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Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jan 31
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
3
4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
5
6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000022KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000023Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000024Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025Various new items |new-items-7|
26
27IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
28
29COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
30
31BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
32
33==============================================================================
34INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
35
36These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000037run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
38
39A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
40unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
41buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
42all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
43":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000045":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
46
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000047In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
48name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
49double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
50 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
51 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
52 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
53 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
54
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000055In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
56":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
57results in "a'b".
58
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000059
60Minor incompatibilities:
61
62For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
63*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
64
65":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
66
67Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
68
69Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
70confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000071
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000072When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
73isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
74
75The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
76looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR" if no
77folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000078Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000079
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000080Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
81on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
82changing 'winaltkeys'.
83
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000084When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
85is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
86avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000087
88When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
89now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
90encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
91possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
92non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
93
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +000094Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
95a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
96
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000097==============================================================================
98NEW FEATURES *new-7*
99
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000100Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
101-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000102
103In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
104
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000105 List ordered list of items |List|
106 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
107 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000108
109Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
110
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000111The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
112variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
113can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
114
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000115The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
116expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
117
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000118
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000119KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000120-----------
121
122Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
123(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
124
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000125
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000126MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
127------------------
128
129The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
130The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
131The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
132
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000133
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000134Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
135------------------
136
137The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
138The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
139Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
140
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000141
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000142Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
143-----------------------
144
145The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
146Italian (translated by Antonio Colombo). More languages will follow.
147
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000148The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/.
149
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000150
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000151Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
152-------------
153
154The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
155This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
156better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
157patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
158|:vimgrep|.
159
160
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000161Various new items *new-items-7*
162-----------------
163
164Normal mode commands: ~
165
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000166a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
167i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000168
169Options: ~
170
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000171'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
172 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
173 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
174'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
175 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000176'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
177 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000178'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000179'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
180'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000181'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
182 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000183'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
184 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
185 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000186'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
187 (idea by Hugo Haas)
188
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000189
190Ex commands: ~
191
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000192Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
193
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000194|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000195
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000196|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000197
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000198|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
199 windows.
200
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000201|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
202
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000203|:delmarks| Delete marks.
204
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000205|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
206
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000207|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
208
209|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
210
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000211|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
212 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000213
214New functions: ~
215
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000216|add()| append an item to a List
217|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
218|browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
219|byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
220|call()| call a function with List as arguments
221|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
222|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
223|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
224|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
225|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
226 Dictionary to another
227|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
228|finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
229|findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes Zellner)
230|foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum".
231|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
232|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
233|getfontname()| Get actual font name being used.
234|getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai Weibull)
235|getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
236|getline()| get List with buffer lines
237|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
238|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
239|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
240|join()| join List items into a String
241|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
242|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
243|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
244|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
245|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
246|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
247|repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times. (Christophe Poucet)
248|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
249|sort()| sort a List
250|split()| split a String into a List
251|string()| String representation of a List or Dictionary
252|system()| Filters {input} through a shell command.
253|tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
254|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000255
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000256
257New autocommand events: ~
258
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000259|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
260|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
261|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000262
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000263|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000264
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000265
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000266New items in search patterns: ~
267|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
268|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
269|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
270|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
271|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
272|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
273|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
274|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
275|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
276|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
277 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
278
279
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000280New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
281
282MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
283
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000284ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
285
286SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
287
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000288PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
289
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000290Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
291
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000292
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000293New Keymaps: ~
294
295Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
296
297
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000298New message translations: ~
299
300The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
301
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000302
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000303Others: ~
304
305Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
306character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
307Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
308"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000309
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000310Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
311
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000312GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000313
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000314Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000315
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000316Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
317event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
318file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
319
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000320The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
321Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
322
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000323Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
324To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
325they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
326
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000327Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
328when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
329|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
330
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000331==============================================================================
332IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
333
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000334":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
335
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000336Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
337
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000338":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
339breakpoint at the cursor.
340
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000341The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
342few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000343
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000344Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
345it. (Johannes Zellner)
346
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000347Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
348
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000349Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
350doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
351autocommands.
352
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000353For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
354- square brackets are recognized properly
355- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
356- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
357
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000358Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
359
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000360winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
361Lakshmanan)
362
363Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
364
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000365When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
366delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
367actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
368
369When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
370Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
371(Michael Geddes)
372
373The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
374
375VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
376upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
377(Zoltan Arpadffy)
378
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000379For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
380of buffers.
381
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000382The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
383have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
384
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000385When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
386the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
387
388Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
389digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
390
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000391When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
392buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
393list.
394
395Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
396(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
397
398When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
399second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
400line is just "/*".
401
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000402When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
403mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
404edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
405the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
406used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
407more reliable.
408
409Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
410in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
411"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
412with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
413
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000414Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
415incremented/decremented each time.
416
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000417Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000418contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
419a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
420
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000421When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
422
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000423Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
424
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000425":redir @*>" and ":redir @+>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
426invalid characters after the register name.
427
428":let g:" lists global variables.
429":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
430":let w:" lists window-local variables.
431":let v:" lists Vim variables.
432
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000433The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
434searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000435
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000436==============================================================================
437COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
438
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000439Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
440probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
441and merge it back in.
442
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000443Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
444its final destination. (Raf)
445
446Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
447still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
448file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000449
450==============================================================================
451BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
452
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000453When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
454instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
455work. Use "LPT1" then.
456
457The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
458size. Use a default size of 10.
459
460This example in the documentation didn't work:
461 :e `=foo . ".c" `
462Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
463
464When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
465
466"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
467
468Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
469when it doesn't support MDI.
470
471Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
472
473"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
474space.
475
476Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
477SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
478for doesn't have an extension.
479
480When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
481may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
482cursor and not putting it back where it was.
483
484When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
485not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
486to make it work the old way.
487
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000488When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
489filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
490
491After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
492
493Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
494fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000495
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000496On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
497Michele)
498
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000499Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
500CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
501
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000502When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
503ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
504
505Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
506characters.
507
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000508When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
509variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
510
511'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
512is indented too much.
513
514When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
515alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
516items.
517
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000518The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
519"cn" or "tw" as intended.
520
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000521When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
522after the last line while it's not there.
523
524Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
525resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
526
527Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
528string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
529
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000530When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
531contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
532and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
533
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000534strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
535
536GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
537just before it is invoked
538
539VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
540environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
541
542UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
543from the first character of the word.
544
545When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
546detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
547
548When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
549but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
550
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000551When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
552list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
553interrupting this.
554
555When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
556used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
557and global options remain unmodified.
558
559Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
560command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
561file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
562
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000563Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
564default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
565
566When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
567xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
568line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
569
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000570Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
571
572When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
573going to be used like a command.
574
575GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
576GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
577
578GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
579
580Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
581line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
582console version.
583
584Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
585there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
586
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000587When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
588files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
589directory for the library early in the link flags.
590
591With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
592literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
593
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000594When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
595cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
596
597When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
598buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
599
600Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
601problems for Terminal.app.
602
603When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
604end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
605argument.
606
607When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
608has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
609back.
610
611When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
612was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
613
614When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
615"cancel", would still give an error message.
616
617The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
618mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
619
620Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
621keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
622
623Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
624
625In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
626selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
627is included, e.g., after "v$o".
628
629GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
630GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
631
632After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
633
634When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
635doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000636Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
637handle. Added handle_signal().
638
639When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
640line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
641GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000642
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000643When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
644white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
645
646When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
647long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
648being found in a library.
649
650When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
651may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
652
653Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
654is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
655
656When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
657original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
658empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
659be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
660the values when recovering.
661
662":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
663message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
664
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000665Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
666when building the ":drop" command.
667
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000668A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
669E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
670
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000671"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
672does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
673
674When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
675moved the cursor to another column.
676
677When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
678quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
679fold.
680
681In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
682break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
683
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000684Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000685
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000686Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000687(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000688
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000689When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
690not included.
691
692Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
693Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
694
695When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
696the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
697
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +0000698Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
699
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +0000700When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
701(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
702mode. (Peter Winters)
703
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000704"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
705
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000706Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
707not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000708Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000709
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000710When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
711lines" overwrites the message.
712
713Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
714
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000715When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
716after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
717column in the wrong line.
718
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000719When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
720starts with "sl".
721
722When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
723'paste' when starting the GUI.
724
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000725 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: