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1 *version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jul 03
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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.
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11 See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
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12 See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x.
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13 See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x.
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14 See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x.
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16 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7|
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18 NEW FEATURES |new-7|
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20 New data types |new-data-types|
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21 Various new items |new-items-7|
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23 IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
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25 COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
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27 BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
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29 ==============================================================================
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30 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
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32 These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
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33 run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0
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35 ":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
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38 Minor incompatibilities:
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40 For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
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41 */.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
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43 ":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
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45 Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
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47 Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
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48 confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
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50 ==============================================================================
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51 NEW FEATURES *new-7*
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53 New data types *new-data-types*
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54 --------------
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56 In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
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58 list ordered list of items
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59 dictionary associative array of items
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60 function reference to a function
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62 Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
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67 KDE support *new-kde*
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68 -----------
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70 Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
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71 (Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
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74 Various new items *new-items-7*
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75 -----------------
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77 Normal mode commands: ~
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79 a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
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80 i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
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82 Options: ~
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84 'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
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85 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
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86 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
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87 'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
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88 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
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89 'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
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90 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
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92 Ex commands: ~
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94 Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
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102 InsertEnter starting Insert or Replace mode
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103 InsertChange going from Insert to Replace mode or back
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104 InsertLeave leaving Insert or Replace mode
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111 MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
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116 Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
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117 character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
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118 Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
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119 "yyp".
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121 Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
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123 The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used.
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124 Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
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127 IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
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131 ":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
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132 breakpoint at the cursor.
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134 The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
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135 few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
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137 Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display
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138 it. (Johannes Zellner)
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140 Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet)
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143 COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
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147 BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
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149 When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr"
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150 instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
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151 work. Use "LPT1" then.
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153 The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
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154 size. Use a default size of 10.
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156 This example in the documentation didn't work:
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157 :e `=foo . ".c" `
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158 Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
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160 When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
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162 "L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
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164 Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
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165 when it doesn't support MDI.
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167 Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
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169 "2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
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170 space.
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172 Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
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173 SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
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174 for doesn't have an extension.
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176 When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
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177 may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
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178 cursor and not putting it back where it was.
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180 When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
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181 not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
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182 to make it work the old way.
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184 When <Space> is mapped to something that starts with a space, typing <Space>
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185 does not expand abbreviations. Only disable expanding abbreviations when a
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186 mapping is not remapped, not when the RHS starts with the LHS.
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188 When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
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189 filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
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191 After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
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193 Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
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194 fields. (Walter Briscoe)
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