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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000024MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
25Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000026Tab pages |new-tab-pages|
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +000027Undo branches |new-undo-branches|
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +000028Extended Unicode support |new-more-unicode|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029More highlighting |new-more-highlighting|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000031Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000032Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +000033Cursor past end of the line |new-onemore|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000034POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000035Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000036Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +000037Define an operator |new-define-operator|
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000038Mapping to an expression |new-map-expression|
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +000039Location list |new-location-list|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040Various new items |new-items-7|
41
42IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
43
44COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
45
46BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
47
48==============================================================================
49INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
50
51These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000052run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
53
54A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
55unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
56buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
57all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
58":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000060":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
61
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000062In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
63name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
64double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
65 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
66 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
67 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
68 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
69
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000070In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
71":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
72results in "a'b".
73
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000074When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
75was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
76
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000077The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
78
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000079
80Minor incompatibilities:
81
82For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
83*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
84
85":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
86
87Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
88
89Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
90confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000091
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000092When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
93isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
94
95The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000096looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
97"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
98Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000099Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000100
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000101Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
102on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
103changing 'winaltkeys'.
104
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000105When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
106is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
107avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000108
109When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
110now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
111encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
112possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
113non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
114
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000115Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
116a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
117
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000118"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
119Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
120
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000121Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
122disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
123you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
124translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
125<xF1>, etc.
126
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000127":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
128
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000129When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
130file exists.
131
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000132When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
133s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
134compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
135
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000136"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
137that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
138where the type is given.
139
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000140The line continuation in functions was not taken into account, line numbers in
141errors were logical lines, not lines in the sourced file. That made it
142difficult to locate errors. Now the line number in the sourced file is
143reported, relative to the function start. This also means that line numbers
144for ":breakadd func" are different.
145
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000146==============================================================================
147NEW FEATURES *new-7*
148
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000149Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
150-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000151
152In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
153
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000154 List ordered list of items |List|
155 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
156 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000157
158Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
159
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000160The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
161variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
162can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
163
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000164The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
165expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
166
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000167With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
168wastes its time.
169
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000170In the Python interface vim.eval() also handles Dictionaries and Lists.
171|python-eval| (G. Sumner Hayes)
172
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000173
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000174Spell checking *new-spell*
175--------------
176
177Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
178with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
179
180The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
181The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000182The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000183The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000184
185The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
186The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000187The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000188The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000189
190The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
191mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
192The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
193background.
194The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
195220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000196with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
197highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000198
199Much more info here: |spell|.
200
201
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000202Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
203-----------------
204
205This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
206smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000207figure out what could be following. This may suggest struct and class
208members, system functions, etc.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000209
210Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
211
212The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
213figures out the completion.
214
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000215Currently supported languages:
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000216 C |ft-c-omni|
217 (X)HTML with CSS |ft-html-omni|
218 JavaScript |ft-javascript-omni|
219 any language wih syntax highligting |ft-syntax-omni|
220 XML |ft-xml-omni|
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000221
222When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
223completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000224
225
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000226MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
227------------------
228
229The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
230The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
231The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
232
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000233
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000234Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
235------------------
236
237The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
238The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
239Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
240
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000241
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000242Tab pages *new-tab-pages*
243---------
244
245A tab page is page with one or more windows with a label (aka tab) at the top.
246By clicking on the label you can quickly switch between the tab pages. And
247with the keyboard, using the |gt| (Goto Tab) command. This is a convenient
248way to work with many windows.
249
250To start Vim with each file argument in a separate tab page use the |-p|
251argument. The maximum number of pages can be set with 'tabpagemax'.
252
253The line with tab labels is either made with plain text an highlighting or
254with a GUI mechanism. The GUI labels look better but are only available on a
255few systems. The line can be customized with 'tabline' and 'guitablabel'.
256Whether it is displayed is set with 'showtabline'. Whether to use the GUI
257labels is set with the "e" flag in 'guioptions'.
258
259The |:tab| command modifier can be used to have most commands that open a new
260window open a new tab instead.
261
Bram Moolenaar0ce29932006-03-13 22:18:45 +0000262The |--remote-tab| argument can be used to edit a file in a new tab page in an
263already running Vim server.
264
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000265More info here: |tabpage|
266
267
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000268Undo branches *new-undo-branches*
269-------------
270
271Previously there was only one line of undo-redo. If, after undoing a number
272of changes, a new change was made all the undone changes were lost. This
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000273could lead to accidentally losing work.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000274
275Vim now makes an undo branch in this situation. Thus you can go back to the
276text after any change, even if they were undone. So long as you do not run
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000277into 'undolevels', undo information is freed up to limit the memory used.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000278
279To be able to navigate the undo branches each change is numbered sequentially.
280The commands |g-| and |:earlier| go back in time, to older changes. The
281commands |g+| and |:later| go forward in time, to newer changes.
282
283The changes are also timestamped. Use ":earlier 10m" to go to the text as it
284was about ten minutes earlier.
285
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000286The |:undolist| command can be used to get an idea of which undo branches
287exist. The |:undo| command now takes an argument to directly jump to a
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000288specific position in this list. The |changenr()| function can be used to
289obtain the change number.
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000290
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000291There is no graphical display of the tree with changes, navigation can be
292quite confusing.
293
294
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000295Extended Unicode support *new-more-unicode*
296------------------------
297
298Previously only two combining characters were displayed. The limit is now
299raised to 6. This can be set with the 'maxcombine' option. The default is
300still 2.
301
302|ga| now shows all combining characters, not just the first two.
303
304Previously only 16 bit Unicode characters were supported for displaying. Now
305the full 32 bit character set can be used. Unless manually disabled at
306compile time.
307
308For pattern matching it is now possible to search for individual composing
309characters. |patterns-composing|
310
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000311The |8g8| command searches for an illegal UTF-8 byte sequence.
312
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000313
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000314More highlighting *new-more-highlighting*
315-----------------
316
317Highlighting matching parens
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000318
319When moving the cursor through the text and it is on a paren, then the
320matching paren can be highlighted. This uses the new |CursorMoved|
321autocommand event.
322
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000323See |matchparen| for more information.
324
325The plugin uses the |:match| command. It now supports three match patterns.
326The plugin uses the third one. The first one is for the user and the second
327one can be used by another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000328
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000329Highlighting the cursor line and column
330
331The 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' options have been added. These highlight
332the screen line and screen column of the cursor. This makes the cursor
333position easier to spot. 'cursorcolumn' is also useful to align text. The
334CursorColumn and CursorLine highlighting allow changing the colors used.
335|hl-CursorColumn| |hl-CursorLine|
336
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000337
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000338Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
339-----------------------
340
341The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000342several other languages.
343
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000344French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000345Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
346Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000347
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000348The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
349.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
350standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
351is used there as a best guess.
352Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000353The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
354with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
355do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000356
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000357
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000358Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
359-------------
360
361The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
362This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
363better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
364patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
365|:vimgrep|.
366
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000367If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000368|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000369
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000370To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
371expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
372places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
373
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000374
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000375Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
376-----------------------
377
378When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
379'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
380is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
381":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
382commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
383Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
384
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000385The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
386hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
387
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000388
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000389Cursor past end of the line *new-onemore*
390---------------------------
391
392When the 'virtualedit' option contains "onemore" the cursor can move just past
393the end of the line. As if it's on top of the line break.
394
395This makes some commands more consistent. Previously the cursor was always
396past the end of the line if the line was empty. But it is far from Vi
397compatible. It may also break some plugins or Vim scripts. Use with care!
398
399The patch was provided by Mattias Flodin.
400
401
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000402POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
403-------------------
404
405The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
406problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
407conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
408variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
409
410Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
411- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
412 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
413- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
414 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
415- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
416 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
417- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
418 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
419 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
420 digit.
421- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
422- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
423 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000424- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
425- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
426- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
427 above or below the new lines.
428- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
429- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
430 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
431- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
432 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
433- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
434 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
435- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
436 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
437- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
438- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
439- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
440- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
441- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
442- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
443 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000444- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
445- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000446- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000447
448
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000449Debugger support *new-debug-support*
450----------------
451
452The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
453balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
454mouse pointer.
455
456
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000457Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
458--------------------
459
460The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
461Deleting and renaming files is possible.
462
463To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
464integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
465works the same way.
466
467":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
468and a GUI dialog is not possible.
469
470The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
471
472
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000473Define an operator *new-define-operator*
474------------------
475
476Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
477followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
478|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
479operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
480through the |g@| operator.
481
482See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
483
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000484
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000485Mapping to an expression *new-map-expression*
486------------------------
487
488The {rhs} argument of a mapping can be an expression. That means the
489resulting characters can depend on the context. Example: >
490 :inoremap <expr> . InsertDot()
491Here the dot will be mapped to whatever InsertDot() returns.
492
493Also works for abbreviations. See |:map-<expr>| for the details.
494
495
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000496Location list *new-location-list*
497-------------
498
499The support for a per-window quickfix list (location list) is added. The
500location list can be displayed in a location window (similar to the quickfix
501window). You can open more than one location list window. A set of commands
502similar to the quickfix commands are added to browse the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000503(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
504
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000505
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000506Various new items *new-items-7*
507-----------------
508
509Normal mode commands: ~
510
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000511a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000512i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000513
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000514CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
515 location of the error under the cursor.
516
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000517|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
518
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000519<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
520<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
521 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000522
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +0000523gF Start editing the filename under the cursor and jump
524 to the line number following the file name.
525 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
526
527CTRL-W F Start editing the filename under the cursor in a new
528 window and jump to the line number following the file
529 name. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
530
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000531Insert mode commands: ~
532
533CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
534 without moving the cursor.
535
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000536Options: ~
537
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000538'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
539 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
540 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000541'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000542'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000543'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
544 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000545'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
546 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000547'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000548'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
549'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000550'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
551 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000552'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
553 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
554 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000555'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
556 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000557'formatexpr' expression for formatting text with |gq| and when text
558 goes over 'textwidth' in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000559'spell' switch spell checking on/off
560'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000561'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000562'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
563 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000564'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000565'winfixwidth' window with fixed width, similar to 'winfixheight'
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000566
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000567
568Ex commands: ~
569
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000570Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
571
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000572|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000573|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000574
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000575|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000576
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000577|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
578 windows.
579
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000580|:delmarks| Delete marks.
581
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000582|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
583
584|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
585
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000586|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
587 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000588
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000589|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
590 external command.
591
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000592|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
593 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
594
595|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
596 Lakshmanan).
597
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000598|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
599 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000600|:caddbuffer| Add errors from the current buffer to the quickfix
601 list.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000602
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000603|:lfile| Like |:cfile| but use the location list.
604|:lgetfile| Like |:cgetfile| but use the location list.
605|:laddfile| Like |:caddfile| but use the location list.
606|:lbuffer| Like |:cbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000607|:laddbuffer| Like |:caddbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000608|:lexpr| Like |:cexpr| but use the location list.
609|:laddexpr| Like |:caddexpr| but use the location list.
610|:ll| Like |:cc| but use the location list.
611|:llist| Like |:clist| but use the location list.
612|:lnext| Like |:cnext| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000613|:lprevious| Like |:cprevious| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000614|:lNext| Like |:cNext| but use the location list.
615|:lfirst| Like |:cfirst| but use the location list.
616|:lrewind| Like |:crewind| but use the location list.
617|:llast| Like |:clast| but use the location list.
618|:lnfile| Like |:cnfile| but use the location list.
619|:lpfile| Like |:cpfile| but use the location list.
620|:lNfile| Like |:cNfile| but use the location list.
621|:lolder| Like |:colder| but use the location list.
622|:lnewer| Like |:cnewer| but use the location list.
623|:lwindow| Like |:cwindow| but use the location list.
624|:lopen| Like |:copen| but use the location list.
625|:lclose| Like |:cclose| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000626|:lmake| Like |:make| but use the location list.
627|:lgrep| Like |:grep| but use the location list.
628|:lgrepadd| Like |:grepadd| but use the location list.
629|:lvimgrep| Like |:vimgrep| but use the location list.
630|:lvimgrepadd| Like |:vimgrepadd| but use the location list.
631|:lhelpgrep| Like |:helpgrep| but use the location list.
632|:lcscope| Like |:cscope| but use the location list.
633|:ltag| Jump to a tag and add matching tags to a location list.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000634
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000635|:undojoin| Join a change with the previous undo block.
636
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000637
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000638Ex command modifiers: ~
639
640|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
641
642|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
643
644|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
645
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000646
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000647Ex command arguments: ~
648
649|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
650 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
651 Matsumoto)
652 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
653 are found include the line number in the error
654 message.
655
656
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000657New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000658
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000659|add()| append an item to a List
660|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000661|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
662|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000663|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000664|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
665|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000666|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
667|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000668|cursor()| also accepts an offset for 'virtualedit', and
669 the first argument can be a list: [lnum, col, off]
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000670|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
671|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000672|getloclist()| list of location list items (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000673|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000674|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
675 Dictionary to another
676|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000677|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
678|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
679|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000680|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
681|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000682|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000683 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000684|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
685 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000686|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
687|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
688|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
689|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000690|getpos()| return a list with the position of cursor, mark, etc.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000691|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000692|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000693|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
694|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
695|join()| join List items into a String
696|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
697|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
698|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000699|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000700|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
701|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000702|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000703|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000704|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000705|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000706|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000707|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000708|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000709|searchpairpos()| return a List with the position of the match
710|searchpos()| return a List with the position of the match
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000711|setloclist()| modify a location list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
712|setqflist()| modify a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000713|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000714|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000715|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000716|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
717|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000718|str2nr()| convert a string to a number, base 8, 10 or 16
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000719|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
720|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
721|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
722|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000723|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000724|winrestview()| restore the view of the current window
725|winsaveview()| save the view of the current window
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000726|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000727
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000728User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
729directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
730
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000731
732New autocommand events: ~
733
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000734|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
735|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
736|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000737
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000738|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000739|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
740|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000741|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000742
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000743|SpellFileMissing| when a spell file can't be found
744
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000745|ShellCmdPost| after executing a shell command
746|ShellFilterPost| after filtering with a shell command
747
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +0000748|VimResized| after the Vim window size changed (Yakov Lerner)
749
750|FileChangedShellPost| after handling a file changed outside of Vim
751
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000752|SourcePre| before sourcing a Vim script
753
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +0000754|CursorHoldI| the user doesn't press a key for a while in Insert mode
755|CursorMoved| the cursor was moved in Normal mode
756|CursorMovedI| the cursor was moved in Insert mode
757
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000758
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000759New items in search patterns: ~
760|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
761|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
762|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
763|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
764|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
765|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
766|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
767|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
768|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
769|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
770 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000771
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000772|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
773|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000774
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000775|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
776|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
777|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
778|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
779
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000780Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
781
782It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
783useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000784
785
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000786New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
787
788MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
789
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000790ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
791
792SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
793
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000794Handling of various SQL variants. (David Fishburn)
795
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000796PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
797
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000798Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
799
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000800Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
801
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000802Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
803
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000804Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
805
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000806Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
807Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
808different value.
809
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000810VHDL indent file (Gerald Lai)
811
Bram Moolenaar2a3f7ee2006-02-23 21:34:44 +0000812MGL syntax file. (Gero Kuhlmann)
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000813
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000814rd syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
815
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000816New Keymaps: ~
817
818Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
819
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +0000820Tamil in TSCII encoding (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
821
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000822
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000823New message translations: ~
824
825The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
826
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000827Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
828
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000829Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
830
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000831
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000832Others: ~
833
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000834The Netbeans interface was updated for Sun Studio 10. The protocol number
835goes from 2.2 to 2.3. (Gordon Prieur)
836
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000837Mac: When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000838define default command-key mappings. (mostly by Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000839
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000840Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
841character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
842Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
843"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000844
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000845Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000846
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000847Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
848
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000849Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000850
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000851Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
852event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
853file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
854
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000855Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000856GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
857
858Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
859
860Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
861
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000862To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
863they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
864
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000865Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
866when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
867|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
868
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000869For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
870|xterm-modifier-keys|
871
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000872When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
873item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000874When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
875":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
876(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000877
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000878":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
879
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000880"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
881the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
882
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000883'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
884window height.
885
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000886The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
887your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
888
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000889To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
890is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
891been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
892can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
893other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +0000894When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
895the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000896
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +0000897Undo now also restores the '< and '> marks. "gv" selects the same area as
898before the change and undo.
899
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000900When editing a search pattern for a "/" or "?" command and 'incsearch' is set
901CTRL-L can be used to add a character from the current match. CTRL-R CTRL-W
902will add a word, but exclude the part of the word that was already typed.
903
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000904Ruby interface: add line number methods. (Ryan Paul)
905
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000906==============================================================================
907IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
908
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000909":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
910
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000911Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
912
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000913When doing completion for ":!cmd", ":r !cmd" or ":w !cmd" executable files are
914found in $PATH instead of looking for ordinary files in the current directlry.
915
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000916When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
917range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
918
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000919The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
920iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
921allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
922matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
923
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000924Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
925happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
926'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
927
928Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
929CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
930that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
931from happening.
932
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000933":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
934breakpoint at the cursor.
935
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +0000936It is now possible to define a function with: >
937 :exe "func Test()\n ...\n endfunc"
938
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000939The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
940few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000941
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000942Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
943it. (Johannes Zellner)
944
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +0000945Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
946of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
947"os_unix.c".
948
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000949Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
950
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000951Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000952does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000953autocommands.
954
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000955For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
956- square brackets are recognized properly
957- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
958- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
959
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000960Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
961
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000962winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
963Lakshmanan)
964
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000965Added 's' flag to search(): set ' mark if cursor moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000966Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000967Added 'c' flag to search(): accept match at the cursor.
968Added 'e' flag to search(): move to end of the match. (Benji Fisher)
969Added 'p' flag to search(): return number of sub-pattern. (Benji Fisher)
970These also apply to searchpos(), searchpair() and searchpairpos().
971The search() and searchpair() functions have an extra argument to specify
972where to stop searching. Speeds up searches that should not continue too far.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000973
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000974When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
975delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
976actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
977
978When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000979(Michael Geddes)
980
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000981Support setting 'filetype' and 'syntax' to "aaa.bbb" for "aaa" plus "bbb"
982filetype or syntax.
983
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000984The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
985
986VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
987upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
988(Zoltan Arpadffy)
989
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000990For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
991of buffers.
992
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000993When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
994the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
995
996Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
997digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
998
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000999When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
1000buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
1001list.
1002
1003Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
1004(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
1005
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001006Win32: Vim was not aware of hard links on NTFS file systems. These are
1007detected now for when 'backupcopy' is "auto". Also fixed a bogus "file has
1008been changed since reading it" error for links.
1009
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001010When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
1011second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
1012line is just "/*".
1013
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001014When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
1015mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
1016edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
1017the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
1018used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
1019more reliable.
1020
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001021Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
1022of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
1023file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
1024
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001025Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
1026in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
1027"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
1028with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
1029
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001030Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
1031incremented/decremented each time.
1032
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001033Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001034contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
1035a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
1036
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001037When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
1038
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001039Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
1040
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001041":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001042invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
1043
1044":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
1045(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001046
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001047":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001048
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +00001049The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
1050messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
1051log startup messages.
1052
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001053":let g:" lists global variables.
1054":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
1055":let w:" lists window-local variables.
1056":let v:" lists Vim variables.
1057
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001058The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
1059searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001060
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001061The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
1062for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
1063
1064The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
1065the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
1066
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001067g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
1068bytes.
1069
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001070Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
1071":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
1072
1073CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
1074ignored.
1075
1076When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
1077will result in a message with the source of the error.
1078
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001079When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
1080":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
1081
1082To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
1083been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
1084
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001085In a |:substitute| command the \u, \U, \l and \L items now also work for
1086multi-byte characters.
1087
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001088The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001089'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001090
1091The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
1092variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
1093to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001094
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001095Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
1096possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
1097and the * stands for the modifier code.
1098Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
1099the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
1100modifiers.
1101
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001102getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
1103window.
1104
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001105Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1106
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001107GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
1108Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
1109
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001110Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
1111used.
1112
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +00001113Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
1114click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
1115restarted.
1116
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001117When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
1118= value" can be used to set the register contents.
1119
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001120A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
1121pointer position instead of the text cursor.
1122
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001123The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
1124such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
1125prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001126When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001127
1128Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
1129user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001130Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
1131Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001132
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001133Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
1134(Sergey Khorev)
1135
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001136For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
1137character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
1138could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
1139pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
1140included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
1141
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001142For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
1143sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
1144
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001145When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001146characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001147
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001148When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
1149COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1150
1151Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1152
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001153When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
1154closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
1155
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +00001156input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
1157completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1158
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001159"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
1160'modifiable' is set.
1161
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001162The 'diffopt' option has three new values: "horizontal", "vertical" and
1163"foldcolumn".
1164
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001165When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
1166matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
1167
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001168Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
1169directory. |load-plugins|
1170
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +00001171In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
1172opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
1173
1174It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
1175in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
1176
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +00001177Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
1178
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +00001179":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
1180added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
1181
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001182In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
1183more logical. (Robert Webb)
1184
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001185When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
1186file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
1187actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
1188'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
1189
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001190When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
1191then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
1192a hint that something might be wrong.
1193
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001194Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
1195
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001196In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
1197then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
1198inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
1199without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001200
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001201The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001202and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +00001203
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001204Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
1205itself.
1206
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001207":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
1208asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
1209
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001210Insert mode completion for whole lines now also searches unloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001211
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001212The colortest.vim script can now be invoked directly with ":source" or
1213":runtime".
1214
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001215The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
1216have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1217
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001218The 'statusline' option and other options that support the same format can now
1219use these new features:
1220- When it starts with "%!" the value is first evaluated as an expression
1221 before parsing the value.
1222- "%#HLname#" can be used to start highlighting with HLname.
1223
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001224When 'statusline' is set to something that causes an error message then it is
1225made empty to avoid an endless redraw loop. Also for other options, such at
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001226'tabline' and 'titlestring'. ":verbose set statusline" will mention that it
1227was set in an error handler.
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001228
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001229When there are several matching tags, the ":tag <name>" and CTRL-] commands
1230jump to the [count] matching tag. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1231
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001232Win32: In the batch files generated by the install program, use $VIMRUNTIME or
1233$VIM if it's set. Example provided by Mathias Michaelis.
1234Also create a vimtutor.bat batch file.
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001235
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001236==============================================================================
1237COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
1238
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001239Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
1240probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
1241and merge it back in.
1242
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001243When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
1244following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
1245
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +00001246When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
1247to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
1248allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
1249to store the ":quit" command.
1250
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001251Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
1252
1253Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
1254what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
1255functions.
1256
1257Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
1258without copying the code.
1259
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001260--- Mac ---
1261
1262"make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to its
1263final destination. (Raf)
1264
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001265Put the runtime directory not directly in Vim.app but in
1266Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim, so that it's according to Mac specs.
1267
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001268Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and still
1269being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c file.
1270
1271When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001272Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
1273runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
1274
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001275Configure will attempt to build Vim for both Intel and PowerPC. The
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001276--with-mac-arch configure argument can change it.
1277
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001278--- Win32 ---
1279
1280The Make_mvc.mak file was adjusted to work with the latest MS compilers,
1281including the free version of Visual Studio 2005. (George Reilly)
1282
1283INSTALLpc.txt was updated for the recent changes. (George Reilly)
1284
1285The distributed executable is now produced with the free Visual C++ Toolkit
12862003 and other free SDK chunks. msvcsetup.bat was added to support this.
1287
1288Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
1289on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
1290
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001291==============================================================================
1292BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
1293
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001294When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
1295instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
1296work. Use "LPT1" then.
1297
1298The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
1299size. Use a default size of 10.
1300
1301This example in the documentation didn't work:
1302 :e `=foo . ".c" `
1303Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
1304
1305When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1306
1307"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1308
1309Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1310when it doesn't support MDI.
1311
1312Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1313
1314"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1315space.
1316
1317Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1318SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1319for doesn't have an extension.
1320
1321When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1322may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1323cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1324
1325When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1326not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1327to make it work the old way.
1328
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001329When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1330filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1331
1332After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1333
1334Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1335fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001336
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001337On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1338Michele)
1339
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001340Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1341CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1342
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001343When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1344ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1345
1346Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001347characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1348twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001349
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001350When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1351variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1352
1353'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1354is indented too much.
1355
1356When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1357alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1358items.
1359
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001360Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1361active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1362
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001363The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1364"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1365
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001366When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1367after the last line while it's not there.
1368
1369Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1370resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1371
1372Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1373string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1374
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001375When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1376contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1377and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1378
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001379strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1380
1381GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1382just before it is invoked
1383
1384VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1385environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1386
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +00001387VMS: Improved low level char input (affects just console mode). (Zoltan
1388Arpadffy)
1389
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001390UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1391from the first character of the word.
1392
1393When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1394detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1395
1396When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1397but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1398
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001399When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1400list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1401interrupting this.
1402
1403When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1404used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1405and global options remain unmodified.
1406
1407Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1408command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1409file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1410
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001411Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1412default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1413
1414When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1415xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1416line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1417
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001418Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1419
1420When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1421going to be used like a command.
1422
1423GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1424GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1425
1426GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1427
1428Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1429line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1430console version.
1431
1432Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1433there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1434
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001435When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1436files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1437directory for the library early in the link flags.
1438
1439With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1440literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1441
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001442When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1443cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1444
1445When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1446buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1447
1448Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1449problems for Terminal.app.
1450
1451When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1452end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1453argument.
1454
1455When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1456has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1457back.
1458
1459When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1460was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1461
1462When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1463"cancel", would still give an error message.
1464
1465The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1466mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1467
1468Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1469keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1470
1471Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1472
1473In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1474selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1475is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1476
1477GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1478GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1479
1480After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1481
1482When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1483doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001484Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1485handle. Added handle_signal().
1486
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001487When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1488white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1489
1490When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1491long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1492being found in a library.
1493
1494When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1495may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1496
1497Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1498is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1499
1500When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1501original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1502empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1503be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1504the values when recovering.
1505
1506":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1507message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1508
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001509Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1510when building the ":drop" command.
1511
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001512A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1513E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1514
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001515"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1516does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1517
1518When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1519moved the cursor to another column.
1520
1521When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1522quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1523fold.
1524
1525In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1526break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1527
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001528Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001529
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001530Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001531(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001532
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001533When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1534not included.
1535
1536Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1537Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1538
1539When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1540the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1541
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001542Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1543
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001544When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1545(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1546mode. (Peter Winters)
1547
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001548"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1549
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001550Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1551not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001552Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001553
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001554When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1555lines" overwrites the message.
1556
1557Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1558
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001559When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1560after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1561column in the wrong line.
1562
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001563When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1564starts with "sl".
1565
1566When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1567'paste' when starting the GUI.
1568
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001569A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1570
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001571When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1572Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1573mapping.
1574
1575Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1576
1577":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1578
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001579When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1580in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1581
1582When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1583empty $SHELL value.
1584
1585A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1586file.
1587
1588When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1589moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1590
1591When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1592the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1593is Vi compatible.
1594
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001595Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1596Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1597$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1598
1599Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1600flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1601
1602Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1603compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1604
1605When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1606leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1607'cpoptions' for this.
1608
1609Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1610
1611Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1612be Vi compatible.
1613
1614When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1615request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1616shell and caused trouble there.
1617
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001618When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1619still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1620Lakshmanan)
1621
1622It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1623sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1624
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001625When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1626from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1627
1628When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1629
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001630Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1631unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1632
1633":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1634
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001635The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1636are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1637
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001638Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1639indirectly invokes ":normal".
1640
1641Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1642before invoking "diff".
1643
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001644Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1645&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1646
1647When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1648locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1649mouse model.
1650
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001651When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1652characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1653is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1654character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1655
1656Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001657":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001658
1659Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1660
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001661Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1662real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1663
1664Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1665always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1666
1667When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1668detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1669compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1670decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1671
1672Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1673to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1674Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1675
1676"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1677
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001678When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1679Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1680
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001681In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1682and reset it in nv_home().
1683
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001684Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1685spaces inside backticks.
1686
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001687After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1688let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1689This should be the most useful thing to do.
1690
1691":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1692an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1693
1694In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1695reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1696
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001697When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1698call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001699This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001700
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001701GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1702after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1703win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1704
1705Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1706column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1707mouse column to 10000.
1708
1709searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1710we find the same position again and advance one character.
1711
1712When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1713to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1714
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001715When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1716prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1717
1718When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1719substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1720
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001721Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1722when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1723checks where invoking them
1724
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001725":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1726show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1727
1728When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1729
1730GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1731removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1732change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1733Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1734'lines' to undo this.
1735
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001736After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1737":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1738
1739When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1740may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1741character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1742so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1743
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001744setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1745
1746It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001747It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1748
1749CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001750
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001751When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1752given. Now report the first encountered error.
1753
1754When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001755caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001756continue.
1757
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001758When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1759the global value.
1760
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001761Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1762200 characters.
1763
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001764When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1765the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1766\+foo".
1767
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001768When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1769message would be in the wrong position.
1770
1771At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1772
1773When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1774were not set.
1775
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001776Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1777
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001778The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1779
1780Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1781and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1782Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1783
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001784For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1785in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1786while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1787highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1788
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001789Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1790Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1791
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001792Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1793Lakshmanan)
1794
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001795When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1796would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1797
1798When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1799searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1800
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001801GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1802redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1803
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001804Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1805Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1806reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1807
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001808Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1809
1810There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1811existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1812available.
1813
1814In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1815sticking to the first column.
1816
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001817When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1818echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1819
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001820Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1821
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001822When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
1823the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
1824
1825When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
1826":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
1827
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001828Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
1829causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
1830Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
1831
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001832The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
1833
1834Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
1835dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
1836of its output.
1837
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00001838When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
1839the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
1840typing the command line.
1841
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00001842'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
1843"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
1844
1845When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
1846appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
1847recording.
1848
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001849Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
1850that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
1851
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001852When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
1853writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
1854the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
1855buffer when creating a new file.
1856
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001857When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
1858string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
1859
1860When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001861to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001862incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
1863|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001864to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001865
1866"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
1867an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
1868
1869Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
1870when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
1871edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
1872getting a beep from the "l" command.
1873
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001874Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
1875the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
1876
1877When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
1878there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
1879
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00001880Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
1881arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
1882until after executing "-c" arguments.
1883
1884When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
1885break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
1886undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
1887
1888Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
1889happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
1890stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
1891Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
1892
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00001893When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
1894change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
1895When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
1896Added mf_set_dirty().
1897
1898Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
1899backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
1900
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001901A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
1902special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
1903
1904When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
1905!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
1906"!;&()<>".
1907
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001908When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
1909autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
1910
1911In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
1912the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
1913
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00001914Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
1915value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
1916
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00001917Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
1918After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
1919
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00001920The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
1921normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
1922actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
1923
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00001924The "load session" toolbar item could not handle a space or other special
1925characters in v:this_session.
1926
1927":set sta ts=8 sw=4 sts=2" deleted 4 spaces halfway a line instead of 2.
1928
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00001929In a multi-byte file the foldmarker could be recognized in the trail byte.
1930(Taro Muraoka)
1931
Bram Moolenaar0e5bd962006-02-04 00:59:56 +00001932Pasting with CTRL-V and menu didn't work properly when some commands are
1933mapped. Use ":normal!" instead of ":normal". (Tony Apuzzo)
1934
1935Crashed when expanding a file name argument in backticks.
1936
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +00001937In some situations the menu and scrollbar didn't work, when the value contains
1938a CSI byte. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
1939
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001940GTK GUI: When drawing the balloon focus changes and we might get a key release
1941event that removed the balloon again. Ignore the key release event.
1942
1943'titleold' was included in ":mkexrc" and ":mksession" files.
1944
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001945":set background&" didn't use the same logic as was used when starting up.
1946
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00001947When "umask" is set such that nothing is writable then the viminfo file would
1948be written without write permission. (Julian Bridle)
1949
Bram Moolenaar7e8fd632006-02-18 22:14:51 +00001950Motif: In diff mode dragging one scrollbar didn't update the scrollbar of the
1951other diff'ed window.
1952
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001953When editing in an xterm with a different number of colors than expected the
1954screen would be cleared and redrawn, causing the message about the edited file
1955to be cleared. Now set "keep_msg" to redraw the last message.
1956
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001957For a color terminal: When the Normal HL uses bold, possibly to make the color
1958lighter, and another HL group specifies a color it might become light as well.
1959Now reset bold if a HL group doesn't specify bold itself.
1960
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001961When using 256 color xterm the color 255 would show up as color 0. Use a
1962short instead of a char to store the color number.
1963
1964ml_get errors when searching for "\n\zs" in an empty file.
1965
Bram Moolenaara5621492006-02-25 21:55:24 +00001966When selecting a block and using "$" to select until the end of every line and
1967not highlighting the character under the cursor the first character of the
1968block could be unhighlighted.
1969
1970When counting words for the Visual block area and using "$" to select until
1971the end of every line only up to the length of the last line was counted.
1972
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001973"dip" in trailing empty lines left one empty line behind.
1974
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00001975The script ID was only remembered globally for each option. When a buffer- or
1976window-local option was set the same "last set" location was changed for all
1977buffers and windows. Now remember the script ID for each local option
1978separately.
1979
1980GUI: The "Replace All" button didn't handle backslashes in the replacement in
1981the same way as "Replace". Escape backslashes so that they are taken
1982literally.
1983
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001984When using Select mode from Insert mode and typing a key, causing lines to be
1985deleted and a message displayed, delayed the effect of inserting the key.
1986Now overwrite the message without delay.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00001987
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001988When 'whichwrap' includes "l" then "dl" and "yl" on a single letter line
1989worked differently. Now recognize all operators when using "l" at the end of
1990a line.
1991
1992GTK GUI: when the font selector returned a font name with a comma in it then
1993it would be handled like two font names. Now put a backslash before the
1994comma.
1995
1996MS-DOS, Win32: When 'encoding' defaults to "latin1" then the value for
1997'iskeyword' was still for CPxxx. And when 'nocompatible' was set 'isprint'
1998would also be the wrong value.
1999
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00002000When a command was defined not to take arguments and no '|' no warning message
2001would be given for using a '|'. Also with ":loadkeymap".
2002
Bram Moolenaara3227e22006-03-08 21:32:40 +00002003Motif: When using a fontset and 'encoding' is "utf-8" and sizeof(wchar_t) !=
2004sizeof(XChar2b) then display was wrong. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2005
Bram Moolenaareb94e552006-03-11 21:35:11 +00002006":all" always set the current window to the first window, even when it
2007contains a buffer that is not in the argument list (can't be closed because it
2008is modified). Now go to the window that has the first item of the argument
2009list.
2010
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +00002011GUI: To avoid left-over pixels from bold text all characters after a character
2012with special attributes were redrawn. Now only do this for characters that
2013actually are bold. Speeds up displaying considerably.
2014
2015When only highlighting changes and the text is scrolled at the same time
2016everything is redraw instead of using a scroll and updating the changed text.
2017E.g., when using ":match" to highlight a paren that the cursor landed on.
2018Added SOME_VALID: Redraw the whole window but also try to scroll to minimize
2019redrawing.
2020
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002021Win32: When using Korean IME making it active didn't work properly. (Moon,
2022Yu-sung, 2005 March 21)
2023
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00002024Ruby interface: when inserting/deleting lines display wasn't updated. (Ryan
2025Paul)
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002026
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002027 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: