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Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2006 Mar 20
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
3
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 Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000178
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000179Spell checking *new-spell*
180--------------
181
182Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
183with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
184
185The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
186The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000187The 'spellfile' option specifies where new words are added.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000188The 'spellsuggest' option specifies the methods used for making suggestions
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000189
190The |[s| and |]s| commands can be used to move to the next or previous error.
191The |zg| and |zw| commands can be used to add good and wrong words.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000192The |z=| command can be used to correct the word.
Bram Moolenaar7fae6362005-06-30 22:06:41 +0000193The |:mkspell| command is used to generate a Vim spell file from word lists.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000194
195The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
196mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
197The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
198background.
199The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
200220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000201with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
202highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000203
204Much more info here: |spell|.
205
206
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000207Omni completion *new-omni-completion*
208-----------------
209
210This could also be called "intellisense", but that is a trademark. It is a
211smart kind of completion. The text in front of the cursor is inspected to
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000212figure out what could be following. This may suggest struct and class
213members, system functions, etc.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000214
215Use CTRL-X CTRL-O in Insert mode to start the completion. |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
216
217The 'omnifunc' option is set by filetype plugins to define the function that
218figures out the completion.
219
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000220Currently supported languages:
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000221 C |ft-c-omni|
222 (X)HTML with CSS |ft-html-omni|
223 JavaScript |ft-javascript-omni|
224 any language wih syntax highligting |ft-syntax-omni|
225 XML |ft-xml-omni|
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000226
227When the 'completeopt' option contains "menu" then matches for Insert mode
228completion are displayed in a popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000229
230
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000231MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
232------------------
233
234The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
235The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
236The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
237
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000238
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000239Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
240------------------
241
242The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
243The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
244Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
245
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000246
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000247Tab pages *new-tab-pages*
248---------
249
250A tab page is page with one or more windows with a label (aka tab) at the top.
251By clicking on the label you can quickly switch between the tab pages. And
252with the keyboard, using the |gt| (Goto Tab) command. This is a convenient
253way to work with many windows.
254
255To start Vim with each file argument in a separate tab page use the |-p|
256argument. The maximum number of pages can be set with 'tabpagemax'.
257
258The line with tab labels is either made with plain text an highlighting or
259with a GUI mechanism. The GUI labels look better but are only available on a
260few systems. The line can be customized with 'tabline' and 'guitablabel'.
261Whether it is displayed is set with 'showtabline'. Whether to use the GUI
262labels is set with the "e" flag in 'guioptions'.
263
264The |:tab| command modifier can be used to have most commands that open a new
265window open a new tab instead.
266
Bram Moolenaar0ce29932006-03-13 22:18:45 +0000267The |--remote-tab| argument can be used to edit a file in a new tab page in an
268already running Vim server.
269
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000270More info here: |tabpage|
271
272
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000273Undo branches *new-undo-branches*
274-------------
275
276Previously there was only one line of undo-redo. If, after undoing a number
277of changes, a new change was made all the undone changes were lost. This
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000278could lead to accidentally losing work.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000279
280Vim now makes an undo branch in this situation. Thus you can go back to the
281text after any change, even if they were undone. So long as you do not run
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000282into 'undolevels', undo information is freed up to limit the memory used.
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000283
284To be able to navigate the undo branches each change is numbered sequentially.
285The commands |g-| and |:earlier| go back in time, to older changes. The
286commands |g+| and |:later| go forward in time, to newer changes.
287
288The changes are also timestamped. Use ":earlier 10m" to go to the text as it
289was about ten minutes earlier.
290
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000291The |:undolist| command can be used to get an idea of which undo branches
292exist. The |:undo| command now takes an argument to directly jump to a
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000293specific position in this list. The |changenr()| function can be used to
294obtain the change number.
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000295
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000296There is no graphical display of the tree with changes, navigation can be
297quite confusing.
298
299
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000300Extended Unicode support *new-more-unicode*
301------------------------
302
303Previously only two combining characters were displayed. The limit is now
304raised to 6. This can be set with the 'maxcombine' option. The default is
305still 2.
306
307|ga| now shows all combining characters, not just the first two.
308
309Previously only 16 bit Unicode characters were supported for displaying. Now
310the full 32 bit character set can be used. Unless manually disabled at
311compile time.
312
313For pattern matching it is now possible to search for individual composing
314characters. |patterns-composing|
315
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +0000316The |8g8| command searches for an illegal UTF-8 byte sequence.
317
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +0000318
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000319More highlighting *new-more-highlighting*
320-----------------
321
322Highlighting matching parens
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000323
324When moving the cursor through the text and it is on a paren, then the
325matching paren can be highlighted. This uses the new |CursorMoved|
326autocommand event.
327
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000328See |matchparen| for more information.
329
330The plugin uses the |:match| command. It now supports three match patterns.
331The plugin uses the third one. The first one is for the user and the second
332one can be used by another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000333
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +0000334Highlighting the cursor line and column
335
336The 'cursorline' and 'cursorcolumn' options have been added. These highlight
337the screen line and screen column of the cursor. This makes the cursor
338position easier to spot. 'cursorcolumn' is also useful to align text. The
339CursorColumn and CursorLine highlighting allow changing the colors used.
340|hl-CursorColumn| |hl-CursorLine|
341
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000342
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000343Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
344-----------------------
345
346The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000347several other languages.
348
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000349French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000350Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
351Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000352
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000353The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
354.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
355standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
356is used there as a best guess.
357Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000358The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
359with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
360do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000361
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000362
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000363Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
364-------------
365
366The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
367This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
368better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
369patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
370|:vimgrep|.
371
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000372If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000373|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000374
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000375To search in files in various directories the "**" pattern can be used. It
376expands into an arbitrary depth of directories. "**" can be used in all
377places where file names are expanded, thus also with |:next| and |:args|.
378
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000379
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000380Scroll back in messages *new-scroll-back*
381-----------------------
382
383When displaying messages, at the |more-prompt| and the |hit-enter-prompt|, The
384'k', 'u' and 'b' keys can be used to scroll back to previous messages. This
385is especially useful for commands such as ":syntax", ":autocommand" and
386":highlight". This is implemented in a generic way thus it works for all
387commands and highlighting is kept. Only works when the 'more' option is set.
388Previously it only partly worked for ":clist".
389
Bram Moolenaar661b1822005-07-28 22:36:45 +0000390The |g<| command can be used to see the last page of messages after you have
391hit <Enter> at the |hit-enter-prompt|. Then you can scroll further back.
392
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000393
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000394Cursor past end of the line *new-onemore*
395---------------------------
396
397When the 'virtualedit' option contains "onemore" the cursor can move just past
398the end of the line. As if it's on top of the line break.
399
400This makes some commands more consistent. Previously the cursor was always
401past the end of the line if the line was empty. But it is far from Vi
402compatible. It may also break some plugins or Vim scripts. Use with care!
403
404The patch was provided by Mattias Flodin.
405
406
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000407POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
408-------------------
409
410The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
411problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
412conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
413variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
414
415Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
416- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
417 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
418- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
419 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
420- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
421 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
422- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
423 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
424 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
425 digit.
426- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
427- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
428 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000429- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
430- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
431- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
432 above or below the new lines.
433- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
434- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
435 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
436- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
437 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
438- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
439 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
440- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
441 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
442- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
443- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
444- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
445- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
446- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
447- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
448 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
Bram Moolenaar45eeb132005-06-06 21:59:07 +0000449- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines. "%" prints all lines.
450- In Ex mode "undo" would undo all changes since Ex mode was started.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000451- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000452
453
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000454Debugger support *new-debug-support*
455----------------
456
457The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
458balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
459mouse pointer.
460
461
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +0000462Remote file explorer *new-netrw-explore*
463--------------------
464
465The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
466Deleting and renaming files is possible.
467
468To avoid duplicating a lot of code, the previous file explorer plugin has been
469integrated in the netrw plugin. This means browsing local and remote files
470works the same way.
471
472":browse edit" and ":browse split" use the netrw plugin when it's available
473and a GUI dialog is not possible.
474
475The netrw plugin is maintained by Charles Campbell.
476
477
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000478Define an operator *new-define-operator*
479------------------
480
481Previously it was not possible to define your own operator; a command that is
482followed by a {motion}. Vim 7 introduces the 'operatorfunc' option and the
483|g@| operator. This makes it possible to define a mapping that works like an
484operator. The actual work is then done by a function, which is invoked
485through the |g@| operator.
486
487See |:map-operator| for the explanation and an example.
488
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000489
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000490Mapping to an expression *new-map-expression*
491------------------------
492
493The {rhs} argument of a mapping can be an expression. That means the
494resulting characters can depend on the context. Example: >
495 :inoremap <expr> . InsertDot()
496Here the dot will be mapped to whatever InsertDot() returns.
497
498Also works for abbreviations. See |:map-<expr>| for the details.
499
500
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +0000501Visual and Select mode mappings *new-map-select*
502-------------------------------
503
504Previously Visual mode mappings applied both to Visual and Select mode. With
505a trick to have the mappings work in Select mode like they would in Visual
506mode.
507
508Commands have been added to define mappings for Visual and Select mode
509separately: |:xmap| and |:smap|. With the associated "noremap" and "unmap"
510commands.
511
512The same is done for menus: |:xmenu|, |:smenu|, etc.
513
514
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000515Location list *new-location-list*
516-------------
517
518The support for a per-window quickfix list (location list) is added. The
519location list can be displayed in a location window (similar to the quickfix
520window). You can open more than one location list window. A set of commands
521similar to the quickfix commands are added to browse the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000522(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
523
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000524
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000525Various new items *new-items-7*
526-----------------
527
528Normal mode commands: ~
529
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000530a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +0000531i", i' and i` (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000532
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000533CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
534 location of the error under the cursor.
535
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000536|at| and |it| text objects select a block of text between HTML or XML tags.
537
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000538<A-LeftMouse> ('mousemodel' "popup" or "popup-setpos")
539<A-RightMouse> ('mousemodel' "extend")
540 Make a blockwise selection. |<A-LeftMouse>|
Bram Moolenaarff6f0612005-07-19 22:21:12 +0000541
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +0000542gF Start editing the filename under the cursor and jump
543 to the line number following the file name.
544 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
545
546CTRL-W F Start editing the filename under the cursor in a new
547 window and jump to the line number following the file
548 name. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
549
Bram Moolenaar488c6512005-08-11 20:09:58 +0000550Insert mode commands: ~
551
552CTRL-\ CTRL-O Execute a Normal mode command. Like CTRL-O but
553 without moving the cursor.
554
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000555Options: ~
556
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000557'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
558 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
559 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000560'completeopt' Enable popup menu for Insert mode completion.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000561'omnifunc' The name of a function used for omni completion.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000562'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
563 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000564'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
565 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000566'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000567'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
568'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000569'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
570 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000571'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
572 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
573 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000574'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
575 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000576'formatexpr' expression for formatting text with |gq| and when text
577 goes over 'textwidth' in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000578'spell' switch spell checking on/off
579'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000580'spellsuggest' methods for spell suggestions
Bram Moolenaar3b56eb32005-07-11 22:40:32 +0000581'synmaxcol' maximum column to look for syntax items; avoids very
582 slow redrawing when there are very long lines
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000583'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000584'winfixwidth' window with fixed width, similar to 'winfixheight'
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000585
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000586
587Ex commands: ~
588
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000589Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
590
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000591|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000592|:startgreplace| Start Virtual Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000593
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000594|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000595
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000596|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
597 windows.
598
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000599|:delmarks| Delete marks.
600
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000601|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
602
603|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
604
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000605|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
606 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000607
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000608|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
609 external command.
610
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000611|:caddfile| Add error messages to an existing quickfix list
612 (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
613
614|:cexpr| Read error messages from a Vim expression (Yegappan
615 Lakshmanan).
616
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000617|:caddexpr| Add error messages from a Vim expression to an
618 existing quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000619|:caddbuffer| Add errors from the current buffer to the quickfix
620 list.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +0000621
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000622|:lfile| Like |:cfile| but use the location list.
623|:lgetfile| Like |:cgetfile| but use the location list.
624|:laddfile| Like |:caddfile| but use the location list.
625|:lbuffer| Like |:cbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar9f2c6e12006-02-04 22:45:44 +0000626|:laddbuffer| Like |:caddbuffer| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000627|:lexpr| Like |:cexpr| but use the location list.
628|:laddexpr| Like |:caddexpr| but use the location list.
629|:ll| Like |:cc| but use the location list.
630|:llist| Like |:clist| but use the location list.
631|:lnext| Like |:cnext| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000632|:lprevious| Like |:cprevious| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaar8b6144b2006-02-08 09:20:24 +0000633|:lNext| Like |:cNext| but use the location list.
634|:lfirst| Like |:cfirst| but use the location list.
635|:lrewind| Like |:crewind| but use the location list.
636|:llast| Like |:clast| but use the location list.
637|:lnfile| Like |:cnfile| but use the location list.
638|:lpfile| Like |:cpfile| but use the location list.
639|:lNfile| Like |:cNfile| but use the location list.
640|:lolder| Like |:colder| but use the location list.
641|:lnewer| Like |:cnewer| but use the location list.
642|:lwindow| Like |:cwindow| but use the location list.
643|:lopen| Like |:copen| but use the location list.
644|:lclose| Like |:cclose| but use the location list.
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +0000645|:lmake| Like |:make| but use the location list.
646|:lgrep| Like |:grep| but use the location list.
647|:lgrepadd| Like |:grepadd| but use the location list.
648|:lvimgrep| Like |:vimgrep| but use the location list.
649|:lvimgrepadd| Like |:vimgrepadd| but use the location list.
650|:lhelpgrep| Like |:helpgrep| but use the location list.
651|:lcscope| Like |:cscope| but use the location list.
652|:ltag| Jump to a tag and add matching tags to a location list.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000653
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +0000654|:undojoin| Join a change with the previous undo block.
655
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +0000656
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000657Ex command modifiers: ~
658
659|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
660
661|:noautocmd| Do not trigger autocommand events.
662
663|:sandbox| Execute a command in the sandbox.
664
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000665
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +0000666Ex command arguments: ~
667
668|++bad| Specify what happens with characters that can't be
669 converted and illegal bytes. (code example by Yasuhiro
670 Matsumoto)
671 Also, when a conversion error occurs or illegal bytes
672 are found include the line number in the error
673 message.
674
675
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000676New and extended functions: ~
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000677
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000678|add()| append an item to a List
679|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000680|browsedir()| dialog to select a directory
681|byteidx()| index of a character (Ilya Sher)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000682|call()| call a function with List as arguments
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000683|complete_add()| add match for 'completefunc'
684|complete_check()| check for key pressed, for 'completefunc'
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000685|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
686|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000687|cursor()| also accepts an offset for 'virtualedit', and
688 the first argument can be a list: [lnum, col, off]
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000689|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
690|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000691|getloclist()| list of location list items (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000692|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000693|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
694 Dictionary to another
695|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000696|finddir()| find a directory in 'path'
697|findfile()| find a file in 'path' (Johannes Zellner)
698|foldtextresult()| the text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum"
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000699|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
700|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000701|getbufline()| get a list of lines from a specified buffer
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000702 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +0000703|getcmdtype()| return the current command-line type
704 (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000705|getfontname()| get actual font name being used
706|getfperm()| get file permission string (Nikolai Weibull)
707|getftype()| get type of file (Nikolai Weibull)
708|getline()| with second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaar8fd89f02006-03-02 22:51:05 +0000709|getpos()| return a list with the position of cursor, mark, etc.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000710|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000711|inputlist()| select an entry from a list
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000712|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
713|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
714|join()| join List items into a String
715|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
716|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
717|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000718|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000719|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
720|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000721|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000722|printf()| format text
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000723|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000724|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000725|repeat()| repeat "expr" "count" times (Christophe Poucet)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000726|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000727|searchdecl()| search for declaration of variable
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +0000728|searchpairpos()| return a List with the position of the match
729|searchpos()| return a List with the position of the match
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000730|setloclist()| modify a location list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
731|setqflist()| modify a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000732|sort()| sort a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000733|soundfold()| get the sound-a-like equivalent of a word
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000734|split()| split a String into a List
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000735|spellbadword()| get a badly spelled word
736|spellsuggest()| get suggestions for correct spelling
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000737|str2nr()| convert a string to a number, base 8, 10 or 16
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +0000738|string()| string representation of a List or Dictionary
739|system()| filters {input} through a shell command
740|taglist()| get list of matching tags (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
741|tr()| translate characters (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000742|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000743|winrestview()| restore the view of the current window
744|winsaveview()| save the view of the current window
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000745|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000746
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000747User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
748directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
749
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000750
751New autocommand events: ~
752
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000753|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
754|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
755|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000756
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000757|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000758|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
759|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000760|SessionLoadPost| after loading a session file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000761
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +0000762|SpellFileMissing| when a spell file can't be found
763
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +0000764|ShellCmdPost| after executing a shell command
765|ShellFilterPost| after filtering with a shell command
766
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +0000767|VimResized| after the Vim window size changed (Yakov Lerner)
768
769|FileChangedShellPost| after handling a file changed outside of Vim
770
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000771|SourcePre| before sourcing a Vim script
772
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +0000773|CursorHoldI| the user doesn't press a key for a while in Insert mode
774|CursorMoved| the cursor was moved in Normal mode
775|CursorMovedI| the cursor was moved in Insert mode
776
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000777
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000778New items in search patterns: ~
779|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
780|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
781|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
782|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
783|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
784|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
785|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
786|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
787|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
788|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
789 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000790
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000791|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
792|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000793
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +0000794|/\%'m| \%'m match at mark m
795|/\%<'m| \%<'m match before mark m
796|/\%>'m| \%>'m match after mark m
797|/\%V| \%V match in Visual area
798
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000799Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
800
801It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
802useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000803
804
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000805New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
806
807MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
808
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000809ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
810
811SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
812
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000813Handling of various SQL variants. (David Fishburn)
814
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000815PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
816
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000817Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
818
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000819Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter)
820
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +0000821Many filetype plugins and others from Nikolai Weibull.
822
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +0000823Xquery syntax file. (Jean-Marc Vanel)
824
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000825Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
826Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
827different value.
828
Bram Moolenaar17c7c012006-01-26 22:25:15 +0000829VHDL indent file (Gerald Lai)
830
Bram Moolenaar2a3f7ee2006-02-23 21:34:44 +0000831MGL syntax file. (Gero Kuhlmann)
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000832
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +0000833rd syntax file. (Johannes Ranke)
834
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000835New Keymaps: ~
836
837Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
838
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +0000839Tamil in TSCII encoding (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
840
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000841
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000842New message translations: ~
843
844The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
845
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000846Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
847
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000848Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
849
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000850
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000851Others: ~
852
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000853The Netbeans interface was updated for Sun Studio 10. The protocol number
854goes from 2.2 to 2.3. (Gordon Prieur)
855
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000856Mac: When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to
Bram Moolenaar34e9e2f2006-03-14 23:07:19 +0000857define default command-key mappings. (mostly by Benji Fisher)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +0000858
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000859Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
860character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
861Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
862"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000863
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000864Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter Cucka)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000865
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000866Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
867
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000868Mac: Support the xterm mouse in the non-GUI version.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000869
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000870Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
871event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
872file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
873
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000874Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +0000875GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
876
877Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
878
879Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
880
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000881To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
882they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
883
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000884Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
885when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
886|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
887
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000888For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
889|xterm-modifier-keys|
890
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000891When 'verbose' is set the output of ":highlight" will show where a highlight
892item was last set.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000893When 'verbose' is set the output of the ":map", ":abbreviate", ":command",
894":function" and ":autocmd" commands will show where it was last defined.
895(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000896
Bram Moolenaardd2436f2005-09-05 22:14:46 +0000897":function /pattern" lists functions matching the pattern.
898
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000899"1gd" can be used like "gd" but ignores matches in a {} block that ends before
900the cursor position. Likewise for "1gD" and "gD".
901
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000902'scrolljump' can be set to a negative number to scroll a percentage of the
903window height.
904
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000905The |v:scrollstart| variable has been added to help finding the location in
906your script that causes the hit-enter prompt.
907
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000908To make it possible to handle the situation that a file is being edited that
909is already being edited by another Vim instance, the |SwapExists| event has
910been added. The |v:swapname|, |v:swapchoice| and |v:swapcommand| variables
911can be used, for example to use the |client-server| functionality to bring the
912other Vim to the foreground.
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +0000913When starting Vim with a "-t tag" argument, there is an existing swapfile and
914the user selects "quit" or "abort" then exit Vim.
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000915
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +0000916Undo now also restores the '< and '> marks. "gv" selects the same area as
917before the change and undo.
918
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +0000919When editing a search pattern for a "/" or "?" command and 'incsearch' is set
920CTRL-L can be used to add a character from the current match. CTRL-R CTRL-W
921will add a word, but exclude the part of the word that was already typed.
922
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +0000923Ruby interface: add line number methods. (Ryan Paul)
924
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000925==============================================================================
926IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
927
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000928":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
929
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000930Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
931
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +0000932When doing completion for ":!cmd", ":r !cmd" or ":w !cmd" executable files are
933found in $PATH instead of looking for ordinary files in the current directlry.
934
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000935When ":silent" is used and a backwards range is given for an Ex command the
936range is swapped automatically instead of asking if that is OK.
937
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000938The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
939iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
940allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
941matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
942
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +0000943Previously some options were always evaluated in the |sandbox|. Now that only
944happens when the option was set from a modeline or in secure mode. Applies to
945'balloonexpr', 'foldexpr', 'foldtext' and 'includeexpr'. (Sumner Hayes)
946
947Some commands and expressions could have nasty side effects, such as using
948CTRL-R = while editing a search pattern and the expression invokes a function
949that jumps to another window. The |textlock| has been added to prevent this
950from happening.
951
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000952":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
953breakpoint at the cursor.
954
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +0000955It is now possible to define a function with: >
956 :exe "func Test()\n ...\n endfunc"
957
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000958The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
959few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000960
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000961Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
962it. (Johannes Zellner)
963
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +0000964Mac and Cygwin: When editing an existing file make the file name the same case
965of the edited file. Thus when typing ":e os_UNIX.c" the file name becomes
966"os_unix.c".
967
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000968Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
969
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000970Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000971does not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000972autocommands.
973
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000974For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
975- square brackets are recognized properly
976- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
977- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
978
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000979Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
980
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000981winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
982Lakshmanan)
983
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000984Added 's' flag to search(): set ' mark if cursor moved. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000985Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +0000986Added 'c' flag to search(): accept match at the cursor.
987Added 'e' flag to search(): move to end of the match. (Benji Fisher)
988Added 'p' flag to search(): return number of sub-pattern. (Benji Fisher)
989These also apply to searchpos(), searchpair() and searchpairpos().
990The search() and searchpair() functions have an extra argument to specify
991where to stop searching. Speeds up searches that should not continue too far.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000992
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000993When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
994delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
995actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
996
997When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000998(Michael Geddes)
999
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001000Support setting 'filetype' and 'syntax' to "aaa.bbb" for "aaa" plus "bbb"
1001filetype or syntax.
1002
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001003The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
1004
1005VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
1006upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
1007(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1008
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001009For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
1010of buffers.
1011
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001012When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
1013the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
1014
1015Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
1016digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
1017
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001018When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
1019buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
1020list.
1021
1022Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
1023(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
1024
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00001025Win32: Vim was not aware of hard links on NTFS file systems. These are
1026detected now for when 'backupcopy' is "auto". Also fixed a bogus "file has
1027been changed since reading it" error for links.
1028
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001029When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
1030second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
1031line is just "/*".
1032
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001033When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
1034mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
1035edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
1036the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
1037used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
1038more reliable.
1039
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001040Unix: When editing a file through a symlink the swap file would use the name
1041of the symlink. Now use the name of the actual file, so that editing the same
1042file twice is detected. (suggestions by Stefano Zacchiroli and James Vega)
1043
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001044Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
1045in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
1046"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
1047with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
1048
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001049Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
1050incremented/decremented each time.
1051
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001052Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001053contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
1054a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
1055
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001056When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
1057
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001058Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
1059
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001060":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001061invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
1062
1063":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
1064(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001065
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001066":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001067
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +00001068The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
1069messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
1070log startup messages.
1071
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +00001072":let g:" lists global variables.
1073":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
1074":let w:" lists window-local variables.
1075":let v:" lists Vim variables.
1076
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001077The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
1078searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001079
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001080The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
1081for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
1082
1083The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
1084the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
1085
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001086g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
1087bytes.
1088
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001089Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
1090":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
1091
1092CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
1093ignored.
1094
1095When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
1096will result in a message with the source of the error.
1097
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001098When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
1099":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
1100
1101To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
1102been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
1103
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001104In a |:substitute| command the \u, \U, \l and \L items now also work for
1105multi-byte characters.
1106
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001107The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001108'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin" and "putty".
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001109
1110The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
1111variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
1112to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +00001113
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +00001114Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
1115possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
1116and the * stands for the modifier code.
1117Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
1118the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
1119modifiers.
1120
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001121getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
1122window.
1123
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001124Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001125Added the "%>" item to 'errorformat'.
1126
1127For 'errorformat' it was not possible to have a file name that contains the
1128character that follows after "%f". For example, in "%f:%l:%m" the file name
1129could not contain ":". Now include the first ":" where the rest of the
1130pattern matches. In the example a ":" not followed by a line number is
1131included in the file name. (suggested by Emanuele Giaquinta)
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001132
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001133GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
1134Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
1135
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001136Added ":scriptnames" to bugreport.vim, so that we can see what plugins were
1137used.
1138
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +00001139Win32: If the user changes the setting for the number of lines a scroll wheel
1140click scrolls it is now used immediately. Previously Vim would need to be
1141restarted.
1142
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001143When using @= in an expression the value is expression @= contains. ":let @=
1144= value" can be used to set the register contents.
1145
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001146A ! can be added to ":popup" to have the popup menu appear at the mouse
1147pointer position instead of the text cursor.
1148
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001149The table with encodings has been expanded with many MS-Windows codepages,
1150such as cp1250 and cp737, so that these can also be used on Unix without
1151prepending "8bit-".
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001152When an encoding name starts with "microsoft-cp" ignore the "microsoft-" part.
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001153
1154Added the "customlist" completion argument to a user-defined command. The
1155user-defined completion function should return the completion candidates as a
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001156Vim List and the returned results are not filtered by Vim. (Yegappan
1157Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +00001158
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001159Win32: Balloons can have multiple lines if common controls supports it.
1160(Sergey Khorev)
1161
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001162For command-line completion the matches for various types of arguments are now
1163sorted: user commands, variables, syntax names, etc.
1164
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001165When no locale is set, thus using the "C" locale, Vim will work with latin1
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001166characters, using its own isupper()/toupper()/etc. functions.
Bram Moolenaara2036d22005-08-23 21:04:20 +00001167
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001168When using an rxvt terminal emulator guess the value of 'background' using the
1169COLORFGBG environment variable. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1170
1171Also support t_SI and t_EI on Unix with normal features. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1172
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001173When 'foldcolumn' is one then put as much info in it as possible. This allows
1174closing a fold with the mouse by clicking on the '-'.
1175
Bram Moolenaarbfd8fc02005-09-20 23:22:24 +00001176input() takes an optional completion argument to specify the type of
1177completion supported for the input. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1178
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001179"dp" works with more than two buffers in diff mode if there is only one where
1180'modifiable' is set.
1181
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001182The 'diffopt' option has three new values: "horizontal", "vertical" and
1183"foldcolumn".
1184
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001185When the 'include' option contains \zs the file name found is what is being
1186matched from \zs to the end or \ze. Useful to pass more to 'includeexpr'.
1187
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00001188Loading plugins on startup now supports subdirectories in the plugin
1189directory. |load-plugins|
1190
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +00001191In the foldcolumn always show the '+' for a closed fold, so that it can be
1192opened easily. It may overwrite another character, esp. if 'foldcolumn' is 1.
1193
1194It is now possible to get the W10 message again by setting 'readonly'. Useful
1195in the FileChangedRO autocommand when checking out the file fails.
1196
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +00001197Unix: When open() returns EFBIG give an appropriate message.
1198
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +00001199":mksession" sets the SessionLoad variable to notify plugins. A modeline is
1200added to the session file to set 'filetype' to "vim".
1201
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001202In the ATTENTION prompt put the "Delete it" choice before "Quit" to make it
1203more logical. (Robert Webb)
1204
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001205When appending to a file while the buffer has no name the name of the appended
1206file would be used for the current buffer. But the buffer contents is
1207actually different from the file content. Don't set the file name, unless the
1208'P' flag is present in 'cpoptions'.
1209
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001210When starting to edit a new file and the directory for the file doesn't exist
1211then Vim will report "[New DIRECTORY]" instead of "[New File] to give the user
1212a hint that something might be wrong.
1213
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001214Win32: Preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
1215
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001216In Insert mode CTRL-A didn't keep the last inserted text when using CTRL-O and
1217then a cursor key. Now keep the previously inserted text if nothing is
1218inserted after the CTRL-O. Allows using CTRL-O commands to move the cursor
1219without losing the last inserted text.
Bram Moolenaarbca84a12005-12-14 22:08:35 +00001220
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001221The exists() function now supports checking for autocmd group definition
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001222and for supported autocommand events. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara9b1e742005-12-19 22:14:58 +00001223
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001224Allow using ":global" in the sandbox, it doesn't do anything harmful by
1225itself.
1226
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001227":saveas asdf.c" will set 'filetype' to c when it's empty. Also for ":w
1228asdf.c" when it sets the filename for the buffer.
1229
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001230Insert mode completion for whole lines now also searches unloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001231
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001232The colortest.vim script can now be invoked directly with ":source" or
1233":runtime".
1234
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001235The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
1236have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1237
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001238The 'statusline' option and other options that support the same format can now
1239use these new features:
1240- When it starts with "%!" the value is first evaluated as an expression
1241 before parsing the value.
1242- "%#HLname#" can be used to start highlighting with HLname.
1243
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001244When 'statusline' is set to something that causes an error message then it is
1245made empty to avoid an endless redraw loop. Also for other options, such at
Bram Moolenaarea0cd362006-03-16 21:46:52 +00001246'tabline' and 'titlestring'. ":verbose set statusline" will mention that it
1247was set in an error handler.
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001248
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001249When there are several matching tags, the ":tag <name>" and CTRL-] commands
1250jump to the [count] matching tag. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1251
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00001252Win32: In the batch files generated by the install program, use $VIMRUNTIME or
1253$VIM if it's set. Example provided by Mathias Michaelis.
1254Also create a vimtutor.bat batch file.
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001255
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001256The 'balloonexpr' option is now |global-local|.
1257
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001258==============================================================================
1259COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
1260
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001261Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
1262probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
1263and merge it back in.
1264
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001265When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
1266following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
1267
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +00001268When compiling with EXITFREE defined and the ccmalloc library it is possible
1269to detect memory leaks. Some memory will always reported as leaked, such as
1270allocated by X11 library functions and the memory allocated in alloc_cmdbuff()
1271to store the ":quit" command.
1272
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +00001273Moved the code for printing to src/hardcopy.c.
1274
1275Moved some code from main() to separate functions to make it easier to see
1276what is being done. Use a structure to avoid a lot of arguments to the
1277functions.
1278
1279Moved unix_expandpath() to misc1.c, so that it can also be used by os_mac.c
1280without copying the code.
1281
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001282--- Mac ---
1283
1284"make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to its
1285final destination. (Raf)
1286
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00001287Put the runtime directory not directly in Vim.app but in
1288Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim, so that it's according to Mac specs.
1289
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001290Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and still
1291being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c file.
1292
1293When running "make install" the runtime files are installed as for Unix.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +00001294Avoids that too many files are copied. When running "make" a link to the
1295runtime files is created to avoid a recursive copy that takes much time.
1296
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001297Configure will attempt to build Vim for both Intel and PowerPC. The
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001298--with-mac-arch configure argument can change it.
1299
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00001300--- Win32 ---
1301
1302The Make_mvc.mak file was adjusted to work with the latest MS compilers,
1303including the free version of Visual Studio 2005. (George Reilly)
1304
1305INSTALLpc.txt was updated for the recent changes. (George Reilly)
1306
1307The distributed executable is now produced with the free Visual C++ Toolkit
13082003 and other free SDK chunks. msvcsetup.bat was added to support this.
1309
1310Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
1311on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
1312
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001313==============================================================================
1314BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
1315
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001316When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
1317instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
1318work. Use "LPT1" then.
1319
1320The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
1321size. Use a default size of 10.
1322
1323This example in the documentation didn't work:
1324 :e `=foo . ".c" `
1325Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
1326
1327When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
1328
1329"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
1330
1331Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
1332when it doesn't support MDI.
1333
1334Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
1335
1336"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
1337space.
1338
1339Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
1340SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
1341for doesn't have an extension.
1342
1343When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
1344may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
1345cursor and not putting it back where it was.
1346
1347When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
1348not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
1349to make it work the old way.
1350
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001351When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
1352filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
1353
1354After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
1355
1356Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
1357fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001358
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001359On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
1360Michele)
1361
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00001362Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
1363CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
1364
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001365When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
1366ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
1367
1368Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
Bram Moolenaar90cfdbe2005-08-12 19:59:19 +00001369characters. Also remove "'<,'>" when in Visual mode to avoid that it appears
1370twice.
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001371
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00001372When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
1373variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
1374
1375'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
1376is indented too much.
1377
1378When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
1379alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
1380items.
1381
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001382Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
1383active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
1384
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001385The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
1386"cn" or "tw" as intended.
1387
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001388When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
1389after the last line while it's not there.
1390
1391Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
1392resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
1393
1394Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
1395string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
1396
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +00001397When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
1398contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
1399and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
1400
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001401strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
1402
1403GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
1404just before it is invoked
1405
1406VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
1407environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1408
1409UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
1410from the first character of the word.
1411
1412When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
1413detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
1414
1415When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
1416but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
1417
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00001418When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
1419list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
1420interrupting this.
1421
1422When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
1423used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
1424and global options remain unmodified.
1425
1426Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
1427command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
1428file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
1429
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001430Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
1431default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
1432
1433When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
1434xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
1435line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
1436
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00001437Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
1438
1439When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
1440going to be used like a command.
1441
1442GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
1443GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
1444
1445GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
1446
1447Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
1448line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
1449console version.
1450
1451Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
1452there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
1453
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +00001454When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
1455files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
1456directory for the library early in the link flags.
1457
1458With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
1459literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
1460
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001461When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
1462cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
1463
1464When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
1465buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
1466
1467Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
1468problems for Terminal.app.
1469
1470When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
1471end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
1472argument.
1473
1474When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
1475has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
1476back.
1477
1478When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
1479was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
1480
1481When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
1482"cancel", would still give an error message.
1483
1484The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
1485mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
1486
1487Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
1488keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
1489
1490Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
1491
1492In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
1493selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
1494is included, e.g., after "v$o".
1495
1496GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
1497GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
1498
1499After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
1500
1501When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
1502doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001503Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
1504handle. Added handle_signal().
1505
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +00001506When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
1507white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
1508
1509When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
1510long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
1511being found in a library.
1512
1513When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
1514may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
1515
1516Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
1517is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
1518
1519When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
1520original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
1521empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
1522be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
1523the values when recovering.
1524
1525":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
1526message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
1527
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00001528Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
1529when building the ":drop" command.
1530
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00001531A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
1532E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
1533
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001534"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
1535does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
1536
1537When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
1538moved the cursor to another column.
1539
1540When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
1541quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
1542fold.
1543
1544In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
1545break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
1546
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001547Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001548
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001549Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +00001550(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +00001551
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001552When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
1553not included.
1554
1555Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
1556Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
1557
1558When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
1559the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
1560
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +00001561Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
1562
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +00001563When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
1564(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
1565mode. (Peter Winters)
1566
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +00001567"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
1568
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001569Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
1570not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +00001571Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +00001572
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +00001573When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
1574lines" overwrites the message.
1575
1576Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
1577
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00001578When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
1579after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
1580column in the wrong line.
1581
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001582When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
1583starts with "sl".
1584
1585When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
1586'paste' when starting the GUI.
1587
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +00001588A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
1589
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +00001590When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
1591Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
1592mapping.
1593
1594Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
1595
1596":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
1597
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001598When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
1599in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
1600
1601When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
1602empty $SHELL value.
1603
1604A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
1605file.
1606
1607When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
1608moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
1609
1610When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
1611the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
1612is Vi compatible.
1613
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00001614Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
1615Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
1616$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
1617
1618Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
1619flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
1620
1621Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
1622compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
1623
1624When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
1625leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
1626'cpoptions' for this.
1627
1628Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
1629
1630Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
1631be Vi compatible.
1632
1633When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
1634request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
1635shell and caused trouble there.
1636
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00001637When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
1638still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
1639Lakshmanan)
1640
1641It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
1642sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
1643
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001644When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
1645from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1646
1647When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1648
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001649Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1650unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1651
1652":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1653
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001654The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1655are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1656
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001657Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1658indirectly invokes ":normal".
1659
1660Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1661before invoking "diff".
1662
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001663Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1664&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1665
1666When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1667locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1668mouse model.
1669
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001670When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1671characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1672is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1673character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1674
1675Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001676":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001677
1678Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1679
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001680Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1681real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1682
1683Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1684always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1685
1686When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1687detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1688compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1689decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1690
1691Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1692to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1693Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1694
1695"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1696
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001697When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1698Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1699
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001700In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1701and reset it in nv_home().
1702
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001703Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1704spaces inside backticks.
1705
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001706After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1707let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1708This should be the most useful thing to do.
1709
1710":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1711an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1712
1713In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1714reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1715
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001716When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1717call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +00001718This breaks the thread stuff though, fixed by Ugo.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001719
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001720GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1721after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1722win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1723
1724Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1725column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1726mouse column to 10000.
1727
1728searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1729we find the same position again and advance one character.
1730
1731When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1732to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1733
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001734When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1735prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1736
1737When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1738substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1739
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001740Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1741when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1742checks where invoking them
1743
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001744":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1745show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1746
1747When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1748
1749GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1750removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1751change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1752Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1753'lines' to undo this.
1754
Bram Moolenaarb3656ed2006-03-20 21:59:49 +00001755When using the GTK plug mechanism, resizing and focus was not working
1756properly. (Neil Bird)
1757
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001758After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1759":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1760
1761When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1762may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1763character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1764so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1765
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001766setbufvar() and setwinvar() did not give error messages.
1767
1768It was possible to set a variable with an illegal name, e.g. with setbufvar().
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +00001769It was possible to define a function with illegal name, e.t. ":func F{-1}()"
1770
1771CTRL-W F and "gf" didn't use the same method to get the file name.
Bram Moolenaarb2ec3072005-06-17 22:02:20 +00001772
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001773When reporting a conversion error the line number of the last error could be
1774given. Now report the first encountered error.
1775
1776When using ":e ++enc=name file" and iconv() was used for conversion an error
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001777caused a fall-back to no conversion. Now replace a character with '?' and
Bram Moolenaar42eeac32005-06-29 22:40:58 +00001778continue.
1779
Bram Moolenaar51bab742005-07-08 22:31:03 +00001780When opening a new buffer the local value of 'bomb' was not initialized from
1781the global value.
1782
Bram Moolenaare759a7a2005-07-12 22:50:18 +00001783Win32: When using the "Edit with Vim" entry the file name was limited to about
1784200 characters.
1785
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +00001786When using command line completion for ":e *foo" and the file "+foo" exists
1787the resulting command ":e +foo" doesn't work. Now insert a backslash: ":e
1788\+foo".
1789
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +00001790When the translation of "-- More --" was not 10 characters long the following
1791message would be in the wrong position.
1792
1793At the more-prompt the last character in the last line wasn't drawn.
1794
1795When deleting non-existing text while 'virtualedit' is set the '[ and '] marks
1796were not set.
1797
Bram Moolenaar0be6e642005-08-04 21:32:22 +00001798Win32: Could not use "**/" in 'path', it had to be "**\".
1799
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +00001800The search pattern "\n" did not match at the end of the last line.
1801
1802Searching for a pattern backwards, starting on the NUL at the end of the line
1803and 'encoding' is "utf-8" would match the pattern just before it incorrectly.
1804Affected searchpair('/\*', '', '\*/').
1805
Bram Moolenaar5b8d8fd2005-08-16 23:01:50 +00001806For the Find/Replace dialog it was possible that not finding the text resulted
1807in an error message while redrawing, which cleared the syntax highlighting
1808while it was being used, resulting in a crash. Now don't clear syntax
1809highlighting, disable it with b_syn_error.
1810
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00001811Win32: Combining UTF-8 characters were drawn on the previous character.
1812Could be noticed with a Thai font.
1813
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00001814Output of ":function" could leave some of the typed text behind. (Yegappan
1815Lakshmanan)
1816
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +00001817When the command line history has only a few lines the command line window
1818would be opened with these lines above the first window line.
1819
1820When using a command line window for search strings ":qa" would result in
1821searching for "qa" instead of quitting all windows.
1822
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +00001823GUI: When scrolling with the scrollbar and there is a line that doesn't fit
1824redrawing may fail. Make sure w_skipcol is valid before redrawing.
1825
Bram Moolenaar482aaeb2005-09-29 18:26:07 +00001826Limit the values of 'columns' and 'lines' to avoid an overflow in Rows *
1827Columns. Fixed bad effects when running out of memory (command line would be
1828reversed, ":qa!" resulted in ":!aq").
1829
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001830Motif: "gvim -iconic" opened the window anyway. (David Harrison)
1831
1832There is a tiny chance that a symlink gets created between checking for an
1833existing file and creating a file. Use the O_NOFOLLOW for open() if it's
1834available.
1835
1836In an empty line "ix<CTRL-O>0" moved the cursor to after the line instead of
1837sticking to the first column.
1838
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +00001839When using ":wq" and a BufWriteCmd autocmd uses inputsecret() the text was
1840echoed anyway. Set terminal to raw mode in getcmdline().
1841
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00001842Unix: ":w a;b~c" caused an error in expanding wildcards.
1843
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +00001844When appending to a file with ":w >>fname" in a buffer without a name, causing
1845the buffer to use "fname", the modified flag was reset.
1846
1847When appending to to current file the "not edited" flag would be reset.
1848":w" would overwrite the file accidentally.
1849
Bram Moolenaar900b4d72005-12-12 22:05:50 +00001850Unix: When filtering text with an external command Vim would still read input,
1851causing text typed for the command (e.g., a password) to be eaten and echoed.
1852Don't read input when the terminal is in cooked mode.
1853
Bram Moolenaar146522e2005-12-16 21:55:46 +00001854The Cygwin version of xxd used CR/LF line separators. (Corinna Vinschen)
1855
1856Unix: When filtering text through a shell command some resulting text may be
1857dropped. Now after detecting that the child has exited try reading some more
1858of its output.
1859
Bram Moolenaar3b181812005-12-17 22:10:02 +00001860When inside input(), using "CTRL-R =" and the expression throws an exception
1861the command line was not abandoned but it wasn't used either. Now abandon
1862typing the command line.
1863
Bram Moolenaare3226be2005-12-18 22:10:00 +00001864'delcombine' was also used in Visual and Select mode and for commands like
1865"cl". That was illogical and has been disabled.
1866
1867When recording while a CursorHold autocommand was defined special keys would
1868appear in the register. Now the CursorHold event is not triggered while
1869recording.
1870
Bram Moolenaarf4cd3e82005-12-22 22:47:02 +00001871Unix: the src/configure script used ${srcdir-.}, not all shells understand
1872that. Use ${srcdir:-.} instead.
1873
Bram Moolenaarcc984262005-12-23 22:19:46 +00001874When editing file "a" which is a symlink to file "b" that doesn't exist,
1875writing file "a" to create "b" and then ":split b" resulted in two buffers on
1876the same file with two different swapfile names. Now set the inode in the
1877buffer when creating a new file.
1878
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001879When 'esckeys' is not set don't send the xterm code to request the version
1880string, because it may cause trouble in Insert mode.
1881
1882When evaluating an expression for CTRL-R = on the command line it was possible
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001883to call a function that opens a new window, resulting in errors for
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001884incremental search, and many other nasty things were possible. Now use the
1885|textlock| to disallow changing the buffer or jumping to another window
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001886to protect from unexpected behavior. Same for CTRL-\ e.
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00001887
1888"d(" deleted the character under the cursor, while the documentation specified
1889an exclusive motion. Vi also doesn't delete the character under the cursor.
1890
1891Shift-Insert in Insert mode could put the cursor before the last character
1892when it just fits in the window. In coladvance() don't stop at the window
1893edge when filling with spaces and when in Insert mode. In mswin.vim avoid
1894getting a beep from the "l" command.
1895
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00001896Win32 GUI: When Alt-F4 is used to close the window and Cancel is selected in
1897the dialog then Vim would insert <M-F4> in the text. Now it's ignored.
1898
1899When ":silent! {cmd}" caused the swap file dialog, which isn't displayed,
1900there would still be a hit-enter prompt.
1901
Bram Moolenaara40ceaf2006-01-13 22:35:40 +00001902Requesting the termresponse (|t_RV|) early may cause problems with "-c"
1903arguments that invoke an external command or even "-c quit". Postpone it
1904until after executing "-c" arguments.
1905
1906When typing in Insert mode so that a new line is started, using CTRL-G u to
1907break undo and start a new change, then joining the lines with <BS> caused
1908undo info to be missing. Now reset the insertion start point.
1909
1910Syntax HL: When a region start match has a matchgroup and an offset that
1911happens to be after the end of the line then it continued in the next line and
1912stopped at the region end match, making the region continue after that.
1913Now check for the column being past the end of the line in syn_add_end_off().
1914
Bram Moolenaarc32840f2006-01-14 21:23:38 +00001915When changing a file, setting 'swapfile' off and then on again, making another
1916change and killing Vim, then some blocks may be missing from the swapfile.
1917When 'swapfile' is switched back on mark all blocks in the swapfile as dirty.
1918Added mf_set_dirty().
1919
1920Expanding wildcards in a command like ":e aap;<>!" didn't work. Put
1921backslashes before characters that are special to the shell. (Adri Verhoef)
1922
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00001923A CursorHold autocommand would cause a message to be cleared. Don't show the
1924special key for the event for 'showcmd'.
1925
1926When expanding a file name for a shell command, as in "!cmd foo<Tab>" or ":r
1927!cmd foo<Tab>" also escape characters that are special for the shell:
1928"!;&()<>".
1929
Bram Moolenaarb71eaae2006-01-20 23:10:18 +00001930When the name of the buffer was set by a ":r fname" command |cpo-f| no
1931autocommands were triggered to notify about the change in the buffer list.
1932
1933In the quickfix buffer 'bufhidden' was set to "delete", which caused closing
1934the quickfix window to leave an unlisted "No Name" buffer behind every time.
1935
Bram Moolenaar0ac93792006-01-21 22:16:51 +00001936Win32: when using two screens of different size, setting 'lines' to a large
1937value didn't fill the whole screen. (SungHyun Nam)
1938
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +00001939Win32 installer: The generated _vimrc contained an absolute path to diff.exe.
1940After upgrading it becomes invalid. Now use $VIMRUNTIME instead.
1941
Bram Moolenaard12f5c12006-01-25 22:10:52 +00001942The command line was cleared to often when 'showmode' was set and ":silent
1943normal vy" was used. Don't clear the command line unless the mode was
1944actually displayed. Added the "mode_displayed" variable.
1945
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00001946The "load session" toolbar item could not handle a space or other special
1947characters in v:this_session.
1948
1949":set sta ts=8 sw=4 sts=2" deleted 4 spaces halfway a line instead of 2.
1950
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00001951In a multi-byte file the foldmarker could be recognized in the trail byte.
1952(Taro Muraoka)
1953
Bram Moolenaar0e5bd962006-02-04 00:59:56 +00001954Pasting with CTRL-V and menu didn't work properly when some commands are
1955mapped. Use ":normal!" instead of ":normal". (Tony Apuzzo)
1956
1957Crashed when expanding a file name argument in backticks.
1958
Bram Moolenaarf52c7252006-02-10 23:23:57 +00001959In some situations the menu and scrollbar didn't work, when the value contains
1960a CSI byte. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
1961
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +00001962GTK GUI: When drawing the balloon focus changes and we might get a key release
1963event that removed the balloon again. Ignore the key release event.
1964
1965'titleold' was included in ":mkexrc" and ":mksession" files.
1966
Bram Moolenaarf740b292006-02-16 22:11:02 +00001967":set background&" didn't use the same logic as was used when starting up.
1968
Bram Moolenaar997fb4b2006-02-17 21:53:23 +00001969When "umask" is set such that nothing is writable then the viminfo file would
1970be written without write permission. (Julian Bridle)
1971
Bram Moolenaar7e8fd632006-02-18 22:14:51 +00001972Motif: In diff mode dragging one scrollbar didn't update the scrollbar of the
1973other diff'ed window.
1974
Bram Moolenaar238a5642006-02-21 22:12:05 +00001975When editing in an xterm with a different number of colors than expected the
1976screen would be cleared and redrawn, causing the message about the edited file
1977to be cleared. Now set "keep_msg" to redraw the last message.
1978
Bram Moolenaard1f56e62006-02-22 21:25:37 +00001979For a color terminal: When the Normal HL uses bold, possibly to make the color
1980lighter, and another HL group specifies a color it might become light as well.
1981Now reset bold if a HL group doesn't specify bold itself.
1982
Bram Moolenaar32466aa2006-02-24 23:53:04 +00001983When using 256 color xterm the color 255 would show up as color 0. Use a
1984short instead of a char to store the color number.
1985
1986ml_get errors when searching for "\n\zs" in an empty file.
1987
Bram Moolenaara5621492006-02-25 21:55:24 +00001988When selecting a block and using "$" to select until the end of every line and
1989not highlighting the character under the cursor the first character of the
1990block could be unhighlighted.
1991
1992When counting words for the Visual block area and using "$" to select until
1993the end of every line only up to the length of the last line was counted.
1994
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00001995"dip" in trailing empty lines left one empty line behind.
1996
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00001997The script ID was only remembered globally for each option. When a buffer- or
1998window-local option was set the same "last set" location was changed for all
1999buffers and windows. Now remember the script ID for each local option
2000separately.
2001
2002GUI: The "Replace All" button didn't handle backslashes in the replacement in
2003the same way as "Replace". Escape backslashes so that they are taken
2004literally.
2005
Bram Moolenaare224ffa2006-03-01 00:01:28 +00002006When using Select mode from Insert mode and typing a key, causing lines to be
2007deleted and a message displayed, delayed the effect of inserting the key.
2008Now overwrite the message without delay.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002009
Bram Moolenaar362e1a32006-03-06 23:29:24 +00002010When 'whichwrap' includes "l" then "dl" and "yl" on a single letter line
2011worked differently. Now recognize all operators when using "l" at the end of
2012a line.
2013
2014GTK GUI: when the font selector returned a font name with a comma in it then
2015it would be handled like two font names. Now put a backslash before the
2016comma.
2017
2018MS-DOS, Win32: When 'encoding' defaults to "latin1" then the value for
2019'iskeyword' was still for CPxxx. And when 'nocompatible' was set 'isprint'
2020would also be the wrong value.
2021
Bram Moolenaar1f35bf92006-03-07 22:38:47 +00002022When a command was defined not to take arguments and no '|' no warning message
2023would be given for using a '|'. Also with ":loadkeymap".
2024
Bram Moolenaara3227e22006-03-08 21:32:40 +00002025Motif: When using a fontset and 'encoding' is "utf-8" and sizeof(wchar_t) !=
2026sizeof(XChar2b) then display was wrong. (Yukihiro Nakadaira)
2027
Bram Moolenaareb94e552006-03-11 21:35:11 +00002028":all" always set the current window to the first window, even when it
2029contains a buffer that is not in the argument list (can't be closed because it
2030is modified). Now go to the window that has the first item of the argument
2031list.
2032
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +00002033GUI: To avoid left-over pixels from bold text all characters after a character
2034with special attributes were redrawn. Now only do this for characters that
2035actually are bold. Speeds up displaying considerably.
2036
2037When only highlighting changes and the text is scrolled at the same time
2038everything is redraw instead of using a scroll and updating the changed text.
2039E.g., when using ":match" to highlight a paren that the cursor landed on.
2040Added SOME_VALID: Redraw the whole window but also try to scroll to minimize
2041redrawing.
2042
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002043Win32: When using Korean IME making it active didn't work properly. (Moon,
2044Yu-sung, 2005 March 21)
2045
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +00002046Ruby interface: when inserting/deleting lines display wasn't updated. (Ryan
2047Paul)
Bram Moolenaarca003e12006-03-17 23:19:38 +00002048
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002049 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: