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Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2006 Mar 21
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 Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +000039Visual and Select mode mappings |new-map-select|
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +000040Location list |new-location-list|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041Various new items |new-items-7|
42
43IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
44
45COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
46
47BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
48
49==============================================================================
50INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
51
52These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000053run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
54
55A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
56unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
57buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
58all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
59":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000061":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
62
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000063In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
64name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
65double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
66 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
67 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
68 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
69 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
70
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000071In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
72":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
73results in "a'b".
74
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +000075When overwriting a file with ":w! fname" there was no warning for when "fname"
76was being edited by another Vim. Vim now gives an error message |E768|.
77
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000078The support for Mac OS 9 has been removed.
79
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000080
81Minor incompatibilities:
82
83For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
84*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
85
86":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
87
88Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
89
90Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
91confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000092
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000093When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
94isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
95
96The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000097looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
98"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
99Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000100Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000101
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000102Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
103on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
104changing 'winaltkeys'.
105
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000106When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
107is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
108avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000109
110When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
111now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
112encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
113possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
114non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
115
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000116Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
117a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
118
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000119"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
120Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
121
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000122Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
123disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
124you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
125translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
126<xF1>, etc.
127
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000128":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
129
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000130When a .gvimrc file exists then 'compatible' is off, just like when a ".vimrc"
131file exists.
132
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +0000133When making a string upper-case with "vlllU" or similar then the German sharp
134s is replaced with "SS". This does not happen with "~" to avoid backwards
135compatibility problems and because "SS" can't be changed back to a sharp s.
136
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000137"gd" previously found the very first occurrence of a variable in a function,
138that could be the function argument without type. Now it finds the position
139where the type is given.
140
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000141The line continuation in functions was not taken into account, line numbers in
142errors were logical lines, not lines in the sourced file. That made it
143difficult to locate errors. Now the line number in the sourced file is
144reported, relative to the function start. This also means that line numbers
145for ":breakadd func" are different.
146
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000147When defining a user command with |:command| the special items could be
148abbreviated. This caused unexpected behavior, such as <li> being recognized
149as <line1>. The items can no longer be abbreviated.
150
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000151==============================================================================
152NEW FEATURES *new-7*
153
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000154Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
155-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000156
157In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
158
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000159 List ordered list of items |List|
160 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
161 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000162
163Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
164
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000165The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
166variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
167can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
168
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000169The |:let| command can now use "+=". ":let var += expr" works like
170":let var = var + expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000171
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000172With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
173wastes its time.
174
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000175In the Python interface vim.eval() also handles Dictionaries and Lists.
176|python-eval| (G. Sumner Hayes)
177
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000178The |getscript| plugin was added as a convenient way to update scripts from
179www.vim.org automatically. (Charles Campbell)
180
181The |vimball| plugin was added as a convenient way to distribute a set of
182files for a plugin (plugin file, autoload script, documentation). (Charles
183Campbell)
184
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000185
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000186Spell checking *new-spell*
187--------------
188
189Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
190with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
191
192The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
193The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000194The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000195The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000196
197The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
198The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000199The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000200The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000201
202The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
203mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
204The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
205background.
206The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
207220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000208with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
209highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000210
211Much more info here: |spell|.
212
213
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000214Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
215-----------------
216
217This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
218smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000219figure out what could be following. This may suggest struct and class
220members, system functions, etc.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000221
222Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
223
224The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
225figures out the completion.
226
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000227Currently supported languages:
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000228 C |ft-c-omni|
229 (X)HTML with CSS |ft-html-omni|
230 JavaScript |ft-javascript-omni|
231 any language wih syntax highligting |ft-syntax-omni|
232 XML |ft-xml-omni|
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000233
234When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
235completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000236
237
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000238MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
239------------------
240
241The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
242The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
243The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
244
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000245
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000246Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
247------------------
248
249The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
250The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
251Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
252
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000253
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000254Tab pages *new-tab-pages*
255---------
256
257A tab page is page with one or more windows with a label (aka tab) at the top.
258By clicking on the label you can quickly switch between the tab pages. And
259with the keyboard, using the |gt| (Goto Tab) command. This is a convenient
260way to work with many windows.
261
262To start Vim with each file argument in a separate tab page use the |-p|
263argument. The maximum number of pages can be set with 'tabpagemax'.
264
265The line with tab labels is either made with plain text an highlighting or
266with a GUI mechanism. The GUI labels look better but are only available on a
267few systems. The line can be customized with 'tabline' and 'guitablabel'.
268Whether it is displayed is set with 'showtabline'. Whether to use the GUI
269labels is set with the "e" flag in 'guioptions'.
270
271The |:tab| command modifier can be used to have most commands that open a new
272window open a new tab instead.
273
Bram Moolenaar0ce29932006-03-13 22:18:45 +0000274The |--remote-tab| argument can be used to edit a file in a new tab page in an
275already running Vim server.
276
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000277More info here: |tabpage|
278
279
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000280Undo branches *new-undo-branches*
281-------------
282
283Previously there was only one line of undo-redo. If, after undoing a number
284of changes, a new change was made all the undone changes were lost. This
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000285could lead to accidentally losing work.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000286
287Vim now makes an undo branch in this situation. Thus you can go back to the
288text after any change, even if they were undone. So long as you do not run
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000289into 'undolevels', undo information is freed up to limit the memory used.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000290
291To be able to navigate the undo branches each change is numbered sequentially.
292The commands |g-| and |:earlier| go back in time, to older changes. The
293commands |g+| and |:later| go forward in time, to newer changes.
294
295The changes are also timestamped. Use ":earlier 10m" to go to the text as it
296was about ten minutes earlier.
297
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000298The |:undolist| command can be used to get an idea of which undo branches
299exist. The |:undo| command now takes an argument to directly jump to a
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000300specific position in this list. The |changenr()| function can be used to
301obtain the change number.
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000302
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000303There is no graphical display of the tree with changes, navigation can be
304quite confusing.
305
306
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000307Extended Unicode support *new-more-unicode*
308------------------------
309
310Previously only two combining characters were displayed. The limit is now
311raised to 6. This can be set with the 'maxcombine' option. The default is
312still 2.
313
314|ga| now shows all combining characters, not just the first two.
315
316Previously only 16 bit Unicode characters were supported for displaying. Now
317the full 32 bit character set can be used. Unless manually disabled at
318compile time.
319
320For pattern matching it is now possible to search for individual composing
321characters. |patterns-composing|
322
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000323The |8g8| command searches for an illegal UTF-8 byte sequence.
324
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000325
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000326More highlighting *new-more-highlighting*
327-----------------
328
329Highlighting matching parens
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000330
331When moving the cursor through the text and it is on a paren, then the
332matching paren can be highlighted. This uses the new |CursorMoved|
333autocommand event.
334
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000335See |matchparen| for more information.
336
337The plugin uses the |:match| command. It now supports three match patterns.
338The plugin uses the third one. The first one is for the user and the second
339one can be used by another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000340
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000341Highlighting the cursor line and column
342
343The 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' options have been added. These highlight
344the screen line and screen column of the cursor. This makes the cursor
345position easier to spot. 'cursorcolumn' is also useful to align text. The
346CursorColumn and CursorLine highlighting allow changing the colors used.
347|hl-CursorColumn| |hl-CursorLine|
348
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000349
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000350Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
351-----------------------
352
353The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000354several other languages.
355
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000356French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000357Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
358Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000359
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000360The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
361.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
362standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
363is used there as a best guess.
364Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000365The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
366with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
367do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000368
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000369
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000370Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
371-------------
372
373The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
374This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
375better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
376patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
377|:vimgrep|.
378
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000379If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000380|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000381
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000382To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
383expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
384places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
385
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000386
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000387Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
388-----------------------
389
390When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
391'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
392is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
393":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
394commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
395Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
396
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000397The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
398hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
399
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000400
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000401Cursor past end of the line *new-onemore*
402---------------------------
403
404When the 'virtualedit' option contains "onemore" the cursor can move just past
405the end of the line. As if it's on top of the line break.
406
407This makes some commands more consistent. Previously the cursor was always
408past the end of the line if the line was empty. But it is far from Vi
409compatible. It may also break some plugins or Vim scripts. Use with care!
410
411The patch was provided by Mattias Flodin.
412
413
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000414POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
415-------------------
416
417The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
418problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
419conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
420variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
421
422Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
423- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
424 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
425- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
426 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
427- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
428 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
429- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
430 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
431 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
432 digit.
433- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
434- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
435 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000436- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
437- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
438- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
439 above or below the new lines.
440- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
441- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
442 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
443- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
444 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
445- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
446 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
447- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
448 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
449- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
450- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
451- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
452- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
453- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
454- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
455 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000456- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
457- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000458- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000459
460
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000461Debugger support *new-debug-support*
462----------------
463
464The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
465balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
466mouse pointer.
467
468
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000469Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
470--------------------
471
472The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
473Deleting and renaming files is possible.
474
475To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
476integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
477works the same way.
478
479":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
480and a GUI dialog is not possible.
481
482The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
483
484
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000485Define an operator *new-define-operator*
486------------------
487
488Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
489followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
490|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
491operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
492through the |g@| operator.
493
494See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
495
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000496
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000497Mapping to an expression *new-map-expression*
498------------------------
499
500The {rhs} argument of a mapping can be an expression. That means the
501resulting characters can depend on the context. Example: >
502 :inoremap <expr> . InsertDot()
503Here the dot will be mapped to whatever InsertDot() returns.
504
505Also works for abbreviations. See |:map-<expr>| for the details.
506
507
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000508Visual and Select mode mappings *new-map-select*
509-------------------------------
510
511Previously Visual mode mappings applied both to Visual and Select mode. With
512a trick to have the mappings work in Select mode like they would in Visual
513mode.
514
515Commands have been added to define mappings for Visual and Select mode
516separately: |:xmap| and |:smap|. With the associated "noremap" and "unmap"
517commands.
518
519The same is done for menus: |:xmenu|, |:smenu|, etc.
520
521
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000522Location list *new-location-list*
523-------------
524
525The support for a per-window quickfix list (location list) is added. The
526location list can be displayed in a location window (similar to the quickfix
527window). You can open more than one location list window. A set of commands
528similar to the quickfix commands are added to browse the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000529(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
530
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000531
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000532Various new items *new-items-7*
533-----------------
534
535Normal mode commands: ~
536
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000537a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000538i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000539
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000540CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
541 location of the error under the cursor.
542
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000543|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
544
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000545<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
546<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
547 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000548
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +0000549gF Start editing the filename under the cursor and jump
550 to the line number following the file name.
551 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
552
553CTRL-W F Start editing the filename under the cursor in a new
554 window and jump to the line number following the file
555 name. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
556
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000557Insert mode commands: ~
558
559CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
560 without moving the cursor.
561
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000562Options: ~
563
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000564'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
565 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
566 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000567'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000568'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000569'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
570 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000571'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
572 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000573'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000574'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
575'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000576'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
577 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000578'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
579 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
580 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000581'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
582 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000583'formatexpr' expression for formatting text with |gq| and when text
584 goes over 'textwidth' in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000585'spell' switch spell checking on/off
586'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000587'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000588'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
589 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000590'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000591'winfixwidth' window with fixed width, similar to 'winfixheight'
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000592
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000593
594Ex commands: ~
595
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000596Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
597
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000598|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000599|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000600
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000601|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000602
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000603|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
604 windows.
605
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000606|:delmarks| Delete marks.
607
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000608|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
609
610|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
611
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000612|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
613 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000614
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000615|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
616 external command.
617
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000618|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
619 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
620
621|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
622 Lakshmanan).
623
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000624|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
625 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000626|:caddbuffer| Add errors from the current buffer to the quickfix
627 list.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000628
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000629|:lfile| Like |:cfile| but use the location list.
630|:lgetfile| Like |:cgetfile| but use the location list.
631|:laddfile| Like |:caddfile| but use the location list.
632|:lbuffer| Like |:cbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000633|:laddbuffer| Like |:caddbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000634|:lexpr| Like |:cexpr| but use the location list.
635|:laddexpr| Like |:caddexpr| but use the location list.
636|:ll| Like |:cc| but use the location list.
637|:llist| Like |:clist| but use the location list.
638|:lnext| Like |:cnext| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000639|:lprevious| Like |:cprevious| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000640|:lNext| Like |:cNext| but use the location list.
641|:lfirst| Like |:cfirst| but use the location list.
642|:lrewind| Like |:crewind| but use the location list.
643|:llast| Like |:clast| but use the location list.
644|:lnfile| Like |:cnfile| but use the location list.
645|:lpfile| Like |:cpfile| but use the location list.
646|:lNfile| Like |:cNfile| but use the location list.
647|:lolder| Like |:colder| but use the location list.
648|:lnewer| Like |:cnewer| but use the location list.
649|:lwindow| Like |:cwindow| but use the location list.
650|:lopen| Like |:copen| but use the location list.
651|:lclose| Like |:cclose| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000652|:lmake| Like |:make| but use the location list.
653|:lgrep| Like |:grep| but use the location list.
654|:lgrepadd| Like |:grepadd| but use the location list.
655|:lvimgrep| Like |:vimgrep| but use the location list.
656|:lvimgrepadd| Like |:vimgrepadd| but use the location list.
657|:lhelpgrep| Like |:helpgrep| but use the location list.
658|:lcscope| Like |:cscope| but use the location list.
659|:ltag| Jump to a tag and add matching tags to a location list.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000660
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000661|:undojoin| Join a change with the previous undo block.
662
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000663
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000664Ex command modifiers: ~
665
666|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
667
668|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
669
670|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
671
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000672
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000673Ex command arguments: ~
674
675|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
676 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
677 Matsumoto)
678 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
679 are found include the line number in the error
680 message.
681
682
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000683New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000684
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000685|add()| append an item to a List
686|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000687|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
688|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000689|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000690|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
691|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000692|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
693|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000694|cursor()| also accepts an offset for 'virtualedit', and
695 the first argument can be a list: [lnum, col, off]
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000696|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
697|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000698|getloclist()| list of location list items (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000699|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000700|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
701 Dictionary to another
702|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000703|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
704|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
705|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000706|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
707|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000708|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000709 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000710|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
711 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000712|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
713|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
714|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
715|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000716|getpos()| return a list with the position of cursor, mark, etc.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000717|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000718|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000719|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
720|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
721|join()| join List items into a String
722|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
723|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
724|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000725|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000726|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
727|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000728|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000729|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000730|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +0000731|reltime()| get time value, possibly relative
732|reltimestr()| turn a time value into a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000733|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000734|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000735|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000736|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000737|searchpairpos()| return a List with the position of the match
738|searchpos()| return a List with the position of the match
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000739|setloclist()| modify a location list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
740|setqflist()| modify a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000741|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000742|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000743|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000744|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
745|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000746|str2nr()| convert a string to a number, base 8, 10 or 16
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000747|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
748|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
749|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
750|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000751|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000752|winrestview()| restore the view of the current window
753|winsaveview()| save the view of the current window
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000754|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000755
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000756User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
757directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
758
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000759
760New autocommand events: ~
761
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000762|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
763|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
764|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000765
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000766|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000767|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
768|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000769|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000770
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000771|SpellFileMissing| when a spell file can't be found
772
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000773|ShellCmdPost| after executing a shell command
774|ShellFilterPost| after filtering with a shell command
775
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +0000776|VimResized| after the Vim window size changed (Yakov Lerner)
777
778|FileChangedShellPost| after handling a file changed outside of Vim
779
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000780|SourcePre| before sourcing a Vim script
781
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +0000782|CursorHoldI| the user doesn't press a key for a while in Insert mode
783|CursorMoved| the cursor was moved in Normal mode
784|CursorMovedI| the cursor was moved in Insert mode
785
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000786
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000787New items in search patterns: ~
788|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
789|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
790|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
791|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
792|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
793|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
794|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
795|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
796|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
797|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
798 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000799
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000800|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
801|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000802
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000803|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
804|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
805|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
806|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
807
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000808Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
809
810It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
811useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000812
813
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000814New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
815
816MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
817
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000818ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
819
820SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
821
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000822Handling of various SQL variants. (David Fishburn)
823
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000824PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
825
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000826Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
827
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000828Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
829
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000830Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
831
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000832Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
833
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000834Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
835Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
836different value.
837
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000838VHDL indent file (Gerald Lai)
839
Bram Moolenaar2a3f7ee2006-02-23 21:34:44 +0000840MGL syntax file. (Gero Kuhlmann)
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000841
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000842rd syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
843
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000844New Keymaps: ~
845
846Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
847
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +0000848Tamil in TSCII encoding (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
849
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000850
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000851New message translations: ~
852
853The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
854
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000855Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
856
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000857Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
858
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000859
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000860Others: ~
861
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000862The Netbeans interface was updated for Sun Studio 10. The protocol number
863goes from 2.2 to 2.3. (Gordon Prieur)
864
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000865Mac: When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000866define default command-key mappings. (mostly by Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000867
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000868Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
869character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
870Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
871"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000872
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000873Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000874
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000875Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
876
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000877Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000878
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000879Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
880event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
881file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
882
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000883Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000884GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
885
886Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
887
888Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
889
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000890To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
891they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
892
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000893Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
894when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
895|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
896
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000897For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
898|xterm-modifier-keys|
899
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000900When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
901item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000902When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
903":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
904(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000905
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000906":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
907
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000908"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
909the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
910
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000911'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
912window height.
913
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000914The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
915your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
916
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000917To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
918is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
919been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
920can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
921other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +0000922When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
923the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000924
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +0000925Undo now also restores the '< and '> marks. "gv" selects the same area as
926before the change and undo.
927
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000928When editing a search pattern for a "/" or "?" command and 'incsearch' is set
929CTRL-L can be used to add a character from the current match. CTRL-R CTRL-W
930will add a word, but exclude the part of the word that was already typed.
931
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000932Ruby interface: add line number methods. (Ryan Paul)
933
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000934==============================================================================
935IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
936
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000937":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
938
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000939Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
940
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000941When doing completion for ":!cmd", ":r !cmd" or ":w !cmd" executable files are
942found in $PATH instead of looking for ordinary files in the current directlry.
943
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000944When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
945range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
946
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000947The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
948iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
949allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
950matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
951
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000952Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
953happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
954'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
955
956Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
957CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
958that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
959from happening.
960
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000961":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
962breakpoint at the cursor.
963
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +0000964It is now possible to define a function with: >
965 :exe "func Test()\n ...\n endfunc"
966
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000967The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
968few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000969
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000970Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
971it. (Johannes Zellner)
972
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +0000973Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
974of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
975"os_unix.c".
976
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000977Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
978
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000979Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000980does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000981autocommands.
982
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000983For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
984- square brackets are recognized properly
985- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
986- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
987
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000988Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
989
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000990winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
991Lakshmanan)
992
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000993Added 's' flag to search(): set ' mark if cursor moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000994Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000995Added 'c' flag to search(): accept match at the cursor.
996Added 'e' flag to search(): move to end of the match. (Benji Fisher)
997Added 'p' flag to search(): return number of sub-pattern. (Benji Fisher)
998These also apply to searchpos(), searchpair() and searchpairpos().
999The search() and searchpair() functions have an extra argument to specify
1000where to stop searching. Speeds up searches that should not continue too far.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001001
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001002When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
1003delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
1004actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
1005
1006When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001007(Michael Geddes)
1008
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001009Support setting 'filetype' and 'syntax' to "aaa.bbb" for "aaa" plus "bbb"
1010filetype or syntax.
1011
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001012The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
1013
1014VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
1015upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
1016(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1017
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001018For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
1019of buffers.
1020
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001021When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
1022the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
1023
1024Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
1025digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
1026
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001027When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
1028buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
1029list.
1030
1031Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
1032(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
1033
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001034Win32: Vim was not aware of hard links on NTFS file systems. These are
1035detected now for when 'backupcopy' is "auto". Also fixed a bogus "file has
1036been changed since reading it" error for links.
1037
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001038When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
1039second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
1040line is just "/*".
1041
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001042When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
1043mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
1044edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
1045the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
1046used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
1047more reliable.
1048
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001049Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
1050of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
1051file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
1052
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001053Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
1054in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
1055"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
1056with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
1057
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001058Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
1059incremented/decremented each time.
1060
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001061Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001062contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
1063a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
1064
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001065When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
1066
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001067Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
1068
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001069":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001070invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
1071
1072":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
1073(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001074
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001075":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001076
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +00001077The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
1078messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
1079log startup messages.
1080
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001081":let g:" lists global variables.
1082":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
1083":let w:" lists window-local variables.
1084":let v:" lists Vim variables.
1085
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001086The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
1087searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001088
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001089The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
1090for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
1091
1092The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
1093the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
1094
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001095g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
1096bytes.
1097
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001098Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
1099":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
1100
1101CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
1102ignored.
1103
1104When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
1105will result in a message with the source of the error.
1106
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001107When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
1108":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
1109
1110To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
1111been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
1112
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001113In a |:substitute| command the \u, \U, \l and \L items now also work for
1114multi-byte characters.
1115
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001116The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001117'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001118
1119The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
1120variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
1121to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001122
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001123Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
1124possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
1125and the * stands for the modifier code.
1126Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
1127the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
1128modifiers.
1129
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001130getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
1131window.
1132
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001133Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001134Added the "%>" item to 'errorformat'.
1135
1136For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
1137character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
1138could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
1139pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
1140included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001141
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001142GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
1143Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
1144
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001145Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
1146used.
1147
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +00001148Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
1149click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
1150restarted.
1151
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001152When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
1153= value" can be used to set the register contents.
1154
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001155A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
1156pointer position instead of the text cursor.
1157
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001158The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
1159such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
1160prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001161When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001162
1163Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
1164user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001165Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
1166Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001167
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001168Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
1169(Sergey Khorev)
1170
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001171For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
1172sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
1173
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001174When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001175characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001176
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001177When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
1178COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1179
1180Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1181
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001182When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
1183closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
1184
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +00001185input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
1186completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1187
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001188"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
1189'modifiable' is set.
1190
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001191The 'diffopt' option has three new values: "horizontal", "vertical" and
1192"foldcolumn".
1193
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001194When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
1195matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
1196
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001197Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
1198directory. |load-plugins|
1199
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +00001200In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
1201opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
1202
1203It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
1204in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
1205
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +00001206Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
1207
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +00001208":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
1209added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
1210
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001211In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
1212more logical. (Robert Webb)
1213
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001214When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
1215file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
1216actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
1217'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
1218
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001219When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
1220then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
1221a hint that something might be wrong.
1222
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001223Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
1224
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001225In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
1226then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
1227inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
1228without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001229
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001230The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001231and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +00001232
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001233Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
1234itself.
1235
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001236":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
1237asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
1238
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001239Insert mode completion for whole lines now also searches unloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001240
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001241The colortest.vim script can now be invoked directly with ":source" or
1242":runtime".
1243
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001244The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
1245have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1246
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001247The 'statusline' option and other options that support the same format can now
1248use these new features:
1249- When it starts with "%!" the value is first evaluated as an expression
1250 before parsing the value.
1251- "%#HLname#" can be used to start highlighting with HLname.
1252
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001253When 'statusline' is set to something that causes an error message then it is
1254made empty to avoid an endless redraw loop. Also for other options, such at
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001255'tabline' and 'titlestring'. ":verbose set statusline" will mention that it
1256was set in an error handler.
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001257
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001258When there are several matching tags, the ":tag <name>" and CTRL-] commands
1259jump to the [count] matching tag. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1260
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001261Win32: In the batch files generated by the install program, use $VIMRUNTIME or
1262$VIM if it's set. Example provided by Mathias Michaelis.
1263Also create a vimtutor.bat batch file.
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001264
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001265The 'balloonexpr' option is now |global-local|.
1266
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001267The system() function now runs in cooked mode, thus can be interrupted by
1268CTRL-C.
1269
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001270==============================================================================
1271COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
1272
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001273Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
1274probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
1275and merge it back in.
1276
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001277When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
1278following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
1279
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +00001280When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
1281to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
1282allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
1283to store the ":quit" command.
1284
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001285Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
1286
1287Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
1288what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
1289functions.
1290
1291Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
1292without copying the code.
1293
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001294--- Mac ---
1295
1296"make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to its
1297final destination. (Raf)
1298
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001299Put the runtime directory not directly in Vim.app but in
1300Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim, so that it's according to Mac specs.
1301
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001302Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and still
1303being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c file.
1304
1305When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001306Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
1307runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
1308
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001309Configure will attempt to build Vim for both Intel and PowerPC. The
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001310--with-mac-arch configure argument can change it.
1311
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001312--- Win32 ---
1313
1314The Make_mvc.mak file was adjusted to work with the latest MS compilers,
1315including the free version of Visual Studio 2005. (George Reilly)
1316
1317INSTALLpc.txt was updated for the recent changes. (George Reilly)
1318
1319The distributed executable is now produced with the free Visual C++ Toolkit
13202003 and other free SDK chunks. msvcsetup.bat was added to support this.
1321
1322Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
1323on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
1324
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001325==============================================================================
1326BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
1327
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001328When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
1329instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
1330work. Use "LPT1" then.
1331
1332The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
1333size. Use a default size of 10.
1334
1335This example in the documentation didn't work:
1336 :e `=foo . ".c" `
1337Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
1338
1339When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1340
1341"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1342
1343Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1344when it doesn't support MDI.
1345
1346Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1347
1348"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1349space.
1350
1351Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1352SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1353for doesn't have an extension.
1354
1355When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1356may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1357cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1358
1359When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1360not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1361to make it work the old way.
1362
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001363When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1364filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1365
1366After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1367
1368Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1369fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001370
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001371On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1372Michele)
1373
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001374Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1375CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1376
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001377When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1378ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1379
1380Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001381characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1382twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001383
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001384When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1385variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1386
1387'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1388is indented too much.
1389
1390When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1391alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1392items.
1393
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001394Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1395active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1396
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001397The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1398"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1399
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001400When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1401after the last line while it's not there.
1402
1403Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1404resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1405
1406Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1407string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1408
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001409When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1410contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1411and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1412
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001413strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1414
1415GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1416just before it is invoked
1417
1418VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1419environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1420
1421UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1422from the first character of the word.
1423
1424When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1425detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1426
1427When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1428but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1429
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001430When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1431list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1432interrupting this.
1433
1434When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1435used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1436and global options remain unmodified.
1437
1438Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1439command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1440file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1441
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001442Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1443default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1444
1445When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1446xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1447line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1448
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001449Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1450
1451When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1452going to be used like a command.
1453
1454GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1455GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1456
1457GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1458
1459Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1460line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1461console version.
1462
1463Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1464there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1465
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001466When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1467files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1468directory for the library early in the link flags.
1469
1470With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1471literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1472
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001473When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1474cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1475
1476When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1477buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1478
1479Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1480problems for Terminal.app.
1481
1482When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1483end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1484argument.
1485
1486When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1487has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1488back.
1489
1490When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1491was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1492
1493When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1494"cancel", would still give an error message.
1495
1496The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1497mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1498
1499Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1500keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1501
1502Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1503
1504In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1505selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1506is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1507
1508GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1509GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1510
1511After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1512
1513When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1514doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001515Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1516handle. Added handle_signal().
1517
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001518When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1519white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1520
1521When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1522long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1523being found in a library.
1524
1525When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1526may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1527
1528Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1529is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1530
1531When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1532original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1533empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1534be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1535the values when recovering.
1536
1537":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1538message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1539
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001540Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1541when building the ":drop" command.
1542
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001543A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1544E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1545
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001546"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1547does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1548
1549When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1550moved the cursor to another column.
1551
1552When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1553quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1554fold.
1555
1556In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1557break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1558
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001559Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001560
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001561Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001562(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001563
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001564When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1565not included.
1566
1567Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1568Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1569
1570When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1571the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1572
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001573Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1574
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001575When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1576(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1577mode. (Peter Winters)
1578
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001579"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1580
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001581Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1582not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001583Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001584
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001585When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1586lines" overwrites the message.
1587
1588Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1589
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001590When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1591after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1592column in the wrong line.
1593
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001594When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1595starts with "sl".
1596
1597When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1598'paste' when starting the GUI.
1599
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001600A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1601
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001602When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1603Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1604mapping.
1605
1606Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1607
1608":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1609
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001610When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1611in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1612
1613When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1614empty $SHELL value.
1615
1616A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1617file.
1618
1619When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1620moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1621
1622When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1623the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1624is Vi compatible.
1625
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001626Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1627Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1628$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1629
1630Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1631flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1632
1633Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1634compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1635
1636When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1637leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1638'cpoptions' for this.
1639
1640Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1641
1642Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1643be Vi compatible.
1644
1645When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1646request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1647shell and caused trouble there.
1648
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001649When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1650still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1651Lakshmanan)
1652
1653It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1654sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1655
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001656When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1657from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1658
1659When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1660
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001661Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1662unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1663
1664":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1665
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001666The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1667are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1668
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001669Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1670indirectly invokes ":normal".
1671
1672Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1673before invoking "diff".
1674
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001675Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1676&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1677
1678When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1679locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1680mouse model.
1681
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001682When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1683characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1684is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1685character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1686
1687Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001688":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001689
1690Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1691
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001692Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1693real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1694
1695Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1696always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1697
1698When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1699detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1700compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1701decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1702
1703Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1704to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1705Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1706
1707"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1708
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001709When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1710Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1711
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001712In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1713and reset it in nv_home().
1714
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001715Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1716spaces inside backticks.
1717
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001718After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1719let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1720This should be the most useful thing to do.
1721
1722":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1723an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1724
1725In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1726reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1727
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001728When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1729call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001730This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001731
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001732GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1733after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1734win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1735
1736Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1737column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1738mouse column to 10000.
1739
1740searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1741we find the same position again and advance one character.
1742
1743When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1744to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1745
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001746When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1747prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1748
1749When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1750substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1751
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001752Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1753when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1754checks where invoking them
1755
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001756":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1757show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1758
1759When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1760
1761GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1762removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1763change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1764Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1765'lines' to undo this.
1766
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001767When using the GTK plug mechanism, resizing and focus was not working
1768properly. (Neil Bird)
1769
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001770After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1771":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1772
1773When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1774may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1775character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1776so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1777
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001778setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1779
1780It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001781It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1782
1783CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001784
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001785When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1786given. Now report the first encountered error.
1787
1788When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001789caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001790continue.
1791
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001792When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1793the global value.
1794
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001795Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1796200 characters.
1797
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001798When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1799the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1800\+foo".
1801
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001802When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1803message would be in the wrong position.
1804
1805At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1806
1807When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1808were not set.
1809
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001810Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1811
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001812The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1813
1814Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1815and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1816Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1817
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001818For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1819in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1820while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1821highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1822
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001823Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1824Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1825
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001826Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1827Lakshmanan)
1828
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001829When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1830would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1831
1832When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1833searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1834
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001835GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1836redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1837
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001838Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1839Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1840reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1841
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001842Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1843
1844There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1845existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1846available.
1847
1848In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1849sticking to the first column.
1850
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001851When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1852echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1853
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001854Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1855
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001856When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
1857the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
1858
1859When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
1860":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
1861
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001862Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
1863causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
1864Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
1865
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001866The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
1867
1868Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
1869dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
1870of its output.
1871
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00001872When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
1873the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
1874typing the command line.
1875
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00001876'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
1877"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
1878
1879When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
1880appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
1881recording.
1882
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001883Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
1884that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
1885
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001886When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
1887writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
1888the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
1889buffer when creating a new file.
1890
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001891When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
1892string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
1893
1894When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001895to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001896incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
1897|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001898to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001899
1900"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
1901an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
1902
1903Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
1904when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
1905edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
1906getting a beep from the "l" command.
1907
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001908Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
1909the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
1910
1911When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
1912there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
1913
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00001914Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
1915arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
1916until after executing "-c" arguments.
1917
1918When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
1919break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
1920undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
1921
1922Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
1923happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
1924stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
1925Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
1926
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00001927When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
1928change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
1929When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
1930Added mf_set_dirty().
1931
1932Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
1933backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
1934
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001935A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
1936special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
1937
1938When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
1939!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
1940"!;&()<>".
1941
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001942When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
1943autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
1944
1945In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
1946the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
1947
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00001948Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
1949value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
1950
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00001951Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
1952After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
1953
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00001954The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
1955normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
1956actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
1957
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00001958The "load session" toolbar item could not handle a space or other special
1959characters in v:this_session.
1960
1961":set sta ts=8 sw=4 sts=2" deleted 4 spaces halfway a line instead of 2.
1962
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00001963In a multi-byte file the foldmarker could be recognized in the trail byte.
1964(Taro Muraoka)
1965
Bram Moolenaar0e5bd962006-02-04 00:59:56 +00001966Pasting with CTRL-V and menu didn't work properly when some commands are
1967mapped. Use ":normal!" instead of ":normal". (Tony Apuzzo)
1968
1969Crashed when expanding a file name argument in backticks.
1970
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +00001971In some situations the menu and scrollbar didn't work, when the value contains
1972a CSI byte. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
1973
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001974GTK GUI: When drawing the balloon focus changes and we might get a key release
1975event that removed the balloon again. Ignore the key release event.
1976
1977'titleold' was included in ":mkexrc" and ":mksession" files.
1978
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001979":set background&" didn't use the same logic as was used when starting up.
1980
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00001981When "umask" is set such that nothing is writable then the viminfo file would
1982be written without write permission. (Julian Bridle)
1983
Bram Moolenaar7e8fd632006-02-18 22:14:51 +00001984Motif: In diff mode dragging one scrollbar didn't update the scrollbar of the
1985other diff'ed window.
1986
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001987When editing in an xterm with a different number of colors than expected the
1988screen would be cleared and redrawn, causing the message about the edited file
1989to be cleared. Now set "keep_msg" to redraw the last message.
1990
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001991For a color terminal: When the Normal HL uses bold, possibly to make the color
1992lighter, and another HL group specifies a color it might become light as well.
1993Now reset bold if a HL group doesn't specify bold itself.
1994
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001995When using 256 color xterm the color 255 would show up as color 0. Use a
1996short instead of a char to store the color number.
1997
1998ml_get errors when searching for "\n\zs" in an empty file.
1999
Bram Moolenaara5621492006-02-25 21:55:24 +00002000When selecting a block and using "$" to select until the end of every line and
2001not highlighting the character under the cursor the first character of the
2002block could be unhighlighted.
2003
2004When counting words for the Visual block area and using "$" to select until
2005the end of every line only up to the length of the last line was counted.
2006
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002007"dip" in trailing empty lines left one empty line behind.
2008
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002009The script ID was only remembered globally for each option. When a buffer- or
2010window-local option was set the same "last set" location was changed for all
2011buffers and windows. Now remember the script ID for each local option
2012separately.
2013
2014GUI: The "Replace All" button didn't handle backslashes in the replacement in
2015the same way as "Replace". Escape backslashes so that they are taken
2016literally.
2017
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00002018When using Select mode from Insert mode and typing a key, causing lines to be
2019deleted and a message displayed, delayed the effect of inserting the key.
2020Now overwrite the message without delay.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002021
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00002022When 'whichwrap' includes "l" then "dl" and "yl" on a single letter line
2023worked differently. Now recognize all operators when using "l" at the end of
2024a line.
2025
2026GTK GUI: when the font selector returned a font name with a comma in it then
2027it would be handled like two font names. Now put a backslash before the
2028comma.
2029
2030MS-DOS, Win32: When 'encoding' defaults to "latin1" then the value for
2031'iskeyword' was still for CPxxx. And when 'nocompatible' was set 'isprint'
2032would also be the wrong value.
2033
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00002034When a command was defined not to take arguments and no '|' no warning message
2035would be given for using a '|'. Also with ":loadkeymap".
2036
Bram Moolenaara3227e22006-03-08 21:32:40 +00002037Motif: When using a fontset and 'encoding' is "utf-8" and sizeof(wchar_t) !=
2038sizeof(XChar2b) then display was wrong. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2039
Bram Moolenaareb94e552006-03-11 21:35:11 +00002040":all" always set the current window to the first window, even when it
2041contains a buffer that is not in the argument list (can't be closed because it
2042is modified). Now go to the window that has the first item of the argument
2043list.
2044
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +00002045GUI: To avoid left-over pixels from bold text all characters after a character
2046with special attributes were redrawn. Now only do this for characters that
2047actually are bold. Speeds up displaying considerably.
2048
2049When only highlighting changes and the text is scrolled at the same time
2050everything is redraw instead of using a scroll and updating the changed text.
2051E.g., when using ":match" to highlight a paren that the cursor landed on.
2052Added SOME_VALID: Redraw the whole window but also try to scroll to minimize
2053redrawing.
2054
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002055Win32: When using Korean IME making it active didn't work properly. (Moon,
2056Yu-sung, 2005 March 21)
2057
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00002058Ruby interface: when inserting/deleting lines display wasn't updated. (Ryan
2059Paul)
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002060
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002061 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: