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Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0b. Last change: 2006 Mar 24
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000024MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
25Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000026Tab pages |new-tab-pages|
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +000027Undo branches |new-undo-branches|
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +000028Extended Unicode support |new-more-unicode|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029More highlighting |new-more-highlighting|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000031Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000032Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +000033Cursor past end of the line |new-onemore|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000034POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000035Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000036Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +000037Define an operator |new-define-operator|
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000038Mapping to an expression |new-map-expression|
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +000039Visual and Select mode mappings |new-map-select|
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +000040Location list |new-location-list|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041Various new items |new-items-7|
42
43IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
44
45COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
46
47BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
48
49==============================================================================
50INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
51
52These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000053run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
54
55A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
56unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
57buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
58all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
59":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000061":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
62
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000063In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
64name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
65double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
66 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
67 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
68 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
69 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
70
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000071In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
72":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
73results in "a'b".
74
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000075When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
76was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
77
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000078The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
79
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000080
81Minor incompatibilities:
82
83For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
84*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
85
86":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
87
88Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
89
90Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
91confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000092
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000093When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
94isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
95
96The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000097looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
98"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
99Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000100Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000101
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000102Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
103on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
104changing 'winaltkeys'.
105
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000106When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
107is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
108avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000109
110When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
111now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
112encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
113possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
114non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
115
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000116Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
117a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
118
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000119"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
120Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
121
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000122Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
123disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
124you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
125translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
126<xF1>, etc.
127
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000128":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
129
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000130When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
131file exists.
132
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000133When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
134s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
135compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
136
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000137"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
138that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
139where the type is given.
140
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000141The line continuation in functions was not taken into account, line numbers in
142errors were logical lines, not lines in the sourced file. That made it
143difficult to locate errors. Now the line number in the sourced file is
144reported, relative to the function start. This also means that line numbers
145for ":breakadd func" are different.
146
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000147When defining a user command with |:command| the special items could be
148abbreviated. This caused unexpected behavior, such as <li> being recognized
149as <line1>. The items can no longer be abbreviated.
150
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000151==============================================================================
152NEW FEATURES *new-7*
153
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000154Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
155-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000156
157In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
158
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000159 List ordered list of items |List|
160 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
161 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000162
163Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
164
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000165The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
166variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
167can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
168
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000169The |:let| command can now use "+=". ":let var += expr" works like
170":let var = var + expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000171
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000172With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
173wastes its time.
174
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000175In the Python interface vim.eval() also handles Dictionaries and Lists.
176|python-eval| (G. Sumner Hayes)
177
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000178The |getscript| plugin was added as a convenient way to update scripts from
179www.vim.org automatically. (Charles Campbell)
180
181The |vimball| plugin was added as a convenient way to distribute a set of
182files for a plugin (plugin file, autoload script, documentation). (Charles
183Campbell)
184
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000185
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000186Spell checking *new-spell*
187--------------
188
189Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
190with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
191
192The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
193The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000194The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000195The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000196
197The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
198The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000199The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000200The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000201
202The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
203mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
204The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
205background.
206The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
207220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000208with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
209highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000210
211Much more info here: |spell|.
212
213
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000214Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
215-----------------
216
217This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
218smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000219figure out what could be following. This may suggest struct and class
220members, system functions, etc.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000221
222Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
223
224The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
225figures out the completion.
226
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000227Currently supported languages:
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000228 C |ft-c-omni|
229 (X)HTML with CSS |ft-html-omni|
230 JavaScript |ft-javascript-omni|
231 any language wih syntax highligting |ft-syntax-omni|
232 XML |ft-xml-omni|
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000233
234When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
235completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000236
237
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000238MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
239------------------
240
241The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
242The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
243The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
244
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000245
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000246Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
247------------------
248
249The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
250The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
251Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
252
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000253
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000254Tab pages *new-tab-pages*
255---------
256
257A tab page is page with one or more windows with a label (aka tab) at the top.
258By clicking on the label you can quickly switch between the tab pages. And
259with the keyboard, using the |gt| (Goto Tab) command. This is a convenient
260way to work with many windows.
261
262To start Vim with each file argument in a separate tab page use the |-p|
263argument. The maximum number of pages can be set with 'tabpagemax'.
264
265The line with tab labels is either made with plain text an highlighting or
266with a GUI mechanism. The GUI labels look better but are only available on a
267few systems. The line can be customized with 'tabline' and 'guitablabel'.
268Whether it is displayed is set with 'showtabline'. Whether to use the GUI
269labels is set with the "e" flag in 'guioptions'.
270
271The |:tab| command modifier can be used to have most commands that open a new
272window open a new tab instead.
273
Bram Moolenaar0ce29932006-03-13 22:18:45 +0000274The |--remote-tab| argument can be used to edit a file in a new tab page in an
275already running Vim server.
276
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000277More info here: |tabpage|
278
279
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000280Undo branches *new-undo-branches*
281-------------
282
283Previously there was only one line of undo-redo. If, after undoing a number
284of changes, a new change was made all the undone changes were lost. This
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000285could lead to accidentally losing work.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000286
287Vim now makes an undo branch in this situation. Thus you can go back to the
288text after any change, even if they were undone. So long as you do not run
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000289into 'undolevels', undo information is freed up to limit the memory used.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000290
291To be able to navigate the undo branches each change is numbered sequentially.
292The commands |g-| and |:earlier| go back in time, to older changes. The
293commands |g+| and |:later| go forward in time, to newer changes.
294
295The changes are also timestamped. Use ":earlier 10m" to go to the text as it
296was about ten minutes earlier.
297
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000298The |:undolist| command can be used to get an idea of which undo branches
299exist. The |:undo| command now takes an argument to directly jump to a
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000300specific position in this list. The |changenr()| function can be used to
301obtain the change number.
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000302
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000303There is no graphical display of the tree with changes, navigation can be
304quite confusing.
305
306
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000307Extended Unicode support *new-more-unicode*
308------------------------
309
310Previously only two combining characters were displayed. The limit is now
311raised to 6. This can be set with the 'maxcombine' option. The default is
312still 2.
313
314|ga| now shows all combining characters, not just the first two.
315
316Previously only 16 bit Unicode characters were supported for displaying. Now
317the full 32 bit character set can be used. Unless manually disabled at
318compile time.
319
320For pattern matching it is now possible to search for individual composing
321characters. |patterns-composing|
322
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000323The |8g8| command searches for an illegal UTF-8 byte sequence.
324
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000325
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000326More highlighting *new-more-highlighting*
327-----------------
328
329Highlighting matching parens
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000330
331When moving the cursor through the text and it is on a paren, then the
332matching paren can be highlighted. This uses the new |CursorMoved|
333autocommand event.
334
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000335See |matchparen| for more information.
336
337The plugin uses the |:match| command. It now supports three match patterns.
338The plugin uses the third one. The first one is for the user and the second
339one can be used by another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000340
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000341Highlighting the cursor line and column
342
343The 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' options have been added. These highlight
344the screen line and screen column of the cursor. This makes the cursor
345position easier to spot. 'cursorcolumn' is also useful to align text. The
346CursorColumn and CursorLine highlighting allow changing the colors used.
347|hl-CursorColumn| |hl-CursorLine|
348
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000349
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000350Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
351-----------------------
352
353The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000354several other languages.
355
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000356French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000357Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
358Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000359
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000360The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
361.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
362standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
363is used there as a best guess.
364Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000365The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
366with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
367do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000368
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000369
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000370Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
371-------------
372
373The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
374This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
375better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
376patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
377|:vimgrep|.
378
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000379If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000380|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000381
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000382To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
383expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
384places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
385
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000386
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000387Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
388-----------------------
389
390When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
391'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
392is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
393":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
394commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
395Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
396
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000397The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
398hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
399
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000400
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000401Cursor past end of the line *new-onemore*
402---------------------------
403
404When the 'virtualedit' option contains "onemore" the cursor can move just past
405the end of the line. As if it's on top of the line break.
406
407This makes some commands more consistent. Previously the cursor was always
408past the end of the line if the line was empty. But it is far from Vi
409compatible. It may also break some plugins or Vim scripts. Use with care!
410
411The patch was provided by Mattias Flodin.
412
413
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000414POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
415-------------------
416
417The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
418problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
419conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
420variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
421
422Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
423- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
424 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
425- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
426 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
427- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
428 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
429- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
430 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
431 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
432 digit.
433- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
434- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
435 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000436- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
437- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
438- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
439 above or below the new lines.
440- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
441- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
442 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
443- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
444 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
445- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
446 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
447- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
448 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
449- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
450- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
451- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
452- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
453- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
454- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
455 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000456- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
457- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000458- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000459
460
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000461Debugger support *new-debug-support*
462----------------
463
464The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
465balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
466mouse pointer.
467
468
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000469Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
470--------------------
471
472The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
473Deleting and renaming files is possible.
474
475To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
476integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
477works the same way.
478
479":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
480and a GUI dialog is not possible.
481
482The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
483
484
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000485Define an operator *new-define-operator*
486------------------
487
488Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
489followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
490|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
491operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
492through the |g@| operator.
493
494See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
495
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000496
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000497Mapping to an expression *new-map-expression*
498------------------------
499
500The {rhs} argument of a mapping can be an expression. That means the
501resulting characters can depend on the context. Example: >
502 :inoremap <expr> . InsertDot()
503Here the dot will be mapped to whatever InsertDot() returns.
504
505Also works for abbreviations. See |:map-<expr>| for the details.
506
507
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000508Visual and Select mode mappings *new-map-select*
509-------------------------------
510
511Previously Visual mode mappings applied both to Visual and Select mode. With
512a trick to have the mappings work in Select mode like they would in Visual
513mode.
514
515Commands have been added to define mappings for Visual and Select mode
516separately: |:xmap| and |:smap|. With the associated "noremap" and "unmap"
517commands.
518
519The same is done for menus: |:xmenu|, |:smenu|, etc.
520
521
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000522Location list *new-location-list*
523-------------
524
525The support for a per-window quickfix list (location list) is added. The
526location list can be displayed in a location window (similar to the quickfix
527window). You can open more than one location list window. A set of commands
528similar to the quickfix commands are added to browse the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000529(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
530
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000531
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000532Various new items *new-items-7*
533-----------------
534
535Normal mode commands: ~
536
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000537a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000538i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000539
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000540CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
541 location of the error under the cursor.
542
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000543|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
544
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000545<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
546<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
547 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000548
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +0000549gF Start editing the filename under the cursor and jump
550 to the line number following the file name.
551 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
552
553CTRL-W F Start editing the filename under the cursor in a new
554 window and jump to the line number following the file
555 name. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
556
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000557Insert mode commands: ~
558
559CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
560 without moving the cursor.
561
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000562Options: ~
563
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000564'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
565 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
566 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000567'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000568'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000569'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
570 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000571'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
572 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000573'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000574'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
575'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000576'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
577 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000578'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
579 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
580 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000581'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
582 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000583'formatexpr' expression for formatting text with |gq| and when text
584 goes over 'textwidth' in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000585'spell' switch spell checking on/off
586'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000587'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000588'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
589 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000590'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000591'winfixwidth' window with fixed width, similar to 'winfixheight'
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000592
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000593
594Ex commands: ~
595
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000596Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
597
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000598|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000599|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000600
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000601|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000602
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000603|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
604 windows.
605
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000606|:delmarks| Delete marks.
607
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000608|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
609
610|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
611
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000612|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
613 external command.
614
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000615|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
616 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +0000617|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
618 Lakshmanan)
619|:cgetbuffer| Create a quickfix list from a buffer but don't jump to
620 the first error.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000621|:caddbuffer| Add errors from the current buffer to the quickfix
622 list.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +0000623|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
624 Lakshmanan).
625|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
626 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
627|:cgetexpr| Create a quickfix list from a Vim expression, but
628 don't jump to the first error. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000629
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000630|:lfile| Like |:cfile| but use the location list.
631|:lgetfile| Like |:cgetfile| but use the location list.
632|:laddfile| Like |:caddfile| but use the location list.
633|:lbuffer| Like |:cbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +0000634|:lgetbuffer| Like |:cgetbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000635|:laddbuffer| Like |:caddbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000636|:lexpr| Like |:cexpr| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +0000637|:lgetexpr| Like |:cgetexpr| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000638|:laddexpr| Like |:caddexpr| but use the location list.
639|:ll| Like |:cc| but use the location list.
640|:llist| Like |:clist| but use the location list.
641|:lnext| Like |:cnext| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000642|:lprevious| Like |:cprevious| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000643|:lNext| Like |:cNext| but use the location list.
644|:lfirst| Like |:cfirst| but use the location list.
645|:lrewind| Like |:crewind| but use the location list.
646|:llast| Like |:clast| but use the location list.
647|:lnfile| Like |:cnfile| but use the location list.
648|:lpfile| Like |:cpfile| but use the location list.
649|:lNfile| Like |:cNfile| but use the location list.
650|:lolder| Like |:colder| but use the location list.
651|:lnewer| Like |:cnewer| but use the location list.
652|:lwindow| Like |:cwindow| but use the location list.
653|:lopen| Like |:copen| but use the location list.
654|:lclose| Like |:cclose| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000655|:lmake| Like |:make| but use the location list.
656|:lgrep| Like |:grep| but use the location list.
657|:lgrepadd| Like |:grepadd| but use the location list.
658|:lvimgrep| Like |:vimgrep| but use the location list.
659|:lvimgrepadd| Like |:vimgrepadd| but use the location list.
660|:lhelpgrep| Like |:helpgrep| but use the location list.
661|:lcscope| Like |:cscope| but use the location list.
662|:ltag| Jump to a tag and add matching tags to a location list.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000663
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000664|:undojoin| Join a change with the previous undo block.
665
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000666
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000667Ex command modifiers: ~
668
669|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
670
671|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
672
673|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
674
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000675
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000676Ex command arguments: ~
677
678|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
679 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
680 Matsumoto)
681 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
682 are found include the line number in the error
683 message.
684
685
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000686New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000687
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000688|add()| append an item to a List
689|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000690|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
691|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000692|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000693|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
694|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000695|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
696|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000697|cursor()| also accepts an offset for 'virtualedit', and
698 the first argument can be a list: [lnum, col, off]
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000699|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
700|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000701|getloclist()| list of location list items (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000702|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000703|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
704 Dictionary to another
705|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000706|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
707|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
708|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000709|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
710|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000711|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000712 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000713|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
714 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000715|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
716|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
717|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
718|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000719|getpos()| return a list with the position of cursor, mark, etc.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000720|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000721|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000722|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
723|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
724|join()| join List items into a String
725|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
726|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
727|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000728|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000729|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
730|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000731|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000732|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000733|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000734|reltime()| get time value, possibly relative
735|reltimestr()| turn a time value into a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000736|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000737|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000738|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000739|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000740|searchpairpos()| return a List with the position of the match
741|searchpos()| return a List with the position of the match
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000742|setloclist()| modify a location list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
743|setqflist()| modify a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000744|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000745|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000746|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000747|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
748|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000749|str2nr()| convert a string to a number, base 8, 10 or 16
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000750|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
751|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
752|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
753|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000754|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000755|winrestview()| restore the view of the current window
756|winsaveview()| save the view of the current window
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000757|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000758
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000759User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
760directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
761
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000762
763New autocommand events: ~
764
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000765|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
766|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
767|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000768
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000769|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000770|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
771|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000772|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000773
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000774|SpellFileMissing| when a spell file can't be found
775
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000776|ShellCmdPost| after executing a shell command
777|ShellFilterPost| after filtering with a shell command
778
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +0000779|VimResized| after the Vim window size changed (Yakov Lerner)
780
781|FileChangedShellPost| after handling a file changed outside of Vim
782
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000783|SourcePre| before sourcing a Vim script
784
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +0000785|CursorHoldI| the user doesn't press a key for a while in Insert mode
786|CursorMoved| the cursor was moved in Normal mode
787|CursorMovedI| the cursor was moved in Insert mode
788
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000789
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000790New items in search patterns: ~
791|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
792|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
793|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
794|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
795|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
796|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
797|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
798|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
799|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
800|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
801 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000802
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000803|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
804|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000805
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000806|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
807|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
808|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
809|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
810
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000811Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
812
813It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
814useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000815
816
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000817New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
818
819MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
820
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000821ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
822
823SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
824
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000825Handling of various SQL variants. (David Fishburn)
826
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000827PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
828
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000829Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
830
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000831Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
832
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000833Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
834
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000835Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
836
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000837Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
838Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
839different value.
840
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000841VHDL indent file (Gerald Lai)
842
Bram Moolenaar2a3f7ee2006-02-23 21:34:44 +0000843MGL syntax file. (Gero Kuhlmann)
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000844
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000845rd syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
846
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000847New Keymaps: ~
848
849Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
850
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +0000851Tamil in TSCII encoding (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
852
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000853
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000854New message translations: ~
855
856The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
857
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000858Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
859
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000860Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
861
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000862
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000863Others: ~
864
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000865The Netbeans interface was updated for Sun Studio 10. The protocol number
866goes from 2.2 to 2.3. (Gordon Prieur)
867
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000868Mac: When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000869define default command-key mappings. (mostly by Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000870
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000871Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
872character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
873Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
874"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000875
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000876Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000877
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000878Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
879
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000880Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000881
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000882Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
883event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
884file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
885
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000886Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000887GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
888
889Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
890
891Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
892
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000893To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
894they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
895
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000896Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
897when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
898|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
899
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000900For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
901|xterm-modifier-keys|
902
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000903When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
904item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000905When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
906":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
907(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000908
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000909":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
910
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000911"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
912the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
913
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000914'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
915window height.
916
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000917The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
918your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
919
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000920To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
921is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
922been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
923can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
924other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +0000925When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
926the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000927
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +0000928Undo now also restores the '< and '> marks. "gv" selects the same area as
929before the change and undo.
930
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000931When editing a search pattern for a "/" or "?" command and 'incsearch' is set
932CTRL-L can be used to add a character from the current match. CTRL-R CTRL-W
933will add a word, but exclude the part of the word that was already typed.
934
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000935Ruby interface: add line number methods. (Ryan Paul)
936
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000937==============================================================================
938IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
939
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000940":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
941
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000942Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
943
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000944When doing completion for ":!cmd", ":r !cmd" or ":w !cmd" executable files are
945found in $PATH instead of looking for ordinary files in the current directlry.
946
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000947When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
948range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
949
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000950The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
951iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
952allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
953matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
954
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000955Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
956happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
957'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
958
959Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
960CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
961that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
962from happening.
963
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000964":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
965breakpoint at the cursor.
966
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +0000967It is now possible to define a function with: >
968 :exe "func Test()\n ...\n endfunc"
969
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000970The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
971few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000972
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000973Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
974it. (Johannes Zellner)
975
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +0000976Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
977of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
978"os_unix.c".
979
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000980Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
981
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000982Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000983does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000984autocommands.
985
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000986For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
987- square brackets are recognized properly
988- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
989- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
990
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000991Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
992
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000993winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
994Lakshmanan)
995
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000996Added 's' flag to search(): set ' mark if cursor moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000997Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000998Added 'c' flag to search(): accept match at the cursor.
999Added 'e' flag to search(): move to end of the match. (Benji Fisher)
1000Added 'p' flag to search(): return number of sub-pattern. (Benji Fisher)
1001These also apply to searchpos(), searchpair() and searchpairpos().
1002The search() and searchpair() functions have an extra argument to specify
1003where to stop searching. Speeds up searches that should not continue too far.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001004
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001005When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
1006delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
1007actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
1008
1009When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001010(Michael Geddes)
1011
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001012Support setting 'filetype' and 'syntax' to "aaa.bbb" for "aaa" plus "bbb"
1013filetype or syntax.
1014
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001015The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
1016
1017VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
1018upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
1019(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1020
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001021For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
1022of buffers.
1023
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001024When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
1025the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
1026
1027Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
1028digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
1029
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001030When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
1031buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
1032list.
1033
1034Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
1035(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
1036
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001037Win32: Vim was not aware of hard links on NTFS file systems. These are
1038detected now for when 'backupcopy' is "auto". Also fixed a bogus "file has
1039been changed since reading it" error for links.
1040
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001041When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
1042second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
1043line is just "/*".
1044
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001045When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
1046mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
1047edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
1048the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
1049used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
1050more reliable.
1051
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001052Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
1053of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
1054file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
1055
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001056Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
1057in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
1058"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
1059with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
1060
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001061Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
1062incremented/decremented each time.
1063
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001064Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001065contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
1066a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
1067
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001068When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
1069
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001070Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
1071
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001072":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001073invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
1074
1075":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
1076(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001077
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001078":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001079
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +00001080The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
1081messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
1082log startup messages.
1083
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001084":let g:" lists global variables.
1085":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
1086":let w:" lists window-local variables.
1087":let v:" lists Vim variables.
1088
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001089The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
1090searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001091
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001092The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
1093for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
1094
1095The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
1096the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
1097
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001098g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
1099bytes.
1100
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001101Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
1102":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
1103
1104CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
1105ignored.
1106
1107When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
1108will result in a message with the source of the error.
1109
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001110When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
1111":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
1112
1113To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
1114been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
1115
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001116In a |:substitute| command the \u, \U, \l and \L items now also work for
1117multi-byte characters.
1118
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001119The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001120'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001121
1122The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
1123variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
1124to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001125
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001126Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
1127possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
1128and the * stands for the modifier code.
1129Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
1130the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
1131modifiers.
1132
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001133getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
1134window.
1135
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001136Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001137Added the "%>" item to 'errorformat'.
1138
1139For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
1140character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
1141could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
1142pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
1143included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001144
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001145GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
1146Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
1147
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001148Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
1149used.
1150
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +00001151Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
1152click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
1153restarted.
1154
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001155When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
1156= value" can be used to set the register contents.
1157
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001158A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
1159pointer position instead of the text cursor.
1160
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001161The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
1162such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
1163prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001164When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001165
1166Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
1167user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001168Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
1169Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001170
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001171Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
1172(Sergey Khorev)
1173
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001174For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
1175sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
1176
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001177When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001178characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001179
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001180When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
1181COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1182
1183Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1184
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001185When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
1186closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
1187
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +00001188input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
1189completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1190
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001191"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
1192'modifiable' is set.
1193
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001194The 'diffopt' option has three new values: "horizontal", "vertical" and
1195"foldcolumn".
1196
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001197When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
1198matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
1199
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001200Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
1201directory. |load-plugins|
1202
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +00001203In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
1204opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
1205
1206It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
1207in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
1208
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +00001209Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
1210
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +00001211":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
1212added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
1213
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001214In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
1215more logical. (Robert Webb)
1216
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001217When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
1218file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
1219actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
1220'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
1221
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001222When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
1223then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
1224a hint that something might be wrong.
1225
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001226Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
1227
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001228In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
1229then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
1230inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
1231without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001232
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001233The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001234and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +00001235
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001236Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
1237itself.
1238
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001239":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
1240asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
1241
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001242Insert mode completion for whole lines now also searches unloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001243
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001244The colortest.vim script can now be invoked directly with ":source" or
1245":runtime".
1246
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001247The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
1248have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1249
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001250The 'statusline' option and other options that support the same format can now
1251use these new features:
1252- When it starts with "%!" the value is first evaluated as an expression
1253 before parsing the value.
1254- "%#HLname#" can be used to start highlighting with HLname.
1255
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001256When 'statusline' is set to something that causes an error message then it is
1257made empty to avoid an endless redraw loop. Also for other options, such at
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001258'tabline' and 'titlestring'. ":verbose set statusline" will mention that it
1259was set in an error handler.
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001260
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001261When there are several matching tags, the ":tag <name>" and CTRL-] commands
1262jump to the [count] matching tag. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1263
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001264Win32: In the batch files generated by the install program, use $VIMRUNTIME or
1265$VIM if it's set. Example provided by Mathias Michaelis.
1266Also create a vimtutor.bat batch file.
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001267
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001268The 'balloonexpr' option is now |global-local|.
1269
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001270The system() function now runs in cooked mode, thus can be interrupted by
1271CTRL-C.
1272
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001273==============================================================================
1274COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
1275
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001276Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
1277probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
1278and merge it back in.
1279
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001280When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
1281following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
1282
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +00001283When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
1284to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
1285allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
1286to store the ":quit" command.
1287
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001288Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
1289
1290Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
1291what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
1292functions.
1293
1294Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
1295without copying the code.
1296
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001297--- Mac ---
1298
1299"make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to its
1300final destination. (Raf)
1301
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001302Put the runtime directory not directly in Vim.app but in
1303Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim, so that it's according to Mac specs.
1304
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001305Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and still
1306being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c file.
1307
1308When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001309Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
1310runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
1311
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001312Configure will attempt to build Vim for both Intel and PowerPC. The
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001313--with-mac-arch configure argument can change it.
1314
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001315--- Win32 ---
1316
1317The Make_mvc.mak file was adjusted to work with the latest MS compilers,
1318including the free version of Visual Studio 2005. (George Reilly)
1319
1320INSTALLpc.txt was updated for the recent changes. (George Reilly)
1321
1322The distributed executable is now produced with the free Visual C++ Toolkit
13232003 and other free SDK chunks. msvcsetup.bat was added to support this.
1324
1325Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
1326on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
1327
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001328==============================================================================
1329BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
1330
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001331When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
1332instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
1333work. Use "LPT1" then.
1334
1335The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
1336size. Use a default size of 10.
1337
1338This example in the documentation didn't work:
1339 :e `=foo . ".c" `
1340Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
1341
1342When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1343
1344"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1345
1346Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1347when it doesn't support MDI.
1348
1349Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1350
1351"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1352space.
1353
1354Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1355SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1356for doesn't have an extension.
1357
1358When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1359may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1360cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1361
1362When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1363not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1364to make it work the old way.
1365
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001366When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1367filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1368
1369After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1370
1371Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1372fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001373
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001374On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1375Michele)
1376
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001377Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1378CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1379
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001380When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1381ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1382
1383Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001384characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1385twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001386
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001387When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1388variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1389
1390'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1391is indented too much.
1392
1393When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1394alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1395items.
1396
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001397Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1398active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1399
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001400The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1401"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1402
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001403When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1404after the last line while it's not there.
1405
1406Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1407resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1408
1409Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1410string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1411
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001412When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1413contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1414and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1415
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001416strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1417
1418GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1419just before it is invoked
1420
1421VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1422environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1423
1424UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1425from the first character of the word.
1426
1427When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1428detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1429
1430When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1431but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1432
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001433When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1434list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1435interrupting this.
1436
1437When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1438used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1439and global options remain unmodified.
1440
1441Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1442command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1443file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1444
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001445Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1446default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1447
1448When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1449xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1450line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1451
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001452Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1453
1454When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1455going to be used like a command.
1456
1457GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1458GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1459
1460GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1461
1462Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1463line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1464console version.
1465
1466Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1467there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1468
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001469When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1470files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1471directory for the library early in the link flags.
1472
1473With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1474literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1475
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001476When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1477cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1478
1479When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1480buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1481
1482Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1483problems for Terminal.app.
1484
1485When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1486end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1487argument.
1488
1489When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1490has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1491back.
1492
1493When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1494was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1495
1496When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1497"cancel", would still give an error message.
1498
1499The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1500mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1501
1502Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1503keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1504
1505Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1506
1507In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1508selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1509is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1510
1511GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1512GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1513
1514After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1515
1516When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1517doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001518Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1519handle. Added handle_signal().
1520
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001521When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1522white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1523
1524When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1525long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1526being found in a library.
1527
1528When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1529may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1530
1531Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1532is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1533
1534When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1535original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1536empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1537be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1538the values when recovering.
1539
1540":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1541message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1542
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001543Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1544when building the ":drop" command.
1545
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001546A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1547E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1548
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001549"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1550does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1551
1552When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1553moved the cursor to another column.
1554
1555When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1556quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1557fold.
1558
1559In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1560break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1561
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001562Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001563
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001564Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001565(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001566
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001567When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1568not included.
1569
1570Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1571Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1572
1573When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1574the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1575
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001576Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1577
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001578When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1579(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1580mode. (Peter Winters)
1581
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001582"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1583
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001584Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1585not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001586Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001587
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001588When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1589lines" overwrites the message.
1590
1591Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1592
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001593When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1594after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1595column in the wrong line.
1596
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001597When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1598starts with "sl".
1599
1600When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1601'paste' when starting the GUI.
1602
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001603A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1604
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001605When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1606Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1607mapping.
1608
1609Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1610
1611":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1612
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001613When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1614in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1615
1616When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1617empty $SHELL value.
1618
1619A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1620file.
1621
1622When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1623moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1624
1625When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1626the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1627is Vi compatible.
1628
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001629Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1630Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1631$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1632
1633Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1634flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1635
1636Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1637compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1638
1639When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1640leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1641'cpoptions' for this.
1642
1643Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1644
1645Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1646be Vi compatible.
1647
1648When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1649request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1650shell and caused trouble there.
1651
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001652When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1653still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1654Lakshmanan)
1655
1656It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1657sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1658
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001659When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1660from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1661
1662When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1663
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001664Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1665unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1666
1667":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1668
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001669The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1670are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1671
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001672Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1673indirectly invokes ":normal".
1674
1675Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1676before invoking "diff".
1677
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001678Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1679&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1680
1681When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1682locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1683mouse model.
1684
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001685When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1686characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1687is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1688character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1689
1690Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001691":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001692
1693Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1694
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001695Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1696real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1697
1698Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1699always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1700
1701When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1702detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1703compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1704decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1705
1706Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1707to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1708Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1709
1710"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1711
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001712When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1713Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1714
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001715In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1716and reset it in nv_home().
1717
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001718Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1719spaces inside backticks.
1720
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001721After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1722let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1723This should be the most useful thing to do.
1724
1725":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1726an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1727
1728In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1729reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1730
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001731When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1732call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001733This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001734
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001735GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1736after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1737win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1738
1739Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1740column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1741mouse column to 10000.
1742
1743searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1744we find the same position again and advance one character.
1745
1746When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1747to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1748
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001749When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1750prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1751
1752When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1753substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1754
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001755Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1756when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1757checks where invoking them
1758
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001759":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1760show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1761
1762When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1763
1764GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1765removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1766change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1767Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1768'lines' to undo this.
1769
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001770When using the GTK plug mechanism, resizing and focus was not working
1771properly. (Neil Bird)
1772
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001773After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1774":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1775
1776When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1777may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1778character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1779so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1780
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001781setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1782
1783It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001784It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1785
1786CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001787
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001788When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1789given. Now report the first encountered error.
1790
1791When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001792caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001793continue.
1794
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001795When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1796the global value.
1797
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001798Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1799200 characters.
1800
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001801When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1802the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1803\+foo".
1804
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001805When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1806message would be in the wrong position.
1807
1808At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1809
1810When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1811were not set.
1812
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001813Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1814
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001815The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1816
1817Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1818and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1819Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1820
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001821For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1822in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1823while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1824highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1825
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001826Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1827Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1828
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001829Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1830Lakshmanan)
1831
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001832When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1833would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1834
1835When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1836searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1837
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001838GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1839redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1840
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001841Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1842Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1843reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1844
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001845Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1846
1847There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1848existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1849available.
1850
1851In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1852sticking to the first column.
1853
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001854When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1855echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1856
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001857Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1858
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001859When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
1860the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
1861
1862When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
1863":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
1864
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001865Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
1866causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
1867Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
1868
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001869The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
1870
1871Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
1872dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
1873of its output.
1874
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00001875When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
1876the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
1877typing the command line.
1878
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00001879'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
1880"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
1881
1882When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
1883appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
1884recording.
1885
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001886Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
1887that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
1888
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001889When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
1890writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
1891the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
1892buffer when creating a new file.
1893
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001894When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
1895string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
1896
1897When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001898to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001899incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
1900|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001901to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001902
1903"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
1904an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
1905
1906Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
1907when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
1908edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
1909getting a beep from the "l" command.
1910
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001911Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
1912the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
1913
1914When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
1915there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
1916
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00001917Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
1918arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
1919until after executing "-c" arguments.
1920
1921When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
1922break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
1923undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
1924
1925Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
1926happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
1927stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
1928Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
1929
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00001930When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
1931change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
1932When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
1933Added mf_set_dirty().
1934
1935Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
1936backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
1937
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001938A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
1939special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
1940
1941When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
1942!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
1943"!;&()<>".
1944
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001945When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
1946autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
1947
1948In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
1949the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
1950
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00001951Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
1952value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
1953
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00001954Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
1955After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
1956
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00001957The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
1958normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
1959actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
1960
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00001961The "load session" toolbar item could not handle a space or other special
1962characters in v:this_session.
1963
1964":set sta ts=8 sw=4 sts=2" deleted 4 spaces halfway a line instead of 2.
1965
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00001966In a multi-byte file the foldmarker could be recognized in the trail byte.
1967(Taro Muraoka)
1968
Bram Moolenaar0e5bd962006-02-04 00:59:56 +00001969Pasting with CTRL-V and menu didn't work properly when some commands are
1970mapped. Use ":normal!" instead of ":normal". (Tony Apuzzo)
1971
1972Crashed when expanding a file name argument in backticks.
1973
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +00001974In some situations the menu and scrollbar didn't work, when the value contains
1975a CSI byte. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
1976
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001977GTK GUI: When drawing the balloon focus changes and we might get a key release
1978event that removed the balloon again. Ignore the key release event.
1979
1980'titleold' was included in ":mkexrc" and ":mksession" files.
1981
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001982":set background&" didn't use the same logic as was used when starting up.
1983
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00001984When "umask" is set such that nothing is writable then the viminfo file would
1985be written without write permission. (Julian Bridle)
1986
Bram Moolenaar7e8fd632006-02-18 22:14:51 +00001987Motif: In diff mode dragging one scrollbar didn't update the scrollbar of the
1988other diff'ed window.
1989
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001990When editing in an xterm with a different number of colors than expected the
1991screen would be cleared and redrawn, causing the message about the edited file
1992to be cleared. Now set "keep_msg" to redraw the last message.
1993
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001994For a color terminal: When the Normal HL uses bold, possibly to make the color
1995lighter, and another HL group specifies a color it might become light as well.
1996Now reset bold if a HL group doesn't specify bold itself.
1997
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001998When using 256 color xterm the color 255 would show up as color 0. Use a
1999short instead of a char to store the color number.
2000
2001ml_get errors when searching for "\n\zs" in an empty file.
2002
Bram Moolenaara5621492006-02-25 21:55:24 +00002003When selecting a block and using "$" to select until the end of every line and
2004not highlighting the character under the cursor the first character of the
2005block could be unhighlighted.
2006
2007When counting words for the Visual block area and using "$" to select until
2008the end of every line only up to the length of the last line was counted.
2009
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002010"dip" in trailing empty lines left one empty line behind.
2011
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002012The script ID was only remembered globally for each option. When a buffer- or
2013window-local option was set the same "last set" location was changed for all
2014buffers and windows. Now remember the script ID for each local option
2015separately.
2016
2017GUI: The "Replace All" button didn't handle backslashes in the replacement in
2018the same way as "Replace". Escape backslashes so that they are taken
2019literally.
2020
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00002021When using Select mode from Insert mode and typing a key, causing lines to be
2022deleted and a message displayed, delayed the effect of inserting the key.
2023Now overwrite the message without delay.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002024
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00002025When 'whichwrap' includes "l" then "dl" and "yl" on a single letter line
2026worked differently. Now recognize all operators when using "l" at the end of
2027a line.
2028
2029GTK GUI: when the font selector returned a font name with a comma in it then
2030it would be handled like two font names. Now put a backslash before the
2031comma.
2032
2033MS-DOS, Win32: When 'encoding' defaults to "latin1" then the value for
2034'iskeyword' was still for CPxxx. And when 'nocompatible' was set 'isprint'
2035would also be the wrong value.
2036
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00002037When a command was defined not to take arguments and no '|' no warning message
2038would be given for using a '|'. Also with ":loadkeymap".
2039
Bram Moolenaara3227e22006-03-08 21:32:40 +00002040Motif: When using a fontset and 'encoding' is "utf-8" and sizeof(wchar_t) !=
2041sizeof(XChar2b) then display was wrong. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2042
Bram Moolenaareb94e552006-03-11 21:35:11 +00002043":all" always set the current window to the first window, even when it
2044contains a buffer that is not in the argument list (can't be closed because it
2045is modified). Now go to the window that has the first item of the argument
2046list.
2047
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +00002048GUI: To avoid left-over pixels from bold text all characters after a character
2049with special attributes were redrawn. Now only do this for characters that
2050actually are bold. Speeds up displaying considerably.
2051
2052When only highlighting changes and the text is scrolled at the same time
2053everything is redraw instead of using a scroll and updating the changed text.
2054E.g., when using ":match" to highlight a paren that the cursor landed on.
2055Added SOME_VALID: Redraw the whole window but also try to scroll to minimize
2056redrawing.
2057
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002058Win32: When using Korean IME making it active didn't work properly. (Moon,
2059Yu-sung, 2005 March 21)
2060
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00002061Ruby interface: when inserting/deleting lines display wasn't updated. (Ryan
2062Paul)
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002063
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002064 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: