| *version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jul 11 |
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| VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar |
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| Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file |
| mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes |
| compared to Vim 6.x. |
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| See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0. |
| See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x. |
| See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x. |
| See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x. |
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| INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7| |
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| NEW FEATURES |new-7| |
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| New data types |new-data-types| |
| KDE support |new-KDE| |
| Various new items |new-items-7| |
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| IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7| |
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| COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7| |
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| BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7| |
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| ============================================================================== |
| INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7* |
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| These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you |
| run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0 |
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| ":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match. |
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| Minor incompatibilities: |
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| For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use |
| */.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files. |
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| ":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one. |
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| Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code. |
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| Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was |
| confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile". |
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| NEW FEATURES *new-7* |
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| New data types *new-data-types* |
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| In Vim scripts the following types have been added: |
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| list ordered list of items |
| dictionary associative array of items |
| function reference to a function |
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| Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types. |
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| NOT IMPLEMENTED YET! |
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| KDE support *new-KDE* |
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| Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|. |
| (Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.) |
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| MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme* |
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| The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme| |
| The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands. |
| The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file. |
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| Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte* |
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| The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters. |
| The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this. |
| Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams) |
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| Various new items *new-items-7* |
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| Normal mode commands: ~ |
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| a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'| |
| i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka) |
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| Options: ~ |
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| 'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert |
| mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert |
| mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka) |
| 'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string. |
| Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'| |
| 'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number' |
| option. (Emmanuel Renieris) |
| 'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads. |
| 'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy |
| 'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy |
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| Ex commands: ~ |
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| Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind) |
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| |:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell) |
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| |:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell) |
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| |:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all |
| windows. |
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| New functions: ~ |
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| tr(expr, from, to) |tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron) |
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| New autocommand events: ~ |
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| |InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode |
| |InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back |
| |InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode |
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| |ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme |
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| New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~ |
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| MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia) |
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| Others: ~ |
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| Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and |
| character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns) |
| Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using |
| "yyp". |
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| Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka) |
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| The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used. |
| Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell) |
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| ============================================================================== |
| IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7* |
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| ":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it". |
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| Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now. |
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| ":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a |
| breakpoint at the cursor. |
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| The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a |
| few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann. |
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| Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display |
| it. (Johannes Zellner) |
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| Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet) |
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| For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev) |
| - square brackets are recognized properly |
| - #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals |
| - Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized |
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| ============================================================================== |
| COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7* |
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| ============================================================================== |
| BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7* |
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| When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr" |
| instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not |
| work. Use "LPT1" then. |
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| The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a |
| size. Use a default size of 10. |
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| This example in the documentation didn't work: |
| :e `=foo . ".c" ` |
| Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #. |
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| When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message. |
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| "L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account. |
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| Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even |
| when it doesn't support MDI. |
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| Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work. |
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| "2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white |
| space. |
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| Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use |
| SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched |
| for doesn't have an extension. |
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| When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character |
| may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the |
| cursor and not putting it back where it was. |
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| When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was |
| not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used |
| to make it work the old way. |
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| When <Space> is mapped to something that starts with a space, typing <Space> |
| does not expand abbreviations. Only disable expanding abbreviations when a |
| mapping is not remapped, not when the RHS starts with the LHS. |
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| When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim |
| filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken. |
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| After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column. |
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| Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart |
| fields. (Walter Briscoe) |
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| On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De |
| Michele) |
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| Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a |
| CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams) |
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| When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was |
| ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5. |
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| Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control |
| characters. |
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| vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: |