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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 Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000026Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000027Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000028Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000029POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000030Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000031Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +000032Define an operator |new-define-operator|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033Various new items |new-items-7|
34
35IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
36
37COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
38
39BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
40
41==============================================================================
42INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
43
44These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000045run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
46
47A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
48unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
49buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
50all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
51":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000053":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
54
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
56name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
57double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
58 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
59 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
60 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
61 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
62
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000063In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
64":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
65results in "a'b".
66
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000067When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
68was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
69
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000070The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
71
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000072
73Minor incompatibilities:
74
75For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
76*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
77
78":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
79
80Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
81
82Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
83confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000084
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000085When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
86isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
87
88The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000089looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
90"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
91Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000092Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000093
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000094Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
95on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
96changing 'winaltkeys'.
97
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000098When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
99is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
100avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000101
102When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
103now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
104encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
105possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
106non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
107
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000108Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
109a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
110
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000111"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
112Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
113
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000114Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
115disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
116you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
117translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
118<xF1>, etc.
119
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000120":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
121
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000122When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
123file exists.
124
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000125When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
126s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
127compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
128
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000129"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
130that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
131where the type is given.
132
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000133==============================================================================
134NEW FEATURES *new-7*
135
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000136Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
137-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000138
139In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
140
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000141 List ordered list of items |List|
142 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
143 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000144
145Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
146
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000147The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
148variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
149can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
150
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000151The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
152expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
153
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000154With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
155wastes its time.
156
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000157
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000158Spell checking *new-spell*
159--------------
160
161Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
162with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
163
164The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
165The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000166The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000167The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000168
169The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
170The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000171The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000172The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000173
174The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
175mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
176The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
177background.
178The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
179220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000180with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
181highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000182
183Much more info here: |spell|.
184
185
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000186Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
187-----------------
188
189This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
190smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
191figure out what could be following. This considers struct and class members,
192unions, etc.
193
194Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
195
196The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
197figures out the completion.
198
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000199Currently supported languages:
200 C |ft-c-omni|
201 XHTML |ft-html-omni|
202
203When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
204completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000205
206
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000207MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
208------------------
209
210The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
211The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
212The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
213
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000214
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000215Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
216------------------
217
218The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
219The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
220Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
221
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000222
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000223Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
224-----------------------
225
226The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000227several other languages.
228
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000229French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000230Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
231Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000232
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000233The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
234.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
235standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
236is used there as a best guess.
237Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000238The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
239with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
240do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000241
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000242
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000243Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
244-------------
245
246The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
247This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
248better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
249patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
250|:vimgrep|.
251
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000252If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000253|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000254
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000255To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
256expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
257places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
258
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000259
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000260Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
261-----------------------
262
263When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
264'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
265is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
266":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
267commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
268Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
269
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000270The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
271hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
272
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000273
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000274POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
275-------------------
276
277The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
278problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
279conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
280variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
281
282Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
283- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
284 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
285- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
286 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
287- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
288 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
289- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
290 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
291 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
292 digit.
293- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
294- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
295 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000296- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
297- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
298- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
299 above or below the new lines.
300- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
301- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
302 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
303- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
304 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
305- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
306 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
307- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
308 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
309- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
310- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
311- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
312- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
313- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
314- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
315 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000316- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
317- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000318- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000319
320
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000321Debugger support *new-debug-support*
322----------------
323
324The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
325balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
326mouse pointer.
327
328
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000329Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
330--------------------
331
332The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
333Deleting and renaming files is possible.
334
335To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
336integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
337works the same way.
338
339":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
340and a GUI dialog is not possible.
341
342The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
343
344
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000345Define an operator *new-define-operator*
346------------------
347
348Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
349followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
350|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
351operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
352through the |g@| operator.
353
354See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
355
356
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000357Various new items *new-items-7*
358-----------------
359
360Normal mode commands: ~
361
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000362a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000363i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000364
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000365CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
366 location of the error under the cursor.
367
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000368|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
369
370
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000371Insert mode commands: ~
372
373CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
374 without moving the cursor.
375
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000376Options: ~
377
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000378'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
379 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
380 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000381'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000382'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000383'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
384 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000385'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
386 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000387'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000388'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
389'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000390'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
391 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000392'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
393 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
394 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000395'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
396 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000397'spell' switch spell checking on/off
398'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000399'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000400'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
401 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000402'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000403
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000404
405Ex commands: ~
406
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000407Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
408
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000409|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000410
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000411|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000412
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000413|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
414 windows.
415
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000416|:delmarks| Delete marks.
417
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000418|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
419
420|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
421
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000422|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
423 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000424
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000425|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
426 external command.
427
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000428|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
429 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
430
431|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
432 Lakshmanan).
433
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000434Ex command modifiers: ~
435
436|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
437
438|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
439
440|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
441
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000442
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000443Ex command arguments: ~
444
445|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
446 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
447 Matsumoto)
448 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
449 are found include the line number in the error
450 message.
451
452
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000453New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000454
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000455|add()| append an item to a List
456|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000457|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
458|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000459|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000460|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
461|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000462|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
463|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
464|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
465|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000466|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000467|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
468 Dictionary to another
469|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000470|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
471|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
472|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000473|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
474|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000475|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000476 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000477|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
478 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000479|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
480|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
481|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
482|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000483|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000484|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000485|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
486|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
487|join()| join List items into a String
488|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
489|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
490|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000491|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000492|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
493|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000494|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000495|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000496|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000497|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000498|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000499|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000500|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000501|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000502|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000503|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000504|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000505|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
506|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000507|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
508|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
509|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
510|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000511|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000512|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000513
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000514User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
515directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
516
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000517
518New autocommand events: ~
519
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000520|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
521|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
522|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000523
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000524|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000525|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
526|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000527|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000528
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000529
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000530New items in search patterns: ~
531|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
532|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
533|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
534|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
535|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
536|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
537|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
538|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
539|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
540|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
541 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000542|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
543|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000544
545Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
546
547It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
548useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000549
550
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000551New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
552
553MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
554
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000555ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
556
557SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
558
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000559PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
560
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000561Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
562
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000563Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
564
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000565Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
566
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000567Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
568
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000569Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
570Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
571different value.
572
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000573
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000574New Keymaps: ~
575
576Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
577
578
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000579New message translations: ~
580
581The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
582
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000583Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
584
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000585Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
586
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000587
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000588Others: ~
589
590Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
591character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
592Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
593"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000594
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000595Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000596
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000597Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
598
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000599Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000600
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000601Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
602event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
603file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
604
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000605Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000606GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
607
608Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
609
610Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
611
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000612To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
613they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
614
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000615Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
616when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
617|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
618
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000619For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
620|xterm-modifier-keys|
621
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000622When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
623item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000624When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
625":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
626(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000627
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000628":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
629
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000630"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
631the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
632
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000633'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
634window height.
635
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000636The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
637your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
638
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000639To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
640is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
641been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
642can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
643other Vim to the foreground.
644
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000645==============================================================================
646IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
647
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000648":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
649
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000650Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
651
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000652When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
653range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
654
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000655The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
656iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
657allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
658matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
659
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000660":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
661breakpoint at the cursor.
662
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000663The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
664few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000665
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000666Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
667it. (Johannes Zellner)
668
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +0000669Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
670of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
671"os_unix.c".
672
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000673Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
674
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000675Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000676does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000677autocommands.
678
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000679For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
680- square brackets are recognized properly
681- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
682- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
683
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000684Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
685
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000686winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
687Lakshmanan)
688
689Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
690
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000691When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
692delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
693actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
694
695When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
696Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
697(Michael Geddes)
698
699The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
700
701VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
702upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
703(Zoltan Arpadffy)
704
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000705For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
706of buffers.
707
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000708The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
709have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
710
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000711When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
712the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
713
714Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
715digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
716
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000717When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
718buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
719list.
720
721Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
722(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
723
724When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
725second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
726line is just "/*".
727
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000728When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
729mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
730edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
731the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
732used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
733more reliable.
734
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000735Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
736of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
737file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
738
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000739Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
740in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
741"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
742with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
743
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000744Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
745incremented/decremented each time.
746
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000747Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000748contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
749a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
750
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000751When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
752
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000753Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
754
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000755":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000756invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
757
758":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
759(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000760
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000761":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000762
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000763The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
764messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
765log startup messages.
766
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000767":let g:" lists global variables.
768":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
769":let w:" lists window-local variables.
770":let v:" lists Vim variables.
771
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000772The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
773searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000774
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000775The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
776for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
777
778The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
779the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
780
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000781g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
782bytes.
783
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000784Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
785":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
786
787CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
788ignored.
789
790When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
791will result in a message with the source of the error.
792
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000793When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
794":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
795
796To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
797been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
798
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000799The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +0000800'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000801
802The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
803variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
804to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000805
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000806Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
807possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
808and the * stands for the modifier code.
809Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
810the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
811modifiers.
812
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000813getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
814window.
815
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000816Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
817
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000818GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
819Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
820
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000821Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
822used.
823
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000824Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
825click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
826restarted.
827
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000828When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
829= value" can be used to set the register contents.
830
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000831A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
832pointer position instead of the text cursor.
833
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000834The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
835such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
836prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000837When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000838
839Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
840user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000841Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
842Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000843
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000844Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
845(Sergey Khorev)
846
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000847The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
848' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
849
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000850For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
851character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
852could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
853pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
854included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
855
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000856For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
857sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
858
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000859When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000860characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000861
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000862When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
863COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
864
865Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
866
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000867When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
868closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
869
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000870input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
871completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
872
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000873"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
874'modifiable' is set.
875
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +0000876When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
877matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
878
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000879Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
880directory. |load-plugins|
881
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +0000882In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
883opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
884
885It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
886in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
887
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +0000888Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
889
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000890":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
891added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
892
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +0000893In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
894more logical. (Robert Webb)
895
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000896When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
897file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
898actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
899'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
900
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000901When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
902then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
903a hint that something might be wrong.
904
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000905==============================================================================
906COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
907
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000908Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
909probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
910and merge it back in.
911
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000912Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
913its final destination. (Raf)
914
915Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
916still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
917file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000918
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000919When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
920following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
921
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000922When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
923to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
924allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
925to store the ":quit" command.
926
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000927Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
928
929Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
930what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
931functions.
932
933Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
934without copying the code.
935
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000936Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
937Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
938runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
939
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000940==============================================================================
941BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
942
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000943When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
944instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
945work. Use "LPT1" then.
946
947The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
948size. Use a default size of 10.
949
950This example in the documentation didn't work:
951 :e `=foo . ".c" `
952Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
953
954When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
955
956"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
957
958Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
959when it doesn't support MDI.
960
961Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
962
963"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
964space.
965
966Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
967SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
968for doesn't have an extension.
969
970When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
971may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
972cursor and not putting it back where it was.
973
974When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
975not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
976to make it work the old way.
977
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000978When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
979filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
980
981After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
982
983Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
984fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000985
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000986On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
987Michele)
988
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000989Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
990CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
991
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000992When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
993ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
994
995Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000996characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
997twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000998
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000999When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1000variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1001
1002'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1003is indented too much.
1004
1005When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1006alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1007items.
1008
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001009Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1010active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1011
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001012The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1013"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1014
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001015When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1016after the last line while it's not there.
1017
1018Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1019resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1020
1021Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1022string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1023
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001024When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1025contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1026and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1027
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001028strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1029
1030GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1031just before it is invoked
1032
1033VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1034environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1035
1036UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1037from the first character of the word.
1038
1039When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1040detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1041
1042When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1043but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1044
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001045When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1046list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1047interrupting this.
1048
1049When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1050used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1051and global options remain unmodified.
1052
1053Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1054command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1055file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1056
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001057Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1058default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1059
1060When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1061xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1062line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1063
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001064Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1065
1066When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1067going to be used like a command.
1068
1069GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1070GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1071
1072GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1073
1074Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1075line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1076console version.
1077
1078Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1079there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1080
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001081When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1082files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1083directory for the library early in the link flags.
1084
1085With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1086literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1087
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001088When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1089cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1090
1091When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1092buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1093
1094Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1095problems for Terminal.app.
1096
1097When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1098end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1099argument.
1100
1101When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1102has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1103back.
1104
1105When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1106was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1107
1108When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1109"cancel", would still give an error message.
1110
1111The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1112mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1113
1114Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1115keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1116
1117Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1118
1119In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1120selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1121is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1122
1123GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1124GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1125
1126After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1127
1128When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1129doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001130Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1131handle. Added handle_signal().
1132
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001133When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1134white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1135
1136When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1137long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1138being found in a library.
1139
1140When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1141may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1142
1143Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1144is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1145
1146When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1147original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1148empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1149be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1150the values when recovering.
1151
1152":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1153message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1154
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001155Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1156when building the ":drop" command.
1157
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001158A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1159E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1160
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001161"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1162does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1163
1164When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1165moved the cursor to another column.
1166
1167When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1168quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1169fold.
1170
1171In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1172break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1173
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001174Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001175
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001176Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001177(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001178
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001179When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1180not included.
1181
1182Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1183Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1184
1185When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1186the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1187
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001188Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1189
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001190When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1191(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1192mode. (Peter Winters)
1193
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001194"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1195
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001196Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1197not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001198Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001199
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001200When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1201lines" overwrites the message.
1202
1203Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1204
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001205When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1206after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1207column in the wrong line.
1208
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001209When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1210starts with "sl".
1211
1212When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1213'paste' when starting the GUI.
1214
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001215A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1216
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001217When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1218Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1219mapping.
1220
1221Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1222
1223":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1224
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001225When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1226in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1227
1228When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1229empty $SHELL value.
1230
1231A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1232file.
1233
1234When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1235moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1236
1237When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1238the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1239is Vi compatible.
1240
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001241Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1242Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1243$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1244
1245Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1246flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1247
1248Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1249compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1250
1251When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1252leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1253'cpoptions' for this.
1254
1255Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1256
1257Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1258be Vi compatible.
1259
1260When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1261request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1262shell and caused trouble there.
1263
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001264When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1265still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1266Lakshmanan)
1267
1268It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1269sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1270
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001271When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1272from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1273
1274When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1275
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001276Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1277unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1278
1279":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1280
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001281The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1282are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1283
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001284Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1285indirectly invokes ":normal".
1286
1287Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1288before invoking "diff".
1289
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001290Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1291&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1292
1293When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1294locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1295mouse model.
1296
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001297When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1298characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1299is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1300character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1301
1302Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001303":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001304
1305Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1306
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001307Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1308real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1309
1310Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1311always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1312
1313When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1314detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1315compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1316decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1317
1318Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1319to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1320Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1321
1322"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1323
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001324When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1325Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1326
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001327In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1328and reset it in nv_home().
1329
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001330Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1331spaces inside backticks.
1332
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001333After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1334let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1335This should be the most useful thing to do.
1336
1337":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1338an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1339
1340In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1341reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1342
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001343When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1344call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001345This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001346
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001347GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1348after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1349win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1350
1351Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1352column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1353mouse column to 10000.
1354
1355searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1356we find the same position again and advance one character.
1357
1358When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1359to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1360
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001361When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1362prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1363
1364When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1365substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1366
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001367Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1368when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1369checks where invoking them
1370
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001371":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1372show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1373
1374When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1375
1376GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1377removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1378change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1379Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1380'lines' to undo this.
1381
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001382After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1383":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1384
1385When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1386may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1387character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1388so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1389
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001390setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1391
1392It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001393It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1394
1395CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001396
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001397When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1398given. Now report the first encountered error.
1399
1400When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001401caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001402continue.
1403
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001404When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1405the global value.
1406
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001407Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1408200 characters.
1409
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001410When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1411the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1412\+foo".
1413
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001414When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1415message would be in the wrong position.
1416
1417At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1418
1419When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1420were not set.
1421
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001422Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1423
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001424The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1425
1426Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1427and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1428Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1429
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001430For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1431in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1432while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1433highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1434
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001435Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1436Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1437
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001438Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1439Lakshmanan)
1440
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001441When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1442would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1443
1444When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1445searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1446
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001447GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1448redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1449
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001450Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1451Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1452reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1453
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001454Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1455
1456There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1457existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1458available.
1459
1460In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1461sticking to the first column.
1462
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001463When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1464echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1465
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001466Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1467
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001468When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
1469the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
1470
1471When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
1472":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
1473
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001474Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
1475causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
1476Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
1477
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001478 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: