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Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Feb 04
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
3
4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
5
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 Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000022KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000023Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000024Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025Various new items |new-items-7|
26
27IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
28
29COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
30
31BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
32
33==============================================================================
34INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
35
36These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000037run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
38
39A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
40unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
41buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
42all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
43":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000045":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
46
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000047In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
48name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
49double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
50 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
51 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
52 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
53 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
54
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000055In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
56":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
57results in "a'b".
58
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000059
60Minor incompatibilities:
61
62For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
63*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
64
65":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
66
67Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
68
69Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
70confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000071
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000072When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
73isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
74
75The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
76looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR" if no
77folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000078Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000079
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000080Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
81on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
82changing 'winaltkeys'.
83
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000084When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
85is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
86avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000087
88When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
89now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
90encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
91possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
92non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
93
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +000094Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
95a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
96
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000097==============================================================================
98NEW FEATURES *new-7*
99
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000100Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
101-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000102
103In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
104
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000105 List ordered list of items |List|
106 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
107 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000108
109Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
110
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000111The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
112variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
113can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
114
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000115The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
116expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
117
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000118
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000119KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000120-----------
121
122Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
123(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
124
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000125
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000126MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
127------------------
128
129The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
130The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
131The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
132
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000133
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000134Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
135------------------
136
137The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
138The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
139Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
140
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000141
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000142Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
143-----------------------
144
145The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
146Italian (translated by Antonio Colombo). More languages will follow.
147
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000148The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/.
149
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000150
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000151Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
152-------------
153
154The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
155This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
156better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
157patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
158|:vimgrep|.
159
160
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000161Various new items *new-items-7*
162-----------------
163
164Normal mode commands: ~
165
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000166a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
167i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000168
169Options: ~
170
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000171'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
172 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
173 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
174'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
175 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000176'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
177 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000178'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000179'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
180'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000181'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
182 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000183'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
184 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
185 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000186'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
187 (idea by Hugo Haas)
188
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000189
190Ex commands: ~
191
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000192Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
193
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000194|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000195
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000196|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000197
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000198|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
199 windows.
200
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000201|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
202
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000203|:delmarks| Delete marks.
204
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000205|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
206
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000207|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
208
209|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
210
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000211|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
212 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000213
214New functions: ~
215
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000216|add()| append an item to a List
217|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
218|browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
219|byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
220|call()| call a function with List as arguments
221|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
222|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
223|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
224|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
225|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
226 Dictionary to another
227|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
228|finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
229|findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes Zellner)
230|foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum".
231|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
232|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
233|getfontname()| Get actual font name being used.
234|getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai Weibull)
235|getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
236|getline()| get List with buffer lines
237|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
238|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
239|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
240|join()| join List items into a String
241|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
242|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
243|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000244|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000245|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
246|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000247|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000248|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
249|repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times. (Christophe Poucet)
250|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
251|sort()| sort a List
252|split()| split a String into a List
253|string()| String representation of a List or Dictionary
254|system()| Filters {input} through a shell command.
255|tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
256|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000257|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000258
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000259
260New autocommand events: ~
261
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000262|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
263|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
264|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000265
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000266|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000267
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000268
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000269New items in search patterns: ~
270|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
271|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
272|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
273|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
274|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
275|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
276|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
277|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
278|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
279|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
280 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
281
282
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000283New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
284
285MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
286
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000287ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
288
289SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
290
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000291PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
292
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000293Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
294
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000295
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000296New Keymaps: ~
297
298Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
299
300
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000301New message translations: ~
302
303The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
304
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000305
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000306Others: ~
307
308Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
309character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
310Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
311"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000312
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000313Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
314
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000315GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000316
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000317Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000318
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000319Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
320event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
321file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
322
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000323The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
324Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
325
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000326Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
327To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
328they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
329
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000330Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
331when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
332|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
333
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000334==============================================================================
335IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
336
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000337":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
338
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000339Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
340
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000341":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
342breakpoint at the cursor.
343
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000344The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
345few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000346
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000347Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
348it. (Johannes Zellner)
349
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000350Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
351
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000352Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
353doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
354autocommands.
355
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000356For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
357- square brackets are recognized properly
358- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
359- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
360
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000361Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
362
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000363winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
364Lakshmanan)
365
366Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
367
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000368When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
369delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
370actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
371
372When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
373Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
374(Michael Geddes)
375
376The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
377
378VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
379upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
380(Zoltan Arpadffy)
381
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000382For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
383of buffers.
384
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000385The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
386have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
387
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000388When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
389the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
390
391Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
392digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
393
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000394When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
395buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
396list.
397
398Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
399(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
400
401When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
402second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
403line is just "/*".
404
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000405When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
406mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
407edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
408the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
409used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
410more reliable.
411
412Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
413in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
414"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
415with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
416
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000417Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
418incremented/decremented each time.
419
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000420Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000421contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
422a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
423
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000424When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
425
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000426Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
427
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000428":redir @*>" and ":redir @+>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
429invalid characters after the register name.
430
431":let g:" lists global variables.
432":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
433":let w:" lists window-local variables.
434":let v:" lists Vim variables.
435
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000436The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
437searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000438
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000439==============================================================================
440COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
441
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000442Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
443probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
444and merge it back in.
445
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000446Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
447its final destination. (Raf)
448
449Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
450still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
451file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000452
453==============================================================================
454BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
455
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000456When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
457instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
458work. Use "LPT1" then.
459
460The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
461size. Use a default size of 10.
462
463This example in the documentation didn't work:
464 :e `=foo . ".c" `
465Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
466
467When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
468
469"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
470
471Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
472when it doesn't support MDI.
473
474Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
475
476"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
477space.
478
479Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
480SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
481for doesn't have an extension.
482
483When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
484may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
485cursor and not putting it back where it was.
486
487When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
488not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
489to make it work the old way.
490
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000491When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
492filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
493
494After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
495
496Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
497fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000498
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000499On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
500Michele)
501
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000502Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
503CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
504
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000505When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
506ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
507
508Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
509characters.
510
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000511When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
512variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
513
514'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
515is indented too much.
516
517When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
518alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
519items.
520
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000521The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
522"cn" or "tw" as intended.
523
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000524When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
525after the last line while it's not there.
526
527Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
528resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
529
530Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
531string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
532
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000533When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
534contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
535and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
536
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000537strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
538
539GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
540just before it is invoked
541
542VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
543environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
544
545UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
546from the first character of the word.
547
548When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
549detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
550
551When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
552but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
553
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000554When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
555list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
556interrupting this.
557
558When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
559used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
560and global options remain unmodified.
561
562Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
563command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
564file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
565
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000566Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
567default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
568
569When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
570xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
571line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
572
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000573Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
574
575When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
576going to be used like a command.
577
578GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
579GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
580
581GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
582
583Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
584line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
585console version.
586
587Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
588there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
589
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000590When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
591files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
592directory for the library early in the link flags.
593
594With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
595literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
596
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000597When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
598cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
599
600When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
601buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
602
603Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
604problems for Terminal.app.
605
606When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
607end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
608argument.
609
610When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
611has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
612back.
613
614When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
615was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
616
617When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
618"cancel", would still give an error message.
619
620The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
621mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
622
623Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
624keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
625
626Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
627
628In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
629selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
630is included, e.g., after "v$o".
631
632GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
633GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
634
635After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
636
637When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
638doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000639Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
640handle. Added handle_signal().
641
642When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
643line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
644GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000645
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000646When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
647white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
648
649When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
650long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
651being found in a library.
652
653When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
654may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
655
656Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
657is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
658
659When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
660original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
661empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
662be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
663the values when recovering.
664
665":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
666message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
667
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000668Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
669when building the ":drop" command.
670
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000671A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
672E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
673
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000674"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
675does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
676
677When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
678moved the cursor to another column.
679
680When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
681quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
682fold.
683
684In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
685break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
686
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000687Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000688
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000689Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000690(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000691
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000692When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
693not included.
694
695Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
696Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
697
698When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
699the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
700
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +0000701Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
702
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +0000703When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
704(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
705mode. (Peter Winters)
706
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000707"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
708
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000709Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
710not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000711Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000712
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000713When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
714lines" overwrites the message.
715
716Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
717
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000718When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
719after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
720column in the wrong line.
721
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000722When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
723starts with "sl".
724
725When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
726'paste' when starting the GUI.
727
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +0000728A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
729
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000730When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
731Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
732mapping.
733
734Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
735
736":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
737
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000738 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: