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1 *version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Oct 07
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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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15
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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 KDE support |new-KDE|
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22 Various new items |new-items-7|
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24 IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7|
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26 COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7|
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28 BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7|
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30 ==============================================================================
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31 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7*
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33 These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you
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34 run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0
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36 ":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match.
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39 Minor incompatibilities:
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41 For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use
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42 */.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files.
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44 ":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one.
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46 Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code.
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48 Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was
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49 confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile".
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51 ==============================================================================
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52 NEW FEATURES *new-7*
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54 New data types *new-data-types*
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55 --------------
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57 In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
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59 list ordered list of items
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60 dictionary associative array of items
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61 function reference to a function
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63 Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
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65 NOT IMPLEMENTED YET!
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68 KDE support *new-KDE*
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69 -----------
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71 Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
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72 (Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
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76 ------------------
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78 The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
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79 The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
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80 The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
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82 Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte*
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83 ------------------
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85 The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
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86 The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
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87 Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
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91 -----------------
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93 Normal mode commands: ~
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95 a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'|
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96 i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
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98 Options: ~
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100 'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
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101 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
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102 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
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103 'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
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104 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
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105 'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number'
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106 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
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107 'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads.
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108 'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
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109 'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
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112 Ex commands: ~
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114 Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
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116 |:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell)
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118 |:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
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120 |:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all
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121 windows.
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123 |:keepalt| Do not change the alternate file.
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130 byteidx(expr, nr) |byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
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131 finddir(name) |finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
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132 findfile(name) |findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes
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133 Zellner)
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134 getfperm(fname) |getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai
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135 Weibull)
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136 getftype(fname) |getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
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137 repeat(expr, count) |repeat()| Repeat "expr" "count" times.
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138 (Christophe Poucet)
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139 tr(expr, from, to) |tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
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141 command.
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147 |InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
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148 |InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
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154 |/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
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155 |/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
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156 |/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
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157 |/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
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158 |/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
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159 |/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
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160 |/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
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161 |/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
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162 |/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
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163 |/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
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164 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
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169 MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
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171 ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
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173 SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
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178 New message translations: ~
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180 The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
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185 Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
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186 character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
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187 Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
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188 "yyp".
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190 Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka)
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193 Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
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196 IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
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198 ":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it".
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200 Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
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203 breakpoint at the cursor.
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205 The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
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206 few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
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209 it. (Johannes Zellner)
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214 doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
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215 autocommands.
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217 For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
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218 - square brackets are recognized properly
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219 - #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
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220 - Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
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224 winnr() takes an optional "$" and "#" arguments. (Nikolai Weibull, Yegappan
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225 Lakshmanan)
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227 Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
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230 delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
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231 actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
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233 When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
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234 Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
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235 (Michael Geddes)
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236
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237 The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
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239 VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
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240 upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
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241 (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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244 of buffers.
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247 the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
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249 Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
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250 digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
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253 COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
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256 its final destination. (Raf)
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258 Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
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259 still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
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260 file.
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262 ==============================================================================
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263 BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
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266 instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
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267 work. Use "LPT1" then.
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269 The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
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270 size. Use a default size of 10.
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271
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272 This example in the documentation didn't work:
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273 :e `=foo . ".c" `
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274 Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
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276 When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
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278 "L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
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279
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280 Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
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281 when it doesn't support MDI.
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283 Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
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284
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285 "2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
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286 space.
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288 Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
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289 SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
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290 for doesn't have an extension.
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291
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292 When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
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293 may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
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294 cursor and not putting it back where it was.
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295
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296 When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
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297 not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
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298 to make it work the old way.
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299
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300 When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
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301 filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
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302
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303 After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
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305 Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
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306 fields. (Walter Briscoe)
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309 Michele)
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312 CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
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315 ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
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317 Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
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318 characters.
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320 When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment
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321 variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
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322
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323 'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
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324 is indented too much.
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325
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326 When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
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327 alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
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328 items.
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329
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330 The default for 'helplang' was "zh" for both "zh_cn" and "zh_tw". Now use
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331 "cn" or "tw" as intended.
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333 When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
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334 after the last line while it's not there.
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335
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336 Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
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337 resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
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338
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339 Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
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340 string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
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342 When using the ":saveas f2" command for buffer "f1", the Buffers menu would
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343 contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
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344 and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
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345
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346 strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
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348 GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
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349 just before it is invoked
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351 VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
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352 environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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353
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354 UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
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355 from the first character of the word.
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356
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357 When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
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358 detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
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359
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360 When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
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361 but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
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362
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364 list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
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365 interrupting this.
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366
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367 When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
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368 used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
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369 and global options remain unmodified.
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370
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371 Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
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372 command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
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373 file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
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376 default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
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377
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378 When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
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379 xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
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380 line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
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382 Mac GUI: Shift-Tab didn't work.
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384 When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
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385 going to be used like a command.
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387 GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
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388 GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
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390 GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
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392 Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
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393 line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
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394 console version.
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396 Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
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397 there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
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