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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file
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8 mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes
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9 compared to Vim 6.x. Use this command to see the version you are using: >
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10 :version
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12 See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
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13 See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
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14 See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
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15 See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
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17 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
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19 NEW FEATURES |new-7|
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21 Vim script enhancements |new-vim-script|
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22 KDE support |new-KDE|
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23 Translated manual pages |new-manpage-trans|
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24 Internal grep |new-vimgrep|
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25 POSIX compatibility |new-posix|
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28 IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
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30 COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
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32 BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
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35 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
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37 These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
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38 run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0.
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40 A ":write file" command no longer resets the 'modified' flag of the buffer,
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41 unless the '+' flag is in 'cpoptions' |cpo-+|. This was illogical, since the
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42 buffer is still modified compared to the original file. And when undoing
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43 all changes the file would actually be marked modified. It does mean that
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44 ":quit" fails now.
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49 name. This caused a difference between ":edit" and ":next" for escaping
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50 double quotes and it is incompatible with some versions of Vi.
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51 Command Vim 6.x file name Vim 7.x file name ~
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52 :edit foo\"888 'foo"888' 'foo"888'
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53 :next foo\"888 'foo888' 'foo"888'
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54 :next a\"b c\"d 'ab cd' 'a"b' and 'c"d'
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56 In a |literal-string| a single quote can be doubled to get one.
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57 ":echo 'a''b'" would result in "a b", but now that two quotes stand for one it
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58 results in "a'b".
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61 Minor incompatibilities:
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63 For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
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64 */.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
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66 ":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
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68 Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
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70 Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
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71 confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
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74 isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
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76 The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
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77 looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR" if no
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78 folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by Carl Osterwisch)
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82 on whether <F10> has been mapped or not. This allows mapping <F10> without
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83 changing 'winaltkeys'.
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85 When 'octal' is in 'nrformats' and using CTRL-A on "08" it became "018", which
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86 is illogical. Now it becomes "9". The leading zero(s) is(are) removed to
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87 avoid the number becoming octal after incrementing "009" to "010".
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89 When 'encoding' is set to a Unicode encoding, the value for 'fileencodings'
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90 now includes "default" before "latin1". This means that for files with 8-bit
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91 encodings the default is to use the encoding specified by the environment, if
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92 possible. Previously latin1 would always be used, which is wrong in a
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93 non-latin1 environment, such as Russian.
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96 a help file, and using ":quit". Now only the window is closed.
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111 Funcref reference to a function |Funcref|
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115 The |string()| function can be used to get a string representation of a
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116 variable. Works for Numbers, Strings and composites of them. Then |eval()|
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119 The |:let| command can now use ":let var += expr" like using ":let var = var +
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126 Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
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127 (Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
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133 The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
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134 The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
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135 The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
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141 The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
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142 The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
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143 Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
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149 The manual page of Vim and associated programs is now also available in
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150 Italian (translated by Antonio Colombo). More languages will follow.
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158 The ":vimgrep" command can be used to search for a pattern in a list of files.
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159 This is like the ":grep" command, but no external program is used. Besides
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160 better portability, handling of different file encodings and using multi-line
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161 patterns, this also allows grepping in compressed and remote files.
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162 |:vimgrep|.
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168 The POSIX test suite was used to verify POSIX compatibility. A number of
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169 problems have been fixed to make Vim more POSIX compatible. Some of them
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170 conflict with traditional Vi or expected behavior. The $VIM_POSIX environment
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171 variable can be set to get POSIX compatibility. See |posix|.
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173 Items that were fixed for both Vi and POSIX compatibilty:
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174 - repeating "R" with a count only overwrites text once; added the 'X' flag to
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175 'cpoptions' |cpo-X|
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176 - a vertical movement command that moves to a non-existing line fails; added
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177 the '-' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo--|
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178 - when preserving a file and doing ":q!" the file can be recovered; added the
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179 '&' flag to 'cpoptions' |cpo-&|
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180 - The 'window' option is partly implemented. It specifies how much CTRL-F and
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181 CTRL-B scroll when there is one window. The "-w {number}" argument is now
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182 accepted. "-w {scriptout}" only works when {scriptout} doesn't start with a
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183 digit.
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184 - Allow "-c{command}" argument, no space between "-c" and {command}.
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185 - When writing a file with ":w!" don't reset 'readonly' when 'Z' is present in
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186 'cpoptions'.
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187 - Allow 'l' and '#' flags for ":list", ":print" and ":number".
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188 - Added the '.' flag to 'cpoptions': ":cd" fails when the buffer is modified.
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189 - In Ex mode with an empty buffer ":read file" doesn't keep an empty line
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190 above or below the new lines.
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191 - Remove a backslash before a NL for the ":global" command.
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192 - When ":append", ":insert" or ":change" is used with ":global", get the
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193 inserted lines from the command. Can use backslash-NL to separate lines.
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194 - Can use ":global /pat/ visual" to execute Normal mode commands at each
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195 matched line. Use "Q" to continue and go to the next line.
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196 - The |:open| command has been partially implemented. It stops Ex mode, but
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197 redraws the whole screen, not just one line as open mode is supposed to do.
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198 - Support using a pipe to read the output from and write input to an external
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199 command. Added the 'shelltemp' option and has("filterpipe").
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200 - In ex silent mode the ":set" command output is displayed.
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201 - The ":@@" and ":**" give an error message when no register was used before.
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202 - The search pattern "[]-`]" matches ']', '^', '_' and '`'.
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203 - Autoindent for ":insert" is using the line below the insert.
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204 - Autoindent for ":change" is using the first changed line.
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205 - Editing Ex command lines is not done in cooked mode, because CTRL-D and
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206 CTRL-T cannot be handled then.
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207 - In Ex mode, "1,3" prints three lines.
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217 i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
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221 'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
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222 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
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223 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
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224 'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
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225 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
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227 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
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230 'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
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259 |:viusage| Help for Vi commands (Nvi command).
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268 |browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
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269 |byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
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270 |call()| call a function with List as arguments
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271 |copy()| make a shallow copy of a List or Dictionary
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272 |count()| count nr of times a value is in a List or Dictionary
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273 |deepcopy()| make a full copy of a List or Dictionary
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274 |empty()| check if List or Dictionary is empty
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277 |filter()| remove selected items from a List or Dictionary
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278 |finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
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279 |findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes Zellner)
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280 |foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed fold at line "lnum".
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281 |function()| make a Funcref out of a function name
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282 |get()| get an item from a List or Dictionary
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283 |getfontname()| Get actual font name being used.
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284 |getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai Weibull)
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285 |getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
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286 |getline()| get List with buffer lines
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287 |has_key()| check whether a key appears in a Dictionary
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288 |insert()| insert an item somewhere in a List
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289 |items()| get List of Dictionary key-value pairs
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290 |join()| join List items into a String
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291 |keys()| get List of Dictionary keys
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292 |len()| number of items in a List or Dictionary
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300 |repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times. (Christophe Poucet)
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301 |reverse()| reverse the order of a List
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302 |sort()| sort a List
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303 |split()| split a String into a List
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304 |string()| String representation of a List or Dictionary
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305 |system()| Filters {input} through a shell command.
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306 |tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
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311 directory in 'runtimepath'. See |autoload-functions|.
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322 |QuickFixCmdPost| after :make, :grep et al. (Ciaran McCreesh)
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328 |/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
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329 |/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
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330 |/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
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331 |/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
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332 |/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
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333 |/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
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335 |/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
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338 |/[.| [[.a.]] a collation element (only works with single char)
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340 Nesting |/multi| items no longer is an error when an empty match is possible.
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342 It is now possible to use \{0}, it matches the preceding atom zero times. Not
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373 Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
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374 character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
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375 Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
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380 Mac: support for multi-byte characters. (Da Woon Jung)
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389 event and the drag receive handler to work around a stall after Vim loads a
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390 file. Fixed an off-by-one line number error. (Da Woon Jung)
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393 Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
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396 To be used to set the cursor shape to a bar or a block. No default values,
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400 when the buffer does not have a name or no specific name. See
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401 |autocmd-buflocal|. (Yakov Lerner)
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414 few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
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416 Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
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417 it. (Johannes Zellner)
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418
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419 Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
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420
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17
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421 Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that
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422 doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
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423 autocommands.
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424
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425 For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
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426 - square brackets are recognized properly
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427 - #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
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428 - Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
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429
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19
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430 Added the "count" argument to match(), matchend() and matchstr(). (Ilya Sher)
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431
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432 winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
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433 Lakshmanan)
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434
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435 Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
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436
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437 When uncompressing fails in the gzip plugin, give an error message but don't
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438 delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
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439 actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
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440
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441 When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
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442 Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
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443 (Michael Geddes)
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444
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445 The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
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446
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447 VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
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448 upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
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449 (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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450
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451 For the '%' item in 'viminfo', allow a number to set a maximum for the number
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452 of buffers.
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453
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454 The 'statusline' option can be local to the window, so that each window can
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455 have a different value. (partly by Yegappan Lakshmanan)
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456
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26
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457 When a file looks like a shell script, check for an "exec" command that starts
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458 the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
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459
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460 Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
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461 digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
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462
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36
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463 When a session file is loaded while editing an unnamed, empty buffer that
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464 buffer is wiped out. Avoids that there is an unused buffer in the buffer
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465 list.
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466
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467 Win32: When libintl.dll supports bind_textdomain_codeset(), use it.
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468 (NAKADAIRA Yukihiro)
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469
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470 When foldtext() finds no text after removing the comment leader, use the
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471 second line of the fold. Helps for C-style /* */ comments where the first
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472 line is just "/*".
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473
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474 When editing the same file from two systems (e.g., Unix and MS-Windows) there
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475 mostly was no warning for an existing swap file, because the name of the
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476 edited file differs (e.g., y:\dir\file vs /home/me/dir/file). Added a flag to
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477 the swap file to indicate it is in the same directory as the edited file. The
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478 used path then doesn't matter and the check for editing the same file is much
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479 more reliable.
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480
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481 Client-server communication now supports 'encoding'. When setting 'encoding'
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482 in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim --remote fname" in a console,
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483 "fname" is converted from the console encoding to utf-8. Also allows Vims
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484 with different 'encoding' settings to exchange messages.
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485
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41
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486 Internal: Changed ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
|
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487 incremented/decremented each time.
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488
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69
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489 Included a few improvements for Motif from Marcin Dalecki. Draw label
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46
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490 contents ourselves to make them handle fonts in a way configurable by Vim and
|
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491 a bit less dependent on the X11 font management.
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492
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56
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493 When a register is empty it is not stored in the viminfo file.
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494
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100
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495 Removed the tcltags script, it's obsolete.
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496
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123
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497 ":redir @*>" and ":redir @+>" append to the clipboard. Better check for
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498 invalid characters after the register name. |:redir|
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499
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500 ":redir => variable" and ":redir =>> variable" write or append to a variable.
|
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501 (Yegappan Lakshmanan) |:redir|
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502
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503 ":let g:" lists global variables.
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504 ":let b:" lists buffer-local variables.
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505 ":let w:" lists window-local variables.
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506 ":let v:" lists Vim variables.
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507
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508 The stridx() and strridx() functions take a third argument, where to start
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509 searching. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
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510
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511 g CTRL-G also shows the number of characters if it differs from the number of
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512 bytes.
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513
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169
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514 Completion for ":debug" and entering an expression for the '=' register. Skip
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515 ":" between range and command name. (Peter winters)
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516
|
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517 CTRL-Q in Insert mode now works like CTRL-V by default. Previously it was
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518 ignored.
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519
|
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520 When "beep" is included in 'debug' a function or script that causes a beep
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521 will result in a message with the source of the error.
|
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522
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523 ==============================================================================
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524 COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
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525
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69
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526 Dropped the support for the BeOS and Amiga GUI. They were not maintained and
|
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527 probably didn't work. If you want to work on this: get the Vim 6.x version
|
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528 and merge it back in.
|
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529
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18
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530 Mac: "make" now creates the Vim.app directory and "make install" copies it to
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531 its final destination. (Raf)
|
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532
|
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533 Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
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534 still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
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535 file.
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7
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536
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537 When running the tests and one of them fails to produce "test.out" the
|
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538 following tests are still executed. This helps when running out of memory.
|
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539
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540 ==============================================================================
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541 BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
|
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542
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10
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543 When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
|
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544 instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
|
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545 work. Use "LPT1" then.
|
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546
|
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547 The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
|
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548 size. Use a default size of 10.
|
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549
|
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550 This example in the documentation didn't work:
|
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551 :e `=foo . ".c" `
|
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552 Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
|
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553
|
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554 When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
|
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555
|
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556 "L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
|
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557
|
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558 Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
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559 when it doesn't support MDI.
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560
|
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561 Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
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562
|
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563 "2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
|
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564 space.
|
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565
|
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566 Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
|
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567 SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
|
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568 for doesn't have an extension.
|
|
569
|
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570 When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
|
|
571 may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
|
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572 cursor and not putting it back where it was.
|
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573
|
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574 When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
|
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575 not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
|
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576 to make it work the old way.
|
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577
|
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578 When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
|
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579 filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
|
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580
|
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581 After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
|
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582
|
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583 Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
|
|
584 fields. (Walter Briscoe)
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7
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585
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11
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586 On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De
|
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587 Michele)
|
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588
|
14
|
589 Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a
|
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590 CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
|
|
591
|
16
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592 When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was
|
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593 ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
|
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594
|
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595 Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
|
|
596 characters.
|
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597
|
17
|
598 When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
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599 variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
|
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600
|
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601 'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
|
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602 is indented too much.
|
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603
|
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604 When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
|
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605 alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
|
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606 items.
|
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607
|
18
|
608 The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
|
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609 "cn" or "tw" as intended.
|
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610
|
20
|
611 When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
|
|
612 after the last line while it's not there.
|
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613
|
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614 Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
|
|
615 resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
|
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616
|
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617 Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
|
|
618 string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
|
|
619
|
21
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620 When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
|
|
621 contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
|
|
622 and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
|
|
623
|
22
|
624 strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
|
|
625
|
|
626 GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
|
|
627 just before it is invoked
|
|
628
|
|
629 VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
|
|
630 environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
|
|
631
|
|
632 UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
|
|
633 from the first character of the word.
|
|
634
|
|
635 When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
|
|
636 detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
|
|
637
|
|
638 When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
|
|
639 but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
|
|
640
|
23
|
641 When ":next dir/*" includes many matches, adding the names to the argument
|
|
642 list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
|
|
643 interrupting this.
|
|
644
|
|
645 When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
|
|
646 used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
|
|
647 and global options remain unmodified.
|
|
648
|
|
649 Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
|
|
650 command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
|
|
651 file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
|
|
652
|
24
|
653 Win32 console: When the default for 'encoding' ends up to be "latin1", the
|
|
654 default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
|
|
655
|
|
656 When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
|
|
657 xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
|
|
658 line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
|
|
659
|
26
|
660 Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
|
|
661
|
|
662 When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
|
|
663 going to be used like a command.
|
|
664
|
|
665 GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
|
|
666 GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
|
|
667
|
|
668 GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
|
|
669
|
|
670 Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
|
|
671 line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
|
|
672 console version.
|
|
673
|
|
674 Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
|
|
675 there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
|
|
676
|
29
|
677 When two versions of GTK+ 2 are installed it was possible to use the header
|
|
678 files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
|
|
679 directory for the library early in the link flags.
|
|
680
|
|
681 With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
|
|
682 literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
|
|
683
|
36
|
684 When 'equalalways' is set and 'eadirection' is "hor", ":quit" would still
|
|
685 cause equalizing window heights in the vertical direction.
|
|
686
|
|
687 When ":emenu" is used in a startup script the command was put in the typeahead
|
|
688 buffer, causing a prompt for the crypt key to be messed up.
|
|
689
|
|
690 Mac OS/X: The default for 'isprint' included characters 128-160, causes
|
|
691 problems for Terminal.app.
|
|
692
|
|
693 When a syntax item with "containedin" is used, it may match in the start or
|
|
694 end of a region with a matchgroup, while this doesn't happen for a "contains"
|
|
695 argument.
|
|
696
|
|
697 When a transparent syntax items matches in another item where the highlighting
|
|
698 has already stopped (because of a he= argument), the highlighting would come
|
|
699 back.
|
|
700
|
|
701 When cscope is used to set the quickfix error list, it didn't get set if there
|
|
702 was only one match. (Sergey Khorev)
|
|
703
|
|
704 When 'confirm' is set and using ":bdel" in a modified buffer, then selecting
|
|
705 "cancel", would still give an error message.
|
|
706
|
|
707 The PopUp menu items that started Visual mode didn't work when not in Normal
|
|
708 mode. Switching between selecting a word and a line was not possible.
|
|
709
|
|
710 Win32: The keypad decimal point always resulted in a '.', while on some
|
|
711 keyboards it's a ','. Use MapVirtualKey(VK_DECIMAL, 2).
|
|
712
|
|
713 Removed unused function DisplayCompStringOpaque() from gui_w32.c
|
|
714
|
|
715 In Visual mode there is not always an indication whether the line break is
|
|
716 selected or not. Highlight the character after the line when the line break
|
|
717 is included, e.g., after "v$o".
|
|
718
|
|
719 GTK: The <F10> key can't be mapped, it selects the menu. Disable that with a
|
|
720 GTK setting and do select the menu when <F10> isn't mapped. (David Necas)
|
|
721
|
|
722 After "Y" '[ and '] were not at start/end of the yanked text.
|
|
723
|
|
724 When a telnet connection is dropped Vim preserves files and exits. While
|
|
725 doing that a SIGHUP may arrive and disturbe us, thus ignore it. (Scott
|
38
|
726 Anderson) Also postpone SIGHUP, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM until it's safe to
|
|
727 handle. Added handle_signal().
|
|
728
|
|
729 When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you may only get one
|
|
730 line for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) Invoke command_height() after the
|
|
731 GUI has started up.
|
36
|
732
|
39
|
733 When completing a file name on the command line backslashes are required for
|
|
734 white space. Was only done for a space, not for a Tab.
|
|
735
|
|
736 When configure could not find a terminal library, compiling continued for a
|
|
737 long time before reporting the problem. Added a configure check for tgetent()
|
|
738 being found in a library.
|
|
739
|
|
740 When the cursor is on the first char of the last line a ":g/pat/s///" command
|
|
741 may cause the cursor to be displayed below the text.
|
|
742
|
|
743 Win32: Editing a file with non-ASCII characters doesn't work when 'encoding'
|
|
744 is "utf-8". use _wfullpath() instead of _fullpath(). (Yu-sung Moon)
|
|
745
|
|
746 When recovering the 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' were taken from the
|
|
747 original file instead of from the swapfile. When the file didn't exist, was
|
|
748 empty or the option was changed (e.g., with ":e ++fenc=cp123 file") it could
|
|
749 be wrong. Now store 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' in the swapfile and use
|
|
750 the values when recovering.
|
|
751
|
|
752 ":bufdo g/something/p" overwrites each last printed text line with the file
|
|
753 message for the next buffer. Temporarily clear 'shortmess' to avoid that.
|
|
754
|
40
|
755 Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. Do escape % and #
|
|
756 when building the ":drop" command.
|
|
757
|
41
|
758 A comment or | just after a expresion-backtick argument was not recognized.
|
|
759 E.g. in :e `="foo"`"comment.
|
|
760
|
46
|
761 "(" does not stop at an empty sentence (single dot and white space) while ")"
|
|
762 does. Also breaks "das" on that dot.
|
|
763
|
|
764 When doing "yy" with the cursor on a TAB the ruler could be wrong and "k"
|
|
765 moved the cursor to another column.
|
|
766
|
|
767 When 'commentstring' is '"%s' and there is a double quote in the line a double
|
|
768 quote before the fold marker isn't removed in the text displayed for a closed
|
|
769 fold.
|
|
770
|
|
771 In Visual mode, when 'bin' and 'eol' set, g CTRL-G counted the last line
|
|
772 break, resulting in "selected 202 of 201 bytes".
|
|
773
|
69
|
774 Motif: fonts were not used for dialog components. (Marcin Dalecki)
|
46
|
775
|
56
|
776 Motif: After using a toolbar button the keyboard focus would be on the toolbar
|
69
|
777 (Lesstif problem). (Marcin Dalecki)
|
56
|
778
|
51
|
779 When using "y<C-V>`x" where mark x is in the first column, the last line was
|
|
780 not included.
|
|
781
|
|
782 Not all test scripts work properly on MS-Windows when checked out from CVS.
|
|
783 Use a Vim command to fix all fileformats to dos before executing the tests.
|
|
784
|
|
785 When using ":new" and the file fits in the window, lines could still be above
|
|
786 the window. Now remove empty lines instead of keeping the relative position.
|
|
787
|
76
|
788 Cmdline completion didn't work after ":let var1 var<Tab>".
|
|
789
|
91
|
790 When using ":startinsert" or ":startreplace" when already in Insert mode
|
|
791 (possible when using CTRL-R =), pressing Esc would directly restart Insert
|
|
792 mode. (Peter Winters)
|
|
793
|
97
|
794 "2daw" didn't work at end of file if the last word is a single character.
|
|
795
|
100
|
796 Completion for ":next a'<Tab>" put a backslash before single quote, but it was
|
|
797 not removed when editing a file. Now halve backslashes in save_patterns().
|
109
|
798 Also fix expanding a file name with the shell that contains "\'".
|
100
|
799
|
136
|
800 When doing "1,6d|put" only "fewer lines" was reported. Now a following "more
|
|
801 lines" overwrites the message.
|
|
802
|
|
803 Configure could not handle "-Dfoo=long\ long" in the TCL config output.
|
|
804
|
141
|
805 When searching backwards, using a pattern that matches a newline and uses \zs
|
|
806 after that, didn't find a match. Could also get a hang or end up in the right
|
|
807 column in the wrong line.
|
|
808
|
149
|
809 When $LANG is "sl" for slovenian, the slovak menu was used, since "slovak"
|
|
810 starts with "sl".
|
|
811
|
|
812 When 'paste' is set in the GUI the Paste toolbar button doesn't work. Clear
|
|
813 'paste' when starting the GUI.
|
|
814
|
155
|
815 A message about a wrong viminfo line included the trailing NL.
|
|
816
|
159
|
817 When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
|
|
818 Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
|
|
819 mapping.
|
|
820
|
|
821 Treat "mlterm" as an xterm-like terminal. (Seiichi Sato)
|
|
822
|
|
823 ":z.4" and ":z=4" didn't work Vi compatible.
|
|
824
|
162
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825 When sourcing a file, editing it and sourcing it again, it could appear twice
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826 in ":scriptnames" and get a new <SID>, because the inode has changed.
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827
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828 When $SHELL is set but empty the 'shell' option would be empty. Don't use an
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829 empty $SHELL value.
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830
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831 A command "w! file" in .vimrc or $EXINIT didn't work. Now it writes an empty
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832 file.
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833
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834 When a CTRL-F command at the end of the file failed, the cursor was still
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835 moved to the start of the line. Now it remains where it is.
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836
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837 When using ":s" or "&" to repeat the last substitute and "$" was used to put
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838 the cursor in the last column, put the cursor in the last column again. This
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839 is Vi compatible.
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840
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164
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841 Vim is not fully POSIX compliant but sticks with traditional Vi behavior.
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842 Added a few flags in 'cpoptions' to behave the POSIX way when wanted. The
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843 $VIM_POSIX environment variable is checked to set the default.
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844
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845 Appending to a register didn't insert a line break like Vi. Added the '>'
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846 flag to 'cpoptions' for this.
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847
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848 Using "I" in a line with only blanks appended to the line. This is not Vi
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849 compatible. Added the 'H' flag in 'coptions' for this.
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850
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851 When joining multiple lines the cursor would be at the last joint, but Vi
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852 leaves it at the position where "J" would put it. Added the 'q' flag in
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853 'cpoptions' for this.
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854
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855 Autoindent didn't work for ":insert" and ":append".
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856
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857 Using ":append" in an empty buffer kept the dummy line. Now it's deleted to
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858 be Vi compatible.
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859
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860 When reading commands from a file and stdout goes to a terminal, would still
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861 request the xterm version. Vim can't read it, thus the output went to the
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862 shell and caused trouble there.
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863
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169
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864 When redirecting to a register with an invalid name the redirection would
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865 still be done (after an error message). Now reset "redir_reg". (Yegappan
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866 Lakshmanan)
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867
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868 It was not possible to use a NL after a backslash in Ex mode. This is
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869 sometimes used to feed multiple lines to a shell command.
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870
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871 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
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