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Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2006 Mar 16
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000023Omni completion |new-omni-completion|
Bram Moolenaarfb670262005-06-05 22:06:27 +000024MzScheme interface |new-MzScheme|
25Printing multi-byte text |new-print-multi-byte|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000026Tab pages |new-tab-pages|
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +000027Undo branches |new-undo-branches|
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +000028Extended Unicode support |new-more-unicode|
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029More highlighting |new-more-highlighting|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000031Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000032Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +000033Cursor past end of the line |new-onemore|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000034POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000035Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000036Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +000037Define an operator |new-define-operator|
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000038Mapping to an expression |new-map-expression|
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +000039Location list |new-location-list|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040Various new items |new-items-7|
41
42IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
43
44COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
45
46BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
47
48==============================================================================
49INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
50
51These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000052run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
53
54A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
55unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
56buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
57all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
58":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000060":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
61
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000062In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
63name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
64double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
65 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
66 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
67 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
68 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
69
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000070In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
71":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
72results in "a'b".
73
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000074When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
75was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
76
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000077The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
78
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000079
80Minor incompatibilities:
81
82For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
83*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
84
85":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
86
87Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
88
89Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
90confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000091
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000092When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
93isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
94
95The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000096looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
97"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
98Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000099Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000100
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000101Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
102on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
103changing 'winaltkeys'.
104
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000105When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
106is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
107avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000108
109When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
110now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
111encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
112possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
113non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
114
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000115Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
116a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
117
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000118"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
119Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
120
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000121Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
122disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
123you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
124translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
125<xF1>, etc.
126
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000127":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
128
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000129When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
130file exists.
131
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000132When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
133s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
134compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
135
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000136"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
137that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
138where the type is given.
139
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000140The line continuation in functions was not taken into account, line numbers in
141errors were logical lines, not lines in the sourced file. That made it
142difficult to locate errors. Now the line number in the sourced file is
143reported, relative to the function start. This also means that line numbers
144for ":breakadd func" are different.
145
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000146==============================================================================
147NEW FEATURES *new-7*
148
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000149Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
150-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000151
152In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
153
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000154 List ordered list of items |List|
155 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
156 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000157
158Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
159
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000160The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
161variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
162can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
163
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000164The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
165expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
166
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000167With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
168wastes its time.
169
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000170In the Python interface vim.eval() also handles Dictionaries and Lists.
171|python-eval| (G. Sumner Hayes)
172
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000173
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000174Spell checking *new-spell*
175--------------
176
177Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
178with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
179
180The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
181The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000182The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000183The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000184
185The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
186The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000187The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000188The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000189
190The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
191mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
192The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
193background.
194The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
195220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000196with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
197highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000198
199Much more info here: |spell|.
200
201
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000202Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
203-----------------
204
205This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
206smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000207figure out what could be following. This may suggest struct and class
208members, system functions, etc.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000209
210Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
211
212The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
213figures out the completion.
214
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000215Currently supported languages:
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000216 C |ft-c-omni|
217 (X)HTML with CSS |ft-html-omni|
218 JavaScript |ft-javascript-omni|
219 any language wih syntax highligting |ft-syntax-omni|
220 XML |ft-xml-omni|
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000221
222When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
223completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000224
225
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000226MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
227------------------
228
229The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
230The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
231The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
232
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000233
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000234Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
235------------------
236
237The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
238The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
239Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
240
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000241
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000242Tab pages *new-tab-pages*
243---------
244
245A tab page is page with one or more windows with a label (aka tab) at the top.
246By clicking on the label you can quickly switch between the tab pages. And
247with the keyboard, using the |gt| (Goto Tab) command. This is a convenient
248way to work with many windows.
249
250To start Vim with each file argument in a separate tab page use the |-p|
251argument. The maximum number of pages can be set with 'tabpagemax'.
252
253The line with tab labels is either made with plain text an highlighting or
254with a GUI mechanism. The GUI labels look better but are only available on a
255few systems. The line can be customized with 'tabline' and 'guitablabel'.
256Whether it is displayed is set with 'showtabline'. Whether to use the GUI
257labels is set with the "e" flag in 'guioptions'.
258
259The |:tab| command modifier can be used to have most commands that open a new
260window open a new tab instead.
261
Bram Moolenaar0ce29932006-03-13 22:18:45 +0000262The |--remote-tab| argument can be used to edit a file in a new tab page in an
263already running Vim server.
264
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000265More info here: |tabpage|
266
267
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000268Undo branches *new-undo-branches*
269-------------
270
271Previously there was only one line of undo-redo. If, after undoing a number
272of changes, a new change was made all the undone changes were lost. This
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000273could lead to accidentally losing work.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000274
275Vim now makes an undo branch in this situation. Thus you can go back to the
276text after any change, even if they were undone. So long as you do not run
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000277into 'undolevels', undo information is freed up to limit the memory used.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000278
279To be able to navigate the undo branches each change is numbered sequentially.
280The commands |g-| and |:earlier| go back in time, to older changes. The
281commands |g+| and |:later| go forward in time, to newer changes.
282
283The changes are also timestamped. Use ":earlier 10m" to go to the text as it
284was about ten minutes earlier.
285
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000286The |:undolist| command can be used to get an idea of which undo branches
287exist. The |:undo| command now takes an argument to directly jump to a
288specific position in this list.
289
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000290There is no graphical display of the tree with changes, navigation can be
291quite confusing.
292
293
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000294Extended Unicode support *new-more-unicode*
295------------------------
296
297Previously only two combining characters were displayed. The limit is now
298raised to 6. This can be set with the 'maxcombine' option. The default is
299still 2.
300
301|ga| now shows all combining characters, not just the first two.
302
303Previously only 16 bit Unicode characters were supported for displaying. Now
304the full 32 bit character set can be used. Unless manually disabled at
305compile time.
306
307For pattern matching it is now possible to search for individual composing
308characters. |patterns-composing|
309
310
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000311More highlighting *new-more-highlighting*
312-----------------
313
314Highlighting matching parens
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000315
316When moving the cursor through the text and it is on a paren, then the
317matching paren can be highlighted. This uses the new |CursorMoved|
318autocommand event.
319
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000320See |matchparen| for more information.
321
322The plugin uses the |:match| command. It now supports three match patterns.
323The plugin uses the third one. The first one is for the user and the second
324one can be used by another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000325
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000326Highlighting the cursor line and column
327
328The 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' options have been added. These highlight
329the screen line and screen column of the cursor. This makes the cursor
330position easier to spot. 'cursorcolumn' is also useful to align text. The
331CursorColumn and CursorLine highlighting allow changing the colors used.
332|hl-CursorColumn| |hl-CursorLine|
333
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000334
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000335Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
336-----------------------
337
338The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000339several other languages.
340
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000341French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000342Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
343Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000344
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000345The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
346.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
347standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
348is used there as a best guess.
349Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000350The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
351with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
352do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000353
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000354
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000355Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
356-------------
357
358The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
359This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
360better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
361patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
362|:vimgrep|.
363
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000364If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000365|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000366
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000367To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
368expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
369places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
370
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000371
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000372Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
373-----------------------
374
375When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
376'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
377is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
378":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
379commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
380Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
381
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000382The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
383hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
384
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000385
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000386Cursor past end of the line *new-onemore*
387---------------------------
388
389When the 'virtualedit' option contains "onemore" the cursor can move just past
390the end of the line. As if it's on top of the line break.
391
392This makes some commands more consistent. Previously the cursor was always
393past the end of the line if the line was empty. But it is far from Vi
394compatible. It may also break some plugins or Vim scripts. Use with care!
395
396The patch was provided by Mattias Flodin.
397
398
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000399POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
400-------------------
401
402The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
403problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
404conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
405variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
406
407Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
408- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
409 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
410- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
411 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
412- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
413 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
414- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
415 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
416 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
417 digit.
418- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
419- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
420 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000421- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
422- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
423- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
424 above or below the new lines.
425- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
426- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
427 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
428- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
429 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
430- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
431 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
432- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
433 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
434- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
435- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
436- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
437- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
438- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
439- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
440 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000441- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
442- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000443- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000444
445
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000446Debugger support *new-debug-support*
447----------------
448
449The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
450balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
451mouse pointer.
452
453
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000454Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
455--------------------
456
457The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
458Deleting and renaming files is possible.
459
460To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
461integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
462works the same way.
463
464":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
465and a GUI dialog is not possible.
466
467The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
468
469
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000470Define an operator *new-define-operator*
471------------------
472
473Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
474followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
475|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
476operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
477through the |g@| operator.
478
479See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
480
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000481
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000482Mapping to an expression *new-map-expression*
483------------------------
484
485The {rhs} argument of a mapping can be an expression. That means the
486resulting characters can depend on the context. Example: >
487 :inoremap <expr> . InsertDot()
488Here the dot will be mapped to whatever InsertDot() returns.
489
490Also works for abbreviations. See |:map-<expr>| for the details.
491
492
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000493Location list *new-location-list*
494-------------
495
496The support for a per-window quickfix list (location list) is added. The
497location list can be displayed in a location window (similar to the quickfix
498window). You can open more than one location list window. A set of commands
499similar to the quickfix commands are added to browse the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000500(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
501
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000502
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000503Various new items *new-items-7*
504-----------------
505
506Normal mode commands: ~
507
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000508a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000509i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000510
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000511CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
512 location of the error under the cursor.
513
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000514|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
515
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000516<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
517<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
518 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000519
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +0000520gF Start editing the filename under the cursor and jump
521 to the line number following the file name.
522 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
523
524CTRL-W F Start editing the filename under the cursor in a new
525 window and jump to the line number following the file
526 name. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
527
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000528Insert mode commands: ~
529
530CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
531 without moving the cursor.
532
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000533Options: ~
534
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000535'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
536 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
537 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000538'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000539'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000540'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
541 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000542'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
543 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000544'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000545'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
546'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000547'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
548 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000549'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
550 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
551 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000552'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
553 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000554'formatexpr' expression for formatting text with |gq| and when text
555 goes over 'textwidth' in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000556'spell' switch spell checking on/off
557'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000558'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000559'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
560 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000561'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000562
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000563
564Ex commands: ~
565
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000566Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
567
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000568|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000569|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000570
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000571|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000572
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000573|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
574 windows.
575
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000576|:delmarks| Delete marks.
577
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000578|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
579
580|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
581
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000582|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
583 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000584
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000585|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
586 external command.
587
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000588|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
589 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
590
591|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
592 Lakshmanan).
593
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000594|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
595 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000596|:caddbuffer| Add errors from the current buffer to the quickfix
597 list.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000598
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000599|:lfile| Like |:cfile| but use the location list.
600|:lgetfile| Like |:cgetfile| but use the location list.
601|:laddfile| Like |:caddfile| but use the location list.
602|:lbuffer| Like |:cbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000603|:laddbuffer| Like |:caddbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000604|:lexpr| Like |:cexpr| but use the location list.
605|:laddexpr| Like |:caddexpr| but use the location list.
606|:ll| Like |:cc| but use the location list.
607|:llist| Like |:clist| but use the location list.
608|:lnext| Like |:cnext| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000609|:lprevious| Like |:cprevious| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000610|:lNext| Like |:cNext| but use the location list.
611|:lfirst| Like |:cfirst| but use the location list.
612|:lrewind| Like |:crewind| but use the location list.
613|:llast| Like |:clast| but use the location list.
614|:lnfile| Like |:cnfile| but use the location list.
615|:lpfile| Like |:cpfile| but use the location list.
616|:lNfile| Like |:cNfile| but use the location list.
617|:lolder| Like |:colder| but use the location list.
618|:lnewer| Like |:cnewer| but use the location list.
619|:lwindow| Like |:cwindow| but use the location list.
620|:lopen| Like |:copen| but use the location list.
621|:lclose| Like |:cclose| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000622|:lmake| Like |:make| but use the location list.
623|:lgrep| Like |:grep| but use the location list.
624|:lgrepadd| Like |:grepadd| but use the location list.
625|:lvimgrep| Like |:vimgrep| but use the location list.
626|:lvimgrepadd| Like |:vimgrepadd| but use the location list.
627|:lhelpgrep| Like |:helpgrep| but use the location list.
628|:lcscope| Like |:cscope| but use the location list.
629|:ltag| Jump to a tag and add matching tags to a location list.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000630
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000631|:undojoin| Join a change with the previous undo block.
632
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000633
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000634Ex command modifiers: ~
635
636|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
637
638|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
639
640|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
641
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000642
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000643Ex command arguments: ~
644
645|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
646 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
647 Matsumoto)
648 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
649 are found include the line number in the error
650 message.
651
652
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000653New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000654
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000655|add()| append an item to a List
656|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000657|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
658|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000659|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000660|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
661|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000662|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
663|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000664|cursor()| also accepts an offset for 'virtualedit', and
665 the first argument can be a list: [lnum, col, off]
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000666|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
667|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000668|getloclist()| list of location list items (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000669|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000670|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
671 Dictionary to another
672|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000673|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
674|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
675|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000676|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
677|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000678|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000679 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000680|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
681 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000682|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
683|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
684|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
685|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000686|getpos()| return a list with the position of cursor, mark, etc.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000687|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000688|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000689|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
690|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
691|join()| join List items into a String
692|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
693|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
694|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000695|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000696|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
697|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000698|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000699|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000700|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000701|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000702|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000703|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000704|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000705|searchpairpos()| return a List with the position of the match
706|searchpos()| return a List with the position of the match
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000707|setloclist()| modify a location list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
708|setqflist()| modify a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000709|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000710|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000711|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000712|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
713|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000714|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
715|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
716|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
717|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000718|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000719|winrestview()| restore the view of the current window
720|winsaveview()| save the view of the current window
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000721|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000722
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000723User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
724directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
725
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000726
727New autocommand events: ~
728
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000729|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
730|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
731|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000732
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000733|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000734|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
735|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000736|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000737
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000738|SpellFileMissing| when a spell file can't be found
739
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000740|ShellCmdPost| after executing a shell command
741|ShellFilterPost| after filtering with a shell command
742
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +0000743|VimResized| after the Vim window size changed (Yakov Lerner)
744
745|FileChangedShellPost| after handling a file changed outside of Vim
746
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000747|SourcePre| before sourcing a Vim script
748
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +0000749|CursorHoldI| the user doesn't press a key for a while in Insert mode
750|CursorMoved| the cursor was moved in Normal mode
751|CursorMovedI| the cursor was moved in Insert mode
752
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000753
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000754New items in search patterns: ~
755|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
756|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
757|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
758|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
759|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
760|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
761|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
762|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
763|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
764|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
765 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000766
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000767|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
768|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000769
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000770|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
771|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
772|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
773|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
774
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000775Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
776
777It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
778useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000779
780
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000781New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
782
783MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
784
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000785ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
786
787SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
788
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000789Handling of various SQL variants. (David Fishburn)
790
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000791PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
792
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000793Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
794
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000795Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
796
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000797Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
798
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000799Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
800
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000801Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
802Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
803different value.
804
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000805VHDL indent file (Gerald Lai)
806
Bram Moolenaar2a3f7ee2006-02-23 21:34:44 +0000807MGL syntax file. (Gero Kuhlmann)
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000808
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000809rd syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
810
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000811New Keymaps: ~
812
813Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
814
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +0000815Tamil in TSCII encoding (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
816
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000817
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000818New message translations: ~
819
820The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
821
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000822Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
823
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000824Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
825
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000826
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000827Others: ~
828
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000829The Netbeans interface was updated for Sun Studio 10. The protocol number
830goes from 2.2 to 2.3. (Gordon Prieur)
831
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000832Mac: When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000833define default command-key mappings. (mostly by Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000834
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000835Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
836character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
837Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
838"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000839
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000840Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000841
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000842Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
843
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000844Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000845
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000846Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
847event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
848file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
849
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000850Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000851GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
852
853Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
854
855Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
856
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000857To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
858they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
859
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000860Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
861when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
862|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
863
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000864For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
865|xterm-modifier-keys|
866
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000867When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
868item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000869When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
870":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
871(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000872
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000873":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
874
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000875"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
876the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
877
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000878'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
879window height.
880
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000881The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
882your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
883
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000884To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
885is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
886been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
887can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
888other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +0000889When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
890the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000891
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +0000892Undo now also restores the '< and '> marks. "gv" selects the same area as
893before the change and undo.
894
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000895When editing a search pattern for a "/" or "?" command and 'incsearch' is set
896CTRL-L can be used to add a character from the current match. CTRL-R CTRL-W
897will add a word, but exclude the part of the word that was already typed.
898
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000899==============================================================================
900IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
901
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000902":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
903
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000904Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
905
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000906When doing completion for ":!cmd", ":r !cmd" or ":w !cmd" executable files are
907found in $PATH instead of looking for ordinary files in the current directlry.
908
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000909When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
910range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
911
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000912The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
913iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
914allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
915matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
916
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000917Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
918happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
919'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
920
921Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
922CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
923that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
924from happening.
925
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000926":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
927breakpoint at the cursor.
928
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +0000929It is now possible to define a function with: >
930 :exe "func Test()\n ...\n endfunc"
931
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000932The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
933few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000934
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000935Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
936it. (Johannes Zellner)
937
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +0000938Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
939of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
940"os_unix.c".
941
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000942Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
943
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000944Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000945does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000946autocommands.
947
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000948For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
949- square brackets are recognized properly
950- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
951- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
952
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000953Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
954
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000955winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
956Lakshmanan)
957
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000958Added 's' flag to search(): set ' mark if cursor moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000959Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000960Added 'c' flag to search(): accept match at the cursor.
961Added 'e' flag to search(): move to end of the match. (Benji Fisher)
962Added 'p' flag to search(): return number of sub-pattern. (Benji Fisher)
963These also apply to searchpos(), searchpair() and searchpairpos().
964The search() and searchpair() functions have an extra argument to specify
965where to stop searching. Speeds up searches that should not continue too far.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000966
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000967When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
968delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
969actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
970
971When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
972Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
973(Michael Geddes)
974
975The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
976
977VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
978upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
979(Zoltan Arpadffy)
980
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000981For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
982of buffers.
983
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000984When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
985the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
986
987Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
988digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
989
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000990When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
991buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
992list.
993
994Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
995(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
996
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000997Win32: Vim was not aware of hard links on NTFS file systems. These are
998detected now for when 'backupcopy' is "auto". Also fixed a bogus "file has
999been changed since reading it" error for links.
1000
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001001When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
1002second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
1003line is just "/*".
1004
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001005When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
1006mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
1007edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
1008the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
1009used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
1010more reliable.
1011
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001012Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
1013of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
1014file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
1015
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001016Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
1017in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
1018"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
1019with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
1020
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001021Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
1022incremented/decremented each time.
1023
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001024Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001025contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
1026a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
1027
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001028When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
1029
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001030Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
1031
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001032":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001033invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
1034
1035":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
1036(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001037
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001038":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001039
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +00001040The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
1041messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
1042log startup messages.
1043
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001044":let g:" lists global variables.
1045":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
1046":let w:" lists window-local variables.
1047":let v:" lists Vim variables.
1048
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001049The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
1050searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001051
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001052The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
1053for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
1054
1055The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
1056the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
1057
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001058g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
1059bytes.
1060
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001061Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
1062":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
1063
1064CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
1065ignored.
1066
1067When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
1068will result in a message with the source of the error.
1069
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001070When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
1071":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
1072
1073To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
1074been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
1075
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001076In a |:substitute| command the \u, \U, \l and \L items now also work for
1077multi-byte characters.
1078
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001079The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001080'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001081
1082The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
1083variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
1084to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001085
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001086Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
1087possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
1088and the * stands for the modifier code.
1089Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
1090the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
1091modifiers.
1092
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001093getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
1094window.
1095
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001096Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1097
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001098GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
1099Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
1100
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001101Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
1102used.
1103
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +00001104Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
1105click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
1106restarted.
1107
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001108When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
1109= value" can be used to set the register contents.
1110
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001111A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
1112pointer position instead of the text cursor.
1113
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001114The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
1115such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
1116prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001117When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001118
1119Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
1120user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001121Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
1122Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001123
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001124Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
1125(Sergey Khorev)
1126
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001127For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
1128character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
1129could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
1130pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
1131included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
1132
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001133For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
1134sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
1135
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001136When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001137characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001138
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001139When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
1140COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1141
1142Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1143
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001144When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
1145closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
1146
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +00001147input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
1148completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1149
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001150"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
1151'modifiable' is set.
1152
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001153The 'diffopt' option has three new values: "horizontal", "vertical" and
1154"foldcolumn".
1155
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001156When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
1157matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
1158
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001159Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
1160directory. |load-plugins|
1161
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +00001162In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
1163opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
1164
1165It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
1166in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
1167
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +00001168Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
1169
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +00001170":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
1171added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
1172
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001173In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
1174more logical. (Robert Webb)
1175
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001176When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
1177file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
1178actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
1179'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
1180
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001181When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
1182then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
1183a hint that something might be wrong.
1184
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001185Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
1186
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001187In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
1188then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
1189inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
1190without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001191
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001192The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001193and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +00001194
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001195Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
1196itself.
1197
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001198":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
1199asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
1200
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001201Insert mode completion for whole lines now also searches unloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001202
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001203The colortest.vim script can now be invoked directly with ":source" or
1204":runtime".
1205
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001206The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
1207have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1208
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001209The 'statusline' option and other options that support the same format can now
1210use these new features:
1211- When it starts with "%!" the value is first evaluated as an expression
1212 before parsing the value.
1213- "%#HLname#" can be used to start highlighting with HLname.
1214
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001215When 'statusline' is set to something that causes an error message then it is
1216made empty to avoid an endless redraw loop. Also for other options, such at
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001217'tabline' and 'titlestring'. ":verbose set statusline" will mention that it
1218was set in an error handler.
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001219
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001220When there are several matching tags, the ":tag <name>" and CTRL-] commands
1221jump to the [count] matching tag. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1222
1223
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001224==============================================================================
1225COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
1226
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001227Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
1228probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
1229and merge it back in.
1230
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001231When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
1232following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
1233
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +00001234When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
1235to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
1236allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
1237to store the ":quit" command.
1238
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001239Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
1240
1241Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
1242what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
1243functions.
1244
1245Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
1246without copying the code.
1247
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001248--- Mac ---
1249
1250"make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to its
1251final destination. (Raf)
1252
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001253Put the runtime directory not directly in Vim.app but in
1254Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim, so that it's according to Mac specs.
1255
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001256Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and still
1257being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c file.
1258
1259When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001260Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
1261runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
1262
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001263Configure will attempt to build Vim for both Intel and PowerPC. The
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001264--with-mac-arch configure argument can change it.
1265
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001266--- Win32 ---
1267
1268The Make_mvc.mak file was adjusted to work with the latest MS compilers,
1269including the free version of Visual Studio 2005. (George Reilly)
1270
1271INSTALLpc.txt was updated for the recent changes. (George Reilly)
1272
1273The distributed executable is now produced with the free Visual C++ Toolkit
12742003 and other free SDK chunks. msvcsetup.bat was added to support this.
1275
1276Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
1277on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
1278
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001279==============================================================================
1280BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
1281
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001282When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
1283instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
1284work. Use "LPT1" then.
1285
1286The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
1287size. Use a default size of 10.
1288
1289This example in the documentation didn't work:
1290 :e `=foo . ".c" `
1291Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
1292
1293When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1294
1295"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1296
1297Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1298when it doesn't support MDI.
1299
1300Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1301
1302"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1303space.
1304
1305Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1306SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1307for doesn't have an extension.
1308
1309When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1310may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1311cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1312
1313When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1314not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1315to make it work the old way.
1316
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001317When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1318filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1319
1320After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1321
1322Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1323fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001324
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001325On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1326Michele)
1327
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001328Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1329CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1330
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001331When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1332ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1333
1334Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001335characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1336twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001337
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001338When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1339variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1340
1341'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1342is indented too much.
1343
1344When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1345alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1346items.
1347
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001348Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1349active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1350
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001351The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1352"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1353
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001354When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1355after the last line while it's not there.
1356
1357Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1358resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1359
1360Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1361string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1362
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001363When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1364contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1365and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1366
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001367strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1368
1369GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1370just before it is invoked
1371
1372VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1373environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1374
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +00001375VMS: Improved low level char input (affects just console mode). (Zoltan
1376Arpadffy)
1377
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001378UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1379from the first character of the word.
1380
1381When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1382detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1383
1384When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1385but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1386
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001387When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1388list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1389interrupting this.
1390
1391When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1392used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1393and global options remain unmodified.
1394
1395Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1396command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1397file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1398
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001399Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1400default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1401
1402When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1403xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1404line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1405
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001406Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1407
1408When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1409going to be used like a command.
1410
1411GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1412GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1413
1414GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1415
1416Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1417line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1418console version.
1419
1420Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1421there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1422
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001423When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1424files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1425directory for the library early in the link flags.
1426
1427With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1428literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1429
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001430When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1431cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1432
1433When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1434buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1435
1436Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1437problems for Terminal.app.
1438
1439When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1440end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1441argument.
1442
1443When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1444has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1445back.
1446
1447When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1448was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1449
1450When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1451"cancel", would still give an error message.
1452
1453The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1454mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1455
1456Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1457keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1458
1459Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1460
1461In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1462selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1463is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1464
1465GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1466GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1467
1468After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1469
1470When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1471doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001472Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1473handle. Added handle_signal().
1474
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001475When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1476white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1477
1478When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1479long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1480being found in a library.
1481
1482When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1483may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1484
1485Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1486is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1487
1488When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1489original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1490empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1491be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1492the values when recovering.
1493
1494":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1495message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1496
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001497Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1498when building the ":drop" command.
1499
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001500A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1501E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1502
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001503"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1504does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1505
1506When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1507moved the cursor to another column.
1508
1509When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1510quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1511fold.
1512
1513In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1514break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1515
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001516Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001517
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001518Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001519(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001520
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001521When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1522not included.
1523
1524Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1525Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1526
1527When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1528the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1529
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001530Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1531
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001532When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1533(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1534mode. (Peter Winters)
1535
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001536"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1537
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001538Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1539not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001540Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001541
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001542When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1543lines" overwrites the message.
1544
1545Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1546
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001547When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1548after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1549column in the wrong line.
1550
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001551When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1552starts with "sl".
1553
1554When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1555'paste' when starting the GUI.
1556
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001557A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1558
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001559When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1560Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1561mapping.
1562
1563Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1564
1565":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1566
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001567When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1568in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1569
1570When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1571empty $SHELL value.
1572
1573A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1574file.
1575
1576When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1577moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1578
1579When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1580the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1581is Vi compatible.
1582
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001583Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1584Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1585$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1586
1587Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1588flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1589
1590Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1591compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1592
1593When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1594leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1595'cpoptions' for this.
1596
1597Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1598
1599Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1600be Vi compatible.
1601
1602When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1603request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1604shell and caused trouble there.
1605
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001606When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1607still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1608Lakshmanan)
1609
1610It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1611sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1612
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001613When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1614from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1615
1616When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1617
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001618Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1619unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1620
1621":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1622
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001623The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1624are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1625
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001626Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1627indirectly invokes ":normal".
1628
1629Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1630before invoking "diff".
1631
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001632Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1633&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1634
1635When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1636locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1637mouse model.
1638
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001639When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1640characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1641is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1642character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1643
1644Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001645":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001646
1647Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1648
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001649Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1650real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1651
1652Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1653always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1654
1655When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1656detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1657compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1658decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1659
1660Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1661to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1662Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1663
1664"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1665
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001666When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1667Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1668
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001669In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1670and reset it in nv_home().
1671
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001672Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1673spaces inside backticks.
1674
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001675After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1676let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1677This should be the most useful thing to do.
1678
1679":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1680an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1681
1682In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1683reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1684
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001685When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1686call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001687This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001688
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001689GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1690after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1691win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1692
1693Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1694column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1695mouse column to 10000.
1696
1697searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1698we find the same position again and advance one character.
1699
1700When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1701to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1702
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001703When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1704prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1705
1706When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1707substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1708
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001709Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1710when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1711checks where invoking them
1712
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001713":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1714show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1715
1716When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1717
1718GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1719removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1720change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1721Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1722'lines' to undo this.
1723
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001724After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1725":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1726
1727When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1728may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1729character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1730so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1731
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001732setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1733
1734It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001735It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1736
1737CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001738
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001739When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1740given. Now report the first encountered error.
1741
1742When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001743caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001744continue.
1745
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001746When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1747the global value.
1748
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001749Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1750200 characters.
1751
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001752When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1753the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1754\+foo".
1755
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001756When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1757message would be in the wrong position.
1758
1759At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1760
1761When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1762were not set.
1763
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001764Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1765
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001766The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1767
1768Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1769and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1770Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1771
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001772For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1773in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1774while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1775highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1776
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001777Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1778Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1779
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001780Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1781Lakshmanan)
1782
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001783When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1784would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1785
1786When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1787searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1788
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001789GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1790redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1791
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001792Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1793Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1794reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1795
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001796Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1797
1798There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1799existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1800available.
1801
1802In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1803sticking to the first column.
1804
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001805When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1806echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1807
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001808Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1809
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001810When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
1811the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
1812
1813When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
1814":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
1815
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001816Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
1817causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
1818Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
1819
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001820The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
1821
1822Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
1823dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
1824of its output.
1825
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00001826When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
1827the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
1828typing the command line.
1829
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00001830'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
1831"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
1832
1833When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
1834appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
1835recording.
1836
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001837Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
1838that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
1839
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001840When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
1841writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
1842the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
1843buffer when creating a new file.
1844
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001845When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
1846string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
1847
1848When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001849to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001850incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
1851|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001852to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001853
1854"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
1855an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
1856
1857Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
1858when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
1859edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
1860getting a beep from the "l" command.
1861
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001862Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
1863the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
1864
1865When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
1866there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
1867
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00001868Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
1869arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
1870until after executing "-c" arguments.
1871
1872When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
1873break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
1874undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
1875
1876Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
1877happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
1878stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
1879Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
1880
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00001881When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
1882change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
1883When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
1884Added mf_set_dirty().
1885
1886Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
1887backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
1888
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001889A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
1890special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
1891
1892When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
1893!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
1894"!;&()<>".
1895
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001896When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
1897autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
1898
1899In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
1900the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
1901
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00001902Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
1903value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
1904
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00001905Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
1906After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
1907
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00001908The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
1909normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
1910actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
1911
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00001912The "load session" toolbar item could not handle a space or other special
1913characters in v:this_session.
1914
1915":set sta ts=8 sw=4 sts=2" deleted 4 spaces halfway a line instead of 2.
1916
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00001917In a multi-byte file the foldmarker could be recognized in the trail byte.
1918(Taro Muraoka)
1919
Bram Moolenaar0e5bd962006-02-04 00:59:56 +00001920Pasting with CTRL-V and menu didn't work properly when some commands are
1921mapped. Use ":normal!" instead of ":normal". (Tony Apuzzo)
1922
1923Crashed when expanding a file name argument in backticks.
1924
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +00001925In some situations the menu and scrollbar didn't work, when the value contains
1926a CSI byte. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
1927
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001928GTK GUI: When drawing the balloon focus changes and we might get a key release
1929event that removed the balloon again. Ignore the key release event.
1930
1931'titleold' was included in ":mkexrc" and ":mksession" files.
1932
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001933":set background&" didn't use the same logic as was used when starting up.
1934
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00001935When "umask" is set such that nothing is writable then the viminfo file would
1936be written without write permission. (Julian Bridle)
1937
Bram Moolenaar7e8fd632006-02-18 22:14:51 +00001938Motif: In diff mode dragging one scrollbar didn't update the scrollbar of the
1939other diff'ed window.
1940
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001941When editing in an xterm with a different number of colors than expected the
1942screen would be cleared and redrawn, causing the message about the edited file
1943to be cleared. Now set "keep_msg" to redraw the last message.
1944
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001945For a color terminal: When the Normal HL uses bold, possibly to make the color
1946lighter, and another HL group specifies a color it might become light as well.
1947Now reset bold if a HL group doesn't specify bold itself.
1948
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001949When using 256 color xterm the color 255 would show up as color 0. Use a
1950short instead of a char to store the color number.
1951
1952ml_get errors when searching for "\n\zs" in an empty file.
1953
Bram Moolenaara5621492006-02-25 21:55:24 +00001954When selecting a block and using "$" to select until the end of every line and
1955not highlighting the character under the cursor the first character of the
1956block could be unhighlighted.
1957
1958When counting words for the Visual block area and using "$" to select until
1959the end of every line only up to the length of the last line was counted.
1960
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001961"dip" in trailing empty lines left one empty line behind.
1962
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00001963The script ID was only remembered globally for each option. When a buffer- or
1964window-local option was set the same "last set" location was changed for all
1965buffers and windows. Now remember the script ID for each local option
1966separately.
1967
1968GUI: The "Replace All" button didn't handle backslashes in the replacement in
1969the same way as "Replace". Escape backslashes so that they are taken
1970literally.
1971
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001972When using Select mode from Insert mode and typing a key, causing lines to be
1973deleted and a message displayed, delayed the effect of inserting the key.
1974Now overwrite the message without delay.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00001975
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001976When 'whichwrap' includes "l" then "dl" and "yl" on a single letter line
1977worked differently. Now recognize all operators when using "l" at the end of
1978a line.
1979
1980GTK GUI: when the font selector returned a font name with a comma in it then
1981it would be handled like two font names. Now put a backslash before the
1982comma.
1983
1984MS-DOS, Win32: When 'encoding' defaults to "latin1" then the value for
1985'iskeyword' was still for CPxxx. And when 'nocompatible' was set 'isprint'
1986would also be the wrong value.
1987
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00001988When a command was defined not to take arguments and no '|' no warning message
1989would be given for using a '|'. Also with ":loadkeymap".
1990
Bram Moolenaara3227e22006-03-08 21:32:40 +00001991Motif: When using a fontset and 'encoding' is "utf-8" and sizeof(wchar_t) !=
1992sizeof(XChar2b) then display was wrong. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
1993
Bram Moolenaareb94e552006-03-11 21:35:11 +00001994":all" always set the current window to the first window, even when it
1995contains a buffer that is not in the argument list (can't be closed because it
1996is modified). Now go to the window that has the first item of the argument
1997list.
1998
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +00001999GUI: To avoid left-over pixels from bold text all characters after a character
2000with special attributes were redrawn. Now only do this for characters that
2001actually are bold. Speeds up displaying considerably.
2002
2003When only highlighting changes and the text is scrolled at the same time
2004everything is redraw instead of using a scroll and updating the changed text.
2005E.g., when using ":match" to highlight a paren that the cursor landed on.
2006Added SOME_VALID: Redraw the whole window but also try to scroll to minimize
2007redrawing.
2008
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002009 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: