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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
3
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 Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000023KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000024Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000025Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000026POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000027Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028Various new items |new-items-7|
29
30IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
31
32COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
33
34BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
35
36==============================================================================
37INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
38
39These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000040run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
41
42A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
43unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
44buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
45all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
46":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000048":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
49
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000050In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
51name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
52double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
53 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
54 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
55 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
56 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
57
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000058In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
59":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
60results in "a'b".
61
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000062
63Minor incompatibilities:
64
65For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
66*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
67
68":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
69
70Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
71
72Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
73confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000074
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000075When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
76isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
77
78The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
79looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR" if no
80folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000081Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000082
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000083Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
84on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
85changing 'winaltkeys'.
86
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000087When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
88is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
89avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000090
91When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
92now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
93encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
94possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
95non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
96
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +000097Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
98a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
99
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000100"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
101Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
102
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000103Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
104disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
105you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
106translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
107<xF1>, etc.
108
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000109==============================================================================
110NEW FEATURES *new-7*
111
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000112Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
113-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000114
115In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
116
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000117 List ordered list of items |List|
118 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
119 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000120
121Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
122
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000123The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
124variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
125can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
126
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000127The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
128expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
129
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000130With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
131wastes its time.
132
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000133
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000134Spell checking *new-spell*
135--------------
136
137Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
138with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
139
140The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
141The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
142
143The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
144mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
145The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
146background.
147The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
148220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
149with syntax highlighting attributes.
150
151Much more info here: |spell|.
152
153
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000154KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000155-----------
156
157Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
158(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
159
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000160
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000161MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
162------------------
163
164The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
165The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
166The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
167
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000168
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000169Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
170------------------
171
172The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
173The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
174Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
175
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000176
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000177Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
178-----------------------
179
180The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000181several other languages.
182
183Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
184Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000185
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000186The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/.
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000187Other languages in similar places.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000188
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000189
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000190Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
191-------------
192
193The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
194This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
195better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
196patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
197|:vimgrep|.
198
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000199If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000200|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000201
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000202
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000203POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
204-------------------
205
206The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
207problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
208conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
209variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
210
211Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
212- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
213 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
214- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
215 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
216- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
217 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
218- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
219 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
220 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
221 digit.
222- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
223- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
224 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000225- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
226- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
227- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
228 above or below the new lines.
229- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
230- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
231 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
232- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
233 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
234- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
235 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
236- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
237 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
238- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
239- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
240- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
241- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
242- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
243- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
244 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
245- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines.
246- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000247
248
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000249Debugger support *new-debug-support*
250----------------
251
252The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
253balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
254mouse pointer.
255
256
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000257Various new items *new-items-7*
258-----------------
259
260Normal mode commands: ~
261
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000262a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
263i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000264
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000265CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
266 location of the error under the cursor.
267
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000268Options: ~
269
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000270'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
271 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
272 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
273'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
274 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000275'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
276 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000277'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000278'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
279'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000280'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
281 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000282'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
283 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
284 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000285'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
286 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000287'spell' switch spell checking on/off
288'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000289
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000290
291Ex commands: ~
292
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000293Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
294
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000295|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000296
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000297|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000298
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000299|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
300 windows.
301
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000302|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
303
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000304|:delmarks| Delete marks.
305
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000306|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
307
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000308|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
309
310|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
311
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000312|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
313 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000314
315New functions: ~
316
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000317|add()| append an item to a List
318|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
319|browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
320|byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
321|call()| call a function with List as arguments
322|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
323|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
324|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
325|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000326|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000327|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
328 Dictionary to another
329|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
330|finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
331|findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes Zellner)
332|foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum".
333|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
334|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
335|getfontname()| Get actual font name being used.
336|getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai Weibull)
337|getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000338|getline()| With second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000339|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
340|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
341|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
342|join()| join List items into a String
343|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
344|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
345|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000346|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000347|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
348|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000349|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000350|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000351|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
352|repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times. (Christophe Poucet)
353|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000354|setqflist()| create a quickfix list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000355|sort()| sort a List
356|split()| split a String into a List
357|string()| String representation of a List or Dictionary
358|system()| Filters {input} through a shell command.
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +0000359|taglist()| Get list of matching tags. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000360|tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
361|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000362|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000363
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000364User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
365directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
366
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000367
368New autocommand events: ~
369
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000370|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
371|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
372|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000373
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000374|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000375|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
376|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000377
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000378
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000379New items in search patterns: ~
380|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
381|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
382|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
383|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
384|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
385|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
386|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
387|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
388|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
389|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
390 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000391|/[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
392|/[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
393
394Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
395
396It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
397useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000398
399
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000400New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
401
402MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
403
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000404ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
405
406SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
407
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000408PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
409
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000410Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
411
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000412
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000413New Keymaps: ~
414
415Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
416
417
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000418New message translations: ~
419
420The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
421
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000422Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
423
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000424Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
425
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000426
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000427Others: ~
428
429Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
430character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
431Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
432"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000433
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000434Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
435
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000436Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
437
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000438GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000439
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000440Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
441
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000442Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000443
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000444Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
445event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
446file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
447
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000448The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
449Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
450
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000451Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
452To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
453they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
454
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000455Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
456when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
457|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
458
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000459For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
460|xterm-modifier-keys|
461
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000462==============================================================================
463IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
464
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000465":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
466
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000467Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
468
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000469The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
470iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
471allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
472matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
473
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000474":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
475breakpoint at the cursor.
476
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000477The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
478few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000479
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000480Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
481it. (Johannes Zellner)
482
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000483Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
484
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000485Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
486doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
487autocommands.
488
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000489For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
490- square brackets are recognized properly
491- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
492- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
493
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000494Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
495
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000496winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
497Lakshmanan)
498
499Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
500
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000501When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
502delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
503actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
504
505When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
506Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
507(Michael Geddes)
508
509The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
510
511VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
512upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
513(Zoltan Arpadffy)
514
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000515For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
516of buffers.
517
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000518The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
519have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
520
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000521When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
522the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
523
524Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
525digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
526
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000527When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
528buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
529list.
530
531Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
532(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
533
534When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
535second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
536line is just "/*".
537
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000538When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
539mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
540edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
541the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
542used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
543more reliable.
544
545Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
546in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
547"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
548with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
549
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000550Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
551incremented/decremented each time.
552
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000553Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000554contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
555a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
556
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000557When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
558
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000559Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
560
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000561":redir @*>" and ":redir @+>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000562invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
563
564":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
565(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000566
567":let g:" lists global variables.
568":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
569":let w:" lists window-local variables.
570":let v:" lists Vim variables.
571
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000572The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
573searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000574
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000575g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
576bytes.
577
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000578Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
579":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
580
581CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
582ignored.
583
584When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
585will result in a message with the source of the error.
586
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000587When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
588":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
589
590To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
591been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
592
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000593The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000594'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin".
595
596The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
597variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
598to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000599
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000600Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
601possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
602and the * stands for the modifier code.
603Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
604the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
605modifiers.
606
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000607getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
608window.
609
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000610==============================================================================
611COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
612
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000613Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
614probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
615and merge it back in.
616
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000617Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
618its final destination. (Raf)
619
620Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
621still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
622file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000623
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000624When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
625following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
626
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000627==============================================================================
628BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
629
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000630When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
631instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
632work. Use "LPT1" then.
633
634The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
635size. Use a default size of 10.
636
637This example in the documentation didn't work:
638 :e `=foo . ".c" `
639Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
640
641When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
642
643"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
644
645Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
646when it doesn't support MDI.
647
648Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
649
650"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
651space.
652
653Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
654SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
655for doesn't have an extension.
656
657When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
658may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
659cursor and not putting it back where it was.
660
661When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
662not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
663to make it work the old way.
664
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000665When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
666filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
667
668After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
669
670Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
671fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000672
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000673On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
674Michele)
675
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000676Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
677CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
678
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000679When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
680ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
681
682Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
683characters.
684
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000685When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
686variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
687
688'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
689is indented too much.
690
691When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
692alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
693items.
694
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000695Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
696active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
697
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000698The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
699"cn" or "tw" as intended.
700
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000701When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
702after the last line while it's not there.
703
704Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
705resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
706
707Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
708string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
709
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000710When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
711contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
712and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
713
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000714strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
715
716GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
717just before it is invoked
718
719VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
720environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
721
722UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
723from the first character of the word.
724
725When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
726detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
727
728When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
729but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
730
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000731When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
732list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
733interrupting this.
734
735When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
736used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
737and global options remain unmodified.
738
739Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
740command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
741file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
742
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000743Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
744default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
745
746When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
747xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
748line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
749
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000750Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
751
752When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
753going to be used like a command.
754
755GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
756GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
757
758GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
759
760Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
761line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
762console version.
763
764Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
765there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
766
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000767When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
768files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
769directory for the library early in the link flags.
770
771With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
772literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
773
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000774When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
775cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
776
777When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
778buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
779
780Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
781problems for Terminal.app.
782
783When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
784end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
785argument.
786
787When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
788has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
789back.
790
791When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
792was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
793
794When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
795"cancel", would still give an error message.
796
797The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
798mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
799
800Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
801keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
802
803Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
804
805In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
806selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
807is included, e.g., after "v$o".
808
809GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
810GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
811
812After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
813
814When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
815doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000816Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
817handle. Added handle_signal().
818
819When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
820line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
821GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000822
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000823When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
824white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
825
826When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
827long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
828being found in a library.
829
830When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
831may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
832
833Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
834is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
835
836When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
837original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
838empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
839be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
840the values when recovering.
841
842":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
843message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
844
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000845Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
846when building the ":drop" command.
847
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000848A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
849E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
850
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000851"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
852does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
853
854When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
855moved the cursor to another column.
856
857When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
858quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
859fold.
860
861In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
862break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
863
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000864Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000865
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000866Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000867(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000868
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000869When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
870not included.
871
872Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
873Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
874
875When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
876the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
877
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +0000878Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
879
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +0000880When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
881(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
882mode. (Peter Winters)
883
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000884"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
885
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000886Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
887not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000888Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000889
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000890When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
891lines" overwrites the message.
892
893Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
894
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000895When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
896after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
897column in the wrong line.
898
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000899When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
900starts with "sl".
901
902When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
903'paste' when starting the GUI.
904
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +0000905A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
906
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000907When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
908Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
909mapping.
910
911Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
912
913":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
914
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000915When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
916in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
917
918When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
919empty $SHELL value.
920
921A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
922file.
923
924When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
925moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
926
927When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
928the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
929is Vi compatible.
930
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000931Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
932Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
933$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
934
935Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
936flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
937
938Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
939compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
940
941When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
942leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
943'cpoptions' for this.
944
945Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
946
947Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
948be Vi compatible.
949
950When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
951request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
952shell and caused trouble there.
953
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000954When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
955still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
956Lakshmanan)
957
958It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
959sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
960
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000961When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
962from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
963
964When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
965
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000966Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
967unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
968
969":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
970
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000971The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
972are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
973
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +0000974Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
975indirectly invokes ":normal".
976
977Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
978before invoking "diff".
979
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000980Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
981&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
982
983When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
984locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
985mouse model.
986
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +0000987When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
988characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
989is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
990character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
991
992Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000993":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +0000994
995Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
996
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000997Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
998real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
999
1000Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1001always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1002
1003When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1004detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1005compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1006decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1007
1008Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1009to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1010Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1011
1012"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1013
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001014When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1015Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1016
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001017In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1018and reset it in nv_home().
1019
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001020 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: