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Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +00001*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jun 02
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +00009compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
10 :version
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011
12See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
13See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
14See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
15See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
16
17INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
18
19NEW FEATURES |new-7|
20
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000021Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000022Spell checking |new-spell|
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000023KDE support |new-KDE|
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000024Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000025Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000026POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000027Debugger support |new-debug-support|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028Various new items |new-items-7|
29
30IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
31
32COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
33
34BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
35
36==============================================================================
37INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
38
39These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +000040run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
41
42A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
43unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
44buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
45all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
46":quit" fails now.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000048":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
49
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000050In an argument list double quotes could be used to include spaces in a file
51name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
52double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
53 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
54 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
55 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
56 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
57
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000058In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
59":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
60results in "a'b".
61
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000062
63Minor incompatibilities:
64
65For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
66*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
67
68":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
69
70Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
71
72Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
73confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000074
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000075When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
76isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
77
78The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000079looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR", or
80"let html_ignore_folding=1", if no folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by
81Carl Osterwisch)
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +000082Diff mode now is also converted as it is displayed.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +000083
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000084Win32: The effect of the <F10> key depended on 'winaltkeys'. Now it depends
85on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
86changing 'winaltkeys'.
87
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000088When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
89is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
90avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000091
92When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
93now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
94encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
95possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
96non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
97
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +000098Previously Vim would exit when there are two windows, both of them displaying
99a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
100
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000101"-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a digit.
102Otherwise it's used to set the 'window' option.
103
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000104Previously <Home> and <xHome> could be mapped separately. This had the
105disadvantage that all mappings (with modifiers) had to be duplicated, since
106you can't be sure what the keyboard generates. Now all <xHome> are internally
107translated to <Home>, both for the keys and for mappings. Also for <xEnd>,
108<xF1>, etc.
109
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000110":put" now leaves the cursor on the last inserted line.
111
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000112==============================================================================
113NEW FEATURES *new-7*
114
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000115Vim script enhancements *new-vim-script*
116-----------------------
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000117
118In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
119
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000120 List ordered list of items |List|
121 Dictionary associative array of items |Dictionary|
122 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000123
124Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
125
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000126The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
127variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
128can be used to turn the string back into the variable value.
129
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000130The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
131expr". "-=" and ".=" works in a similar way.
132
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000133With the |:profile| command you can find out where your function or script
134wastes its time.
135
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000136
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000137Spell checking *new-spell*
138--------------
139
140Spell checking has been integrated in Vim. There were a few implementations
141with scripts, but they were slow and/or required an external program.
142
143The 'spell' option is used to switch spell checking on or off.
144The 'spelllang' option is used to specify the languages that are accepted.
145
146The "undercurl" highlighting attribute was added to nicely point out spelling
147mistakes in the GUI (based on patch from Marcin Dalecki).
148The "guisp" color can be used to give it a color different from foreground and
149background.
150The number of possible different highlight attributes was raised from about
151220 to over 30000. This allows for the attributes of spelling to be combined
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000152with syntax highlighting attributes. This is also used for syntax
153highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000154
155Much more info here: |spell|.
156
157
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000158KDE support *new-KDE*
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000159-----------
160
161Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
162(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
163
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000164
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000165MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
166------------------
167
168The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
169The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
170The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
171
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000172
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000173Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
174------------------
175
176The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
177The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
178Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
179
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000180
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000181Translated manual pages *new-manpage-trans*
182-----------------------
183
184The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000185several other languages.
186
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000187French - translated by David Blanchet
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000188Italian - translated by Antonio Colombo
189Russian - translated by Vassily Ragosin
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000190
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000191The Unix Makefile installs the Italian manual pages in .../man/it/man1/,
192.../man/it.ISO8859-1/man1/ and .../man/it.UTF-8/man1/. There appears to be no
193standard for what encoding goes in the "it" directory, the 8-bit encoded file
194is used there as a best guess.
195Other languages are installed in similar places.
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000196The translated pages are not automatically installed when Vim was configured
197with "--disable-nls", but "make install-languages install-tool-languages" will
198do it anyway.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000199
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000200
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000201Internal grep *new-vimgrep*
202-------------
203
204The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
205This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
206better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
207patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
208|:vimgrep|.
209
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000210If you want to use the search results in a script you can use the
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000211|getqflist()| function.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000212
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000213
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000214POSIX compatibility *new-posix*
215-------------------
216
217The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
218problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
219conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
220variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
221
222Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
223- repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
224 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
225- a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
226 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
227- when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
228 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
229- The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
230 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
231 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
232 digit.
233- Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
234- When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
235 'cpoptions'.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000236- Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
237- Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
238- In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
239 above or below the new lines.
240- Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
241- When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
242 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
243- Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
244 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
245- The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
246 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
247- Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
248 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
249- In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
250- The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
251- The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
252- Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
253- Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
254- Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
255 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
256- In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines.
257- Implemented the 'prompt' option.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000258
259
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +0000260Debugger support *new-debug-support*
261----------------
262
263The 'balloonexpr' option has been added. This is a generic way to implement
264balloon functionality. You can use it to show info for the word under the
265mouse pointer.
266
267
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000268Various new items *new-items-7*
269-----------------
270
271Normal mode commands: ~
272
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000273a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
274i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000275
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000276CTRL-W <Enter> In the quickfix window: opens a new window to show the
277 location of the error under the cursor.
278
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000279Options: ~
280
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000281'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
282 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
283 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
284'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
285 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000286'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
287 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000288'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000289'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
290'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000291'fsync' Whether fsync() is called after writing a file.
292 (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000293'wildoptions' "tagfile" value enables listing the file name of
294 matching tags for CTRL-D command line completion.
295 (based on an idea from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000296'formatlistpat' pattern to recognize a numbered list for formatting.
297 (idea by Hugo Haas)
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000298'spell' switch spell checking on/off
299'spelllang' languages to check spelling for
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000300'verbosefile' Log messages in a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000301
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000302
303Ex commands: ~
304
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000305Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
306
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000307|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000308
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000309|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000310
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000311|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
312 windows.
313
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000314|:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
315
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000316|:delmarks| Delete marks.
317
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000318|:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
319
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000320|:exusage| Help for Ex commands (Nvi command).
321
322|:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
323
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000324|:cbuffer| Read error lines from a buffer. (partly by Yegappan
325 Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000326
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000327|:sort| Sort lines in the buffer without depending on an
328 external command.
329
330
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000331New functions: ~
332
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000333|add()| append an item to a List
334|append()| append List of lines to the buffer
335|browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
336|byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
337|call()| call a function with List as arguments
338|copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
339|count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
340|deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
341|empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000342|getqflist()| list of quickfix errors (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000343|extend()| append one List to another or add items from one
344 Dictionary to another
345|filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
346|finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
347|findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes Zellner)
348|foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum".
349|function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
350|get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
351|getfontname()| Get actual font name being used.
352|getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai Weibull)
353|getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000354|getline()| With second argument: get List with buffer lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000355|has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
356|insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
357|items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
358|join()| join List items into a String
359|keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
360|len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
361|map()| change each List or Dictionary item
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000362|matchlist()| list with match and submatches of a pattern in a string
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000363|max()| maximum value in a List or Dictionary
364|min()| minimum value in a List or Dictionary
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000365|mkdir()| create a directory
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000366|readfile()| read a file into a list of lines
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000367|remove()| remove one or more items from a List or Dictionary
368|repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times. (Christophe Poucet)
369|reverse()| reverse the order of a List
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000370|setqflist()| create a quickfix list (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000371|sort()| sort a List
372|split()| split a String into a List
373|string()| String representation of a List or Dictionary
374|system()| Filters {input} through a shell command.
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +0000375|taglist()| Get list of matching tags. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000376|tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
377|values()| get List of Dictionary values
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000378|writefile()| write a list of lines into a file
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000379
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000380User defined functions can now be loaded automatically from the "autoload"
381directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
382
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000383
384New autocommand events: ~
385
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000386|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode
387|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
388|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000389
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000390|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000391|QuickFixCmdPre| before :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
392|QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000393
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000394
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000395New items in search patterns: ~
396|/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
397|/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
398|/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
399|/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
400|/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
401|/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
402|/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
403|/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
404|/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
405|/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
406 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000407|/[[=| [[=a=]] an equivalence class (only for latin1 characters)
408|/[[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000409
410Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
411
412It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
413useful, just for compatibility.
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000414
415
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000416New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
417
418MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
419
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000420ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
421
422SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
423
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000424PHP compiler plugin. (Doug Kearns)
425
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000426Sive syntax file. (Nikolai Weibull)
427
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000428Moved all the indent settings from the filetype plugin to the indent file.
429Implemented b:undo_indent to undo indent settings when setting 'filetype' to a
430different value.
431
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000432
Bram Moolenaar47136d72004-10-12 20:02:24 +0000433New Keymaps: ~
434
435Sinhala (Sri Lanka) (Harshula Jayasuriya)
436
437
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000438New message translations: ~
439
440The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
441
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000442Irish message translations. (Kevin Patrick Scannell)
443
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000444Vietnamese message translations and menu. (Phan Vinh Thinh)
445
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000446
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000447Others: ~
448
449Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
450character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
451Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
452"yyp".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000453
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000454Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
455
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000456Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
457
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000458GUI font selector for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000459
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000460Nicer toolbar buttons for Motif. (Marcin Dalecki)
461
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000462Mnemonics for the Motif find/replace dialog. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000463
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000464Mac: better integration with Xcode. Post a fake mouse-up event after the odoc
465event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
466file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
467
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000468The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
469Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
470
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000471Added the t_SI and t_EI escape sequences for starting and ending Insert mode.
472To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
473they are not supported by termcap/terminfo.
474
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000475Autocommands can be defined local to a buffer. This means they will also work
476when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
477|autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
478
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000479For xterm most combinations of modifiers with function keys are recognized.
480|xterm-modifier-keys|
481
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000482==============================================================================
483IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
484
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000485":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
486
Bram Moolenaar8299df92004-07-10 09:47:34 +0000487Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
488
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000489The pattern matching code was changed from a recursive function to an
490iterative mechanism. This avoids out-of-stack errors. State is stored in
491allocated memory, running out of memory can always be detected. Allows
492matching more complex things, but Vim may seem to hang while doing that.
493
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000494":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
495breakpoint at the cursor.
496
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000497The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
498few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000499
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000500Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
501it. (Johannes Zellner)
502
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000503Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
504
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000505Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
506doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
507autocommands.
508
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000509For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
510- square brackets are recognized properly
511- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
512- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
513
Bram Moolenaar89cb5e02004-07-19 20:55:54 +0000514Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
515
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000516winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
517Lakshmanan)
518
519Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
520
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000521When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
522delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
523actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
524
525When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
526Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
527(Michael Geddes)
528
529The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
530
531VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
532upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
533(Zoltan Arpadffy)
534
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000535For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
536of buffers.
537
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000538The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
539have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
540
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000541When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
542the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
543
544Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
545digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
546
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000547When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
548buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
549list.
550
551Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
552(NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
553
554When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
555second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
556line is just "/*".
557
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000558When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
559mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
560edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
561the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
562used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
563more reliable.
564
565Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
566in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
567"fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
568with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
569
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000570Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
571incremented/decremented each time.
572
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000573Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000574contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
575a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
576
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000577When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
578
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000579Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
580
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000581":redir @*>>" and ":redir @+>>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000582invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
583
584":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
585(Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000586
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000587":redir @{a-z}>>" appends to register a to z.
588
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +0000589The 'verbosefile' option can be used to log messages in a file. Verbose
590messages are not displayed then. The "-V{filename}" argument can be used to
591log startup messages.
592
Bram Moolenaardcaf10e2005-01-21 11:55:25 +0000593":let g:" lists global variables.
594":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
595":let w:" lists window-local variables.
596":let v:" lists Vim variables.
597
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000598The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
599searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000600
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +0000601The getreg() function takes an extra argument to be able to get the expression
602for the '=' register instead of the result of evaluating it.
603
604The setline() function can take a List argument to set multiple lines. When
605the line number is just below the last line the line is appended.
606
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000607g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
608bytes.
609
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000610Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
611":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
612
613CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
614ignored.
615
616When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
617will result in a message with the source of the error.
618
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000619When completing buffer names, match with "\(^\|[\/]\)" instead of "^", so that
620":buf stor<Tab>" finds both "include/storage.h" and "storage/main.c".
621
622To count items (pattern matches) without changing the buffer the 'n' flag has
623been added to |:substitute|. See |count-items|.
624
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000625The "screen.linux" $TERM name is recognized to set the default for
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +0000626'background' to "dark". (Ciaran McCreesh) Also for "cygwin".
627
628The |FileChangedShell| autocommand event can now use the |v:fcs_reason|
629variable that specifies what triggered the event. |v:fcs_choice| can be used
630to reload the buffer or ask the user what to do.
Bram Moolenaar038eb0e2005-02-27 22:43:26 +0000631
Bram Moolenaar8bf59b92005-03-06 23:40:56 +0000632Not all modifiers were recognized for xterm function keys. Added the
633possibility in term codes to end in ";*X" or "O*X", where X is any character
634and the * stands for the modifier code.
635Added the <xUp>, <xDown>, <xLeft> and <xRight> keys, to be able to recognize
636the two forms that xterm can send their codes in and still handle all possible
637modifiers.
638
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000639getwinvar() now also works to obtain a buffer-local option from the specified
640window.
641
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000642Added the "%s" item to 'errorformat'. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
643
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000644GTK GUI: use the GTK file dialog when it's available. Mix from patches by
645Grahame Bowland and Evan Webb.
646
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000647==============================================================================
648COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
649
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000650Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
651probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
652and merge it back in.
653
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000654Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
655its final destination. (Raf)
656
657Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
658still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
659file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000660
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000661When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
662following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
663
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000664==============================================================================
665BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
666
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000667When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
668instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
669work. Use "LPT1" then.
670
671The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
672size. Use a default size of 10.
673
674This example in the documentation didn't work:
675 :e `=foo . ".c" `
676Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
677
678When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
679
680"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
681
682Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
683when it doesn't support MDI.
684
685Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
686
687"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
688space.
689
690Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
691SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
692for doesn't have an extension.
693
694When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
695may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
696cursor and not putting it back where it was.
697
698When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
699not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
700to make it work the old way.
701
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000702When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
703filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
704
705After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
706
707Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
708fields. (Walter Briscoe)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000709
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000710On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
711Michele)
712
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000713Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
714CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
715
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000716When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
717ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
718
719Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
720characters.
721
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000722When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
723variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
724
725'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
726is indented too much.
727
728When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
729alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
730items.
731
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000732Win32: when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" getenv() still returns strings in the
733active codepage. Convert to utf-8. Also for $HOME.
734
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000735The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
736"cn" or "tw" as intended.
737
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +0000738When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
739after the last line while it's not there.
740
741Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
742resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
743
744Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
745string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
746
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +0000747When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
748contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
749and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
750
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000751strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
752
753GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
754just before it is invoked
755
756VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
757environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
758
759UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
760from the first character of the word.
761
762When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
763detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
764
765When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
766but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
767
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000768When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
769list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
770interrupting this.
771
772When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
773used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
774and global options remain unmodified.
775
776Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
777command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
778file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
779
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000780Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
781default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
782
783When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
784xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
785line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
786
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000787Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
788
789When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
790going to be used like a command.
791
792GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
793GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
794
795GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
796
797Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
798line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
799console version.
800
801Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
802there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
803
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000804When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
805files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
806directory for the library early in the link flags.
807
808With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
809literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
810
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000811When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
812cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
813
814When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
815buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
816
817Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
818problems for Terminal.app.
819
820When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
821end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
822argument.
823
824When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
825has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
826back.
827
828When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
829was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
830
831When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
832"cancel", would still give an error message.
833
834The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
835mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
836
837Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
838keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
839
840Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
841
842In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
843selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
844is included, e.g., after "v$o".
845
846GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
847GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
848
849After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
850
851When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
852doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +0000853Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
854handle. Added handle_signal().
855
856When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
857line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
858GUI has started up.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000859
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000860When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
861white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
862
863When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
864long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
865being found in a library.
866
867When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
868may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
869
870Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
871is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
872
873When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
874original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
875empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
876be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
877the values when recovering.
878
879":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
880message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
881
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000882Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
883when building the ":drop" command.
884
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000885A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
886E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
887
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000888"(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
889does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
890
891When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
892moved the cursor to another column.
893
894When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
895quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
896fold.
897
898In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
899break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
900
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000901Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000902
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000903Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
Bram Moolenaar2079a602005-01-04 21:43:22 +0000904(Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +0000905
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000906When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
907not included.
908
909Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
910Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
911
912When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
913the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
914
Bram Moolenaar3d60ec22005-01-05 22:19:46 +0000915Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
916
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +0000917When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
918(possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
919mode. (Peter Winters)
920
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000921"2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
922
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000923Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
924not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000925Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000926
Bram Moolenaarb71ec9f2005-01-25 22:22:02 +0000927When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
928lines" overwrites the message.
929
930Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
931
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000932When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
933after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
934column in the wrong line.
935
Bram Moolenaard438e912005-01-31 19:21:46 +0000936When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
937starts with "sl".
938
939When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
940'paste' when starting the GUI.
941
Bram Moolenaarf5836682005-02-02 23:09:45 +0000942A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
943
Bram Moolenaar2a8d1f82005-02-05 21:43:56 +0000944When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
945Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
946mapping.
947
948Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
949
950":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
951
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000952When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
953in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
954
955When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
956empty $SHELL value.
957
958A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
959file.
960
961When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
962moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
963
964When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
965the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
966is Vi compatible.
967
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000968Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
969Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
970$VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
971
972Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
973flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
974
975Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
976compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
977
978When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
979leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
980'cpoptions' for this.
981
982Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
983
984Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
985be Vi compatible.
986
987When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
988request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
989shell and caused trouble there.
990
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000991When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
992still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
993Lakshmanan)
994
995It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
996sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
997
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +0000998When 'cmdheight' is set to 2 in .vimrc and the GUI uses the number of lines
999from the terminal we actually get 3 lines for the cmdline in gvim.
1000
1001When setting $HOME allocated memory would leak.
1002
Bram Moolenaar19a09a12005-03-04 23:39:37 +00001003Win32: bold characters may sometimes write in another character cell. Use
1004unicodepdy[] as for UTF-8. (Taro Muraoka)
1005
1006":w fname" didn't work for files with 'buftype' set to "nofile".
1007
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +00001008The method used to locate user commands for completion differed from when they
1009are executed. Abiguous command names were not completed properly.
1010
Bram Moolenaar9062a9d2005-03-08 22:46:26 +00001011Incremental search may cause a crash when there is a custom statusline that
1012indirectly invokes ":normal".
1013
1014Diff mode failed when $DIFF_OPTIONS was set in the environment. Unset it
1015before invoking "diff".
1016
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +00001017Completion didn't work after ":argdo", ":windo" and ":bufdo". Also for ":set
1018&l:opt" and ":set &g:opt". (Peter Winters)
1019
1020When setting 'ttymouse' to "dec" in an xterm that supports the DEC mouse
1021locator it doesn't work. Now switch off the mouse before selecting another
1022mouse model.
1023
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001024When the CursorHold event is triggered and the commands peek for typed
1025characters the typeahead buffer may be messed up, e.g., when a mouse-up event
1026is received. Avoid invoking the autocommands from the function waiting for a
1027character, let it put K_CURSORHOLD in the input buffer.
1028
1029Removed the "COUNT" flag from ":argadd", to avoid ":argadd 1*" to be used like
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001030":1argadd *". Same for ":argdelete" and ":argedit".
Bram Moolenaarfb269802005-03-15 22:46:30 +00001031
1032Avoid that $LANG is used for the menus when LC_MESSAGES is "en_US".
1033
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +00001034Added backslashes before dashes in the vim.1 manual page to make the appear as
1035real dashes. (Pierr Habouzit)
1036
1037Where "gq" left the cursor depended on the value of 'formatprg'. Now "gq"
1038always leaves the cursor at the last line of the formatted text.
1039
1040When editing a compressed file, such as "changelog.Debian.gz" file, filetype
1041detection may try to check the contents of the file while it's still
1042compressed. Skip setting 'filetype' for compressed files until they have been
1043decompressed. Required for patterns that end in a "*".
1044
1045Starting with an argument "+cmd" or "-S script" causes the cursor the be moved
1046to the first line. That breaks a BufReadPost autocommand that uses g`".
1047Don't move the cursor if it's somewhere past the first line.
1048
1049"gg=G" while 'modifiable' is off was uninterruptable.
1050
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +00001051When 'encoding' is "sjis" inserting CTRL-V u d800 a few times causes a crash.
1052Don't insert a DBCS character with a NUL second byte.
1053
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00001054In Insert mode CTRL-O <Home> didn't move the cursor. Made "ins_at_eol" global
1055and reset it in nv_home().
1056
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +00001057Wildcard expansion failed: ":w /tmp/$$.`echo test`". Don't put quotes around
1058spaces inside backticks.
1059
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001060After this sequence of commands: Y V p gv: the wrong line is selected. Now
1061let "gv" select the text that was put, since the original text is deleted.
1062This should be the most useful thing to do.
1063
1064":sleep 100u" sleeps for 100 seconds, not 100 usec as one might expect. Give
1065an error message when the argument isn't recognized.
1066
1067In gui_mch_draw_string() in gui_w32.c "unibuflen" wasn't static, resulting in
1068reallocating the buffer every time. (Alexei Alexandrov)
1069
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +00001070When using a Python "atexit" function it was not invoked when Vim exits. Now
1071call Py_Finalize() for that. (Ugo Di Girolamo)
1072
Bram Moolenaardba8a912005-04-24 22:08:39 +00001073GTK GUI: using a .vimrc with "set cmdheight=2 lines=43" and ":split" right
1074after startup, the window layout is messed up. (Michael Schaap) Added
1075win_new_shellsize() call in gui_init() to fix the topframe size.
1076
1077Trick to get ...MOUSE_NM not used when there are vertical splits. Now pass
1078column -1 for the left most window and add MOUSE_COLOFF for others. Limits
1079mouse column to 10000.
1080
1081searchpair() may hang when the end pattern has "\zs" at the end. Check that
1082we find the same position again and advance one character.
1083
1084When in diff mode and making a change that causes the "changed" highlighting
1085to disappear or reappear, it was still highlighted in another window.
1086
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +00001087When a ":next" command fails because the user selects "Abort" at the ATTENTION
1088prompt the argument index was advanced anyway.
1089
1090When "~" is in 'iskeyword' the "gd" doesn't work, it's used for the previous
1091substitute pattern. Put "\V" in the pattern to avoid that.
1092
Bram Moolenaar555b2802005-05-19 21:08:39 +00001093Use of sprintf() sometimes didn't check properly for buffer overflow. Also
1094when using smsg(). Included code for snprintf() to avoid having to do size
1095checks where invoking them
1096
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +00001097":help \=<Tab>" didn't find "sub-replace-\=". Wild menu for help tags didn't
1098show backslashes. ":he :s\=" didn't work.
1099
1100When reading an errorfile "~/" in a file name was not expanded.
1101
1102GTK GUI: When adding a scrollbar (e.g. when using ":vsplit") in a script or
1103removing it the window size may change. GTK sends us resize events when we
1104change the window size ourselves, but they may come at an unexpected moment.
1105Peek for a character to get any window resize events and fix 'columns' and
1106'lines' to undo this.
1107
Bram Moolenaar67fe1a12005-05-22 22:12:58 +00001108After deleting files from the argument list a session file generated with
1109":mksession" may contain invalid ":next" commands.
1110
1111When 'shortmess' is empty and 'keymap' set to accents, in Insert mode CTRL-N
1112may cause the hit-enter prompt. Typing 'a then didn't result in the accented
1113character. Put the character typed at the prompt back in the typeahead buffer
1114so that mapping is done in the right mode.
1115
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001116 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: