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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000024KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000025MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
26Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000028Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000029Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000030POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000031Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000032Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033Various new items |new-items-7|
34
35IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
36
37COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
38
39BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
40
41==============================================================================
42INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
43
44These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000045run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
46
47A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
48unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
49buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
50all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
51":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000053":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
54
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
56name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
57double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
58 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
59 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
60 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
61 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
62
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000063In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
64":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
65results in "a'b".
66
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000067When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
68was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
69
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000070
71Minor incompatibilities:
72
73For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
74*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
75
76":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
77
78Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
79
80Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
81confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000082
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000083When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
84isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
85
86The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000087looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
88"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
89Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000090Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000091
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000092Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
93on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
94changing 'winaltkeys'.
95
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000096When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
97is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
98avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000099
100When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
101now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
102encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
103possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
104non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
105
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000106Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
107a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
108
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000109"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
110Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
111
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000112Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
113disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
114you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
115translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
116<xF1>, etc.
117
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000118":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
119
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000120When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
121file exists.
122
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000123When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
124s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
125compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
126
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000127"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
128that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
129where the type is given.
130
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000131==============================================================================
132NEW FEATURES *new-7*
133
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000134Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
135-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000136
137In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
138
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000139 List ordered list of items |List|
140 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
141 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000142
143Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
144
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000145The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
146variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
147can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
148
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000149The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
150expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
151
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000152With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
153wastes its time.
154
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000155
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000156Spell checking *new-spell*
157--------------
158
159Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
160with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
161
162The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
163The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000164The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000165The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000166
167The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
168The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
169The |z?| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000170The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000171
172The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
173mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
174The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
175background.
176The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
177220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000178with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
179highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000180
181Much more info here: |spell|.
182
183
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000184Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
185-----------------
186
187This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
188smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
189figure out what could be following. This considers struct and class members,
190unions, etc.
191
192Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
193
194The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
195figures out the completion.
196
197Currently only C is supported. |ft-c-omni|
198
199
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000200KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000201-----------
202
203Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
204(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
205
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000206
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000207MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
208------------------
209
210The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
211The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
212The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
213
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000214
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000215Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
216------------------
217
218The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
219The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
220Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
221
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000222
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000223Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
224-----------------------
225
226The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000227several other languages.
228
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000229French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000230Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
231Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000232
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000233The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
234.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
235standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
236is used there as a best guess.
237Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000238The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
239with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
240do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000241
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000242
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000243Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
244-------------
245
246The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
247This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
248better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
249patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
250|:vimgrep|.
251
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000252If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000253|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000254
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000255To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
256expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
257places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
258
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000259
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000260Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
261-----------------------
262
263When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
264'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
265is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
266":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
267commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
268Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
269
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000270The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
271hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
272
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000273
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000274POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
275-------------------
276
277The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
278problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
279conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
280variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
281
282Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
283- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
284 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
285- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
286 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
287- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
288 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
289- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
290 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
291 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
292 digit.
293- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
294- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
295 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000296- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
297- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
298- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
299 above or below the new lines.
300- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
301- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
302 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
303- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
304 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
305- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
306 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
307- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
308 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
309- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
310- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
311- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
312- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
313- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
314- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
315 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000316- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
317- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000318- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000319
320
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000321Debugger support *new-debug-support*
322----------------
323
324The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
325balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
326mouse pointer.
327
328
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000329Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
330--------------------
331
332The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
333Deleting and renaming files is possible.
334
335To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
336integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
337works the same way.
338
339":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
340and a GUI dialog is not possible.
341
342The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
343
344
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000345Various new items *new-items-7*
346-----------------
347
348Normal mode commands: ~
349
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000350a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000351i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000352
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000353CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
354 location of the error under the cursor.
355
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000356|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
357
358
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000359Insert mode commands: ~
360
361CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
362 without moving the cursor.
363
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000364Options: ~
365
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000366'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
367 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
368 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000369'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000370'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
371 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000372'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
373 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000374'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000375'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
376'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000377'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
378 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000379'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
380 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
381 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000382'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
383 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000384'spell' switch spell checking on/off
385'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000386'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000387'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
388 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000389'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000390
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000391
392Ex commands: ~
393
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000394Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
395
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000396|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000397
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000398|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000399
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000400|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
401 windows.
402
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000403|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
404
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000405|:delmarks| Delete marks.
406
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000407|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
408
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000409|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
410
411|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
412
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000413|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
414 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000415
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000416|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
417 external command.
418
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000419|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
420 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
421
422|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
423 Lakshmanan).
424
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000425
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000426New functions: ~
427
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000428|add()| append an item to a List
429|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000430|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
431|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000432|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000433|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
434|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000435|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
436|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
437|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
438|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000439|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000440|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
441 Dictionary to another
442|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000443|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
444|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
445|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000446|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
447|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000448|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000449 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
450|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
451|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
452|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
453|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000454|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000455|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000456|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
457|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
458|join()| join List items into a String
459|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
460|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
461|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000462|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000463|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
464|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000465|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000466|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000467|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000468|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000469|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000470|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000471|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000472|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000473|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000474|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000475|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000476|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
477|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000478|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
479|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
480|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
481|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000482|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000483|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000484
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000485User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
486directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
487
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000488
489New autocommand events: ~
490
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000491|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
492|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
493|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000494
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000495|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000496|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
497|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000498
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000499
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000500New items in search patterns: ~
501|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
502|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
503|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
504|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
505|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
506|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
507|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
508|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
509|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
510|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
511 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000512|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
513|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000514
515Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
516
517It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
518useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000519
520
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000521New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
522
523MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
524
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000525ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
526
527SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
528
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000529PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
530
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000531Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
532
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000533Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
534
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000535Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
536
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000537Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
538
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000539Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
540Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
541different value.
542
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000543
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000544New Keymaps: ~
545
546Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
547
548
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000549New message translations: ~
550
551The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
552
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000553Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
554
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000555Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
556
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000557
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000558Others: ~
559
560Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
561character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
562Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
563"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000564
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000565Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
566
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000567Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
568
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000569GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000570
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000571Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
572
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000573Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000574
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000575Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
576event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
577file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
578
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000579Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
580To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
581they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
582
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000583Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
584when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
585|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
586
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000587For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
588|xterm-modifier-keys|
589
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000590When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
591item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000592When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
593":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
594(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000595
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000596":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
597
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000598"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
599the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
600
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000601==============================================================================
602IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
603
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000604":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
605
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000606Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
607
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000608The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
609iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
610allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
611matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
612
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000613":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
614breakpoint at the cursor.
615
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000616The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
617few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000618
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000619Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
620it. (Johannes Zellner)
621
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000622Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
623
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000624Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
625doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
626autocommands.
627
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000628For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
629- square brackets are recognized properly
630- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
631- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
632
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000633Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
634
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000635winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
636Lakshmanan)
637
638Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
639
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000640When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
641delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
642actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
643
644When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
645Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
646(Michael Geddes)
647
648The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
649
650VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
651upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
652(Zoltan Arpadffy)
653
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000654For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
655of buffers.
656
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000657The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
658have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
659
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000660When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
661the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
662
663Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
664digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
665
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000666When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
667buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
668list.
669
670Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
671(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
672
673When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
674second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
675line is just "/*".
676
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000677When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
678mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
679edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
680the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
681used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
682more reliable.
683
684Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
685in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
686"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
687with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
688
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000689Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
690incremented/decremented each time.
691
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000692Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000693contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
694a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
695
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000696When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
697
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000698Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
699
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000700":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000701invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
702
703":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
704(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000705
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000706":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000707
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000708The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
709messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
710log startup messages.
711
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000712":let g:" lists global variables.
713":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
714":let w:" lists window-local variables.
715":let v:" lists Vim variables.
716
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000717The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
718searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000719
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000720The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
721for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
722
723The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
724the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
725
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000726g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
727bytes.
728
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000729Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
730":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
731
732CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
733ignored.
734
735When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
736will result in a message with the source of the error.
737
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000738When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
739":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
740
741To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
742been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
743
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000744The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000745'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin".
746
747The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
748variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
749to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000750
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000751Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
752possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
753and the * stands for the modifier code.
754Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
755the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
756modifiers.
757
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000758getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
759window.
760
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000761Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
762
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000763GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
764Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
765
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000766Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
767used.
768
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000769Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
770click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
771restarted.
772
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000773When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
774= value" can be used to set the register contents.
775
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000776A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
777pointer position instead of the text cursor.
778
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000779The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
780such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
781prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000782When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000783
784Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
785user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000786Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
787Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000788
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000789Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
790(Sergey Khorev)
791
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000792The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
793' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
794
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000795For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
796character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
797could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
798pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
799included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
800
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000801For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
802sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
803
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000804When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
805characters, using it's own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
806
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000807When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
808COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
809
810Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
811
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000812When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
813closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
814
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000815==============================================================================
816COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
817
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000818Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
819probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
820and merge it back in.
821
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000822Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
823its final destination. (Raf)
824
825Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
826still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
827file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000828
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000829When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
830following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
831
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000832When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
833to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
834allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
835to store the ":quit" command.
836
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000837Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
838
839Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
840what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
841functions.
842
843Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
844without copying the code.
845
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000846Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
847Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
848runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
849
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000850==============================================================================
851BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
852
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000853When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
854instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
855work. Use "LPT1" then.
856
857The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
858size. Use a default size of 10.
859
860This example in the documentation didn't work:
861 :e `=foo . ".c" `
862Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
863
864When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
865
866"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
867
868Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
869when it doesn't support MDI.
870
871Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
872
873"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
874space.
875
876Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
877SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
878for doesn't have an extension.
879
880When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
881may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
882cursor and not putting it back where it was.
883
884When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
885not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
886to make it work the old way.
887
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000888When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
889filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
890
891After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
892
893Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
894fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000895
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000896On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
897Michele)
898
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000899Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
900CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
901
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000902When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
903ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
904
905Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000906characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
907twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000908
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000909When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
910variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
911
912'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
913is indented too much.
914
915When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
916alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
917items.
918
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000919Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
920active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
921
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000922The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
923"cn" or "tw" as intended.
924
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000925When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
926after the last line while it's not there.
927
928Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
929resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
930
931Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
932string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
933
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000934When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
935contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
936and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
937
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000938strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
939
940GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
941just before it is invoked
942
943VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
944environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
945
946UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
947from the first character of the word.
948
949When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
950detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
951
952When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
953but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
954
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000955When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
956list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
957interrupting this.
958
959When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
960used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
961and global options remain unmodified.
962
963Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
964command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
965file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
966
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000967Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
968default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
969
970When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
971xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
972line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
973
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000974Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
975
976When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
977going to be used like a command.
978
979GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
980GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
981
982GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
983
984Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
985line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
986console version.
987
988Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
989there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
990
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000991When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
992files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
993directory for the library early in the link flags.
994
995With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
996literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
997
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000998When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
999cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1000
1001When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1002buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1003
1004Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1005problems for Terminal.app.
1006
1007When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1008end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1009argument.
1010
1011When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1012has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1013back.
1014
1015When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1016was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1017
1018When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1019"cancel", would still give an error message.
1020
1021The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1022mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1023
1024Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1025keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1026
1027Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1028
1029In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1030selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1031is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1032
1033GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1034GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1035
1036After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1037
1038When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1039doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001040Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1041handle. Added handle_signal().
1042
1043When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
1044line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
1045GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001046
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001047When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1048white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1049
1050When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1051long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1052being found in a library.
1053
1054When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1055may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1056
1057Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1058is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1059
1060When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1061original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1062empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1063be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1064the values when recovering.
1065
1066":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1067message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1068
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001069Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1070when building the ":drop" command.
1071
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001072A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1073E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1074
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001075"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1076does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1077
1078When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1079moved the cursor to another column.
1080
1081When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1082quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1083fold.
1084
1085In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1086break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1087
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001088Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001089
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001090Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001091(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001092
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001093When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1094not included.
1095
1096Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1097Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1098
1099When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1100the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1101
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001102Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1103
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001104When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1105(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1106mode. (Peter Winters)
1107
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001108"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1109
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001110Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1111not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001112Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001113
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001114When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1115lines" overwrites the message.
1116
1117Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1118
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001119When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1120after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1121column in the wrong line.
1122
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001123When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1124starts with "sl".
1125
1126When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1127'paste' when starting the GUI.
1128
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001129A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1130
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001131When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1132Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1133mapping.
1134
1135Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1136
1137":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1138
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001139When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1140in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1141
1142When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1143empty $SHELL value.
1144
1145A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1146file.
1147
1148When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1149moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1150
1151When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1152the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1153is Vi compatible.
1154
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001155Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1156Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1157$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1158
1159Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1160flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1161
1162Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1163compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1164
1165When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1166leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1167'cpoptions' for this.
1168
1169Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1170
1171Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1172be Vi compatible.
1173
1174When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1175request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1176shell and caused trouble there.
1177
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001178When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1179still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1180Lakshmanan)
1181
1182It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1183sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1184
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001185When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1186from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1187
1188When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1189
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001190Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1191unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1192
1193":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1194
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001195The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1196are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1197
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001198Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1199indirectly invokes ":normal".
1200
1201Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1202before invoking "diff".
1203
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001204Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1205&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1206
1207When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1208locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1209mouse model.
1210
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001211When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1212characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1213is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1214character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1215
1216Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001217":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001218
1219Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1220
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001221Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1222real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1223
1224Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1225always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1226
1227When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1228detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1229compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1230decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1231
1232Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1233to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1234Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1235
1236"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1237
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001238When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1239Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1240
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001241In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1242and reset it in nv_home().
1243
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001244Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1245spaces inside backticks.
1246
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001247After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1248let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1249This should be the most useful thing to do.
1250
1251":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1252an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1253
1254In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1255reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1256
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001257When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1258call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001259This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001260
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001261GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1262after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1263win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1264
1265Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1266column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1267mouse column to 10000.
1268
1269searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1270we find the same position again and advance one character.
1271
1272When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1273to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1274
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001275When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1276prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1277
1278When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1279substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1280
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001281Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1282when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1283checks where invoking them
1284
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001285":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1286show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1287
1288When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1289
1290GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1291removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1292change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1293Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1294'lines' to undo this.
1295
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001296After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1297":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1298
1299When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1300may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1301character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1302so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1303
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001304setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1305
1306It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001307It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1308
1309CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001310
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001311When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1312given. Now report the first encountered error.
1313
1314When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
1315caused a fallback to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
1316continue.
1317
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001318When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1319the global value.
1320
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001321Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1322200 characters.
1323
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001324When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1325the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1326\+foo".
1327
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001328When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1329message would be in the wrong position.
1330
1331At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1332
1333When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1334were not set.
1335
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001336Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1337
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001338The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1339
1340Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1341and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1342Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1343
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001344For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1345in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1346while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1347highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1348
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001349Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1350Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1351
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001352Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1353Lakshmanan)
1354
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001355When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1356would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1357
1358When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1359searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1360
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001361GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1362redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1363
Bram Moolenaar60a795a2005-09-16 21:55:43 +00001364"dFxd;" deleted the character under the cursor, "d;" didn't remember the
1365exclusiveness of the motion.
1366
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001367 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: