patch 8.0.1072: :highlight command causes a redraw even when nothing changed commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/99433291b135094d9592c41f96d3ccd60073e2c1 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Sep 8 12:37:47 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.1072: :highlight command causes a redraw even when nothing changed Problem: The :highlight command causes a redraw even when nothing changed. Solution: Only set "need_highlight_changed" when an attribute changed.

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!