Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0d BETA
This is the third BETA release of Vim 7. It appears to be quite stable and about ready for daily use, but I would like to do some more testing to be sure. Since the second BETA release quite a few things were improved, here is a summary: - $MYVIMRC is set to to the first found .vimrc file and $MYGVIMRC to the first found .gvimrc file. Added menu item "Startup Settings" that edits the $MYVIMRC file - Added matcharg(). - The tab page labels are shortened, directory names are reduced to a single letter by default. Added the pathshorten() function to allow a user to do the same. - Added CTRL-W gf: open file name under the cursor in a new tab page. - "New tab" item in the GUI tabline menu opens tab left of the click. - Added "usetab" to 'switchbuf': jump to window in other tab page. - Added tabpage-local variables t:var. - 'cmdheight' now works local to a tab page. - Motif: Added GUI tab pages line. (Yegappan Lakshmanan) - Win32: The font used for the tab page labels was too big. Use the system menu font. (George Reilly) - Use of the Enter key for the popup menu works differently, hopefully better. - Win32: Set the default for 'isprint' back to the wrong default "@,~-255", because many people use Windows-1252 while 'encoding' is "latin1". - When init_spellfile() finds a writable directory in 'runtimepath' but it doesn't contain a "spell" directory, create one. - A series of bug fixes, see the end of ":help version7". Since Vim 6.4 many new features have been added. To mention a few: - Spell checking support for about 50 languages - Intelligent completion: Omni completion - Tab pages, each containing multiple windows - Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again - Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python) - Vim script profiling - Improved Unicode support - Highlighting of matching parens, cursor line and cursor column - Translated manual pages support. - Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files - Browsing of remote directories, zip and tar archives - Printing multi-byte text Once you have installed Vim 7.0d BETA you can find details about the changes since Vim 6.4 with ":help version7". There are also a lot of bug fixes. Testing ------- This is a BETA test version. Please give it a good test and report anything that isn't right. That includes a crash but also a typo in the documentation. A known problem is that generating the Hungarian spell file doesn't work. I will not make an Amiga or OS/2 binary for Vim 7. A Mac version should be available soon on http://macvim.org/ Where to get it --------------- Information about which files to download for what system: http://www.vim.org/download.php All files can be found below this directory: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unstable/ A list of mirror sites can be found here: http://www.vim.org/mirrors.php Vim 7.0d is also available from CVS and with Aap: http://www.vim.org/develop.php An overview of the files: UNIX: unix/vim-7.0d.tar.bz2 sources + runtime files, bzip2 compressed VARIOUS: extra/vim-7.0d-extra.tar.gz extra files extra/vim-7.0d-lang.tar.gz multi-language files doc/vim70dhtml.zip help files converted to HTML MS-WINDOWS: pc/gvim70d.exe self-installing, includes all runtime files pc/vim70drt.zip runtime files pc/vim70dlang.zip files for translated messages and menus pc/gvim70d.zip GUI binary for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP pc/gvim70dole.zip GUI binary with OLE support pc/vim70dd16.zip 16 bit console version for MS-DOS pc/vim70dd32.zip console version for MS-DOS/Windows 95/98 pc/vim70dw32.zip console version for Windows NT/2000/XP pc/vim70dsrc.zip sources for PC (with CR-LF) DIFFS TO PREVIOUS BETA: unix/vim-7.0c-7.0d.diff.gz sources + runtime files extra/vim-7.0c-7.0d-extra.diff.gz extra files extra/vim-7.0c-7.0d-lang.diff.gz multi-language files Mailing lists ------------- For user questions you can turn to the Vim mailing list. There are a lot of tips, scripts and solutions. You can ask your Vim questions, but only if you subscribe. See http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim If you want to help Vim development or get the latest patches, subscribe to the vim-dev mailing list. See http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-dev Subject specific lists: Multi-byte issues: http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-multibyte Macintosh issues: http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-mac Before you ask a question you should search the archives, someone may already have given the answer. Reporting bugs -------------- Send them to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please describe the problem precisely. All the time spent on answering mail is subtracted from the time that is spent on improving Vim! Always give a reproducible example and try to find out which settings or other things influence the appearance of the bug. Try starting without your own vimrc file: "vim -u NONE". Try different machines if possible. See ":help bugs" in Vim. 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