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1 *version8.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2016 Jul 16
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6 NOTE: THIS FILE IS STILL BEING WORKED ON
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8 *vim8* *vim-8* *version-8.0* *version8.0*
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9 Welcome to Vim 8! A large number of bugs have been fixed and several
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10 features have been added. This file mentions all the new items and changes to
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15 See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0.
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16 See |version4.txt|, |version5.txt|, |version6.txt| and |version7.txt| for
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17 differences between other versions.
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19 NEW FEATURES |new-8|
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25 IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-8|
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27 COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-8|
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29 PATCHES |patches-8|
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33 NEW FEATURES *new-8*
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35 First a list of the bigger new features. A comprehensive list is below.
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42 See |channel-demo| for an example, this shows communicating with a Python
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45 Closely related to channels is JSON support. JSON is widely supported and can
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47 in any language. The functions to use are |json_encode()| and |json_decode()|.
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64 function to do any work. For example: >
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65 let tempTimer = timer_start(4000, 'CheckTemp')
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66 This will call the CheckTemp() function four seconds (4000 milli seconds)
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70 Partials ~
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76 let tempTimer = timer_start(4000, function('CheckTemp', ['out']))
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82 A short way to create a function has been added: {args -> expr}. See |lambda|.
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85 :call filter(mylist, {idx, val -> val > 20})
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208 The support for MS-DOS has been removed. It hasn't been working for a while
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209 and removing it cleans up the code quite a bit.
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211 The support for Windows 16 bit (Windows 95 and older) has been removed.
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213 Minor incompatibilities:
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215 For filetype detection: ...
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218 IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-8*
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220 The existing blowfish encryption turned out to be much weaker than it was
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221 supposed to be. The blowfish2 method has been added to fix that. Note that
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222 this still isn't a state-of-the-art encryption, but good enough for most
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223 usage. See 'cryptmethod'.
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226 COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-8*
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228 Dropped the support for MS-DOS. It was too big to fit in memory.
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235 features, but does not include runtime file changes (syntax, indent, help,
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238 TODO: INCLUDE PATCH LIST.
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240 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: