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1 *version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Sep 01
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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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75 MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme*
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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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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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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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128 byteidx(expr, nr) |byteidx()| Index of a character. (Ilya Sher)
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129 finddir(name) |finddir()| Find a directory in 'path'.
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130 findfile(name) |findfile()| Find a file in 'path'. (Johannes
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132 getfperm(fname) |getfperm()| Get file permission string. (Nikolai
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133 Weibull)
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134 getftype(fname) |getftype()| Get type of file. (Nikolai Weibull)
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136 (Christophe Poucet)
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137 tr(expr, from, to) |tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron)
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143 |InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back
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144 |InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode
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149 New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~
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151 MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia)
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153 ABAB/4 syntax file. (Marius van Wyk)
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155 SQL-Informix syntax file. (Dean L Hill)
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160 Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and
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161 character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns)
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162 Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using
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163 "yyp".
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168 Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell)
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171 IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7*
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175 Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now.
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177 ":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a
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178 breakpoint at the cursor.
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180 The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a
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181 few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann.
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184 it. (Johannes Zellner)
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189 doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd
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190 autocommands.
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192 For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev)
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193 - square brackets are recognized properly
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194 - #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals
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195 - Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized
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200 Lakshmanan)
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202 Added 'n' flag to search(): don't move the cursor. (Nikolai Weibull)
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205 delete the raw text. Helps if the file has a .gz extension but is not
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206 actually compressed. (Andrew Pimlott)
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208 When C, C++ or IDL syntax is used, may additionally load doxygen syntax.
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209 Also support setting the filetype to "cdoxygen" for C plus doxygen syntax.
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210 (Michael Geddes)
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212 The ":registers" command now displays multi-byte characters properly.
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214 VMS: In the usage message mention that a slash can be used to make a flag
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215 upper case. Add color support to the builtin vt320 terminal codes.
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216 (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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218 ==============================================================================
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219 COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7*
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222 its final destination. (Raf)
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224 Mac: Made it possible to compile with Motif, Athena or GTK without tricks and
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225 still being able to use the MacRoman conversion. Added the os_mac_conv.c
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226 file.
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228 ==============================================================================
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229 BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7*
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232 instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not
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233 work. Use "LPT1" then.
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236 size. Use a default size of 10.
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238 This example in the documentation didn't work:
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239 :e `=foo . ".c" `
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240 Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #.
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242 When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message.
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244 "L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account.
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246 Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even
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249 Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work.
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251 "2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white
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252 space.
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254 Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use
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255 SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched
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256 for doesn't have an extension.
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258 When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character
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259 may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the
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260 cursor and not putting it back where it was.
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262 When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was
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263 not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used
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264 to make it work the old way.
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266 When <Space> is mapped to something that starts with a space, typing <Space>
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267 does not expand abbreviations. Only disable expanding abbreviations when a
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268 mapping is not remapped, not when the RHS starts with the LHS.
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270 When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim
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271 filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken.
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273 After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column.
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275 Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart
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276 fields. (Walter Briscoe)
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279 Michele)
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282 CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams)
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285 ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5.
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287 Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control
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288 characters.
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291 variables like for a regular command with a file argument.
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293 'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line
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294 is indented too much.
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296 When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and
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297 alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned
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298 items.
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301 "cn" or "tw" as intended.
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306 Using foldlevel() in a WinEnter autocommand may not work. Noticed when
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307 resizing the GUI shell upon startup.
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309 Python: Using buffer.append(f.readlines()) didn't work. Allow appending a
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310 string with a trailing newline. The newline is ignored.
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313 contain "f2" twice, one of them leading to "f1". Also trigger the BufFilePre
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314 and BufFilePost events for the alternate buffer that gets the old name.
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318 GTK: Avoid a potential hang in gui_mch_wait_for_chars() when input arrives
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319 just before it is invoked
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321 VMS: Occasionally CR characters were inserted in the file. Expansion of
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322 environment variables was not correct. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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323
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324 UTF-8: When 'delcombine' is set "dw" only deleted the last combining character
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325 from the first character of the word.
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326
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327 When using ":sball" in an autocommand only the filetype in one buffer was
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328 detected. Reset did_filetype in enter_buffer().
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329
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330 When using ":argdo" and the window already was at the first argument index,
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331 but not actually editing it, the current buffer would be used instead.
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