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Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0f. Last change: 2006 Apr 28
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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 Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +00009since Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000010 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000024MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
25Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000026Tab pages |new-tab-pages|
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +000027Undo branches |new-undo-branches|
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +000028Extended Unicode support |new-more-unicode|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029More highlighting |new-more-highlighting|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000031Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000032Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +000033Cursor past end of the line |new-onemore|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000034POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000035Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000036Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +000037Define an operator |new-define-operator|
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000038Mapping to an expression |new-map-expression|
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +000039Visual and Select mode mappings |new-map-select|
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +000040Location list |new-location-list|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041Various new items |new-items-7|
42
43IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
44
45COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
46
47BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
48
49==============================================================================
50INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
51
52These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000053run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
54
55A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
56unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
57buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
58all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
59":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000061":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
62
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000063In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
64name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
65double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
66 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +000067 :edit foo\"888 foo"888 foo"888
68 :next foo\"888 foo888 foo"888
69 :next a\"b c\"d ab cd a"b and c"d
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000070
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000071In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
72":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
73results in "a'b".
74
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000075When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
76was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
77
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000078The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
79
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +000080Files ending in .tex now have 'filetype' set to "context", "plaintex", or
81"tex". |ft-tex-plugin|
82
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000083
84Minor incompatibilities:
85
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +000086For filetype detection: For many types, use */.dir/filename instead of
87~/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000088
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000089For quite a few filetypes the indent settings have been moved from the
90filetype plugin to the indent plugin. If you used: >
91 :filetype plugin on
92Then some indent settings may be missing. You need to use: >
93 :filetype plugin indent on
94
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000095":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
96
97Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
98
99Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
100confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000101
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000102When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
103isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
104
105The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +0000106looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
107"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
108Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000109Diff mode now is also converted to HTML as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000110
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000111Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
112on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
113changing 'winaltkeys'.
114
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000115When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
116is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
117avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000118
119When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
120now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
121encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
122possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
123non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
124
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000125Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
126a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
127
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000128"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
129Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
130
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000131Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
132disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
133you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
134translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
135<xF1>, etc.
136
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000137":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
138
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000139When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
140file exists.
141
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000142When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
143s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
144compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
145
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000146"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
147that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
148where the type is given.
149
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000150The line continuation in functions was not taken into account, line numbers in
151errors were logical lines, not lines in the sourced file. That made it
152difficult to locate errors. Now the line number in the sourced file is
153reported, relative to the function start. This also means that line numbers
154for ":breakadd func" are different.
155
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000156When defining a user command with |:command| the special items could be
157abbreviated. This caused unexpected behavior, such as <li> being recognized
158as <line1>. The items can no longer be abbreviated.
159
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000160When executing a FileChangedRO autocommand it is no longer allowed to switch
161to another buffer or edit another file. This is to prevent crashes (the event
162is triggered deep down in the code where changing buffers is not anticipated).
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000163It is still possible to reload the buffer.
164
165At the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, when the 'more' option is
166set, the 'k', 'u', 'g' and 'b' keys are now used to scroll back to previous
167messages. Thus they are no longer used as typeahead.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000168
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000169==============================================================================
170NEW FEATURES *new-7*
171
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000172Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
173-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000174
175In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
176
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000177 |List| ordered list of items
178 |Dictionary| associative array of items
179 |Funcref| reference to a function
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000180
181Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
182
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000183The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
184variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
185can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
186
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000187The |:let| command can now use "+=", "-=" and ".=": >
188 :let var += expr " works like :let var = var + expr
189 :let var -= expr " works like :let var = var - expr
190 :let var .= string " works like :let var = var . string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000191
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000192With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000193is wasting time.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000194
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000195In the Python interface vim.eval() also handles Dictionaries and Lists.
196|python-eval| (G. Sumner Hayes)
197
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000198The |getscript| plugin was added as a convenient way to update scripts from
199www.vim.org automatically. (Charles Campbell)
200
201The |vimball| plugin was added as a convenient way to distribute a set of
202files for a plugin (plugin file, autoload script, documentation). (Charles
203Campbell)
204
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000205
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000206Spell checking *new-spell*
207--------------
208
209Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
210with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
211
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000212The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off
213The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the accepted language(s)
214The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000215The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000216
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000217The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error
218The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words
219The |z=| command can be used to list suggestions and correct the word
220The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000221
222The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
223mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
224The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
225background.
226The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
227220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000228with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000229highlighting and marking the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000230
231Much more info here: |spell|.
232
233
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000234Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000235---------------
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000236
237This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
238smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000239figure out what could be following. This may suggest struct and class
240members, system functions, etc.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000241
242Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
243
244The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
245figures out the completion.
246
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000247Currently supported languages:
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000248 C |ft-c-omni|
249 (X)HTML with CSS |ft-html-omni|
250 JavaScript |ft-javascript-omni|
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000251 PHP |ft-php-omni|
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +0000252 Python
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +0000253 Ruby |ft-ruby-omni|
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000254 SQL |ft-sql-omni|
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000255 XML |ft-xml-omni|
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +0000256 any language wih syntax highligting |ft-syntax-omni|
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000257
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000258You can add your own omni completion scripts.
259
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000260When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000261completion are displayed in a (rather primitive) popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000262
263
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000264MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
265------------------
266
267The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000268
269The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands
270The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file
271
272This depends on Vim being compiled with the |+mzscheme| feature.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000273
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000274
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000275Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000276------------------------
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000277
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000278The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters when using
279PostScript.
280
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000281The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
282Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
283
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000284
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000285Tab pages *new-tab-pages*
286---------
287
288A tab page is page with one or more windows with a label (aka tab) at the top.
289By clicking on the label you can quickly switch between the tab pages. And
290with the keyboard, using the |gt| (Goto Tab) command. This is a convenient
291way to work with many windows.
292
293To start Vim with each file argument in a separate tab page use the |-p|
294argument. The maximum number of pages can be set with 'tabpagemax'.
295
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000296The line with tab labels is either made with plain text and highlighting or
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000297with a GUI mechanism. The GUI labels look better but are only available on a
Bram Moolenaar57657d82006-04-21 22:12:41 +0000298few systems. The line can be customized with 'tabline', 'guitablabel' and
299'guitabtooltip'. Whether it is displayed is set with 'showtabline'. Whether
300to use the GUI labels is set with the "e" flag in 'guioptions'.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000301
302The |:tab| command modifier can be used to have most commands that open a new
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000303window open a new tab page instead.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000304
Bram Moolenaar0ce29932006-03-13 22:18:45 +0000305The |--remote-tab| argument can be used to edit a file in a new tab page in an
306already running Vim server.
307
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000308Variables starting with "t:" are local to a tab page.
309
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000310More info here: |tabpage|
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000311Most of the GUI stuff was implemented by Yegappan Lakshmanan.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000312
313
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000314Undo branches *new-undo-branches*
315-------------
316
317Previously there was only one line of undo-redo. If, after undoing a number
318of changes, a new change was made all the undone changes were lost. This
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000319could lead to accidentally losing work.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000320
321Vim now makes an undo branch in this situation. Thus you can go back to the
322text after any change, even if they were undone. So long as you do not run
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000323into 'undolevels', when undo information is freed up to limit the memory used.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000324
325To be able to navigate the undo branches each change is numbered sequentially.
326The commands |g-| and |:earlier| go back in time, to older changes. The
327commands |g+| and |:later| go forward in time, to newer changes.
328
329The changes are also timestamped. Use ":earlier 10m" to go to the text as it
330was about ten minutes earlier.
331
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000332The |:undolist| command can be used to get an idea of which undo branches
333exist. The |:undo| command now takes an argument to directly jump to a
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000334specific position in this list. The |changenr()| function can be used to
335obtain the change number.
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000336
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000337There is no graphical display of the tree with changes, navigation can be
338quite confusing.
339
340
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000341Extended Unicode support *new-more-unicode*
342------------------------
343
344Previously only two combining characters were displayed. The limit is now
345raised to 6. This can be set with the 'maxcombine' option. The default is
346still 2.
347
348|ga| now shows all combining characters, not just the first two.
349
350Previously only 16 bit Unicode characters were supported for displaying. Now
351the full 32 bit character set can be used. Unless manually disabled at
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000352compile time to save a bit of memory.
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000353
354For pattern matching it is now possible to search for individual composing
355characters. |patterns-composing|
356
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000357The |8g8| command searches for an illegal UTF-8 byte sequence.
358
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000359
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000360More highlighting *new-more-highlighting*
361-----------------
362
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000363Highlighting matching parens:
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000364
365When moving the cursor through the text and it is on a paren, then the
366matching paren can be highlighted. This uses the new |CursorMoved|
367autocommand event.
368
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +0000369This means some commands are executed every time you move the cursor. If this
370slows you down too much switch it off with: >
371 :NoMatchParen
372
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000373See |matchparen| for more information.
374
375The plugin uses the |:match| command. It now supports three match patterns.
376The plugin uses the third one. The first one is for the user and the second
377one can be used by another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000378
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000379Highlighting the cursor line and column:
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000380
381The 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' options have been added. These highlight
382the screen line and screen column of the cursor. This makes the cursor
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000383position easier to spot. 'cursorcolumn' is also useful to align text. This
384may make screen updating quite slow. The CursorColumn and CursorLine
385highlight groups allow changing the colors used. |hl-CursorColumn|
386|hl-CursorLine|
387
388The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
389220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
390with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
391highlighting, marking the Visual area, CursorColumn, etc.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000392
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000393
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000394Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
395-----------------------
396
397The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000398several other languages.
399
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000400French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000401Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
402Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +0000403Polish - translated by Mikolaj Machowski
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000404
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000405The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
406.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
407standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
408is used there as a best guess.
409Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000410The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
411with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
412do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000413
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000414
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000415Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
416-------------
417
418The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
419This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
420better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
421patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
422|:vimgrep|.
423
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000424If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000425|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000426
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000427To grep files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It expands
428into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all places where
429file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000430
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000431
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000432Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
433-----------------------
434
435When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000436'k', 'u', 'g' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages.
437This is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000438":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
439commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
440Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
441
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000442The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
443hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
444
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000445
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000446Cursor past end of the line *new-onemore*
447---------------------------
448
449When the 'virtualedit' option contains "onemore" the cursor can move just past
450the end of the line. As if it's on top of the line break.
451
452This makes some commands more consistent. Previously the cursor was always
453past the end of the line if the line was empty. But it is far from Vi
454compatible. It may also break some plugins or Vim scripts. Use with care!
455
456The patch was provided by Mattias Flodin.
457
458
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000459POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
460-------------------
461
462The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
463problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
464conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
465variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
466
467Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
468- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
469 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
470- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
471 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
472- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
473 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
474- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
475 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
476 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
477 digit.
478- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
479- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
480 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000481- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
482- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
483- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
484 above or below the new lines.
485- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
486- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
487 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
488- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
489 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
490- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
491 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
492- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
493 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
494- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
495- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
496- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
497- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
498- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
499- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
500 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000501- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
502- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000503- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000504
505
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000506Debugger support *new-debug-support*
507----------------
508
509The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
510balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
511mouse pointer.
512
513
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000514Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
515--------------------
516
517The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
518Deleting and renaming files is possible.
519
520To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
521integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
522works the same way.
523
524":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
525and a GUI dialog is not possible.
526
527The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
528
529
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000530Define an operator *new-define-operator*
531------------------
532
533Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
534followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
535|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
536operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
537through the |g@| operator.
538
539See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
540
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000541
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000542Mapping to an expression *new-map-expression*
543------------------------
544
545The {rhs} argument of a mapping can be an expression. That means the
546resulting characters can depend on the context. Example: >
547 :inoremap <expr> . InsertDot()
548Here the dot will be mapped to whatever InsertDot() returns.
549
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000550This also works for abbreviations. See |:map-<expr>| for the details.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000551
552
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000553Visual and Select mode mappings *new-map-select*
554-------------------------------
555
556Previously Visual mode mappings applied both to Visual and Select mode. With
557a trick to have the mappings work in Select mode like they would in Visual
558mode.
559
560Commands have been added to define mappings for Visual and Select mode
561separately: |:xmap| and |:smap|. With the associated "noremap" and "unmap"
562commands.
563
564The same is done for menus: |:xmenu|, |:smenu|, etc.
565
566
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000567Location list *new-location-list*
568-------------
569
570The support for a per-window quickfix list (location list) is added. The
571location list can be displayed in a location window (similar to the quickfix
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +0000572window). You can open more than one location list window. A set of commands
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000573similar to the quickfix commands are added to browse the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000574(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
575
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000576
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000577Various new items *new-items-7*
578-----------------
579
580Normal mode commands: ~
581
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000582a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000583i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000584
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000585CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
586 location of the error under the cursor.
587
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000588|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
589
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000590<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
591<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
592 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000593
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +0000594gF Start editing the filename under the cursor and jump
595 to the line number following the file name.
596 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
597
598CTRL-W F Start editing the filename under the cursor in a new
599 window and jump to the line number following the file
600 name. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
601
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000602Insert mode commands: ~
603
604CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
605 without moving the cursor.
606
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000607Options: ~
608
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000609'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
610 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
611 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000612'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000613'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000614'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
615 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000616'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
617 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000618'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000619'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
620'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000621'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
622 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000623'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
624 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
625 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000626'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
627 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000628'formatexpr' expression for formatting text with |gq| and when text
629 goes over 'textwidth' in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000630'spell' switch spell checking on/off
631'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000632'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000633'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
634 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000635'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000636'winfixwidth' window with fixed width, similar to 'winfixheight'
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000637
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000638
639Ex commands: ~
640
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000641Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
642
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000643|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000644|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000645
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000646|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000647
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000648|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
649 windows.
650
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000651|:delmarks| Delete marks.
652
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000653|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
654
655|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
656
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000657|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
Bram Moolenaar4c3f5362006-04-11 21:38:50 +0000658 external command. (partly by Bryce Wagner)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000659
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000660|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
661 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +0000662|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
663 Lakshmanan)
664|:cgetbuffer| Create a quickfix list from a buffer but don't jump to
665 the first error.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000666|:caddbuffer| Add errors from the current buffer to the quickfix
667 list.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +0000668|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
669 Lakshmanan).
670|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
671 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
672|:cgetexpr| Create a quickfix list from a Vim expression, but
673 don't jump to the first error. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000674
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000675|:lfile| Like |:cfile| but use the location list.
676|:lgetfile| Like |:cgetfile| but use the location list.
677|:laddfile| Like |:caddfile| but use the location list.
678|:lbuffer| Like |:cbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +0000679|:lgetbuffer| Like |:cgetbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000680|:laddbuffer| Like |:caddbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000681|:lexpr| Like |:cexpr| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +0000682|:lgetexpr| Like |:cgetexpr| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000683|:laddexpr| Like |:caddexpr| but use the location list.
684|:ll| Like |:cc| but use the location list.
685|:llist| Like |:clist| but use the location list.
686|:lnext| Like |:cnext| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000687|:lprevious| Like |:cprevious| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000688|:lNext| Like |:cNext| but use the location list.
689|:lfirst| Like |:cfirst| but use the location list.
690|:lrewind| Like |:crewind| but use the location list.
691|:llast| Like |:clast| but use the location list.
692|:lnfile| Like |:cnfile| but use the location list.
693|:lpfile| Like |:cpfile| but use the location list.
694|:lNfile| Like |:cNfile| but use the location list.
695|:lolder| Like |:colder| but use the location list.
696|:lnewer| Like |:cnewer| but use the location list.
697|:lwindow| Like |:cwindow| but use the location list.
698|:lopen| Like |:copen| but use the location list.
699|:lclose| Like |:cclose| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000700|:lmake| Like |:make| but use the location list.
701|:lgrep| Like |:grep| but use the location list.
702|:lgrepadd| Like |:grepadd| but use the location list.
703|:lvimgrep| Like |:vimgrep| but use the location list.
704|:lvimgrepadd| Like |:vimgrepadd| but use the location list.
705|:lhelpgrep| Like |:helpgrep| but use the location list.
706|:lcscope| Like |:cscope| but use the location list.
707|:ltag| Jump to a tag and add matching tags to a location list.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000708
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000709|:undojoin| Join a change with the previous undo block.
710
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000711
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000712Ex command modifiers: ~
713
714|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
715
716|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
717
718|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
719
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000720
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000721Ex command arguments: ~
722
723|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
724 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
725 Matsumoto)
726 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
727 are found include the line number in the error
728 message.
729
730
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000731New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000732
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000733|add()| append an item to a List
734|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +0000735|argv()| without an argument return the whole argument list
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000736|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000737|bufnr()| takes an extra argument: create buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000738|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000739|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000740|changenr()| number of current change
741|complete()| set matches for Insert mode completion
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000742|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
743|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000744|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
745|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000746|cursor()| also accepts an offset for 'virtualedit', and
747 the first argument can be a list: [lnum, col, off]
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000748|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000749|diff_filler()| returns number of filler lines above line {lnum}.
750|diff_hlID()| returns the highlight ID for diff mode
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000751|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000752|eval()| evaluate {string} and return the result
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000753|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
754 Dictionary to another
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +0000755|feedkeys()| put characters in the typeahead buffer
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000756|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000757|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
758|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
759|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000760|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000761|garbagecollect()| cleanup unused |Lists| and |Dictionaries| with circular
762 references
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000763|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000764|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000765 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000766|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
767 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000768|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
769|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
770|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
771|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000772|getloclist()| list of location list items (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000773|getpos()| return a list with the position of cursor, mark, etc.
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000774|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
775|getreg()| get contents of a register
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000776|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000777|hasmapto()| check for a mapping to a string
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000778|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000779|index()| index of item in List
780|inputlist()| prompt the user to make a selection from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000781|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000782|islocked()| check if a variable is locked
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000783|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
784|join()| join List items into a String
785|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
786|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
787|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000788|maparg()| extra argument: use abbreviation
789|mapcheck()| extra argument: use abbreviation
790|match()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +0000791|matcharg()| return arguments of |:match| command
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000792|matchend()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000793|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000794|matchstr()| extra argument: count
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000795|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
796|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000797|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000798|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000799|pumvisible()| check whether the popup menu is displayed
800|range()| generate a List with numbers
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000801|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000802|reltime()| get time value, possibly relative
803|reltimestr()| turn a time value into a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000804|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000805|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000806|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000807|search()| extra argument:
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000808|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000809|searchpair()| extra argument: line to stop searching
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000810|searchpairpos()| return a List with the position of the match
811|searchpos()| return a List with the position of the match
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000812|setloclist()| modify a location list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000813|setpos()| set cursor or mark to a position
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000814|setqflist()| modify a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000815|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000816|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000817|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
818|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000819|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000820|str2nr()| convert a string to a number, base 8, 10 or 16
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000821|stridx()| extra argument: start position
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000822|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000823|system()| extra argument: filters {input} through a shell command
824|tabpagebuflist()| List of buffers in a tab page
825|tabpagenr()| number of current or last tab page
826|tabpagewinnr()| window number in a tab page
827|tagfiles()| List with tags file names
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000828|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
829|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000830|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000831|winnr()| takes an argument: what window to use
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000832|winrestview()| restore the view of the current window
833|winsaveview()| save the view of the current window
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000834|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000835
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000836User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
837directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
838
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000839
840New autocommand events: ~
841
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000842|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000843
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +0000844|CursorHoldI| the user doesn't press a key for a while in Insert mode
845|CursorMoved| the cursor was moved in Normal mode
846|CursorMovedI| the cursor was moved in Insert mode
847
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000848|FileChangedShellPost| after handling a file changed outside of Vim
849
850|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
851|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
852|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
853
854|MenuPopup| just before showing popup menu
855
856|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
857|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
858
859|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
860
861|ShellCmdPost| after executing a shell command
862|ShellFilterPost| after filtering with a shell command
863
864|SourcePre| before sourcing a Vim script
865
866|SpellFileMissing| when a spell file can't be found
867
868|SwapExists| found existing swap file when editing a file
869
870|TabEnter| just after entering a tab page
871|TabLeave| just before leaving a tab page
872
873|VimResized| after the Vim window size changed (Yakov Lerner)
874
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000875
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000876New items in search patterns: ~
877|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
878|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
879|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
880|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
881|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
882|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
883|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
884|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
885|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
886|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
887 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000888
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000889|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
890|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000891
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000892|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
893|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
894|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
895|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
896
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000897Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
898
899It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
900useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000901
902
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000903New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
904
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000905Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
906Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
907different value.
908
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000909a2ps syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
910ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
911alsaconf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
912AppendMatchGroup ftplugin file. (Dave Silvia)
913arch ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
914asterisk and asteriskvm syntax file. (Tilghman Lesher)
915BDF ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
916BibTeX indent file. (Dorai Sitaram)
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +0000917BibTeX Bibliography Style syntax file. (Tim Pope)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000918BTM ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
919calendar ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
920Changelog indent file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar57657d82006-04-21 22:12:41 +0000921ChordPro syntax file. (Niels Bo Andersen)
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +0000922Cmake indent and syntax file. (Andy Cedilnik)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000923conf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
924context syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
925CRM114 ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
926cvs RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
927D indent file. (Jason Mills)
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +0000928Debian Sources.list syntax file. (Matthijs Mohlmann)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000929dictconf and dictdconf syntax, indent and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
930diff ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
931dircolors ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
932django and htmldjango syntax file. (Dave Hodder)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +0000933doxygen syntax file. (Michael Geddes)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000934elinks ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
935eterm ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
936eviews syntax file. (Vaidotas Zemlys)
937fetchmail RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +0000938FlexWiki syntax and ftplugin file. (George Reilly)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000939Generic indent file. (Dave Silvia)
940gpg ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
941gretl syntax file. (Vaidotas Zemlys)
942groovy syntax file. (Alessio Pace)
943group syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
944grub ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
945Haskell ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
946help ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
947indent ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
948Javascript ftplugin file. (Bram Moolenaar)
Bram Moolenaar4c3f5362006-04-11 21:38:50 +0000949Kconfig ftplugin and syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000950ld syntax, indent and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
951lftp ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
952libao config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
953limits syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
954Lisp indent file. (Sergey Khorev)
955loginaccess and logindefs syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
956m4 ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +0000957mailaliases syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000958mailcap ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
959manconf syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
960matlab ftplugin file. (Jake Wasserman)
Bram Moolenaar779b74b2006-04-10 14:55:34 +0000961Maxima syntax file. (Robert Dodier)
Bram Moolenaar2a3f7ee2006-02-23 21:34:44 +0000962MGL syntax file. (Gero Kuhlmann)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000963modconf ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
964mplayer config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +0000965Mrxvtrc syntax and ftplugin file. (Gautam Iyer)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000966MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
967mutt RC ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
968nanorc syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
969netrc ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
970pamconf syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
971Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
972passwd syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
973PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
974pinfo ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +0000975plaintex syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull, Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000976procmail ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
977prolog ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
978protocols syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
979quake ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
980racc syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000981rd syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000982readline ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
983rhelp syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +0000984rnoweb syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000985Relax NG compact ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
986Scheme indent file. (Sergey Khorev)
987screen ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
988sensors syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
989services syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
990setserial syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
991sieve syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar61660ea2006-04-07 21:40:07 +0000992SiSU syntax file (Ralph Amissah)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +0000993Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
994slp config, reg and spi syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
995SML indent file. (Saikat Guha)
996SQL anywhere syntax and indent file. (David Fishburn)
997SQL indent file.
998SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
999SQL: Handling of various variants. (David Fishburn)
1000sshconfig ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001001Stata and SMCL syntax files. (Jeff Pitblado)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +00001002sudoers ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1003sysctl syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1004terminfo ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1005trustees syntax file. (Nima Talebi)
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +00001006Vera syntax file. (David Eggum)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +00001007udev config, permissions and rules syntax and ftplugin files. (Nikolai Weibull)
1008updatedb syntax and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1009VHDL indent file (Gerald Lai)
1010WSML syntax file. (Thomas Haselwanter)
1011Xdefaults ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1012XFree86 config ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1013xinetd syntax, indent and ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1014xmodmap ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1015Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
1016xsd (XML schema) indent file.
1017YAML ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1018Zsh ftplugin file. (Nikolai Weibull)
1019
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00001020
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +00001021New Keymaps: ~
1022
1023Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001024Tamil in TSCII encoding (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +00001025Greek in cp737 (Panagiotis Louridas)
1026Polish-slash (HS6_06)
1027Ukrainian-jcuken (Anatoli Sakhnik)
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001028
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +00001029
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001030New message translations: ~
1031
1032The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001033Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
1034
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001035
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001036Others: ~
1037
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00001038The |:read| command has the |++edit| argument. This means it will use the
1039detected 'fileformat', 'fileencoding' and other options for the buffer. This
1040also fixes the problem that editing a compressed file didn't set these
1041options.
1042
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001043The Netbeans interface was updated for Sun Studio 10. The protocol number
1044goes from 2.2 to 2.3. (Gordon Prieur)
1045
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +00001046Mac: When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +00001047define default command-key mappings. (mostly by Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +00001048
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001049Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
1050character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
1051Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
1052"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001053
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001054Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00001055
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001056Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +00001057This doesn't always work properly. If you see text drawing problems try
1058switching the 'macatsui' option off.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001059
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001060Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001061
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001062Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
1063event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
1064file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
1065
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +00001066Mac: When started from Finder change directory to the file being edited or the
1067user home directory.
1068
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001069Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001070GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
1071
1072Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
1073
1074Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
1075
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001076To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
1077they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
1078
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001079Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
1080when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
1081|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
1082
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001083For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
1084|xterm-modifier-keys|
1085
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001086When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
1087item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001088When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
1089":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
1090(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001091
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +00001092":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
1093
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +00001094"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
1095the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
1096
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001097'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
1098window height.
1099
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001100The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
1101your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
1102
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001103To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
1104is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
1105been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
1106can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
1107other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001108When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
1109the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001110
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001111Undo now also restores the '< and '> marks. "gv" selects the same area as
1112before the change and undo.
1113
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001114When editing a search pattern for a "/" or "?" command and 'incsearch' is set
1115CTRL-L can be used to add a character from the current match. CTRL-R CTRL-W
1116will add a word, but exclude the part of the word that was already typed.
1117
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001118Ruby interface: add line number methods. (Ryan Paul)
1119
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00001120The $MYVIMRC environment variable is set to the first found vimrc file.
1121The $MYGVIMRC environment variable is set to the first found gvimrc file.
1122
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001123==============================================================================
1124IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
1125
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001126":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
1127
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +00001128Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
1129
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001130When doing completion for ":!cmd", ":r !cmd" or ":w !cmd" executable files are
Bram Moolenaar551dbcc2006-04-25 22:13:59 +00001131found in $PATH instead of looking for ordinary files in the current directory.
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001132
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001133When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
1134range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
1135
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001136The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
1137iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
1138allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
1139matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
1140
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001141Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
1142happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
1143'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
1144
1145Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
1146CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
1147that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
1148from happening.
1149
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001150":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
1151breakpoint at the cursor.
1152
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00001153It is now possible to define a function with: >
1154 :exe "func Test()\n ...\n endfunc"
1155
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001156The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
1157few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001158
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +00001159Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
1160it. (Johannes Zellner)
1161
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00001162Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
1163of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
1164"os_unix.c".
1165
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00001166Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
1167
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001168Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001169does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001170autocommands.
1171
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001172For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
1173- square brackets are recognized properly
1174- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
1175- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
1176
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +00001177Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
1178
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001179winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
1180Lakshmanan)
1181
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001182Added 's' flag to search(): set ' mark if cursor moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001183Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001184Added 'c' flag to search(): accept match at the cursor.
1185Added 'e' flag to search(): move to end of the match. (Benji Fisher)
1186Added 'p' flag to search(): return number of sub-pattern. (Benji Fisher)
1187These also apply to searchpos(), searchpair() and searchpairpos().
1188The search() and searchpair() functions have an extra argument to specify
1189where to stop searching. Speeds up searches that should not continue too far.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001190
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001191When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
1192delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
1193actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
1194
1195When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001196(Michael Geddes)
1197
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001198Support setting 'filetype' and 'syntax' to "aaa.bbb" for "aaa" plus "bbb"
1199filetype or syntax.
1200
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001201The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
1202
1203VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
1204upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
1205(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1206
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001207For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
1208of buffers.
1209
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001210When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
1211the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
1212
1213Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
1214digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
1215
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001216When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
1217buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
1218list.
1219
1220Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
1221(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
1222
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001223Win32: Vim was not aware of hard links on NTFS file systems. These are
1224detected now for when 'backupcopy' is "auto". Also fixed a bogus "file has
1225been changed since reading it" error for links.
1226
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001227When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
1228second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
1229line is just "/*".
1230
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001231When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
1232mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
1233edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
1234the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
1235used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
1236more reliable.
1237
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001238Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
1239of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
1240file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
1241
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001242Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
1243in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
1244"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
1245with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
1246
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001247Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
1248incremented/decremented each time.
1249
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001250Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001251contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
1252a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
1253
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001254When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
1255
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001256Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
1257
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001258":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001259invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
1260
1261":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
1262(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001263
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001264":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001265
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +00001266The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
1267messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
1268log startup messages.
1269
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001270":let g:" lists global variables.
1271":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
1272":let w:" lists window-local variables.
1273":let v:" lists Vim variables.
1274
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001275The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
1276searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001277
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001278The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
1279for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
1280
1281The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
1282the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
1283
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001284g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
1285bytes.
1286
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001287Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
1288":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
1289
1290CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
1291ignored.
1292
1293When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
1294will result in a message with the source of the error.
1295
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001296When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
1297":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
1298
1299To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
1300been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
1301
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001302In a |:substitute| command the \u, \U, \l and \L items now also work for
1303multi-byte characters.
1304
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001305The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001306'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001307
1308The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
1309variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
1310to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001311
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001312Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
1313possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
1314and the * stands for the modifier code.
1315Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
1316the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
1317modifiers.
1318
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001319getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
1320window.
1321
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001322Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001323Added the "%>" item to 'errorformat'.
1324
1325For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
1326character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
1327could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
1328pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
1329included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001330
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001331GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
1332Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
1333
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001334Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
1335used.
1336
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +00001337Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
1338click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
1339restarted.
1340
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001341When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
1342= value" can be used to set the register contents.
1343
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001344A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
1345pointer position instead of the text cursor.
1346
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001347The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
1348such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
1349prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001350When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001351
1352Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
1353user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001354Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
1355Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001356
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001357Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
1358(Sergey Khorev)
1359
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001360For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
1361sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
1362
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001363When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001364characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001365
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001366When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
1367COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1368
1369Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1370
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001371When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
1372closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
1373
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +00001374input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
1375completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1376
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001377"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
1378'modifiable' is set.
1379
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001380The 'diffopt' option has three new values: "horizontal", "vertical" and
1381"foldcolumn".
1382
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001383When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
1384matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
1385
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001386Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
1387directory. |load-plugins|
1388
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +00001389In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
1390opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
1391
1392It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
1393in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
1394
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +00001395Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
1396
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +00001397":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
1398added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
1399
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001400In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
1401more logical. (Robert Webb)
1402
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001403When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
1404file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
1405actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
1406'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
1407
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001408When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
1409then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
1410a hint that something might be wrong.
1411
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001412Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
1413
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001414In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
1415then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
1416inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
1417without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001418
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001419The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001420and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +00001421
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001422Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
1423itself.
1424
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001425":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
1426asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
1427
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001428Insert mode completion for whole lines now also searches unloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001429
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001430The colortest.vim script can now be invoked directly with ":source" or
1431":runtime".
1432
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001433The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
1434have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1435
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001436The 'statusline' option and other options that support the same format can now
1437use these new features:
1438- When it starts with "%!" the value is first evaluated as an expression
1439 before parsing the value.
1440- "%#HLname#" can be used to start highlighting with HLname.
1441
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001442When 'statusline' is set to something that causes an error message then it is
1443made empty to avoid an endless redraw loop. Also for other options, such at
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001444'tabline' and 'titlestring'. ":verbose set statusline" will mention that it
1445was set in an error handler.
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001446
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001447When there are several matching tags, the ":tag <name>" and CTRL-] commands
1448jump to the [count] matching tag. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1449
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001450Win32: In the batch files generated by the install program, use $VIMRUNTIME or
1451$VIM if it's set. Example provided by Mathias Michaelis.
1452Also create a vimtutor.bat batch file.
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001453
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001454The 'balloonexpr' option is now |global-local|.
1455
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001456The system() function now runs in cooked mode, thus can be interrupted by
1457CTRL-C.
1458
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001459==============================================================================
1460COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
1461
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001462Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
1463probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
1464and merge it back in.
1465
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001466When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
1467following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
1468
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +00001469When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
1470to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
1471allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
1472to store the ":quit" command.
1473
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001474Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
1475
1476Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
1477what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
1478functions.
1479
1480Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
1481without copying the code.
1482
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001483--- Mac ---
1484
1485"make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to its
1486final destination. (Raf)
1487
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001488Put the runtime directory not directly in Vim.app but in
1489Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim, so that it's according to Mac specs.
1490
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001491Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and still
1492being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c file.
1493
1494When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001495Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
1496runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
1497
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001498Configure will attempt to build Vim for both Intel and PowerPC. The
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001499--with-mac-arch configure argument can change it.
1500
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001501--- Win32 ---
1502
1503The Make_mvc.mak file was adjusted to work with the latest MS compilers,
1504including the free version of Visual Studio 2005. (George Reilly)
1505
1506INSTALLpc.txt was updated for the recent changes. (George Reilly)
1507
1508The distributed executable is now produced with the free Visual C++ Toolkit
15092003 and other free SDK chunks. msvcsetup.bat was added to support this.
1510
1511Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
1512on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
1513
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001514==============================================================================
1515BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
1516
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001517When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
1518instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
1519work. Use "LPT1" then.
1520
1521The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
1522size. Use a default size of 10.
1523
1524This example in the documentation didn't work:
1525 :e `=foo . ".c" `
1526Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
1527
1528When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1529
1530"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1531
1532Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1533when it doesn't support MDI.
1534
1535Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1536
1537"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1538space.
1539
1540Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1541SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1542for doesn't have an extension.
1543
1544When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1545may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1546cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1547
1548When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1549not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1550to make it work the old way.
1551
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001552When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1553filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1554
1555After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1556
1557Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1558fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001559
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001560On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1561Michele)
1562
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001563Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1564CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1565
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001566When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1567ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1568
1569Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001570characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1571twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001572
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001573When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1574variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1575
1576'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1577is indented too much.
1578
1579When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1580alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1581items.
1582
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001583Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1584active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1585
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001586The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1587"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1588
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001589When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1590after the last line while it's not there.
1591
1592Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1593resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1594
1595Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1596string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1597
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001598When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1599contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1600and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1601
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001602strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1603
1604GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1605just before it is invoked
1606
1607VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1608environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1609
1610UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1611from the first character of the word.
1612
1613When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1614detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1615
1616When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1617but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1618
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001619When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1620list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1621interrupting this.
1622
1623When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1624used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1625and global options remain unmodified.
1626
1627Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1628command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1629file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1630
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001631Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1632default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1633
1634When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1635xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1636line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1637
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001638Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1639
1640When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1641going to be used like a command.
1642
1643GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1644GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1645
1646GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1647
1648Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1649line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1650console version.
1651
1652Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1653there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1654
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001655When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1656files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1657directory for the library early in the link flags.
1658
1659With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1660literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1661
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001662When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1663cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1664
1665When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1666buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1667
1668Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1669problems for Terminal.app.
1670
1671When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1672end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1673argument.
1674
1675When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1676has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1677back.
1678
1679When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1680was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1681
1682When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1683"cancel", would still give an error message.
1684
1685The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1686mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1687
1688Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1689keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1690
1691Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1692
1693In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1694selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1695is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1696
1697GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1698GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1699
1700After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1701
1702When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +00001703doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturb us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001704Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1705handle. Added handle_signal().
1706
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001707When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1708white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1709
1710When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1711long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1712being found in a library.
1713
1714When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1715may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1716
1717Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1718is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1719
1720When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1721original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1722empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1723be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1724the values when recovering.
1725
1726":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1727message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1728
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001729Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1730when building the ":drop" command.
1731
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +00001732A comment or | just after a expression-backtick argument was not recognized.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001733E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1734
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001735"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1736does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1737
1738When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1739moved the cursor to another column.
1740
1741When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1742quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1743fold.
1744
1745In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1746break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1747
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001748Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001749
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001750Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001751(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001752
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001753When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1754not included.
1755
1756Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1757Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1758
1759When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1760the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1761
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001762Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1763
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001764When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1765(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1766mode. (Peter Winters)
1767
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001768"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1769
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001770Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1771not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001772Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001773
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001774When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1775lines" overwrites the message.
1776
1777Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1778
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001779When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1780after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1781column in the wrong line.
1782
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001783When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1784starts with "sl".
1785
1786When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1787'paste' when starting the GUI.
1788
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001789A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1790
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001791When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1792Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1793mapping.
1794
1795Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1796
1797":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1798
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001799When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1800in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1801
1802When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1803empty $SHELL value.
1804
1805A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1806file.
1807
1808When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1809moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1810
1811When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1812the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1813is Vi compatible.
1814
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001815Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1816Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1817$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1818
1819Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1820flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1821
1822Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1823compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1824
1825When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1826leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1827'cpoptions' for this.
1828
1829Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1830
1831Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1832be Vi compatible.
1833
1834When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1835request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1836shell and caused trouble there.
1837
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001838When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1839still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1840Lakshmanan)
1841
1842It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1843sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1844
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001845When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1846from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1847
1848When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1849
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001850Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1851unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1852
1853":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1854
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001855The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1856are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1857
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001858Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1859indirectly invokes ":normal".
1860
1861Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1862before invoking "diff".
1863
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001864Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1865&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1866
1867When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1868locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1869mouse model.
1870
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001871When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1872characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1873is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1874character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1875
1876Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001877":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001878
1879Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1880
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001881Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1882real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1883
1884Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1885always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1886
1887When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1888detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1889compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1890decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1891
1892Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1893to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1894Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1895
1896"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1897
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001898When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1899Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1900
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001901In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1902and reset it in nv_home().
1903
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001904Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1905spaces inside backticks.
1906
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001907After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1908let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1909This should be the most useful thing to do.
1910
1911":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1912an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1913
1914In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1915reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1916
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001917When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1918call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001919This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001920
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001921GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1922after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1923win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1924
1925Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1926column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1927mouse column to 10000.
1928
1929searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1930we find the same position again and advance one character.
1931
1932When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1933to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1934
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001935When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1936prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1937
1938When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1939substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1940
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001941Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1942when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1943checks where invoking them
1944
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001945":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1946show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1947
1948When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1949
1950GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1951removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1952change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1953Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1954'lines' to undo this.
1955
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001956When using the GTK plug mechanism, resizing and focus was not working
1957properly. (Neil Bird)
1958
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001959After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1960":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1961
1962When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1963may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1964character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1965so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1966
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001967setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1968
1969It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001970It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1971
1972CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001973
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001974When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1975given. Now report the first encountered error.
1976
1977When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001978caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001979continue.
1980
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001981When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1982the global value.
1983
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001984Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1985200 characters.
1986
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001987When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1988the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1989\+foo".
1990
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001991When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1992message would be in the wrong position.
1993
1994At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1995
1996When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1997were not set.
1998
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001999Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
2000
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00002001The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
2002
2003Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
2004and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
2005Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
2006
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00002007For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
2008in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
2009while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
2010highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
2011
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00002012Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
2013Could be noticed with a Thai font.
2014
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00002015Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
2016Lakshmanan)
2017
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00002018When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
2019would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
2020
2021When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
2022searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
2023
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00002024GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
2025redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
2026
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00002027Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
2028Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
2029reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
2030
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002031Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
2032
2033There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
2034existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
2035available.
2036
2037In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
2038sticking to the first column.
2039
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00002040When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
2041echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
2042
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00002043Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
2044
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00002045When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
2046the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
2047
2048When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
2049":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
2050
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00002051Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
2052causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
2053Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
2054
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00002055The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
2056
2057Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
2058dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
2059of its output.
2060
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00002061When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
2062the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
2063typing the command line.
2064
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00002065'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
2066"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
2067
2068When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
2069appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
2070recording.
2071
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00002072Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
2073that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
2074
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00002075When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
2076writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
2077the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
2078buffer when creating a new file.
2079
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00002080When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
2081string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
2082
2083When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00002084to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00002085incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
2086|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002087to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00002088
2089"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
2090an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
2091
2092Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
2093when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
2094edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
2095getting a beep from the "l" command.
2096
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002097Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
2098the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
2099
2100When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
2101there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
2102
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00002103Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
2104arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
2105until after executing "-c" arguments.
2106
2107When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
2108break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
2109undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
2110
2111Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
2112happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
2113stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
2114Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
2115
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00002116When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
2117change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
2118When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
2119Added mf_set_dirty().
2120
2121Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
2122backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
2123
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00002124A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
2125special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
2126
2127When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
2128!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
2129"!;&()<>".
2130
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00002131When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
2132autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
2133
2134In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
2135the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
2136
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00002137Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
2138value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
2139
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00002140Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
2141After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
2142
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00002143The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
2144normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
2145actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
2146
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00002147The "load session" toolbar item could not handle a space or other special
2148characters in v:this_session.
2149
2150":set sta ts=8 sw=4 sts=2" deleted 4 spaces halfway a line instead of 2.
2151
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00002152In a multi-byte file the foldmarker could be recognized in the trail byte.
2153(Taro Muraoka)
2154
Bram Moolenaar0e5bd962006-02-04 00:59:56 +00002155Pasting with CTRL-V and menu didn't work properly when some commands are
2156mapped. Use ":normal!" instead of ":normal". (Tony Apuzzo)
2157
2158Crashed when expanding a file name argument in backticks.
2159
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +00002160In some situations the menu and scrollbar didn't work, when the value contains
2161a CSI byte. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2162
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00002163GTK GUI: When drawing the balloon focus changes and we might get a key release
2164event that removed the balloon again. Ignore the key release event.
2165
2166'titleold' was included in ":mkexrc" and ":mksession" files.
2167
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00002168":set background&" didn't use the same logic as was used when starting up.
2169
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00002170When "umask" is set such that nothing is writable then the viminfo file would
2171be written without write permission. (Julian Bridle)
2172
Bram Moolenaar7e8fd632006-02-18 22:14:51 +00002173Motif: In diff mode dragging one scrollbar didn't update the scrollbar of the
2174other diff'ed window.
2175
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00002176When editing in an xterm with a different number of colors than expected the
2177screen would be cleared and redrawn, causing the message about the edited file
2178to be cleared. Now set "keep_msg" to redraw the last message.
2179
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00002180For a color terminal: When the Normal HL uses bold, possibly to make the color
2181lighter, and another HL group specifies a color it might become light as well.
2182Now reset bold if a HL group doesn't specify bold itself.
2183
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00002184When using 256 color xterm the color 255 would show up as color 0. Use a
2185short instead of a char to store the color number.
2186
2187ml_get errors when searching for "\n\zs" in an empty file.
2188
Bram Moolenaara5621492006-02-25 21:55:24 +00002189When selecting a block and using "$" to select until the end of every line and
2190not highlighting the character under the cursor the first character of the
2191block could be unhighlighted.
2192
2193When counting words for the Visual block area and using "$" to select until
2194the end of every line only up to the length of the last line was counted.
2195
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002196"dip" in trailing empty lines left one empty line behind.
2197
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002198The script ID was only remembered globally for each option. When a buffer- or
2199window-local option was set the same "last set" location was changed for all
2200buffers and windows. Now remember the script ID for each local option
2201separately.
2202
2203GUI: The "Replace All" button didn't handle backslashes in the replacement in
2204the same way as "Replace". Escape backslashes so that they are taken
2205literally.
2206
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00002207When using Select mode from Insert mode and typing a key, causing lines to be
2208deleted and a message displayed, delayed the effect of inserting the key.
2209Now overwrite the message without delay.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002210
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00002211When 'whichwrap' includes "l" then "dl" and "yl" on a single letter line
2212worked differently. Now recognize all operators when using "l" at the end of
2213a line.
2214
2215GTK GUI: when the font selector returned a font name with a comma in it then
2216it would be handled like two font names. Now put a backslash before the
2217comma.
2218
2219MS-DOS, Win32: When 'encoding' defaults to "latin1" then the value for
2220'iskeyword' was still for CPxxx. And when 'nocompatible' was set 'isprint'
2221would also be the wrong value.
2222
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00002223When a command was defined not to take arguments and no '|' no warning message
2224would be given for using a '|'. Also with ":loadkeymap".
2225
Bram Moolenaara3227e22006-03-08 21:32:40 +00002226Motif: When using a fontset and 'encoding' is "utf-8" and sizeof(wchar_t) !=
2227sizeof(XChar2b) then display was wrong. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2228
Bram Moolenaareb94e552006-03-11 21:35:11 +00002229":all" always set the current window to the first window, even when it
2230contains a buffer that is not in the argument list (can't be closed because it
2231is modified). Now go to the window that has the first item of the argument
2232list.
2233
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +00002234GUI: To avoid left-over pixels from bold text all characters after a character
2235with special attributes were redrawn. Now only do this for characters that
2236actually are bold. Speeds up displaying considerably.
2237
2238When only highlighting changes and the text is scrolled at the same time
2239everything is redraw instead of using a scroll and updating the changed text.
2240E.g., when using ":match" to highlight a paren that the cursor landed on.
2241Added SOME_VALID: Redraw the whole window but also try to scroll to minimize
2242redrawing.
2243
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002244Win32: When using Korean IME making it active didn't work properly. (Moon,
2245Yu-sung, 2005 March 21)
2246
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00002247Ruby interface: when inserting/deleting lines display wasn't updated. (Ryan
2248Paul)
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002249
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002250--- fixes since Vim 7.0b ---
Bram Moolenaarbd404142006-03-25 22:05:04 +00002251
2252Getting the GCC version in configure didn't work with Solaris sed. First
2253strip any "darwin." and then get the version number.
2254
2255The "autoload" directory was missing from the self-installing executable for
2256MS-Windows.
2257
2258The MS-Windows install program would find "vimtutor.bat" in the install
2259directory. After changing to "c:" also change to "\" to avoid looking in the
2260install directory.
2261
2262To make the 16 bit DOS version compile exclude not used highlight
2263initializations and build a tiny instead of small version.
2264
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002265finddir() and findfile() accept a negative cound and return a List then.
2266
2267The Python indent file contained a few debugging statements, removed.
2268
2269Expanding {} for a function name, resulting in a name starting with "s:" was
2270not handled correctly.
2271
2272Spelling: renamed COMPOUNDMAX to COMPOUNDWORDMAX. Added several items to be
2273able to handle the new Hungarian dictionary.
2274
2275Mac: Default to building for the current platform only, that is much faster
2276than building a universal binary. Also, using Perl/Python/etc. only works for
2277the current platform.
2278
Bram Moolenaar3991dab2006-03-27 17:01:56 +00002279The time on undo messages disappeared for someone. Using %T for strftime()
2280apparently doesn't work everywhere. Use %H:%M:%S instead.
2281
2282Typing BS at the "z=" prompt removed the prompt.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002283
Bram Moolenaar779b74b2006-04-10 14:55:34 +00002284--- fixes and changes since Vim 7.0c ---
Bram Moolenaar04a9d452006-03-27 21:03:26 +00002285
2286When jumping to another tab page the Vim window size was always set, even when
2287nothing in the layout changed.
2288
2289Win32 GUI tab pages line wasn't always enabled. Do a proper check for the
2290compiler version.
2291
2292Win32: When switching between tab pages the Vim window was moved when part of
2293it was outside of the screen. Now only do that in the direction of a size
2294change.
2295
2296Win32: added menu to GUI tab pages line. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2297
Bram Moolenaard2cec5b2006-03-28 21:08:56 +00002298Mac: Added document icons. (Benji Fisher)
2299
2300Insert mode completion: Using Enter to accept the current match causes
2301confusion. Use CTRL-Y instead. Also, use CTRL-E to go back to the typed
2302text.
2303
2304GUI: When there are left and righ scrollbars, ":tabedit" kept them instead of
2305using the one that isn't needed.
Bram Moolenaar04a9d452006-03-27 21:03:26 +00002306
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002307Using "gP" to replace al the text could leave the cursor below the last line,
2308causing ml_get errors.
2309
2310When 'cursorline' is set don't use the highlighting when Visual mode is
2311active, otherwise it's difficult to see the selected area.
2312
2313The matchparen plugin restricts the search to 100 lines, to avoid a long delay
2314when there are closed folds.
2315
2316Sometimes using CTRL-X s to list spelling suggestions used text from another
2317line.
2318
2319Win32: Set the default for 'isprint' back to the wrong default "@,~-255",
2320because many people use Windows-1252 while 'encoding' is "latin1".
2321
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002322GTK: Added a workaround for gvim crashing when used over an untrusted ssh
2323link, caused by GTK doing something nasty. (Ed Catmur)
2324
2325Win32: The font used for the tab page labels is too big. Use the system menu
2326font. (George Reilly)
2327
2328Win32: Adjusting the window position and size to keep it on the screen didn't
2329work properly when the taskbar is on the left or top of the screen.
2330
2331The installman.sh and installml.sh scripts use ${10}, that didn't work with
2332old shells. And use "test -f" instead of "test -e".
2333
2334Win32: When 'encoding' was set in the vimrc then a directory argument for diff
2335mode didn't work.
2336
2337GUI: at the inputlist() prompt the cursorshape was adjusted as if the windows
2338were still at their old position.
2339
2340The parenmatch plugin didn't remember the highlighting per window.
2341
2342Using ":bd" for a buffer that's the current window in another tab page caused
2343a crash.
2344
2345For a new tab page the 'scroll' option wasn't set to a good default.
2346
2347Using an end offset for a search "/pat/e" didn't work properly for multi-byte
2348text. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2349
2350":s/\n/,/" doubled the text when used on the last line.
2351
2352When "search" is in 'foldopen' "[s" and "]s" now open folds.
2353
2354When using a numbered function "dict" can be omitted, but "self" didn't work
2355then. Always add FC_DICT to the function flags when it's part of a
2356dictionary.
2357
2358When "--remote-tab" executes locally it left an empty tab page.
2359
2360"gvim -u NONE", ":set cursorcolumn", "C" in the second line didn't update
2361text. Do update further lines even though the "$" is displayed.
2362
2363VMS: Support GTK better, also enable +clientserver. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2364
2365When highlighting of statusline or tabline is changed there was no redraw to
2366show the effect.
2367
2368Mac: Added "CFBundleIdentifier" to infplist.xml.
2369
2370Added tabpage-local variables t:var.
2371
2372Win32: Added double-click in tab pages line creates new tab. (Yegappan
2373Lakshmanan)
2374
2375Motif: Added GUI tab pages line. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2376
2377Fixed crash when 'lines' was set to 1000 in a modeline.
2378
2379When init_spellfile() finds a writable directory in 'runtimepath' but it
2380doesn't contain a "spell" directory, create one.
2381
2382Win32: executable() also finds "xxd" in the directory where Vim was started,
2383but "!xxd" doesn't work. Append the Vim starting directory to $PATH.
2384
2385The tab page labels are shortened, directory names are reduced to a single
2386letter by default. Added the pathshorten() function to allow a user to do the
2387same.
2388
2389":saveas" now resets 'readonly' if the file was successfully written.
2390
2391Set $MYVIMRC file to the first found .vimrc file.
2392Set $MYGVIMRC file to the first found .gvimrc file.
2393Added menu item "Startup Settings" that edits the $MYVIMRC file
2394
2395Added matcharg().
2396
2397Error message E745 appeared twice. Renamed one to E786.
2398
2399Fixed crash when using "au BufRead * Sexplore" and doing ":help". Was wiping
2400out a buffer that's still in a window.
2401
2402":hardcopy" resulted in an error message when 'encoding' is "utf-8" and
2403'printencoding' is empty. Now it assumes latin1. (Mike Williams)
2404
2405The check for the toolbar feature for Motif, depending on certain included
2406files, wasn't detailed enough, causing building to fail in gui_xmebw.c.
2407
2408Using CTRL-E in Insert mode completion after CTRL-P inserted the first match
2409instead of the original text.
2410
2411When displaying a UTF-8 character with a zero lower byte Vim might think the
2412previous character is double-wide.
2413
2414The "nbsp" item of 'listchars' didn't work when 'encoding' was utf-8.
2415
2416Motif: when Xm/xpm.h is missing gui_xmebw.c would not compile.
2417HAVE_XM_UNHIGHLIGHTT_H was missing a T.
2418
2419Mac: Moved the .icns files into src/os_mac_rsrc, so that they can all be
2420copied at once. Adjusted the Info.plist file for three icons.
2421
2422When Visual mode is active while switching to another tabpage could get ml_get
2423errors.
2424
2425When 'list' is set, 'nowrap' the $ in the first column caused 'cursorcolumn'
2426to move to the right.
2427
2428When a line wraps, 'cursorcolumn' was never displayed past the end of the
2429line.
2430
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002431'autochdir' was only available when compiled with NetBeans and GUI. Now it's
2432a separate feature, also available in the "big" version.
2433
2434Added CTRL-W gf: open file under cursor in new tab page.
2435
2436When using the menu in the tab pages line, "New Tab" opens the new tab before
2437where the click was. Beyond the labels the new tab appears at the end instead
2438of after the current tab page.
2439
Bram Moolenaar61660ea2006-04-07 21:40:07 +00002440Inside a mapping with an expression getchar() could not be used.
2441
2442When vgetc is used recursively vgetc_busy protects it from being used
2443recursively. But after a ":normal" command the protection was reset.
2444
2445":s/a/b/n" didn't work when 'modifiable' was off.
2446
2447When $VIMRUNTIME includes a multi-byte character then rgb.txt could not be
2448found. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2449
2450":mkspell" didn't work correctly for non-ASCII affix flags when conversion is
2451needed on the spell file.
2452
2453glob('/dir/\$ABC/*') didn't work.
2454
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +00002455When using several tab pages and changing 'cmdheight' the display could become
2456messed up. Now store the value of 'cmdheight' separately for each tab page.
2457
Bram Moolenaar779b74b2006-04-10 14:55:34 +00002458The user of the Enter key while the popup menu is visible was still confusing.
2459Now use Enter to select the match after using a cursor key.
2460
2461Added "usetab" to 'switchbuf'.
2462
Bram Moolenaar4c3f5362006-04-11 21:38:50 +00002463
2464--- fixes and changes since Vim 7.0d ---
2465
2466Added CTRL-W T: move a window to a new tab page.
2467
2468Using CTRL-X s in Insert mode to complete spelling suggestions and using BS
2469deleted characters before the bad word.
2470
2471A few small fixes for the VMS makefile. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2472
2473With a window of 91 lines 45 cols, ":vsp" scrolled the window. Copy w_wrow
2474when splitting a window and skip setting the height when it's already at the
2475right value.
2476
2477Using <silent> in a mapping with a shell command and the GUI caused redraw
2478to use wrong attributes.
2479
2480Win32: Using MSVC 4.1 for install.exe resulted in the start menu items to be
2481created in the administrator directory instead of "All Users". Define the
2482CSIDL_ items if they are missing.
2483
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002484Motif: The GUI tabline did not use the space above the right scrollbar. Work
2485around a bug in the Motif library. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2486
2487The extra files for XML Omni completion are now also installed.
2488|xml-omni-datafile|
2489
2490GTK GUI: when 'm' is missing from 'guioptions' during startup and pressing
2491<F10> GTK produced error messages. Now do create the menu but disable it just
2492after the first gui_mch_update().
2493
2494":mkspell" doesn't work well with the Hungarian dictionary from the Hunspell
2495project. Back to the Myspell dictionary.
2496
2497In help files hide the | used around tags.
2498
2499Renamed pycomplete to pythoncomplete.
2500
2501Added "tabpages" to 'sessionoptions'.
2502
2503When 'guitablabel' is set the effect wasn't visible right away.
2504
2505Fixed a few 'cindent' errors.
2506
Bram Moolenaar7fc904b2006-04-13 20:37:35 +00002507When completing menu names, e.g., after ":emenu", don't sort the entries but
2508keep them in the original order.
2509
2510Fixed a crash when editing a directory in diff mode. Don't trigger
2511autocommands when executing the diff command.
2512
2513Getting a keystroke could get stuck if 'encoding' is a multi-byte encoding and
2514typing a special key.
2515
2516When 'foldignore' is set the folds were not updated right away.
Bram Moolenaar4c3f5362006-04-11 21:38:50 +00002517
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00002518When a list is indexed with [a : b] and b was greater than the length an error
Bram Moolenaarb21e5842006-04-16 18:30:08 +00002519message was given. Now silently truncate the result.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00002520
2521When using BS during Insert mode completion go back to the original text, so
2522that CTRL-N selects the first matching entry.
2523
Bram Moolenaarb21e5842006-04-16 18:30:08 +00002524Added the 'M' flag to 'cinoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00002525
2526Win32: Make the "gvim --help" window appear in the middle of the screen
2527instead of at an arbitrary position. (Randall W. Morris)
2528
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002529Added gettabwinvar() and settabwinvar().
2530
2531Command line completion: pressing <Tab> after ":e /usr/*" expands the whole
2532tree, because it becomes ":e /usr/**". Don't add a star if there already is
2533one.
2534
Bram Moolenaarb21e5842006-04-16 18:30:08 +00002535Added grey10 to grey90 to all GUIs, so that they can all be used for
2536initializing highlighting. Use grey40 for CursorColumn and CursorLine when
2537'background' is "dark".
2538
2539When reading a file and using iconv for conversion, an incomplete byte
2540sequence at the end caused problems. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2541
2542
2543--- fixes and changes since Vim 7.0e ---
2544
2545Default color for MatchParen when 'background' is "dark" is now DarkCyan.
2546
2547":syn off" had to be used twice in a file that sets 'syntax' in a modeline.
2548(Michael Geddes)
2549
2550When using ":vsp" or ":sp" the available space wasn't used equally between
2551windows. (Servatius Brandt)
2552
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002553Expanding <cWORD> on a trailing blank resulted in the first word in the line
2554if 'encoding' is a multi-byte encoding.
2555
2556Spell checking: spellbadword() didn't see a missing capital in the first word
2557of a line. Popup menu now only suggest the capitalized word when appropriate.
2558
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +00002559When using whole line completion CTRL-L moves through the matches but it
Bram Moolenaarc1e37902006-04-18 21:55:01 +00002560didn't work when at the original text.
2561
2562When completion finds the longest match, don't go to the first match but stick
2563at the original text, so that CTRL-N selects the first one.
2564
2565Recognize "zsh-beta" like "zsh" for setting the 'shellpipe' default. (James
2566Vega)
2567
2568When using ":map <expr>" and the expression results in something with a
2569special byte (NUL or CSI) then it didn't work properly. Now escape special
2570bytes.
2571
2572The default Visual highlighting for a color xterm with 8 colors was a magenta
2573background, which made magenta text disappear. Now use reverse in this
2574specific situation.
2575
2576After completing the longest match "." didn't insert the same text. Repeating
2577also didn't work correctly for multi-byte text.
2578
2579When using Insert mode completion and BS the whole word that was completed
2580would result in all possible matches. Now stop completion. Also fixes that
2581for spell completion the previous word was deleted.
2582
2583GTK: When 'encoding' is "latin1" and using non-ASCII characters in a file name
2584the tab page label was wrong and an error message would be given.
2585
2586The taglist() function could hang on a tags line with a non-ASCII character.
2587
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +00002588Win32: When 'encoding' differs from the system encoding tab page labels with
2589non-ASCII characters looked wrong. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2590
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00002591Motif: building failed when Xm/Notebook.h doesn't exist. Added a configure
2592check, disable GUI tabline when it's missing.
2593
2594Mac: When compiled without multi-byte feature the clipboard didn't work.
2595
2596It was possible to switch to another tab page when the cmdline window is open.
2597
2598Completion could hang when 'lines' is 6 and a preview window was opened.
2599
Bram Moolenaar57657d82006-04-21 22:12:41 +00002600Added CTRL-W gF: open file under cursor in new tab page and jump to the line
2601number following the file name.
Bram Moolenaareb3593b2006-04-22 22:33:57 +00002602Added 'guitabtooltip'. Implemented for Win32 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar57657d82006-04-21 22:12:41 +00002603
2604Added "throw" to 'debug' option: thow an exception for error messages even
2605whey they would otherwise be ignored.
2606
2607When 'keymap' is set and a line contains an invalid entry could get a "No
2608mapping found" warning instead of a proper error message.
2609
2610Motif: default to using XpmAttributes instead of XpmAttributes_21.
2611
Bram Moolenaareb3593b2006-04-22 22:33:57 +00002612A few more changes for 64 bit MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
2613
2614Got ml_get errors when doing "o" and selecting in other window where there are
2615less line shorter than the cursor position in the other window. ins_mouse()
2616was using position in wrong window.
2617
2618Win32 GUI: Crash when giving a lot of messages during startup. Allocate twice
2619as much memory for the dialog template.
2620
2621Fixed a few leaks and wrong pointer use reported by coverity.
2622
2623When showing menus the mode character was sometimes wrong.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00002624
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +00002625Added feedkeys(). (Yakov Lerner)
2626
2627Made matchlist() always return all submatches.
2628
2629Moved triggering QuickFixCmdPost to before jumping to the first location.
2630
2631Mac: Added the 'macatsui' option as a temporary work around for text drawing
2632problems.
2633
2634Line completion on "/**" gave error messages when scanning an unloaded buffer.
Bram Moolenaar4a85b412006-04-23 22:40:29 +00002635
Bram Moolenaar551dbcc2006-04-25 22:13:59 +00002636--- fixes and changes since Vim 7.0f ---
2637
2638Win32: The height of the tab page labels is now adjusted to the font height.
2639(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2640
2641Win32: selecting the tab label was off by one. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar4a85b412006-04-23 22:40:29 +00002642
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +00002643Added tooltips for Motif and GTK tab page labels. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +00002644
2645When 'encoding' is "utf-8" then ":help spell" would report an illegal byte and
2646the file was not converted from latin1 to utf-8. Now retry with latin1 if
2647reading the file as utf-8 results in illegal bytes.
2648
2649Escape argument of feedkeys() before putting it in the typeahead buffer.
2650(Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2651
2652Add v:char variable for evaluating 'formatexpr'. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2653
2654With 8 colors Search highlighting combined with Statement highlighted text
2655made the text disappear.
2656
2657VMS: avoid warnings for redefining MAX and MIN. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2658
2659When 'virtualedit' includes "onemore", stopping Visual selection would still
2660move the cursor left.
2661
2662Prevent that using CTRL-R = in Insert mode can start Visual mode.
2663
2664Fixed a crash that occured when in Insert mode with completion active a
2665mapping caused edit() to be called recursively.
2666
2667When using CTRL-O in Insert mode just after the last character while
2668'virtualedit' is "all", then typing CR moved the last character to the next
2669line. Call coladvance() before starting the new line.
2670
2671When using ":shell" and in the command line window ignore clicks on the tab
2672page labels.
2673
2674When 'eventignore' is "all" then ignoring some events, e.g., for ":vimgrep",
2675would actually trigger more events.
2676
2677Win32: When a running Vim uses server name GVIM1 then "gvim --remote fname"
2678doesn't find it. When looking for a server name that doesn't end in a digit
2679and it is not found then use another server that is found (just like Unix).
2680
2681When using "double" in 'spellsuggest' when the language doesn't support sound
2682folding resulted in too many suggestions.
2683
2684Win32: Dropping a shortcut on the Vim icon did't edit the referred file like
2685editing it in another way would. Use fname_expand() in buf_set_name() instead
2686of simply make the file name a full path.
2687
Bram Moolenaar437df8f2006-04-27 21:47:44 +00002688Using feedkeys() could cause Vim to hang.
2689
2690When closing another tab page from the tabline menu in Insert mode the tabline
2691was not updated right away.
2692
2693The syntax menu didn't work in compatible mode.
2694
2695After using ":ta id" twice with the same "id", ":ts" and then ":pop" a ":ts"
2696reported no matching tag. Clear the cached tag name.
2697
2698In Insert mode the matchparen plugin highlighted the wrong paren when there is
2699a string just next to a paren.
2700
Bram Moolenaar8ea91232006-04-28 22:41:43 +00002701GTK: After opening a new tab page the text was sometimes not drawn correctly.
2702Flush output and catch up with events when updating the tab page labels.
2703
2704Using CTRL-W q to close the last window of a tab page could cause a crash in
2705the GUI.
2706
2707GTK: The tab pages line menu was not converted from 'encoding' to utf-8.
2708
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +00002709
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002710 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: