234French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000235Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
236Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000237
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000238The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
239.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
240standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
241is used there as a best guess.
242Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000243The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
244with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
245do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000246
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000247
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000248Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
249-------------
250
251The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
252This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
253better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
254patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
255|:vimgrep|.
256
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000257If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000258|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000259
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000260To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
261expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
262places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
263
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000264
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000265Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
266-----------------------
267
268When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
269'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
270is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
271":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
272commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
273Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
274
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000275The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
276hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
277
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000278
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000279POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
280-------------------
281
282The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
283problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
284conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
285variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
286
287Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
288- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
289 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
290- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
291 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
292- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
293 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
294- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
295 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
296 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
297 digit.
298- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
299- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
300 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000301- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
302- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
303- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
304 above or below the new lines.
305- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
306- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
307 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
308- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
309 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
310- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
311 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
312- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
313 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
314- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
315- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
316- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
317- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
318- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
319- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
320 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000321- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
322- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000323- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000324
325
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000326Debugger support *new-debug-support*
327----------------
328
329The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
330balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
331mouse pointer.
332
333
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000334Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
335--------------------
336
337The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
338Deleting and renaming files is possible.
339
340To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
341integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
342works the same way.
343
344":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
345and a GUI dialog is not possible.
346
347The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
348
349
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000350Various new items *new-items-7*
351-----------------
352
353Normal mode commands: ~
354
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000355a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000356i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000357
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000358CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
359 location of the error under the cursor.
360
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000361|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
362
363
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000364Insert mode commands: ~
365
366CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
367 without moving the cursor.
368
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000369Options: ~
370
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000371'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
372 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
373 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000374'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000375'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000376'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
377 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000378'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
379 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000380'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000381'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
382'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000383'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
384 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000385'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
386 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
387 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000388'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
389 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000390'spell' switch spell checking on/off
391'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000392'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000393'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
394 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000395'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000396
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000397
398Ex commands: ~
399
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000400Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
401
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000402|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000403
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000404|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000405
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000406|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
407 windows.
408
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000409|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
410
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000411|:delmarks| Delete marks.
412
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000413|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
414
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000415|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
416
417|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
418
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000419|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
420 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000421
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000422|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
423 external command.
424
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000425|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
426 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
427
428|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
429 Lakshmanan).
430
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000431
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000432New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000433
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000434|add()| append an item to a List
435|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000436|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
437|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000438|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000439|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
440|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000441|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
442|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
443|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
444|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000445|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000446|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
447 Dictionary to another
448|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000449|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
450|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
451|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000452|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
453|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000454|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000455 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000456|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
457 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000458|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
459|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
460|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
461|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000462|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000463|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000464|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
465|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
466|join()| join List items into a String
467|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
468|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
469|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000470|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000471|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
472|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000473|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000474|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000475|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000476|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000477|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000478|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000479|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000480|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000481|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000482|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000483|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000484|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
485|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000486|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
487|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
488|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
489|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000490|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000491|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000492
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000493User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
494directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
495
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000496
497New autocommand events: ~
498
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000499|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
500|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
501|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000502
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000503|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000504|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
505|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000506
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000507
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000508New items in search patterns: ~
509|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
510|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
511|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
512|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
513|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
514|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
515|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
516|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
517|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
518|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
519 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000520|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
521|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000522
523Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
524
525It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
526useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000527
528
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000529New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
530
531MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
532
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000533ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
534
535SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
536
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000537PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
538
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000539Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
540
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000541Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
542
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000543Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
544
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000545Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
546
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000547Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
548Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
549different value.
550
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000551
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000552New Keymaps: ~
553
554Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
555
556
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000557New message translations: ~
558
559The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
560
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000561Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
562
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000563Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
564
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000565
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000566Others: ~
567
568Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
569character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
570Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
571"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000572
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000573Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000574
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000575Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
576
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000577GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000578
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000579Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
580
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000581Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000582
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000583Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
584event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
585file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
586
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000587Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
588To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
589they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
590
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000591Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
592when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
593|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
594
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000595For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
596|xterm-modifier-keys|
597
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000598When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
599item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000600When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
601":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
602(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000603
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000604":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
605
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000606"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
607the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
608
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000609'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
610window height.
611
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000612The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
613your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
614
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000615==============================================================================
616IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
617
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000618":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
619
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000620Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
621
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000622When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
623range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
624
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000625The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
626iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
627allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
628matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
629
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000630":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
631breakpoint at the cursor.
632
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000633The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
634few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000635
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000636Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
637it. (Johannes Zellner)
638
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000639Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
640
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000641Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000642does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000643autocommands.
644
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000645For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
646- square brackets are recognized properly
647- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
648- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
649
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000650Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
651
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000652winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
653Lakshmanan)
654
655Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
656
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000657When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
658delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
659actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
660
661When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
662Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
663(Michael Geddes)
664
665The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
666
667VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
668upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
669(Zoltan Arpadffy)
670
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000671For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
672of buffers.
673
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000674The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
675have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
676
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000677When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
678the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
679
680Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
681digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
682
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000683When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
684buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
685list.
686
687Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
688(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
689
690When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
691second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
692line is just "/*".
693
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000694When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
695mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
696edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
697the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
698used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
699more reliable.
700
701Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
702in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
703"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
704with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
705
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000706Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
707incremented/decremented each time.
708
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000709Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000710contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
711a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
712
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000713When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
714
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000715Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
716
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000717":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000718invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
719
720":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
721(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000722
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000723":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000724
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000725The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
726messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
727log startup messages.
728
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000729":let g:" lists global variables.
730":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
731":let w:" lists window-local variables.
732":let v:" lists Vim variables.
733
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000734The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
735searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000736
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000737The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
738for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
739
740The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
741the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
742
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000743g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
744bytes.
745
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000746Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
747":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
748
749CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
750ignored.
751
752When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
753will result in a message with the source of the error.
754
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000755When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
756":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
757
758To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
759been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
760
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000761The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +0000762'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000763
764The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
765variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
766to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000767
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000768Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
769possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
770and the * stands for the modifier code.
771Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
772the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
773modifiers.
774
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000775getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
776window.
777
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000778Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
779
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000780GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
781Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
782
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000783Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
784used.
785
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000786Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
787click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
788restarted.
789
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000790When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
791= value" can be used to set the register contents.
792
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000793A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
794pointer position instead of the text cursor.
795
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000796The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
797such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
798prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000799When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000800
801Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
802user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000803Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
804Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000805
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000806Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
807(Sergey Khorev)
808
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000809The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
810' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
811
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000812For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
813character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
814could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
815pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
816included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
817
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000818For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
819sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
820
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000821When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000822characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000823
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000824When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
825COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
826
827Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
828
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000829When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
830closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
831
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000832input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
833completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
834
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000835"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
836'modifiable' is set.
837
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +0000838When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
839matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
840
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000841Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
842directory. |load-plugins|
843
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +0000844In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
845opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
846
847It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
848in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
849
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +0000850Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
851
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000852==============================================================================
853COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
854
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000855Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
856probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
857and merge it back in.
858
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000859Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
860its final destination. (Raf)
861
862Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
863still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
864file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000865
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000866When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
867following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
868
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000869When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
870to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
871allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
872to store the ":quit" command.
873
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000874Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
875
876Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
877what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
878functions.
879
880Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
881without copying the code.
882
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000883Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
884Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
885runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
886
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000887==============================================================================
888BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
889
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000890When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
891instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
892work. Use "LPT1" then.
893
894The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
895size. Use a default size of 10.
896
897This example in the documentation didn't work:
898 :e `=foo . ".c" `
899Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
900
901When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
902
903"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
904
905Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
906when it doesn't support MDI.
907
908Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
909
910"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
911space.
912
913Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
914SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
915for doesn't have an extension.
916
917When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
918may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
919cursor and not putting it back where it was.
920
921When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
922not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
923to make it work the old way.
924
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000925When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
926filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
927
928After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
929
930Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
931fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000932
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000933On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
934Michele)
935
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000936Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
937CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
938
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000939When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
940ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
941
942Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000943characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
944twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000945
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000946When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
947variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
948
949'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
950is indented too much.
951
952When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
953alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
954items.
955
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000956Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
957active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
958
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000959The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
960"cn" or "tw" as intended.
961
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000962When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
963after the last line while it's not there.
964
965Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
966resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
967
968Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
969string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
970
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000971When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
972contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
973and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
974
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000975strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
976
977GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
978just before it is invoked
979
980VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
981environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
982
983UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
984from the first character of the word.
985
986When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
987detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
988
989When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
990but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
991
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000992When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
993list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
994interrupting this.
995
996When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
997used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
998and global options remain unmodified.
999
1000Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1001command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1002file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1003
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001004Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1005default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1006
1007When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1008xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1009line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1010
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001011Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1012
1013When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1014going to be used like a command.
1015
1016GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1017GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1018
1019GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1020
1021Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1022line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1023console version.
1024
1025Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1026there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1027
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001028When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1029files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1030directory for the library early in the link flags.
1031
1032With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1033literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1034
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001035When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1036cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1037
1038When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1039buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1040
1041Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1042problems for Terminal.app.
1043
1044When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1045end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1046argument.
1047
1048When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1049has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1050back.
1051
1052When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1053was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1054
1055When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1056"cancel", would still give an error message.
1057
1058The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1059mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1060
1061Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1062keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1063
1064Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1065
1066In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1067selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1068is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1069
1070GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1071GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1072
1073After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1074
1075When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1076doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001077Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1078handle. Added handle_signal().
1079
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001080When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1081white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1082
1083When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1084long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1085being found in a library.
1086
1087When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1088may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1089
1090Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1091is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1092
1093When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1094original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1095empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1096be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1097the values when recovering.
1098
1099":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1100message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1101
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001102Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1103when building the ":drop" command.
1104
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001105A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1106E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1107
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001108"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1109does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1110
1111When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1112moved the cursor to another column.
1113
1114When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1115quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1116fold.
1117
1118In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1119break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1120
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001121Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001122
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001123Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001124(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001125
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001126When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1127not included.
1128
1129Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1130Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1131
1132When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1133the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1134
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001135Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1136
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001137When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1138(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1139mode. (Peter Winters)
1140
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001141"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1142
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001143Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1144not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001145Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001146
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001147When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1148lines" overwrites the message.
1149
1150Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1151
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001152When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1153after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1154column in the wrong line.
1155
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001156When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1157starts with "sl".
1158
1159When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1160'paste' when starting the GUI.
1161
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001162A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1163
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001164When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1165Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1166mapping.
1167
1168Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1169
1170":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1171
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001172When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1173in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1174
1175When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1176empty $SHELL value.
1177
1178A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1179file.
1180
1181When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1182moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1183
1184When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1185the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1186is Vi compatible.
1187
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001188Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1189Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1190$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1191
1192Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1193flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1194
1195Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1196compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1197
1198When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1199leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1200'cpoptions' for this.
1201
1202Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1203
1204Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1205be Vi compatible.
1206
1207When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1208request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1209shell and caused trouble there.
1210
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001211When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1212still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1213Lakshmanan)
1214
1215It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1216sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1217
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001218When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1219from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1220
1221When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1222
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001223Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1224unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1225
1226":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1227
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001228The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1229are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1230
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001231Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1232indirectly invokes ":normal".
1233
1234Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1235before invoking "diff".
1236
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001237Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1238&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1239
1240When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1241locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1242mouse model.
1243
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001244When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1245characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1246is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1247character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1248
1249Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001250":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001251
1252Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1253
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001254Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1255real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1256
1257Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1258always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1259
1260When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1261detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1262compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1263decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1264
1265Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1266to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1267Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1268
1269"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1270
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001271When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1272Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1273
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001274In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1275and reset it in nv_home().
1276
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001277Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1278spaces inside backticks.
1279
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001280After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1281let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1282This should be the most useful thing to do.
1283
1284":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1285an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1286
1287In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1288reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1289
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001290When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1291call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001292This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001293
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001294GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1295after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1296win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1297
1298Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1299column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1300mouse column to 10000.
1301
1302searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1303we find the same position again and advance one character.
1304
1305When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1306to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1307
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001308When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1309prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1310
1311When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1312substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1313
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001314Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1315when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1316checks where invoking them
1317
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001318":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1319show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1320
1321When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1322
1323GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1324removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1325change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1326Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1327'lines' to undo this.
1328
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001329After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1330":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1331
1332When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1333may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1334character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1335so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1336
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001337setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1338
1339It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001340It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1341
1342CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001343
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001344When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1345given. Now report the first encountered error.
1346
1347When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
1348caused a fallback to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
1349continue.
1350
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001351When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1352the global value.
1353
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001354Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1355200 characters.
1356
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001357When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1358the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1359\+foo".
1360
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001361When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1362message would be in the wrong position.
1363
1364At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1365
1366When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1367were not set.
1368
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001369Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1370
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001371The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1372
1373Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1374and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1375Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1376
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001377For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1378in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1379while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1380highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1381
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001382Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1383Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1384
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001385Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1386Lakshmanan)
1387
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001388When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1389would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1390
1391When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1392searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1393
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001394GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1395redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1396
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001397Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1398Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1399reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1400
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001401Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1402
1403There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1404existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1405available.
1406
1407In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1408sticking to the first column.
1409
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001410 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: