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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 Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000026Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000027Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +000028Scroll back in messages |new-scroll-back|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000029POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000030Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +000031Remote file explorer |new-netrw-explore|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032Various new items |new-items-7|
33
34IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
35
36COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
37
38BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
39
40==============================================================================
41INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
42
43These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000044run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
45
46A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
47unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
48buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
49all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
50":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000052":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
53
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
55name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
56double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
57 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
58 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
59 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
60 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
61
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000062In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
63":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
64results in "a'b".
65
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000066When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
67was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
68
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000069The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
70
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000071
72Minor incompatibilities:
73
74For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
75*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
76
77":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
78
79Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
80
81Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
82confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000083
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000084When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
85isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
86
87The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000088looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
89"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
90Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000091Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000092
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000093Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
94on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
95changing 'winaltkeys'.
96
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000097When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
98is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
99avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000100
101When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
102now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
103encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
104possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
105non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
106
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000107Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
108a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
109
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000110"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
111Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
112
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000113Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
114disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
115you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
116translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
117<xF1>, etc.
118
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000119":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
120
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000121When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
122file exists.
123
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000124When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
125s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
126compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
127
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000128"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
129that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
130where the type is given.
131
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000132==============================================================================
133NEW FEATURES *new-7*
134
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000135Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
136-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000137
138In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
139
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000140 List ordered list of items |List|
141 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
142 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000143
144Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
145
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000146The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
147variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
148can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
149
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000150The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
151expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
152
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000153With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
154wastes its time.
155
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000156
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000157Spell checking *new-spell*
158--------------
159
160Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
161with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
162
163The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
164The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000165The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000166The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000167
168The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
169The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
170The |z?| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000171The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000172
173The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
174mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
175The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
176background.
177The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
178220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000179with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
180highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000181
182Much more info here: |spell|.
183
184
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000185Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
186-----------------
187
188This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
189smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
190figure out what could be following. This considers struct and class members,
191unions, etc.
192
193Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
194
195The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
196figures out the completion.
197
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000198Currently supported languages:
199 C |ft-c-omni|
200 XHTML |ft-html-omni|
201
202When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
203completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000204
205
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000206MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
207------------------
208
209The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
210The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
211The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
212
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000213
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000214Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
215------------------
216
217The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
218The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
219Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
220
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000221
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000222Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
223-----------------------
224
225The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000226several other languages.
227
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000228French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000229Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
230Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000231
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000232The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
233.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
234standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
235is used there as a best guess.
236Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000237The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
238with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
239do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000240
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000241
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000242Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
243-------------
244
245The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
246This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
247better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
248patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
249|:vimgrep|.
250
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000251If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000252|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000253
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000254To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
255expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
256places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
257
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000258
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000259Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
260-----------------------
261
262When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
263'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
264is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
265":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
266commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
267Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
268
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000269The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
270hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
271
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000272
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000273POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
274-------------------
275
276The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
277problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
278conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
279variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
280
281Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
282- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
283 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
284- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
285 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
286- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
287 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
288- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
289 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
290 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
291 digit.
292- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
293- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
294 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000295- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
296- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
297- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
298 above or below the new lines.
299- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
300- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
301 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
302- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
303 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
304- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
305 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
306- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
307 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
308- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
309- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
310- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
311- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
312- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
313- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
314 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000315- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
316- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000317- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000318
319
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000320Debugger support *new-debug-support*
321----------------
322
323The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
324balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
325mouse pointer.
326
327
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000328Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
329--------------------
330
331The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
332Deleting and renaming files is possible.
333
334To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
335integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
336works the same way.
337
338":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
339and a GUI dialog is not possible.
340
341The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
342
343
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000344Various new items *new-items-7*
345-----------------
346
347Normal mode commands: ~
348
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000349a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000350i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000351
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000352CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
353 location of the error under the cursor.
354
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000355|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
356
357
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000358Insert mode commands: ~
359
360CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
361 without moving the cursor.
362
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000363Options: ~
364
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000365'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
366 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
367 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000368'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000369'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000370'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
371 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000372'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
373 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000374'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000375'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
376'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000377'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
378 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000379'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
380 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
381 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000382'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
383 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000384'spell' switch spell checking on/off
385'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000386'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000387'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
388 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000389'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000390
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000391
392Ex commands: ~
393
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000394Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
395
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000396|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000397
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000398|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000399
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000400|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
401 windows.
402
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000403|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
404
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000405|:delmarks| Delete marks.
406
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000407|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
408
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000409|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
410
411|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
412
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000413|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
414 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000415
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000416|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
417 external command.
418
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000419|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
420 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
421
422|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
423 Lakshmanan).
424
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000425
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000426New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000427
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000428|add()| append an item to a List
429|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000430|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
431|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000432|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000433|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
434|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000435|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
436|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
437|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
438|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000439|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000440|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
441 Dictionary to another
442|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000443|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
444|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
445|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000446|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
447|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000448|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000449 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000450|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
451 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000452|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
453|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
454|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
455|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000456|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000457|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000458|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
459|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
460|join()| join List items into a String
461|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
462|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
463|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000464|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000465|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
466|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000467|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000468|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000469|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000470|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000471|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000472|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000473|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000474|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000475|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000476|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000477|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000478|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
479|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000480|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
481|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
482|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
483|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000484|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000485|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000486
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000487User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
488directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
489
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000490
491New autocommand events: ~
492
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000493|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
494|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
495|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000496
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000497|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000498|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
499|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000500|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000501
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000502
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000503New items in search patterns: ~
504|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
505|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
506|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
507|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
508|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
509|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
510|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
511|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
512|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
513|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
514 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000515|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
516|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000517
518Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
519
520It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
521useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000522
523
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000524New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
525
526MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
527
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000528ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
529
530SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
531
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000532PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
533
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000534Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
535
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000536Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
537
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000538Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
539
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000540Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
541
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000542Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
543Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
544different value.
545
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000546
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000547New Keymaps: ~
548
549Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
550
551
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000552New message translations: ~
553
554The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
555
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000556Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
557
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000558Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
559
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000560
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000561Others: ~
562
563Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
564character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
565Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
566"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000567
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000568Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000569
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000570Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
571
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000572GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000573
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000574Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
575
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000576Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000577
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000578Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
579event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
580file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
581
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000582Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
583To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
584they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
585
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000586Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
587when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
588|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
589
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000590For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
591|xterm-modifier-keys|
592
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000593When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
594item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000595When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
596":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
597(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000598
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000599":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
600
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000601"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
602the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
603
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000604'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
605window height.
606
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000607The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
608your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
609
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000610==============================================================================
611IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
612
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000613":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
614
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000615Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
616
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000617When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
618range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
619
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000620The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
621iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
622allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
623matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
624
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000625":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
626breakpoint at the cursor.
627
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000628The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
629few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000630
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000631Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
632it. (Johannes Zellner)
633
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000634Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
635
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000636Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000637does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000638autocommands.
639
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000640For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
641- square brackets are recognized properly
642- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
643- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
644
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000645Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
646
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000647winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
648Lakshmanan)
649
650Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
651
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000652When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
653delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
654actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
655
656When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
657Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
658(Michael Geddes)
659
660The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
661
662VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
663upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
664(Zoltan Arpadffy)
665
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000666For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
667of buffers.
668
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000669The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
670have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
671
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000672When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
673the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
674
675Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
676digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
677
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000678When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
679buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
680list.
681
682Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
683(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
684
685When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
686second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
687line is just "/*".
688
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000689When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
690mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
691edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
692the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
693used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
694more reliable.
695
696Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
697in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
698"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
699with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
700
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000701Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
702incremented/decremented each time.
703
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000704Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000705contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
706a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
707
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000708When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
709
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000710Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
711
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000712":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000713invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
714
715":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
716(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000717
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000718":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000719
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000720The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
721messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
722log startup messages.
723
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000724":let g:" lists global variables.
725":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
726":let w:" lists window-local variables.
727":let v:" lists Vim variables.
728
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000729The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
730searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000731
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000732The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
733for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
734
735The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
736the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
737
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000738g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
739bytes.
740
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000741Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
742":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
743
744CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
745ignored.
746
747When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
748will result in a message with the source of the error.
749
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000750When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
751":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
752
753To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
754been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
755
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000756The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +0000757'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000758
759The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
760variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
761to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000762
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000763Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
764possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
765and the * stands for the modifier code.
766Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
767the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
768modifiers.
769
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000770getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
771window.
772
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000773Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
774
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000775GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
776Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
777
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000778Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
779used.
780
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000781Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
782click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
783restarted.
784
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +0000785When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
786= value" can be used to set the register contents.
787
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +0000788A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
789pointer position instead of the text cursor.
790
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000791The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
792such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
793prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000794When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000795
796Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
797user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000798Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
799Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +0000800
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000801Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
802(Sergey Khorev)
803
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000804The 's' flag is added to the search() and searchpair() function to set the
805' mark if the cursor is moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
806
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000807For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
808character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
809could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
810pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
811included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
812
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000813For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
814sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
815
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000816When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000817characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000818
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000819When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
820COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
821
822Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
823
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000824When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
825closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
826
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000827input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
828completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
829
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000830"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
831'modifiable' is set.
832
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +0000833When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
834matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
835
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000836Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
837directory. |load-plugins|
838
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +0000839In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
840opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
841
842It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
843in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
844
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +0000845Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
846
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000847":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
848added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
849
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +0000850In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
851more logical. (Robert Webb)
852
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000853==============================================================================
854COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
855
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000856Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
857probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
858and merge it back in.
859
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000860Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
861its final destination. (Raf)
862
863Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
864still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
865file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000866
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000867When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
868following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
869
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000870When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
871to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
872allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
873to store the ":quit" command.
874
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000875Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
876
877Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
878what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
879functions.
880
881Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
882without copying the code.
883
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000884Mac: When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
885Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
886runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
887
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000888==============================================================================
889BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
890
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000891When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
892instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
893work. Use "LPT1" then.
894
895The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
896size. Use a default size of 10.
897
898This example in the documentation didn't work:
899 :e `=foo . ".c" `
900Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
901
902When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
903
904"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
905
906Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
907when it doesn't support MDI.
908
909Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
910
911"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
912space.
913
914Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
915SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
916for doesn't have an extension.
917
918When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
919may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
920cursor and not putting it back where it was.
921
922When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
923not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
924to make it work the old way.
925
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000926When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
927filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
928
929After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
930
931Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
932fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000933
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000934On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
935Michele)
936
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000937Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
938CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
939
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000940When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
941ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
942
943Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +0000944characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
945twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000946
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000947When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
948variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
949
950'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
951is indented too much.
952
953When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
954alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
955items.
956
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000957Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
958active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
959
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000960The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
961"cn" or "tw" as intended.
962
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000963When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
964after the last line while it's not there.
965
966Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
967resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
968
969Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
970string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
971
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000972When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
973contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
974and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
975
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000976strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
977
978GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
979just before it is invoked
980
981VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
982environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
983
984UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
985from the first character of the word.
986
987When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
988detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
989
990When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
991but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
992
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000993When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
994list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
995interrupting this.
996
997When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
998used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
999and global options remain unmodified.
1000
1001Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1002command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1003file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1004
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001005Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1006default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1007
1008When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1009xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1010line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1011
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001012Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1013
1014When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1015going to be used like a command.
1016
1017GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1018GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1019
1020GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1021
1022Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1023line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1024console version.
1025
1026Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1027there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1028
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001029When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1030files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1031directory for the library early in the link flags.
1032
1033With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1034literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1035
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001036When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1037cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1038
1039When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1040buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1041
1042Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1043problems for Terminal.app.
1044
1045When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1046end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1047argument.
1048
1049When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1050has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1051back.
1052
1053When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1054was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1055
1056When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1057"cancel", would still give an error message.
1058
1059The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1060mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1061
1062Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1063keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1064
1065Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1066
1067In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1068selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1069is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1070
1071GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1072GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1073
1074After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1075
1076When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1077doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001078Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1079handle. Added handle_signal().
1080
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001081When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1082white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1083
1084When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1085long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1086being found in a library.
1087
1088When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1089may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1090
1091Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1092is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1093
1094When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1095original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1096empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1097be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1098the values when recovering.
1099
1100":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1101message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1102
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001103Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1104when building the ":drop" command.
1105
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001106A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1107E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1108
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001109"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1110does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1111
1112When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1113moved the cursor to another column.
1114
1115When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1116quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1117fold.
1118
1119In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1120break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1121
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001122Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001123
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001124Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001125(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001126
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001127When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1128not included.
1129
1130Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1131Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1132
1133When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1134the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1135
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001136Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1137
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001138When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1139(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1140mode. (Peter Winters)
1141
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001142"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1143
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001144Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1145not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001146Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001147
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001148When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1149lines" overwrites the message.
1150
1151Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1152
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001153When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1154after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1155column in the wrong line.
1156
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001157When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1158starts with "sl".
1159
1160When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1161'paste' when starting the GUI.
1162
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001163A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1164
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001165When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1166Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1167mapping.
1168
1169Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1170
1171":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1172
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001173When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1174in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1175
1176When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1177empty $SHELL value.
1178
1179A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1180file.
1181
1182When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1183moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1184
1185When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1186the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1187is Vi compatible.
1188
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001189Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1190Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1191$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1192
1193Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1194flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1195
1196Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1197compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1198
1199When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1200leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1201'cpoptions' for this.
1202
1203Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1204
1205Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1206be Vi compatible.
1207
1208When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1209request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1210shell and caused trouble there.
1211
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001212When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1213still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1214Lakshmanan)
1215
1216It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1217sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1218
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001219When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1220from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1221
1222When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1223
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001224Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1225unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1226
1227":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1228
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001229The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1230are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1231
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001232Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1233indirectly invokes ":normal".
1234
1235Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1236before invoking "diff".
1237
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001238Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1239&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1240
1241When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1242locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1243mouse model.
1244
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001245When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1246characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1247is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1248character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1249
1250Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001251":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001252
1253Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1254
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001255Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1256real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1257
1258Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1259always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1260
1261When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1262detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1263compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1264decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1265
1266Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1267to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1268Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1269
1270"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1271
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001272When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1273Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1274
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001275In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1276and reset it in nv_home().
1277
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001278Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1279spaces inside backticks.
1280
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001281After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1282let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1283This should be the most useful thing to do.
1284
1285":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1286an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1287
1288In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1289reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1290
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001291When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1292call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001293This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001294
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001295GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1296after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1297win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1298
1299Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1300column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1301mouse column to 10000.
1302
1303searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1304we find the same position again and advance one character.
1305
1306When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1307to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1308
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001309When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1310prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1311
1312When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1313substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1314
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001315Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1316when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1317checks where invoking them
1318
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001319":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1320show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1321
1322When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1323
1324GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1325removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1326change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1327Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1328'lines' to undo this.
1329
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001330After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1331":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1332
1333When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1334may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1335character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1336so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1337
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001338setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1339
1340It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001341It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1342
1343CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001344
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001345When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1346given. Now report the first encountered error.
1347
1348When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
1349caused a fallback to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
1350continue.
1351
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001352When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1353the global value.
1354
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001355Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1356200 characters.
1357
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001358When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1359the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1360\+foo".
1361
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001362When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1363message would be in the wrong position.
1364
1365At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1366
1367When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1368were not set.
1369
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001370Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1371
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001372The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1373
1374Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1375and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1376Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1377
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001378For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1379in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1380while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1381highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1382
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001383Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1384Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1385
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001386Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1387Lakshmanan)
1388
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001389When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1390would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1391
1392When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1393searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1394
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001395GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1396redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1397
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001398Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1399Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1400reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1401
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001402Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1403
1404There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1405existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1406available.
1407
1408In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1409sticking to the first column.
1410
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001411When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1412echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1413
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001414Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1415
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001416 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: