Hello Vim users! It has been a long time since the last release: Vim 7.2 was released in August 2008. There have been many patches, but not everybody will use them. It's about time for 7.3!
I will try to include a few patches that have been pending for a while. I don't have much time available, thus I will only include things that take a few hours of my time. That basically means patches that are ready to be included. I will check the voting list to see what the most popular features are: http://www.vim.org/sponsor/vote_results.php One thing that I will certainly do is improve the MS-Windows installer. I recently installed Vim on a new laptop and it didn't work very well. More and more people are using Windows 7. I think that taking Window XP as the minimal platform will work well. I hope we can make installing Vim on MS-Windows as simple and reliable as possible. I also plan to drop the split in "lang" and "extra" archives. The burden to have several feature sets is no longer justified by the slightly smaller distribution. Putting everything together makes things a lot simpler. Mercurial is going to be the primary method for distribution. I'll drop CVS, it slows me down too much. Someone else might be able to mirror the Mercurial repository in CVS, like it's done for Subversion. I hope to bring out a first beta version by the end of May. That gives everybody time to send me updated and polished patches and runtime files. I need to have these halfway May, I also need some time to integrate everything. It would also be nice if we can update the spell files. Volunteers wanted! See $VIMRUNTIME/spell/README.txt, the "MAINTAINING A LANGUAGE" section. -- SOLDIER: What? A swallow carrying a coconut? ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk ... "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD /// 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 /// -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
