Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0f BETA
This is the fifth BETA release of Vim 7. It is looking stable and should be ready for daily use. However, there are quite a few changes compared to the previous BETA, thus more testing is required. With a bit of luck this is the last BETA version before the Vim 7 release. Please check everything. It would be very disappointing to discover a problem just after sending out the final release! Since the fourth BETA release a few more things were improved, here is a summary: - Added the feedkeys() function: put keys in the typeahead queue. - Many runtime files have been updated. - The problems reported by coverity.com were all taken care of. - Slicing a list allows indexes out of range. - Added CTRL-W gF: open file name under cursor in new tab page. - Mac: clipboard now works again when compiled without multi-byte feature. - Mac: added 'macatsui' as a temporary work around for problems with displaying (multi-byte) text. - A few more changes for Win64, should work properly now. - Several crashes, hangs, bugs and problems were fixed. 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 7.0f BETA you can find details about the changes since Vim 6.4 with ":help version7". The changes since version 7.0e are at the end. 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. 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 7.0f is also available from CVS and with Aap: http://www.vim.org/develop.php An overview of the files: UNIX: unix/vim-7.0f.tar.bz2 sources + runtime files, bzip2 compressed VARIOUS: extra/vim-7.0f-extra.tar.gz extra (non-Unix) files extra/vim-7.0f-lang.tar.gz multi-language files doc/vim70fhtml.zip help files converted to HTML MS-WINDOWS: pc/gvim70f.exe self-installing, includes all runtime files pc/vim70frt.zip runtime files pc/vim70flang.zip files for translated messages and menus pc/gvim70f.zip GUI binary for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP pc/gvim70fole.zip GUI binary with OLE support pc/gvim70f_s.zip GUI binary for Windows 3.1 (untested) pc/vim70fd16.zip 16 bit console version for MS-DOS pc/vim70fd32.zip console version for MS-DOS/Windows 95/98 pc/vim70fw32.zip console version for Windows NT/2000/XP pc/vim70fsrc.zip sources for PC (with CR-LF) DIFFS TO PREVIOUS BETA: unix/vim-7.0e-7.0f.diff.gz sources + runtime files extra/vim-7.0e-7.0f-extra.diff.gz extra files extra/vim-7.0e-7.0f-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. Send me a patch if you can! If something needs discussing with other developers, send a message to the vim-dev mailing list. You need to subscribe first. Happy Vimming! -- I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///
