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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 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 When ":file xxx" is used in a buffer without a name, the alternate file name
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52 isn't set. This avoids creating buffers without a name that are not useful.
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54 The "2html.vim" script now converts closed folds to HTML. This means the HTML
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55 looks like its displayed, with the same folds open and closed. Use "zR" if no
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56 folds should appear in the HTML. (partly by Carl Osterwisch)
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59 NEW FEATURES *new-7*
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61 New data types *new-data-types*
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62 --------------
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64 In Vim scripts the following types have been added:
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66 list ordered list of items
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67 dictionary associative array of items
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68 function reference to a function
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70 Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types.
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72 NOT IMPLEMENTED YET!
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75 KDE support *new-KDE*
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78 Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|.
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79 (Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.)
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83 ------------------
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85 The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme|
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86 The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands.
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87 The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file.
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90 ------------------
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92 The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters.
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93 The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this.
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94 Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams)
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100 Normal mode commands: ~
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103 i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka)
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107 'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert
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108 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert
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109 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka)
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110 'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string.
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111 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'|
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113 option. (Emmanuel Renieris)
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115 'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy
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116 'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy
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119 Ex commands: ~
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121 Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind)
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125 |:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell)
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128 windows.
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134 |:sandbox| Command modifier: execute the argument in the sandbox.
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139 browsedir(title, init) |browsedir()| Dialog to select a directory.
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140 byteidx(expr, nr) |byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
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141 finddir(name) |finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
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142 findfile(name) |findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes
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143 Zellner)
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144 foldtextresult(lnum) |foldtextresult()| The text displayed for a closed
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145 fold at line "lnum".
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147 Weibull)
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148 getftype(fname) |getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
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150 (Christophe Poucet)
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151 tr(expr, from, to) |tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
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159 |InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
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160 |InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
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166 |/\%d| \%d123 search for character with decimal number
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167 |/\]| [\d123] idem, in a colletion
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168 |/\%o| \%o103 search for character with octal number
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169 |/\]| [\o1o3] idem, in a colletion
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170 |/\%x| \%x1a search for character with 2 pos. hex number
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171 |/\]| [\x1a] idem, in a colletion
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172 |/\%u| \%u12ab search for character with 4 pos. hex number
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173 |/\]| [\u12ab] idem, in a colletion
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174 |/\%U| \%U1234abcd search for character with 8 pos. hex number
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175 |/\]| [\U1234abcd] idem, in a colletion
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176 (The above partly by Ciaran McCreesh)
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181 MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
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183 ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
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185 SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
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190 New message translations: ~
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192 The Ukranian messages are now also available in cp1251.
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197 Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
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198 character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
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199 Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
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200 "yyp".
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205 Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
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208 IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
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215 breakpoint at the cursor.
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218 few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
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221 it. (Johannes Zellner)
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226 doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
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227 autocommands.
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230 - square brackets are recognized properly
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231 - #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
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232 - Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
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237 Lakshmanan)
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239 Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
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242 delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
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243 actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
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245 When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
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246 Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
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247 (Michael Geddes)
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249 The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
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251 VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
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252 upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
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253 (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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256 of buffers.
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259 the tcl interpreter. (suggested by Alexios Zavras)
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261 Support conversion between utf-8 and latin9 (iso-8859-15) internally, so that
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262 digraphs still work when iconv is not available.
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264 ==============================================================================
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265 COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
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268 its final destination. (Raf)
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270 Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
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271 still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
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272 file.
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274 ==============================================================================
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275 BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
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278 instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
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279 work. Use "LPT1" then.
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281 The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a
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282 size. Use a default size of 10.
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283
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284 This example in the documentation didn't work:
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285 :e `=foo . ".c" `
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286 Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
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288 When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
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289
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290 "L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
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291
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292 Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
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293 when it doesn't support MDI.
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295 Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
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296
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297 "2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
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298 space.
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299
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300 Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
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301 SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
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302 for doesn't have an extension.
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303
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304 When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
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305 may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
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306 cursor and not putting it back where it was.
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307
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308 When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
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309 not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
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310 to make it work the old way.
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311
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312 When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
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313 filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
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314
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315 After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
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316
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317 Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
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318 fields. (Walter Briscoe)
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321 Michele)
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324 CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
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327 ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
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329 Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
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330 characters.
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333 variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
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334
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335 'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
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336 is indented too much.
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337
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338 When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
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339 alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
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340 items.
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341
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343 "cn" or "tw" as intended.
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345 When 'bin' is set and 'eol' is not set then line2byte() added the line break
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346 after the last line while it's not there.
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347
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348 Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
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349 resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
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350
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351 Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
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352 string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
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355 contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
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356 and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
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357
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358 strridx() did not work well when the needle is empty. (Ciaran McCreesh)
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359
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360 GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
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361 just before it is invoked
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362
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363 VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
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364 environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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365
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366 UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
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367 from the first character of the word.
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368
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369 When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
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370 detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
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371
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372 When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
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373 but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
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376 list may take an awful lot of time and can't be interrupted. Allow
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377 interrupting this.
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378
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379 When editing a file that was already loaded in a buffer, modelines were not
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380 used. Now window-local options in the modeline are set. Buffer-local options
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381 and global options remain unmodified.
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383 Win32: When 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" in the vimrc file, files from the
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384 command line with non-ASCII characters are not used correctly. Recode the
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385 file names when 'encoding' is set, using the Unicode command line.
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388 default value of 'isprint' was wrong.
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390 When an error message is given while waiting for a character (e.g., when an
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391 xterm reports the number of colors), the hit-enter prompt overwrote the last
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392 line. Don't reset msg_didout in normal_cmd() for K_IGNORE.
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396 When defining tooltip text, don't translate terminal codes, since it's not
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397 going to be used like a command.
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399 GTK 2: Check the tooltip text for valid utf-8 characters to avoid getting a
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400 GTK error. Invalid characters may appear when 'encoding' is changed.
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402 GTK 2: Add a safety check for invalid utf-8 sequences, they can crash pango.
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404 Win32: When 'encoding' is changed while starting up, use the Unicode command
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405 line to convert the file arguments to 'encoding'. Both for the GUI and the
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406 console version.
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408 Win32 GUI: latin9 text (iso-8859-15) was not displayed correctly, because
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409 there is no codepage for latin9. Do our own conversion from latin9 to UCS2.
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412 files from one and the library from the other. Use GTK_LIBDIR to put the
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413 directory for the library early in the link flags.
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415 With the GUI find/replace dialog a replace only worked if the pattern was
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416 literal text. Now it works for any pattern.
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