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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000022KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000023Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000024Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000025POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026Various new items |new-items-7|
27
28IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
29
30COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
31
32BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
33
34==============================================================================
35INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
36
37These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000038run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
39
40A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
41unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
42buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
43all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
44":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000046":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
47
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
49name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
50double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
51 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
52 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
53 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
54 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
55
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000056In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
57":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
58results in "a'b".
59
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000060
61Minor incompatibilities:
62
63For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
64*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
65
66":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
67
68Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
69
70Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
71confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000072
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000073When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
74isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
75
76The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
77looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR" if no
78folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000079Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000080
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000081Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
82on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
83changing 'winaltkeys'.
84
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000085When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
86is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
87avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000088
89When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
90now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
91encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
92possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
93non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
94
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +000095Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
96a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
97
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000098"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
99Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
100
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000101Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
102disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
103you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
104translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
105<xF1>, etc.
106
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000107==============================================================================
108NEW FEATURES *new-7*
109
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000110Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
111-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000112
113In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
114
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000115 List ordered list of items |List|
116 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
117 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000118
119Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
120
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000121The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
122variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
123can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
124
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000125The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
126expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
127
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000128With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
129wastes its time.
130
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000131
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000132KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000133-----------
134
135Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
136(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
137
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000138
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000139MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
140------------------
141
142The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
143The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
144The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
145
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000146
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000147Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
148------------------
149
150The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
151The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
152Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
153
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000154
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000155Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
156-----------------------
157
158The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
159Italian (translated by Antonio Colombo). More languages will follow.
160
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000161The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/.
162
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000163
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000164Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
165-------------
166
167The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
168This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
169better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
170patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
171|:vimgrep|.
172
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000173If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
174|errorlist()| function.
175
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000176
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000177POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
178-------------------
179
180The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
181problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
182conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
183variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
184
185Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
186- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
187 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
188- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
189 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
190- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
191 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
192- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
193 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
194 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
195 digit.
196- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
197- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
198 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000199- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
200- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
201- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
202 above or below the new lines.
203- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
204- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
205 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
206- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
207 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
208- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
209 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
210- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
211 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
212- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
213- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
214- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
215- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
216- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
217- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
218 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
219- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines.
220- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000221
222
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000223Various new items *new-items-7*
224-----------------
225
226Normal mode commands: ~
227
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000228a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
229i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000230
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000231CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
232 location of the error under the cursor.
233
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000234Options: ~
235
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000236'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
237 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
238 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
239'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
240 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000241'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
242 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000243'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000244'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
245'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000246'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
247 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000248'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
249 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
250 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000251'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
252 (idea by Hugo Haas)
253
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000254
255Ex commands: ~
256
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000257Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
258
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000259|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000260
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000261|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000262
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000263|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
264 windows.
265
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000266|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
267
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000268|:delmarks| Delete marks.
269
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000270|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
271
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000272|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
273
274|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
275
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000276|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
277 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000278
279New functions: ~
280
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000281|add()| append an item to a List
282|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
283|browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
284|byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
285|call()| call a function with List as arguments
286|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
287|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
288|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
289|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000290|errorlist()| list of quickfix errors
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000291|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
292 Dictionary to another
293|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
294|finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
295|findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes Zellner)
296|foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum".
297|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
298|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
299|getfontname()| Get actual font name being used.
300|getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai Weibull)
301|getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000302|getline()| With second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000303|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
304|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
305|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
306|join()| join List items into a String
307|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
308|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
309|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000310|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000311|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
312|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000313|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000314|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000315|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
316|repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times. (Christophe Poucet)
317|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
318|sort()| sort a List
319|split()| split a String into a List
320|string()| String representation of a List or Dictionary
321|system()| Filters {input} through a shell command.
322|tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
323|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000324|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000325
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000326User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
327directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
328
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000329
330New autocommand events: ~
331
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000332|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
333|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
334|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000335
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000336|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000337|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
338|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000339
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000340
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000341New items in search patterns: ~
342|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
343|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
344|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
345|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
346|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
347|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
348|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
349|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
350|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
351|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
352 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000353|/[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
354|/[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
355
356Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
357
358It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
359useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000360
361
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000362New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
363
364MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
365
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000366ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
367
368SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
369
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000370PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
371
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000372Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
373
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000374
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000375New Keymaps: ~
376
377Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
378
379
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000380New message translations: ~
381
382The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
383
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000384Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
385
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000386Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
387
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000388
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000389Others: ~
390
391Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
392character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
393Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
394"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000395
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000396Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
397
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000398Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
399
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000400GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000401
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000402Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
403
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000404Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000405
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000406Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
407event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
408file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
409
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000410The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
411Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
412
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000413Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
414To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
415they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
416
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000417Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
418when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
419|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
420
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000421For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
422|xterm-modifier-keys|
423
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000424==============================================================================
425IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
426
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000427":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
428
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000429Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
430
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000431The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
432iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
433allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
434matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
435
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000436":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
437breakpoint at the cursor.
438
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000439The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
440few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000441
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000442Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
443it. (Johannes Zellner)
444
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000445Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
446
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000447Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
448doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
449autocommands.
450
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000451For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
452- square brackets are recognized properly
453- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
454- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
455
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000456Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
457
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000458winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
459Lakshmanan)
460
461Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
462
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000463When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
464delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
465actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
466
467When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
468Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
469(Michael Geddes)
470
471The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
472
473VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
474upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
475(Zoltan Arpadffy)
476
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000477For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
478of buffers.
479
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000480The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
481have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
482
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000483When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
484the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
485
486Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
487digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
488
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000489When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
490buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
491list.
492
493Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
494(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
495
496When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
497second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
498line is just "/*".
499
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000500When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
501mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
502edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
503the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
504used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
505more reliable.
506
507Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
508in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
509"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
510with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
511
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000512Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
513incremented/decremented each time.
514
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000515Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000516contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
517a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
518
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000519When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
520
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000521Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
522
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000523":redir @*>" and ":redir @+>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000524invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
525
526":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
527(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000528
529":let g:" lists global variables.
530":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
531":let w:" lists window-local variables.
532":let v:" lists Vim variables.
533
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000534The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
535searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000536
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000537g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
538bytes.
539
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000540Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
541":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
542
543CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
544ignored.
545
546When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
547will result in a message with the source of the error.
548
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000549When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
550":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
551
552To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
553been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
554
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000555The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000556'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin".
557
558The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
559variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
560to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000561
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000562Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
563possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
564and the * stands for the modifier code.
565Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
566the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
567modifiers.
568
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000569==============================================================================
570COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
571
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000572Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
573probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
574and merge it back in.
575
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000576Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
577its final destination. (Raf)
578
579Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
580still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
581file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000582
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000583When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
584following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
585
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000586==============================================================================
587BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
588
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000589When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
590instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
591work. Use "LPT1" then.
592
593The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
594size. Use a default size of 10.
595
596This example in the documentation didn't work:
597 :e `=foo . ".c" `
598Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
599
600When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
601
602"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
603
604Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
605when it doesn't support MDI.
606
607Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
608
609"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
610space.
611
612Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
613SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
614for doesn't have an extension.
615
616When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
617may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
618cursor and not putting it back where it was.
619
620When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
621not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
622to make it work the old way.
623
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000624When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
625filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
626
627After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
628
629Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
630fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000631
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000632On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
633Michele)
634
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000635Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
636CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
637
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000638When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
639ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
640
641Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
642characters.
643
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000644When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
645variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
646
647'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
648is indented too much.
649
650When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
651alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
652items.
653
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000654Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
655active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
656
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000657The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
658"cn" or "tw" as intended.
659
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000660When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
661after the last line while it's not there.
662
663Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
664resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
665
666Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
667string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
668
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000669When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
670contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
671and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
672
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000673strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
674
675GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
676just before it is invoked
677
678VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
679environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
680
681UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
682from the first character of the word.
683
684When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
685detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
686
687When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
688but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
689
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000690When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
691list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
692interrupting this.
693
694When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
695used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
696and global options remain unmodified.
697
698Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
699command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
700file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
701
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000702Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
703default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
704
705When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
706xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
707line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
708
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000709Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
710
711When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
712going to be used like a command.
713
714GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
715GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
716
717GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
718
719Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
720line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
721console version.
722
723Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
724there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
725
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000726When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
727files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
728directory for the library early in the link flags.
729
730With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
731literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
732
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000733When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
734cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
735
736When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
737buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
738
739Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
740problems for Terminal.app.
741
742When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
743end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
744argument.
745
746When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
747has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
748back.
749
750When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
751was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
752
753When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
754"cancel", would still give an error message.
755
756The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
757mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
758
759Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
760keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
761
762Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
763
764In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
765selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
766is included, e.g., after "v$o".
767
768GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
769GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
770
771After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
772
773When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
774doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000775Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
776handle. Added handle_signal().
777
778When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
779line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
780GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000781
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000782When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
783white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
784
785When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
786long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
787being found in a library.
788
789When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
790may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
791
792Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
793is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
794
795When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
796original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
797empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
798be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
799the values when recovering.
800
801":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
802message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
803
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000804Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
805when building the ":drop" command.
806
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000807A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
808E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
809
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000810"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
811does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
812
813When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
814moved the cursor to another column.
815
816When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
817quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
818fold.
819
820In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
821break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
822
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000823Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000824
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000825Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000826(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000827
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000828When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
829not included.
830
831Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
832Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
833
834When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
835the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
836
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +0000837Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
838
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +0000839When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
840(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
841mode. (Peter Winters)
842
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000843"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
844
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000845Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
846not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000847Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000848
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000849When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
850lines" overwrites the message.
851
852Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
853
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000854When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
855after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
856column in the wrong line.
857
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000858When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
859starts with "sl".
860
861When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
862'paste' when starting the GUI.
863
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +0000864A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
865
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000866When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
867Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
868mapping.
869
870Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
871
872":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
873
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000874When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
875in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
876
877When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
878empty $SHELL value.
879
880A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
881file.
882
883When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
884moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
885
886When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
887the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
888is Vi compatible.
889
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000890Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
891Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
892$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
893
894Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
895flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
896
897Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
898compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
899
900When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
901leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
902'cpoptions' for this.
903
904Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
905
906Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
907be Vi compatible.
908
909When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
910request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
911shell and caused trouble there.
912
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000913When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
914still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
915Lakshmanan)
916
917It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
918sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
919
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000920When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
921from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
922
923When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
924
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000925Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
926unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
927
928":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
929
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000930 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: