Vim documentation: version5
main help file*version5.txt* For Vim version 7.2. Last change: 2008 Jun 28 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar Welcome to Vim Version 5.0! This document lists the differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.0. Although 5.0 is mentioned here, this is also for version 5.1, 5.2, etc.. See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 5.0. See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.0 and Vim 4.0. INCOMPATIBLE: |incompatible-5| Default value for 'compatible' changed |cp-default| Text formatting command "Q" changed |Q-command-changed| Command-line arguments changed |cmdline-changed| Autocommands are kept |autocmds-kept| Use of 'hidden' changed |hidden-changed| Text object commands changed |text-objects-changed| X-Windows Resources removed |x-resources| Use of $VIM |$VIM-use| Use of $HOME for MS-DOS and Win32 |$HOME-use| Tags file format changed |tags-file-changed| Options changed |options-changed| CTRL-B in Insert mode gone |i_CTRL-B-gone| NEW FEATURES: |new-5| Syntax highlighting |new-highlighting| Built-in script language |new-script| Perl and Python support |new-perl-python| Win32 GUI version |added-win32-GUI| VMS version |added-VMS| BeOS version |added-BeOS| Macintosh GUI version |added-Mac| More Vi compatible |more-compatible| Read input from stdin |read-stdin| Regular expression patterns |added-regexp| Overloaded tags |tag-overloaded| New commands |new-commands| New options |added-options| New command-line arguments |added-cmdline-args| Various additions |added-various| IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-5| COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-5| BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-5| VERSION 5.1 |version-5.1| Changed |changed-5.1| Added |added-5.1| Fixed |fixed-5.1| VERSION 5.2 |version-5.2| Long lines editable |long-lines| File browser added |file-browser-5.2| Dialogs added |dialogs-added| Popup menu added |popup-menu-added| Select mode added |new-Select-mode| Session files added |new-session-files| User defined functions and commands |new-user-defined| New interfaces |interfaces-5.2| New ports |ports-5.2| Multi-byte support |new-multi-byte| New functions |new-functions-5.2| New options |new-options-5.2| New Ex commands |new-ex-commands-5.2| Changed |changed-5.2| Added |added-5.2| Fixed |fixed-5.2| VERSION 5.3 |version-5.3| Changed |changed-5.3| Added |added-5.3| Fixed |fixed-5.3| VERSION 5.4 |version-5.4| Runtime directory introduced |new-runtime-dir| Filetype introduced |new-filetype-5.4| Vim script line continuation |new-line-continuation| Improved session files |improved-sessions| Autocommands improved |improved-autocmds-5.4| Encryption |new-encryption| GTK GUI port |new-GTK-GUI| Menu changes |menu-changes-5.4| Viminfo improved |improved-viminfo| Various new commands |new-commands-5.4| Various new options |new-options-5.4| Vim scripts |new-script-5.4| Avoid hit-enter prompt |avoid-hit-enter| Improved quickfix |improved-quickfix| Regular expressions |regexp-changes-5.4| Changed |changed-5.4| Added |added-5.4| Fixed |fixed-5.4| VERSION 5.5 |version-5.5| Changed |changed-5.5| Added |added-5.5| Fixed |fixed-5.5| VERSION 5.6 |version-5.6| Changed |changed-5.6| Added |added-5.6| Fixed |fixed-5.6| VERSION 5.7 |version-5.7| Changed |changed-5.7| Added |added-5.7| Fixed |fixed-5.7| VERSION 5.8 |version-5.8| Changed |changed-5.8| Added |added-5.8| Fixed |fixed-5.8|
INCOMPATIBLE *incompatible-5* Default value for 'compatible' changed *cp-default* Vim version 5.0 tries to be more Vi compatible. This helps people who use Vim as a drop-in replacement for Vi, but causes some things to be incompatible with version 4.x. In version 4.x the default value for the 'compatible' option was off. Now the default is on. The first thing you will notice is that the "u" command undoes itself. Other side effects will be that mappings may work differently or not work at all. Since a lot of people switching from Vim 4.x to 5.0 will find this annoying, the 'compatible' option is switched off if Vim finds a vimrc file. This is a bit of magic to make sure that 90% of the Vim users will not be bitten by this change. What does this mean? - If you prefer to run in 'compatible' mode and don't have a vimrc file, you don't have to do anything. - If you prefer to run in 'nocompatible' mode and do have a vimrc file, you don't have to do anything. - If you prefer to run in 'compatible' mode and do have a vimrc file, you should put this line first in your vimrc file: :set compatible - If you prefer to run in 'nocompatible' mode and don't have a vimrc file, you can do one of the following: - Create an empty vimrc file (e.g.: "~/.vimrc" for Unix). - Put this command in your .exrc file or $EXINIT: :set nocompatible - Start Vim with the "-N" argument. If you are new to Vi and Vim, using 'nocompatible' is strongly recommended, because Vi has a lot of unexpected side effects, which are avoided by this setting. See 'compatible'. If you like some things from 'compatible' and some not, you can tune the compatibility with 'cpoptions'. When you invoke Vim as "ex" or "gex", Vim always starts in compatible mode. Text formatting command "Q" changed *Q-command-changed* The "Q" command formerly formatted lines to the width the 'textwidth' option specifies. The command for this is now "gq" (see |gq| for more info). The reason for this change is that "Q" is the standard Vi command to enter "Ex" mode, and Vim now does in fact have an "Ex" mode (see |Q| for more info). If you still want to use "Q" for formatting, use this mapping: :noremap Q gq And if you also want to use the functionality of "Q": :noremap gQ Q Command-line arguments changed *cmdline-changed* Command-line file-arguments and option-arguments can now be mixed. You can give options after the file names. Example: vim main.c -g This is not possible when editing a file that starts with a '-'. Use the "--" argument then YXXY---|: vim -g -- -main.c "-v" now means to start Ex in Vi mode, use "-R" for read-only mode. old: "vim -v file" |-v| new: "vim -R file" |-R| "-e" now means to start Vi in Ex mode, use "-q" for quickfix. old: "vim -e errorfile" |-e| new: "vim -q errorfile" |-q| "-s" in Ex mode now means to run in silent (batch) mode. |-s-ex| "-x" reserved for crypt, use "-f" to avoid starting a new CLI (Amiga). old: "vim -x file" |-x| new: "vim -f file" |-f| Vim allows up to ten "+cmd" and "-c cmd" arguments. Previously Vim executed only the last one. "-n" now overrides any setting for 'updatecount' in a vimrc file, but not in a gvimrc file. Autocommands are kept *autocmds-kept* Before version 5.0, autocommands with the same event, file name pattern, and command could appear only once. This was fine for simple autocommands (like setting option values), but for more complicated autocommands, where the same command might appear twice, this restriction caused problems. Therefore Vim stores all autocommands and keeps them in the order that they are defined. The most obvious side effect of this change is that when you source a vimrc file twice, the autocommands in it will be defined twice. To avoid this, do one of these: - Remove any autocommands that might potentially defined twice before defining them. Example: :au! * *.ext :au BufEnter *.ext ... - Put the autocommands inside an ":if" command. Example: if !exists("did_ext_autocmds") let did_ext_autocmds = 1 autocmd BufEnter *.ext ... endif - Put your autocommands in a different autocommand group so you can remove them before defining them YXXY:augroup|: augroup uncompress au! au BufReadPost *.gz ... augroup END Use of 'hidden' changed *hidden-changed* In version 4.x, only some commands used the 'hidden' option. Now all commands uses it whenever a buffer disappears from a window. Previously you could do ":buf xxx" in a changed buffer and that buffer would then become hidden. Now you must set the 'hidden' option for this to work. The new behavior is simpler: whether Vim hides buffers no longer depends on the specific command that you use. - with 'hidden' not set, you never get hidden buffers. Exceptions are the ":hide" and ":close!" commands and, in rare cases, where you would otherwise lose changes to the buffer. - With 'hidden' set, you almost never unload a buffer. Exceptions are the ":bunload" or ":bdel" commands. ":buffer" now supports a "!": abandon changes in current buffer. So do ":bnext", ":brewind", etc. Text object commands changed *text-objects-changed* Text object commands have new names. This allows more text objects and makes characters available for other Visual mode commands. Since no more single characters were available, text objects names now require two characters. The first one is always 'i' or 'a'. OLD NEW a aw a word |v_aw| A aW a WORD |v_aW| s as a sentence |v_as| p ap a paragraph |v_ap| S ab a () block |v_ab| P aB a {} block |v_aB| There is another set of text objects that starts with "i", for "inner". These select the same objects, but exclude white space. X-Windows Resources removed *x-resources* Vim no longer supports the following X resources: - boldColor - italicColor - underlineColor - cursorColor Vim now uses highlight groups to set colors. This avoids the confusion of using a bold Font, which would imply a certain color. See |:highlight| and |gui-resources|. Use of $VIM *$VIM-use* Vim now uses the VIM environment variable to find all Vim system files. This includes the global vimrc, gvimrc, and menu.vim files and all on-line help and syntax files. See |$VIM|. Starting with version 5.4, |$VIMRUNTIME| can also be used. For Unix, Vim sets a default value for $VIM when doing "make install". When $VIM is not set, its default value is the directory from 'helpfile', excluding "/doc/help.txt". Use of $HOME for MS-DOS and Win32 *$HOME-use* The MS-DOS and Win32 versions of Vim now first check $HOME when searching for a vimrc or exrc file and for reading/storing the viminfo file. Previously Vim used $VIM for these systems, but this causes trouble on a system with several users. Now Vim uses $VIM only when $HOME is not set or the file is not found in $HOME. See |_vimrc|. Tags file format changed *tags-file-changed* Only tabs are allowed to separate fields in a tags file. This allows for spaces in a file name and is still Vi compatible. In previous versions of Vim, any white space was allowed to separate the fields. If you have a file which doesn't use a single tab between fields, edit the tags file and execute this command: :%s/\(\S*\)\s\+\(\S*\)\s\+\(.*\)/\1\t\2\t\3/ Options changed *options-changed* The default value of 'errorfile' has changed from "errors.vim" to "errors.err". The reason is that only Vim scripts should have the ".vim" extensions. The ":make" command no longer uses the 'errorfile' option. This prevents the output of the ":make" command from overwriting a manually saved error file. ":make" uses the 'makeef' option instead. This also allows for generating a unique name, to prevent concurrently running ":make" commands from overwriting each other's files. With 'insertmode' set, a few more things change: - <Esc> in Normal mode goes to Insert mode. - <Esc> in Insert mode doesn't leave Insert mode. - When doing ":set im" go to Insert mode immediately. Vim considers a buffer to be changed when the 'fileformat' (formerly the 'textmode' option) is different from the buffer's initial format. CTRL-B in Insert mode gone *i_CTRL-B-gone* When Vim was compiled with the |+rightleft| feature, you could use CTRL-B to toggle the 'revins' option. Unfortunately, some people hit the 'B' key accidentally when trying to type CTRL-V or CTRL-N and then didn't know how to undo this. Since toggling the 'revins' option can easily be done with the mapping below, this use of the CTRL-B key is disabled. You can still use the CTRL-_ key for this |i_CTRL-_|. :imap <C-B> <C-O>:set revins!<CR>
NEW FEATURES *new-5* Syntax highlighting *new-highlighting* Vim now has a very flexible way to highlighting just about any type of file. See |syntax|. Summary: :syntax on Colors and attributes can be set for the syntax highlighting, and also for other highlighted items with the ':' flag in the 'highlight' option. All highlighted items are assigned a highlight group which specifies their highlighting. See |:highlight|. The default colors have been improved. You can use the "Normal" group to set the default fore/background colors for a color terminal. For the GUI, you can use this group to specify the font, too. The "2html.vim" script can be used to convert any file that has syntax highlighting to HTML. The colors will be exactly the same as how you see them in Vim. With a HTML viewer you can also print the file with colors. Built-in script language *new-script* A few extra commands and an expression evaluator enable you to write simple but powerful scripts. Commands include ":if" and ":while". Expressions can manipulate numbers and strings. You can use the '=' register to insert directly the result of an expression. See |expression|. Perl and Python support *new-perl-python* Vim can call Perl commands with ":perldo", ":perl", etc. See |perl|. Patches made by Sven Verdoolaege and Matt Gerassimoff. Vim can call Python commands with ":python" and ":pyfile". See |python|. Both of these are only available when enabled at compile time. Win32 GUI version *added-win32-GUI* The GUI has been ported to MS Windows 95 and NT. All the features of the X11 GUI are available to Windows users now. |gui-w32| This also fixes problems with running the Win32 console version under Windows 95, where console support has always been bad. There is also a version that supports OLE automation interface. |if_ole.txt| Vim can be integrated with Microsoft Developer Studio using the VisVim DLL. It is possible to produce a DLL version of gvim with Borland C++ (Aaron). VMS version *added-VMS* Vim can now also be used on VMS systems. Port done by Henk Elbers. This has not been tested much, but it should work. Sorry, no documentation! BeOS version *added-BeOS* Vim can be used on BeOS systems (including the BeBox). (Olaf Seibert) See |os_beos.txt|. Macintosh GUI version *added-Mac* Vim can now be used on the Macintosh. (Dany St-Amant) It has not been tested much yet, be careful! See |os_mac.txt|. More Vi compatible *more-compatible* There is now a real Ex mode. Started with the "Q" command, or by calling the executable "ex" or "gex". |Ex-mode| Always allow multi-level undo, also in Vi compatible mode. When the 'u' flag in 'cpoptions' is included, CTRL-R is used for repeating the undo or redo (like "." in Nvi). Read input from stdin *read-stdin* When using the "-" command-line argument, Vim reads its text input from stdin. This can be used for putting Vim at the end of a pipe: grep "^a.*" *.c | vim - See |--|. Regular expression patterns *added-regexp* Added specifying a range for the number of matches of a atom: "\{a,b}". |/\{| Added the "shortest match" regexp "\{-}" (Webb). Added "\s", matches a white character. Can replace "[ \t]". |/\s| Added "\S", matches a non-white character. Can replace "[^ \t]". |/\S| Overloaded tags *tag-overloaded* When using a language like C++, there can be several tags for the same tagname. Commands have been added to be able to jump to any of these overloaded tags: |:tselect| List matching tags, and jump to one of them. |:stselect| Idem, and split window. |g_CTRL-]| Do ":tselect" with the word under the cursor.  The ":tag" command now also accepts wildcards. When doing command-line completion on tags, case-insensitive matching is also available (at the end). New commands *new-commands* |:amenu| Define menus for all modes, inserting a CTRL-O for Insert mode, ESC for Visual and CTRL-C for Cmdline mode. "amenu" is used for the default menus and the Syntax menu. |:augroup| Set group to be used for following autocommands. Allows the grouping of autocommands to enable deletion of a specific group. |:crewind| Go to first error. |:clast| Go to last error. |:doautoall| Execute autocommands for all loaded buffers. |:echo| Echo its argument, which is an expression. Can be used to display messages which include variables. |:execute| Execute its argument, which is an expression. Can be used to built up an Ex command with anything. |:hide| Works like ":close". |:if| Conditional execution, for built-in script language. |:intro| Show introductory message. This is always executed when Vim is started without file arguments. |:let| Assign a value to an internal variable. |:omap| Map only in operator-pending mode. Makes it possible to map text-object commands. |:redir| Redirect output of messages to a file. |:update| Write when buffer has changed. |:while| While-loop for built-in script language. Visual mode: |v_O| "O" in Visual block mode, moves the cursor to the other corner horizontally. |v_D| "D" in Visual block mode deletes till end of line. Insert mode: |i_CTRL-]| Triggers abbreviation, without inserting any character. New options *added-options* 'background' Used for selecting highlight color defaults. Also used in "syntax.vim" for selecting the syntax colors. Often set automatically, depending on the terminal used. 'complete' Specifies how Insert mode completion works. 'eventignore' Makes it possible to ignore autocommands temporarily. 'fileformat' Current file format. Replaces 'textmode'. 'fileformats' Possible file formats. Replaces 'textauto'. New is that this also supports Macintosh format: A single <CR> separates lines. The default for 'fileformats' for MS-DOS, Win32 and OS/2 is "dos,unix", also when 'compatible' set. Unix type files didn't work anyway when 'fileformats' was empty. 'guicursor' Set the cursor shape and blinking in various modes. Default is to adjust the cursor for Insert and Replace mode, and when an operator is pending. Blinking is default on. 'fkmap' Farsi key mapping. 'hlsearch' Highlight all matches with the last used search pattern. 'hkmapp' Phonetic Hebrew mapping. (Ilya Dogolazky) 'iconstring' Define the name of the icon, when not empty. (Version 5.2: the string is used literally, a newline can be used to make two lines.) 'lazyredraw' Don't redraw the screen while executing macros, registers or other not typed commands. 'makeef' Errorfile to be used for ":make". "##" is replaced with a unique number. Avoids that two Vim sessions overwrite each others errorfile. The Unix default is "/tmp/vim##.err"; for Amiga "t:vim##.Err, for others "vim##.err". 'matchtime' 1/10s of a second to show a matching paren, when 'showmatch' is set. Like Nvi. 'mousehide' Hide mouse pointer in GUI when typing text. 'nrformats' Defines what bases Vim will consider for numbers when using the CTRL-A and CTRL-X commands. Default: "hex,octal". 'shellxquote' Add extra quotes around the whole shell command, including redirection. 'softtabstop' Make typing behave like tabstop is set at this value, without changing the value of 'tabstop'. Makes it more easy to keep 'ts' at 8, while still getting four spaces for a <Tab>. 'titlestring' String for the window title, when not empty. (Version 5.2: this string is used literally, a newline can be used to make two lines.) 'verbose' Level of verbosity. Makes it possible to show which .vimrc, .exrc, .viminfo files etc. are used for initializing. Also to show autocommands that are being executed. Can also be set by using the "-V" command-line argument. New command-line arguments *added-cmdline-args* |-U| Set the gvimrc file to be used. Like "-u" for the vimrc. |-V| Set the 'verbose' option. E.g. "vim -V10". |-N| Start in non-compatible mode. |-C| Start in compatible mode. |-Z| Start in restricted mode, disallow shell commands. Can also be done by calling the executable "rvim". |-h| Show usage information and exit. Various additions *added-various* Added support for SNiFF+ connection (submitted by Toni Leherbauer). Vim can be used as an editor for SNiFF. No documentation available... For producing a bug report, the bugreport.vim script has been included. Can be used with ":so $VIMRUNTIME/bugreport.vim", which creates the file "bugreport.txt" in the current directory. |bugs| Added range to ":normal" command. Now you can repeat the same command for each line in the range. |:normal-range| Included support for the Farsi language (Shiran). Only when enabled at compile time. See |farsi|.
IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-5* Performance: - When 'showcmd' was set, mappings would execute much more slowly because the output would be flushed very often. Helps a lot when executing the "life" macros with 'showcmd' set. - Included patches for binary searching in tags file (David O'Neill). Can be disabled by resetting the 'tagbsearch' option. - Don't update the ruler when repeating insert (slowed it down a lot). - For Unix, file name expansion is now done internally instead of starting a shell for it. - Expand environment variables with expand_env(), instead of calling the shell. Makes ":so $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/syntax.vim" a LOT faster. - Reduced output for cursor positioning: Use CR-LF for moving to first few columns in next few lines; Don't output CR twice when using termios. - Optimized cursor positioning. Use CR, BS and NL when it's shorter than absolute cursor positioning. - Disable redrawing while repeating insert "1000ii<Esc>". - Made "d$" or "D" for long lines a lot faster (delete all characters at once, instead of one by one). - Access option table by first letter, instead of searching from start. - Made setting special highlighting attributes a lot faster by using highlight_attr[], instead of searching in the 'highlight' string. - Don't show the mode when redrawing is disabled. - When setting an option, only redraw the screen when required. - Improved performance of Ex commands by using a lookup table for the first character. Options: 'cinoptions' Added 'g' flag, for C++ scope declarations. 'cpoptions' Added 'E' flag: Disallow yanking, deleting, etc. empty text area. Default is to allow empty yanks. When 'E' is included, "y$" in an empty line now is handled as an error (Vi compatible). Added 'j' flag: Only add two spaces for a join after a '.', not after a '?' or '!'. Added 'A' flag: don't give ATTENTION message. Added 'L' flag: When not included, and 'list' is set, 'textwidth' formatting works like 'list' is not set. Added 'W' flag: Let ":w!" behave like Vi: don't overwrite readonly files, or a file owned by someone else. 'highlight' Added '@' flag, for '@' characters after the last line on the screen, and '$' at the end of the line when 'list' is set. Added 'i' flag: Set highlighting for 'incsearch'. Default uses "IncSearch" highlight group, which is linked to "Visual". Disallow 'h' flag in 'highlight' (wasn't used anymore since 3.0). 'guifont' Win32 GUI only: When set to "*" brings up a font requester. 'guipty' Default on, because so many people need it. 'path' Can contain wildcards, and "**" for searching a whole tree. 'shortmess' Added 'I' flag to avoid the intro message. 'viminfo' Added '%' flag: Store buffer list in viminfo file. - Increased defaults for 'maxmem' and 'maxmemtot' for Unix and Win32. Most machines have much more RAM now that prices have dropped. - Implemented ":set all&", set all options to their default value. |:set| Swap file: - Don't create a swap file for a readonly file. Then create one on the first change. Also create a swapfile when the amount of memory used is getting too high. |swap-file| - Make swap file "hidden", if possible. On Unix this is done by prepending a dot to the swap file name. When long file names are used, the DJGPP and Win32 versions also prepend a dot, in case a file on a mounted Unix file system is edited. |:swapname| On MSDOS the hidden file attribute is NOT set, because this causes problems with share.exe. - 'updatecount' always defaults to non-zero, also for Vi compatible mode. This means there is a swap file, which can be used for recovery. Tags: - Included ctags 2.0 (Darren Hiebert). The syntax for static tags changed from {tag}:{fname} {fname} {command} to {tag} {fname} {command};" file: Which is both faster to parse, shorter and Vi compatible. The old format is also still accepted, unless disabled in src/feature.h (see OLD_STATIC_TAGS). |tags-file-format| - Completion of tags now also includes static tags for other files, at the end. - Included "shtags" from Stephen Riehm. - When finding a matching tag, but the file doesn't exist, continue searching for another match. Helps when using the same tags file (with links) for different versions of source code. - Give a tag with a global match in the current file a higher priority than a global match in another file. Included xxd version V1.8 (Juergen Weigert). Autocommands: - VimLeave autocommands are executed after writing the viminfo file, instead of before. |VimLeave| - Allow changing autocommands while executing them. This allows for self-modifying autocommands. (idea from Goldberg) - When using autocommands with two or more patterns, could not split ":if/:endif" over two lines. Now all matching autocommands are executed in one do_cmdline(). - Autocommands no longer change the command repeated with ".". - Search patterns are restored after executing autocommands. This avoids that the 'hlsearch' highlighting is messed up by autocommands. - When trying to execute an autocommand, also try matching the pattern with the short file name. Helps when short file name is different from full file name (expanded symbolic links). |autocmd-patterns| - Made the output of ":autocmd" shorter and look better. - Expand <sfile> in an ":autocmd" when it is defined. |<sfile>| - Added "nested" flag to ":autocmd", allows nesting. |autocmd-nested| - Added [group] argument to ":autocmd". Overrides the currently set group. |autocmd-groups| - new events: |BufUnload| before a buffer is unloaded |BufDelete| before a buffer is deleted from the buffer list |FileChangedShell| when a file's modification time has changed after executing a shell command |User| user-defined autocommand - When 'modified' was set by a BufRead* autocommand, it was reset again afterwards. Now the ":set modified" is remembered. GUI: - Improved GUI scrollbar handling when redrawing is slower than the scrollbar events are generated. - "vim -u NONE" now also stops loading the .gvimrc and other GUI inits. |-u| Use "-U" to use another gvimrc file. |-U| - Handle CTRL-C for external command, also for systems where "setsid()" is supported. - When starting the GUI, restrict the window size to the screen size. - The default menus are read from $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim. This allows for a customized default menu. |menu.vim| - Improved the default menus. Added File/Print, a Window menu, Syntax menu, etc. - Added priority to the ":menu" command. Now each menu can be put in a place where you want it, independent of the order in which the menus are defined. |menu-priority| Give a warning in the intro screen when running the Win32 console version on Windows 95 because there are problems using this version under Windows 95. |win32-problems| Added 'e' flag for ":substitute" command: Don't complain when not finding a match (Campbell). |:s| When using search commands in a mapping, only the last one is kept in the history. Avoids that the history is trashed by long mappings. Ignore characters after "ex", "view" and "gvim" when checking startup mode. Allows the use of "gvim5" et. al. |gvim| "gview" starts the GUI in readonly mode. |gview| When resizing windows, the cursor is kept in the same relative position, if possible. (Webb) ":all" and ":ball" no longer close and then open a window for the same buffer. Avoids losing options, jumplist, and other info. "-f" command-line argument is now ignored if Vim was compiled without GUI. |-f| In Visual block mode, the right mouse button picks up the nearest corner. Changed default mappings for DOS et al. Removed the DOS-specific mappings, only use the Windows ones. Added Shift-Insert, Ctrl-Insert, Ctrl-Del and Shift-Del. Changed the numbers in the output of ":jumps", so you can see where {count} CTRL-O takes you. |:jumps| Using "~" for $HOME now works for all systems. |$HOME| Unix: Besides using CTRL-C, also use the INTR character from the tty settings. Somebody has INTR set to DEL. Allow a <LF> in a ":help" command argument to end the help command, so another command can follow. Doing "%" on a line that starts with " #if" didn't jump to matching "#else". Don't recognize "#if", "#else" etc. for '%' when 'cpo' contains the '%' flag. |%| Insert mode expansion with "CTRL-N", "CTRL-P" and "CTRL-X" improved YXXYins-completion|: - 'complete' option added. - When 'nowrapscan' is set, and no match found, report the searched direction in the error message. - Repeating CTRL-X commands adds following words/lines after the match. - When adding-expansions, accept single character matches. - Made repeated CTRL-X CTRL-N not break undo, and "." repeats the whole insertion. Also fixes not being able to backspace over a word that has been inserted with CTRL-N. When copying characters in Insert mode from previous/next line, with CTRL-E or CTRL-Y, 'textwidth' is no longer used. |i_CTRL-E| Commands that move in the arglist, like ":n" and ":rew", keep the old cursor position of the file (this is mostly Vi compatible). Vim now remembers the '< and '> marks for each buffer. This fixes a problem that a line-delete in one buffer invalidated the '< and '> marks in another buffer. |'<| For MSDOS, Unix and OS/2: When $VIM not set, use the path from the executable. When using the executable path for $VIM, remove "src/" when present. Should make Vim find the docs and syntax files when it is run directly after compiling. |$VIM| When quitting Visual mode with <Esc>, the cursor is put at start of the Visual area (like after executing an operator). Win32 and Unix version: Removed 1100 character limit on external commands. Added possibility to include a space in a ":edit +command" argument, by putting a backslash before it. |+cmd| After recovery, BufReadPost autocommands are applied. |:recover| Added color support for "os2ansi", OS/2 console. (Slootman) |os2ansi| Allow "%:p:h" when % is empty. |:_%| Included "<sfile>": file name from the ":source" command. |<sfile>| Added "<Bslash>" special character. Helps for avoiding multiple backslashes in mappings and menus. In a help window, a double-click jumps to the tag under the cursor (like CTRL-]). <C-Left> and <C-Right> now work like <S-Left> and <S-Right>, move a word forward/backward (Windows compatible). |<C-Left>| Removed the requirement for a ":version" command in a .vimrc file. It wasn't used for anything. You can use ":if" to handle differences between versions. |:version| For MS-DOS, Win32 and OS/2: When comparing file names for autocommands, don't make a difference between '/' and '\' for path separator. New termcap options: "mb": blink. Can only be used by assigning it to one of the other highlight options. |t_mb| "bc": backspace character. |t_bc| "nd": Used for moving the cursor right in the GUI, to avoid removing one line of pixels from the last bold character. |t_nd| "xs": highlighting not erased by overwriting, for hpterm. Combined with 'weirdinvert'. Visual mode works on hpterm now. |t_xs| Unix: Set time of patch and backup file same as original file. (Hiebert). Amiga: In QuickFix mode no longer opens another window. Shell commands can be used now. Added decmouse patches from David Binette. Can now use Dec and Netterm mouse. But only when enabled at compile time. Added '#' register: Alternate file name |quote#|. Display '#' register with ":dis" command. |:display| Removed ':' from 'isfname' default for Unix. Check for "://" in a file name anyway. Also check for ":\\", for MS-DOS. Added count to "K"eyword command, when 'keywordprg' is "man", is inserted in the man command. "2K" results in "!man 2 <cword>". |K| When using "gf" on a relative path name, remove "../" from the file name, like it's done for file names in the tags file. |gf| When finishing recording, don't make the recorded register the default put register. When using "!!", don't put ":5,5!" on the command-line, but ":.!". And some other enhancements to replace the line number with "." or "$" when possible. MSDOS et al.: Renamed $VIM/viminfo to $VIM/_viminfo. It's more consistent: .vimrc/_vimrc and .viminfo/_viminfo For systems where case doesn't matter in file names (MSDOS, Amiga), ignore case while sorting file names. For buffer names too. When reading from stdin doesn't work, read from stderr (helps for "foo | xargs vim"). 32 bit MS-DOS version: Replaced csdpmi3 by csdpmi4. Changed <C-Left> and <C-Right> to skip a WORD instead of a word. Warning for changed modified time when overwriting a file now also works on other systems than Unix. Unix: Changed the defaults for configure to be the same as the defaults for Makefile: include GUI, Perl, and Python. Some versions of Motif require "-lXpm". Added check for this in configure. Don't add "-L/usr/lib" to the link line, causes problems on a few systems.
COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-5* When compiling, allow a choice for minimal, normal or maximal features in an easy way, by changing a single line in src/feature.h. The DOS16 version has been compiled with minimal features to avoid running out of memory too quickly. |dos16| The Win32, DJGPP, and OS/2 versions use maximal features, because they have enough memory. The Amiga version is available with normal and maximal features. Added "make test" to Unix version Makefile. Allows for a quick check if most "normal" commands work properly. Also tests a few specific commands. Added setlocale() with codepage support for DJGPP version. autoconf: - Added autoconf check for -lXdmcp. - Included check for -lXmu, no longer needed to edit the Makefile for this. - Switched to autoconf 2.12. - Added configure check for <poll.h>. Seems to be needed when including Perl on Linux? - termlib is now checked before termcap. - Added configure check for strncasecmp(), stricmp() and strnicmp(). Added vim_stricmp() for when there's no library function for stricmp(). - Use "datadir" in configure, instead of our own check for HELPDIR. Removed "make proto" from Makefile.manx. Could not make it work without a lot of #ifdefs. Removed "proto/" from paths in proto.h. Needed for the Mac port. Drastically changed Makefile.mint. Now it includes the Unix Makefile. Added support for Dos16 in Makefile.b32 (renamed Makefile.b32 to Makefile.bor) All source files are now edited with a tabstop of 8 instead of 4, which is better when debugging and using other tools. 'softtabstop' is set to 4, to make editing easier. Unix: Added "link.sh" script, which removes a few unnecessary libraries from the link command. Don't use HPUX digraphs by default, but only when HPUX_DIGRAPHS is defined. |digraphs-default|
BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-5* Note: Some of these fixes may only apply to test versions which were created after version 4.6, but before 5.0. When doing ":bdel", try going to the next loaded buffer. Don't rewind to the start of the buffer list. mch_isdir() for Unix returned TRUE for "" on some systems. Win32: 'shell' set to "mksnt/sh.exe" breaks ":!" commands. Don't use backslashes in the temp file names. On linux, with a FAT file system, could get spurious "file xxx changed since editing started" messages, because the time is rounded off to two seconds unexpectedly. Crash in GUI, when selecting a word (double click) and then extend until an empty line. For systems where isdigit() can't handle characters > 255, get_number() caused a crash when moving the mouse during the prompt for recovery. In Insert mode, "CTRL-O P" left the cursor on the last inserted character. Now the cursor is left after the last putted character. When quickfix found an error type other than 'e' or 'w', it was never printed. A setting for 'errorfile' in a .vimrc overruled the "-q errorfile" argument. Some systems create a file when generating a temp file name. Filtering would then create a backup file for this, which was never deleted. Now no backup file is made when filtering. simplify_filename() could remove a ".." after a link, resulting in the wrong file name. Made simplify_filename also work for MSDOS. Don't use it for Amiga, since it doesn't have "../". otherfile() was unreliable when using links. Could think that reading/writing was for a different file, when it was the same. Pasting with mouse in Replace mode didn't replace anything. Window height computed wrong when resizing a window with an autocommand (could cause a crash). ":s!foo!bar!" wasn't possible (Vi compatible). do_bang() freed memory twice when called recursively, because of autocommands (test11). Thanks to Electric Fence! "v$d" on an empty line didn't remove the "-- VISUAL --" mode message from the command-line, and inverted the cursor. ":mkexrc" didn't check for failure to open the file, causing a crash. (Felderhoff). Win32 mch_write() wrote past fixed buffer, causing terminal keys no longer to be recognized. Both console and GUI version. Athena GUI: Crash when removing a menu item. Now Vim doesn't crash, but the reversing of the menu item is still wrong. Always reset 'list' option for the help window. When 'scrolloff' is non-zero, a 'showmatch' could cause the shown match to be in the wrong line and the window to be scrolled (Acevedo). After ":set all&", 'lines' and 'ttytype' were still non-default, because the defaults never got set. Now the defaults for 'lines' and 'columns' are set after detecting the window size. 'term' and 'ttytype' defaults are set when detecting the terminal type. For (most) non-Unix systems, don't add file names with illegal characters when expanding. Fixes "cannot open swapfile" error when doing ":e *.burp", when there is no match. In X11 GUI, drawing part of the cursor obscured the text. Now the text is drawn over the cursor, like when it fills the block. (Seibert) when started with "-c cmd -q errfile", the cursor would be left in line 1. Now a ":cc" is done after executing "cmd". ":ilist" never ignored case, even when 'ignorecase' set. "vim -r file" for a readonly file, then making a change, got ATTENTION message in insert mode, display mixed up until <Esc> typed. Also don't give ATTENTION message after recovering a file. The abbreviation ":ab #i #include" could not be removed. CTRL-L completion (longest common match) on command-line didn't work properly for case-insensitive systems (MS-DOS, Windows, etc.). (suggested by Richard Kilgore). For terminals that can hide the cursor ("vi" termcap entry), resizing the window caused the cursor to disappear. Using an invalid mark in an Ex address didn't abort the command. When 'smarttab' set, would use 'shiftround' when inserting a TAB after a space. Now it always rounds to a tabstop. Set '[ and '] marks for ":copy", ":move", ":append", ":insert", ":substitute" and ":change". (Acevedo). "d$" in an empty line still caused an error, even when 'E' is not in 'cpoptions'. Help files were stored in the viminfo buffer list without a path. GUI: Displaying cursor was not synchronized with other displaying. Caused several display errors. For example, when the last two lines in the file start with spaces, "dd" on the last line copied text to the (then) last line. Win32: Needed to type CTRL-SHIFT-- to get CTRL-_. GUI: Moving the cursor forwards over bold text would remove one column of bold pixels. X11 GUI: When a bold character in the last column was scrolled up or down, one column of pixels would not be copied. Using <BS> to move the cursor left can sometimes erase a character. Now use "le" termcap entry for this. Keyword completion with regexp didn't work. e.g., for "b.*crat". Fixed: With CTRL-O that jumps to another file, cursor could end up just after the line. Amiga: '$' was missing from character recognized as wildcards, causing $VIM sometimes not to be expanded. ":change" didn't adjust marks for deleted lines. ":help [range]" didn't work. Also for [pattern], [count] and [quotex]. For 'cindent'ing, typing "class::method" doesn't align like a label when the second ':' is typed. When inserting a CR with 'cindent' set (and a bunch of other conditions) the cursor went to a wrong location. 'cindent' was wrong for a line that ends in '}'. 'cindent' was wrong after "else {". While editing the cmdline in the GUI, could not use the mouse to select text from the command-line itself. When deleting lines, marks in tag stack were only adjusted for the current window, not for other windows on the same buffer. Tag guessing could find a function "some_func" instead of the "func" we were looking for. Tags file name relative to the current file didn't work. ":g/pat2/s//pat2/g", causing the number of subs to be reported, used to cause a scroll up. Now you no longer have to hit <CR>. X11 GUI: Selecting text could cause a crash. 32 bit DOS version: CTRL-C in external command killed Vim. When SHELL is set to "sh.exe", external commands didn't work. Removed using of command.com, no longer need to set 'shellquote'. Fixed crash when using ":g/pat/i". Fixed (potential) crash for X11 GUI, when using an X selection. Was giving a pointer on the stack to a callback function, now it's static. Using "#" and "*" with an operator didn't work. E.g. "c#". Command-line expansion didn't work properly after ":*". (Acevedo) Setting 'weirdinvert' caused highlighting to be wrong in the GUI. ":e +4 #" didn't work, because the "4" was in unallocated memory (could cause a crash). Cursor position was wrong for ":e #", after ":e #" failed, because of changes to the buffer. When doing ":buf N", going to a buffer that was edited with ":view", the readonly flag was reset. Now make a difference between ":e file" and ":buf file": Only set/reset 'ro' for the first one. Avoid |hit-enter| prompt when not able to write viminfo on exit. When giving error messages in the terminal where the GUI was started, GUI escape codes would be written to the terminal. In an xterm this could be seen as a '$' after the message. Mouse would not work directly after ":gui", because full_screen isn't set, which causes starttermcap() not to do its work. 'incsearch' did not scroll the window in the same way as the actual search. When 'nowrap' set, incsearch didn't show a match when it was off the side of the screen. Now it also shows the whole match, instead of just the cursor position (if possible). ":unmap", ":unab" and ":unmenu" did not accept a double quote, it was seen as the start of a comment. Now it's Vi compatible. Using <Up><Left><Left><Up> in the command-line, when there is no previous cmdline in the history, inserted a NUL on the command-line. "i<Esc>" when on a <Tab> in column 0 left the cursor in the wrong place. GUI Motif: When adding a lot of menu items, the menu bar goes into two rows. Deleting menu items, reducing the number of rows, now also works. With ":g/pat/s//foo/c", a match in the first line was scrolled off of the screen, so you could not see it. When using ":s//c", with 'nowrap' set, a match could be off the side of the screen, so you could not see it. When 'helpfile' was set to a fixed, non-absolute path in feature.h, Vim would crash. mch_Fullname can now handle file names in read-only memory. (Lottem) When using CTRL-A or CTRL-@ in Insert mode, there could be strange effects when using CTRL-D next. Also, when repeating inserted text that included "0 CTRL-D" or "^ CTRL-D" this didn't work. (Acevedo) Using CTRL-D after using CTRL-E or CTRL-Y in Insert mode that inserted a '0' or '^', removed the '0' or '^' and more indent. The command "2".p" caused the last inserted text to be executed as commands. (Acevedo) Repeating the insert of "CTRL-V 048" resulted in "^@" to be inserted. Repeating Insert completion could fail if there are special characters in the text. (Acevedo) ":normal /string<CR>" caused the window to scroll. Now all ":normal" commands are executed without scrolling messages. Redo of CTRL-E or CTRL-Y in Insert mode interpreted special characters as commands. Line wrapping for 'tw' was done one character off for insert expansion inserts. buffer_exists() function didn't work properly for buffer names with a symbolic link in them (e.g. when using buffer_exists(#)). Removed the "MOTIF_COMMENT" construction from Makefile. It now works with FreeBSD make, and probably with NeXT make too. Matching the 'define' and 'include' arguments now honor the settings for 'ignorecase'. (Acevedo) When one file shown in two windows, Visual selection mixed up cursor position in current window and other window. When doing ":e file" from a help file, the 'isk' option wasn't reset properly, because of a modeline in the help file. When doing ":e!", a cursor in another window on the same buffer could become invalid, leading to "ml_get: invalid lnum" errors. Matching buffer name for when expanded name has a different path from not expanded name (Brugnara). Normal mappings didn't work after an operator. For example, with ":map Q gq", "QQ" didn't work. When ":make" resulted in zero errors, a "No Errors" error message was given (which breaks mappings). When ":sourcing" a file, line length was limited to 1024 characters. CTRL-V before <EOL> was not handled Vi compatible. (Acevedo) Unexpected exit for X11 GUI, caused by SAVE_YOURSELF event. (Heimann) CTRL-X CTRL-I only found one match per line. (Acevedo) When using an illegal CTRL-X key in Insert mode, the CTRL-X mode message was stuck. Finally managed to ignore the "Quit" menu entry of the Window manager! Now Vim only exists when there are no changed buffers. Trying to start the GUI when $DISPLAY is not set resulted in a crash. When $DISPLAY is not set and gvim starts vim, title was restored to "Thanks for flying Vim". When $DISPLAY not set, starting "gvim" (dropping back to vim) and then selecting text with the mouse caused a crash. "J", with 'joinspaces' set, on a line ending in ". ", caused one space too many to be added. (Acevedo) In insert mode, a CTRL-R {regname} which didn't insert anything left the '"'' on the screen. ":z10" didn't work. (Clapp) "Help "*" didn't work. Renamed a lot of functions, to avoid clashes with POSIX name space. When adding characters to a line, making it wrap, the following lines were sometimes not shifted down (e.g. after a tag jump). CTRL-E, with 'so' set and cursor on last line, now does not move cursor as long as the last line is on the screen. When there are two windows, doing "^W+^W-" in the bottom window could cause the status line to be doubled (not redrawn correctly). This command would hang: ":n `cat`". Now connect stdin of the external command to /dev/null, when expanding. Fixed lalloc(0,) error for ":echo %:e:r". (Acevedo) The "+command" argument to ":split" didn't work when there was no file name. When selecting text in the GUI, which is the output of a command-line command or an external command, the inversion would sometimes remain. GUI: "-mh 70" argument was broken. Now, when menuheight is specified, it is not changed anymore. GUI: When using the scrollbar or mouse while executing an external command, this caused garbage characters. Showmatch sometimes jumped to the wrong position. Was caused by a call to findmatch() when redrawing the display (when syntax highlighting is on). Search pattern "\(a *\)\{3} did not work correctly, also matched "a a". Problem with brace_count not being decremented. Wildcard expansion added too many non-matching file names. When 'iskeyword' contains characters like '~', "*" and "#" didn't work properly. (Acevedo) On Linux, on a FAT file system, modification time can change by one second. Avoid a "file has changed" warning for a one second difference. When using the page-switching in an xterm, Vim would position the cursor on the last line of the window on exit. Also removed the cursor positioning for ":!" commands. ":g/pat/p" command (partly) overwrote the command. Now the output is on a separate line. With 'ic' and 'scs' set, a search for "Keyword", ignore-case matches were highlighted too. "^" on a line with only white space, put cursor beyond the end of the line. When deleting characters before where insertion started ('bs' == 2), could not use abbreviations. CTRL-E at end of file puts cursor below the file, in Visual mode, when 'so' is non-zero. CTRL-E didn't work when 'so' is big and the line below the window wraps. CTRL-E, when 'so' is non-zero, at end of the file, caused jumping up-down. ":retab" didn't work well when 'list' is set. Amiga: When inserting characters at the last line on the screen, causing it to wrap, messed up the display. It appears that a '\n' on the last line doesn't always cause a scroll up. In Insert mode "0<C-D><C-D>" deleted an extra character, because Vim thought that the "0" was still there. (Acevedo) "z{count}l" ignored the count. Also for "zh" et. al. (Acevedo) "S" when 'autoindent' is off didn't delete leading white space. "/<Tab>" landed on the wrong character when 'incsearch' is set. Asking a yes/no question could cause a |hit-enter| prompt. When the file consists of one long line (>4100 characters), making changes caused various errors and a crash. DJGPP version could not save long lines (>64000) for undo. "yw" on the last char in the file didn't work. Also fixed "6x" at the end of the line. "6X" at the start of a line fails, but does not break a mapping. In general, a movement for an operator doesn't beep or flush a mapping, but when there is nothing to operate on it beeps (this is Vi compatible). "m'"' and "m`" now set the '' mark at the cursor position. Unix: Resetting of signals for external program didn't work, because SIG_DFL and NULL are the same! For "!!yes|dd count=1|, the yes command kept on running. Partly fixed: Unix GUI: Typeahead while executing an external command was lost. Now it's not lost while the command is producing output. Typing <S-Tab> in Insert mode, when it isn't mapped, inserted "<S-Tab>". Now it works like a normal <Tab>, just like <C-Tab> and <M-Tab>. Redrawing ruler didn't check for old value correctly (caused UMR warnings in Purify). Negative array index in finish_viminfo_history(). ":g/^/d|mo $" deleted all the lines. The ":move" command now removes the :global mark from the moved lines. Using "vG" while the last line in the window is a "@" line, didn't update correctly. Just the "v" showed "~" lines. "daw" on the last char of the file, when it's a space, moved the cursor beyond the end of the line. When 'hlsearch' was set or reset, only the current buffer was redrawn, while this affects all windows. CTRL-^, positioning the cursor somewhere from 1/2 to 1 1/2 screen down the file, put the cursor at the bottom of the window, instead of halfway. When scrolling up for ":append" command, not all windows were updated correctly. When 'hlsearch' is set, and an auto-indent is highlighted, pressing <Esc> didn't remove the highlighting, although the indent was deleted. When 'ru' set and 'nosc', using "$j" showed a wrong ruler. Under Xfree 3.2, Shift-Tab didn't work (wrong keysym is used). Mapping <S-Tab> didn't work. Changed the key translations to use the shortest key code possible. This makes the termcode translations and mappings more consistent. Now all modifiers work in all combinations, not only with <Tab>, but also with <Space>, <CR>, etc. For Unix, restore three more signals. And Vim catches SIGINT now, so CTRL-C in Ex mode doesn't make Vim exit. ""a5Y" yanked 25 lines instead of 5. "vrxxx<Esc>" in an empty line could not be undone. A CTRL-C that breaks ":make" caused the errorfile not to be read (annoying when you want to handle what ":make" produced so far). ":0;/pat" didn't find "pat" in line 1. Search for "/test/s+1" at first char of file gave bottom-top message, or didn't work at all with 'nowrapscan'. Bug in viminfo history. Could cause a crash on exit. ":print" didn't put cursor on first non-blank in line. ":0r !cat </dev/null" left cursor in line zero, with very strange effects. With 'showcmd' set and 'timeoutlen' set to a few seconds, trick to position the cursor leftwards didn't work. AIX stty settings were restored to cs5 instead of cs8 (Winn). File name completion didn't work for "zsh" versions that put spaces between file names, instead of NULs. Changed "XawChain*" to "XtChain*", should work for more systems. Included quite a few fixes for rightleft mode (Lottem). Didn't ask to |hit-enter| when GUI is started and error messages are printed. When trying to edit a file in a non-existent directory, ended up with editing "No file". "gqap" to format a paragraph did too much redrawing. When 'hlsearch' set, only the current window was updated for a new search pattern. Sometimes error messages on startup didn't cause a |hit-enter| prompt, because of autocommands containing an empty line. Was possible to select part of the window in the border, below the command line. '< and '> marks were not at the correct position after linewise Visual selection. When translating a help argument to "CTRL-x", prepend or append a '_', when applicable. Blockwise visual mode wasn't correct when moving vertically over a special character (displayed as two screen characters). Renamed "struct option" to "struct vimoption" to avoid name clash with GNU getopt(). ":abclear" didn't work (but ":iabclear" and ":cabclear" did work). When 'nowrap' used, screen wasn't always updated correctly. "vim -c split file" displayed extra lines. After starting the GUI, searched the termcap for a "gui" term. When 'hls' used, search for "^$" caused a hang. When 'hls' was set, an error in the last regexp caused trouble. Unix: Only output an extra <EOL> on exit when outputted something in the alternate screen, or when there is a message that needs to be cleared. "/a\{" did strange things, depending on previous search. "c}" only redrew one line (with -u NONE). For mappings, CTRL-META-A was shown as <M-^A> instead of <MC-A>, while :map only accepts <MC-A>. Now <M-C-A> is shown. Unix: When using full path name in a tags file, which contains a link, and 'hidden' set and jumping to a tag in the current file, would get bogus ATTENTION message. Solved by always expanding file names, even when starting with '/'. 'hlsearch' highlighting of special characters (e.g., a TAB) didn't highlight the whole thing. "r<CR>" didn't work correctly on the last char of a line. sometimes a window resize or other signal caused an endless loop, involving set_winsize(). "vim -r" didn't work, it would just hang (using tgetent() while 'term' is empty). "gk" while 'nowrap' set moved two lines up. When windows are split, a message that causes a scroll-up messed up one of the windows, which required a CTRL-L to be typed. Possible endless loop when using shell command in the GUI. Menus defined in the .vimrc were removed when GUI started. Crash when pasting with the mouse in insert mode. Crash with ":unmenu *" in .gvimrc for Athena. "5>>" shifted 5 lines 5 times, instead of 1 time. CTRL-C when getting a prompt in ":global" didn't interrupt. When 'so' is non-zero, and moving the scrollbar completely to the bottom, there was a lot of flashing. GUI: Scrollbar ident must be long for DEC Alpha. Some functions called vim_regcomp() without setting reg_magic, which could lead to unpredictable magicness. Crash when clicking around the status line, could get a selection with a backwards range. When deleting more than one line characterwise, the last character wasn't deleted. GUI: Status line could be overwritten when moving the scrollbar quickly (or when 'wd' is non-zero). An ESC at the end of a ":normal" command caused a wait for a terminal code to finish. Now, a terminal code is not recognized when its start comes from a mapping or ":normal" command. Included patches from Robert Webb for GUI. Layout of the windows is now done inside Vim, instead of letting the layout manager do this. Makes Vim work with Lesstif! UMR warning in set_expand_context(). Memory leak: b_winlnum list was never freed. Removed TIOCLSET/TIOCLGET code from os_unix.c. Was changing some of the terminal settings, and looked like it wasn't doing anything good. (suggested by Juergen Weigert). Ruler overwrote "is a directory" message. When starting up, and 'cmdheight' set to > 1, first message could still be in the last line. Removed prototype for putenv() from proto.h, it's already in osdef2.h.in. In replace mode, when moving the cursor and then backspacing, wrong characters were inserted. Win32 GUI was checking for a CTRL-C too often, making it slow. Removed mappings for MS-DOS that were already covered by commands. When visually selecting all lines in a file, cursor at last line, then "J". Gave ml_get errors. Was a problem with scrolling down during redrawing. When doing a linewise operator, and then an operator with a mouse click, it was also linewise, instead of characterwise. When 'list' is set, the column of the ruler was wrong. Spurious error message for "/\(b\+\)*". When visually selected many lines, message from ":w file" disappeared when redrawing the screen. ":set <M-b>=^[b", then insert "^[b", waited for another character. And then inserted "<M-b>" instead of the real <M-b> character. Was trying to insert K_SPECIAL x NUL. CTRL-W ] didn't use count to set window height. GUI: "-font" command-line argument didn't override 'guifont' setting from .gvimrc. (Acevedo) GUI: clipboard wasn't used for "*y". And some more Win32/X11 differences fixed for the clipboard (Webb). Jumping from one help file to another help file, with 'compatible' set, removed the 'help' flag from the buffer. File-writable bit could be reset when using ":w!" for a readonly file. There was a wait for CTRL-O n in Insert mode, because the search pattern was shown. Reduced wait, to allow reading a message, from 10 to 3 seconds. It seemed nothing was happening. ":recover" found same swap file twice. GUI: "*yy only worked the second time (when pasting to an xterm)." DJGPP version (dos32): The system flags were cleared. Dos32 version: Underscores were sometimes replaced with y-umlaut (Levin). Version 4.1 of ncurses can't handle tputs("", ..). Avoid calling tputs() with an empty string. <S-Tab> in the command-line worked like CTRL-P when no completion started yet. Now it does completion, last match first.  Now the viminfo file is overwritten, and the user set back to the original one. ":set term=builtin_gui" started the GUI in a wrong way. Now it's not allowed anymore. But "vim -T gui" does start the GUI correctly now. GUI: Triple click after a line only put last char in selection, when it is a single character word. When the window is bigger than the screen, the scrolling up of messages was wrong (e.g. ":vers", ":hi"). Also when the bottom part of the window was obscured by another window. When using a wrong option only an error message is printed, to avoid that the usage information makes it scroll off the screen. When exiting because of not being able to read from stdin, didn't preserve the swap files properly. Visual selecting all chars in more than one line, then hit "x" didn't leave an empty line. For one line it did leave an empty line. Message for which autocommand is executing messed up file write message (for FileWritePost event). "vim -h" included "-U" even when GUI is not available, and "-l" when lisp is not available. Crash for ":he <C-A>" (command-line longer than screen). ":s/this/that/gc", type "y" two times, then undo, did reset the modified option, even though the file is still modified. Empty lines in a tags file caused a ":tag" to be aborted. When hitting 'q' at the more prompt for ":menu", still scrolled a few lines. In an xterm that uses the bold trick a single row of characters could remain after an erased bold character. Now erase one extra char after the bold char, like for the GUI. ":pop!" didn't work. When the reading a buffer was interrupted, ":w" should not be able to overwrite the file, ":w!" is required. ":cf%" caused a crash. ":gui longfilename", when forking is enabled, could leave part of the longfilename at the shell prompt.
VERSION 5.1 *version-5.1* Improvements made between version 5.0 and 5.1. This was mostly a bug-fix release, not many new features. Changed *changed-5.1* The expand() function now separates file names with <NL> instead of a space. This avoids problems for file names with embedded spaces. To get the old result, use substitute(expand(foo), "\n", " ", "g"). For Insert-expanding dictionaries allow a backslash to be used for wildchars. Allows expanding "ze\kra", when 'isk' includes a backslash. New icon for the Win32 GUI. ":tag", ":tselect" etc. only use the argument as a regexp when it starts with '/'. Avoids that ":tag xx~" gives an error message: "No previous sub. regexp". Also, when the :tag argument contained wildcard characters, it was not Vi compatible. When using '/', the argument is taken literally too, with a higher priority, so it's found before wildcard matches. Only when the '/' is used are matches with different case found, even though 'ignorecase' isn't set. Changed "g^]" to only do ":tselect" when there is more than on matching tag. Changed some of the default colors, because they were not very readable on a dark background. A character offset to a search pattern can move the cursor to the next or previous line. Also fixes that "/pattern/e+2" got stuck on "pattern" at the end of a line. Double-clicks in the status line do no longer start Visual mode. Dragging a status line no longer stops Visual mode. Perl interface: Buffers() and Windows() now use more logical arguments, like they are used in the rest of Vim (Moore). Init '"' mark to the first character of the first line. Makes it possible to use '"' in an autocommand without getting an error message. Added *added-5.1* "shell_error" internal variable: result of last shell command. ":echohl" command: Set highlighting for ":echo". 'S' flag in 'highlight' and StatusLineNC highlight group: highlighting for status line of not-current window. Default is to use bold for current window. Added buffer_name() and buffer_number() functions (Aaron). Added flags argument "g" to substitute() function (Aaron). Added winheight() function. Win32: When an external command starts with "start ", no console is opened for it (Aaron). Win32 console: Use termcap codes for bold/reverse based on the current console attributes. Configure check for "strip". (Napier) CTRL-R CTRL-R x in Insert mode: Insert the contents of a register literally, instead of as typed. Made a few "No match" error messages more informative by adding the pattern that didn't match. "make install" now also copies the macro files. tools/tcltags, a shell script to generate a tags file from a TCL file. "--with-tlib" setting for configure. Easy way to use termlib: "./configure --with-tlib=termlib". 'u' flag in 'cino' for setting the indent for contained () parts. When Win32 OLE version can't load the registered type library, ask the user if he wants to register Vim now. (Erhardt) Win32 with OLE: When registered automatically, exit Vim. Included VisVim 1.1b, with a few enhancements and the new icon (Heiko Erhardt). Added patch from Vince Negri for Win32s support. Needs to be compiled with VC 4.1! Perl interface: Added $curbuf. Rationalized Buffers() and Windows(). (Moore) Added "group" argument to Msg(). Included Perl files in DOS source archive. Changed Makefile.bor and Makefile.w32 to support building a Win32 version with Perl included. Included new Makefile.w32 from Ken Scott. Now it's able to make all Win32 versions, including OLE, Perl and Python. Added CTRL-W g ] and CTRL-W g ^]: split window and do g] or g^]. Added "g]" to always do ":tselect" for the ident under the cursor. Added ":tjump" and ":stjump" commands. Improved listing of ":tselect" when tag names are a bit long. Included patches for the Macintosh version. Also for Python interface. (St-Amant) ":buf foo" now also restores cursor column, when the buffer was used before. Adjusted the Makefile for different final destinations for the syntax files and scripts (for Debian Linux). Amiga: $VIM can be used everywhere. When $VIM is not defined, "VIM:" is used. This fixes that "VIM:" had to be assigned for the help files, and $VIM set for the syntax files. Now either of these work. Some xterms send vt100 compatible function keys F1-F4. Since it's not possible to detect this, recognize both type of keys and translate them to <F1> - <F4>. Added "VimEnter" autocommand. Executed after loading all the startup stuff. BeOS version now also runs on Intel CPUs (Seibert). Fixed *fixed-5.1* ":ts" changed position in the tag stack when cancelled with <CR>. ":ts" changed the cursor position for CTRL-T when cancelled with <CR>. ":tn" would always jump to the second match. Was using the wrong entry in the tag stack. Doing "tag foo", then ":tselect", overwrote the original cursor position in the tag stack. "make install" changed the vim.1 manpage in a wrong way, causing "doc/doc" to appear for the documentation files. When compiled with MAX_FEAT, xterm mouse handling failed. Was caused by DEC mouse handling interfering. Was leaking memory when using selection in X11. CTRL-D halfway a command-line left some characters behind the first line(s) of the listing. When expanding directories for ":set path=", put two extra backslashes before a space in a directory name. When 'lisp' set, first line of a function would be indented. Now its indent is set to zero. And use the indent of the first previous line that is at the same () level. Added test33. "so<Esc>u" in an empty file didn't work. DOS: "seek error in swap file write" errors, when using DOS 6.2 share.exe, because the swap file was made hidden. It's no longer hidden. ":global" command would sometimes not execute on a matching line. Happened when a data block is full in ml_replace(). For AIX use a tgetent buffer of 2048 bytes, instead of 1024. Win32 gvim now only sets the console size for external commands to 25x80 on Windows 95, not on NT. Win32 console: Dead key could cause a crash, because of a missing "WINAPI" (Deshpande). The right mouse button started Visual mode, even when 'mouse' is empty, and in the command-line, a left click moved the cursor when 'mouse' is empty. In Visual mode, 'n' in 'mouse' would be used instead of 'v'. A blinking cursor or focus change cleared a non-Visual selection. CTRL-Home and CTRL-End didn't work for MS-DOS versions. Could include NUL in 'iskeyword', causing a crash when doing insert mode completion. Use _dos_commit() to flush the swap file to disk for MSDOS 16 bit version. In mappings, CTRL-H was replaced by the backspace key code. This caused problems when it was used as text, e.g. ":map _U :%s/.^H//g<CR>". ":set t_Co=0" was not handled like a normal term. Now it's translated into ":set t_Co=", which works. For ":syntax keyword" the "transparent" option did work, although not mentioned in the help. But synID() returned wrong name. "gqG" in a file with one-word-per-line (e.g. a dictionary) was very slow and not interruptible. "gq" operator inserted screen lines in the wrong situation. Now screen lines are inserted or deleted when this speeds up displaying. cindent was wrong when an "if" contained "((". 'r' flag in 'viminfo' was not used for '%'. Could get files in the buffer list from removable media. Win32 GUI with OLE: if_ole_vc.mak could not be converted into a project. Hand-edited to fix this... With 'nosol' set, doing "$kdw" below an empty line positioned the cursor at the end of the line. Dos32 version changed "\dir\file" into "/dir/file", to work around a DJGPP bug. That bug appears to have been fixed, therefore this translation has been removed. "/^*" didn't work (find '*' in first column). "<afile>" was not always set for autocommands. E.g., for ":au BufEnter * let &tags = expand("<afile>:p:h") . "/tags". In an xterm, the window may be a child of the outer xterm window. Use the parent window when getting the title and icon names. (Smith) When starting with "gvim -bg black -fg white", the value of 'background' is only set after reading the .gvimrc file. This causes a ":syntax on" to use the wrong colors. Now allow using ":gui" to open the GUI window and set the colors. Previously ":gui" in a gvimrc crashed Vim. tempname() returned the same name all the time, unless the file was actually created. Now there are at least 26 different names. File name used for <afile> was sometimes full path, sometimes file name relative to current directory. When 'background' was set after the GUI window was opened, it could change colors that were set by the user in the .gvimrc file. Now it only changes colors that have not been set by the user. Ignore special characters after a CSI in the GUI version. These could be interpreted as special characters in a wrong way. (St-Amant) Memory leak in farsi code, when using search or ":s" command. Farsi string reversing for a mapping was only done for new mappings. Now it also works for replacing a mapping. Crash in Win32 when using a file name longer than _MAX_PATH. (Aaron) When BufDelete autocommands were executed, some things for the buffer were already deleted (esp. Perl stuff). Perl interface: Buffer specific items were deleted too soon; fixes "screen no longer exists" messages. (Moore) The Perl functions didn't set the 'modified' flag. link.sh did not return an error on exit, which may cause Vim to start installing, even though there is no executable to install. (Riehm) Vi incompatibility: In Vi "." redoes the "y" command. Added the 'y' flag to 'cpoptions'. Only for 'compatible' mode. ":echohl" defined a new group, when the argument was not an existing group. "syn on" and ":syn off" could move the cursor, if there is a hidden buffer that is shorter that the current cursor position. The " mark was not set when doing ":b file". When a "nextgroup" is used with "skipwhite" in syntax highlighting, space at the end of the line made the nextgroup also be found in the next line. ":he g<CTRL-D>", then ":" and backspace to the start didn't redraw. X11 GUI: "gvim -rv" reversed the colors twice on Sun. Now Vim checks if the result is really reverse video (background darker than foreground). "cat link.sh | vim -" didn't set syntax highlighting. Win32: Expanding "file.sw?" matched ".file.swp". This is an error of FindnextFile() that we need to work around. (Kilgore) "gqgq" gave an "Invalid lnum" error on the last line. Formatting with "gq" didn't format the first line after a change of comment leader. There was no check for out-of-memory in win_alloc(). "vim -h" didn't mention "-register" and "-unregister" for the OLE version. Could not increase 'cmdheight' when the last window is only one line. Now other windows are also made smaller, when necessary. Added a few {} to avoid "suggest braces around" warnings from gcc 2.8.x. Changed return type of main() from void to int. (Nam) Using '~' twice in a substitute pattern caused a crash. "syn on" and ":syn off" could scroll the window, if there is a hidden buffer that is shorter that the current cursor position. ":if 0 | if 1 | endif | endif" didn't work. Same for ":while" and "elseif". With two windows on modified files, with 'autowrite' set, cursor in second window, ":qa" gave a warning for the file in the first window, but then auto-wrote the file in the second window. (Webb) Win32 GUI scrollbar could only handle 32767 lines. Also makes the intellimouse wheel use the configurable number of scrolls. (Robinson) When using 'patchmode', and the backup file is on another partition, the file copying messed up the write-file message. GUI X11: Alt-Backspace and Alt-Delete didn't work. "`0" could put the cursor after the last character in the line, causing trouble for other commands, like "i". When completing tags in insert mode with ^X^], some matches were skipped, because the compare with other tags was wrong. E.g., when "mnuFileSave" was already there, "mnuFile" would be skipped. (Negri) When scrolling up/down, a syntax item with "keepend" didn't work properly. Now the flags are also stored for the syntax state at the start of each line. When 'ic' was changed while 'hlsearch' is on, there was no redraw to show the effect. Win32 GUI: Don't display "No write since last chance" in a message box, but in the Vim window.
VERSION 5.2 *version-5.2* Improvements made between version 5.1 and 5.2. Long lines editable *long-lines* A single long line that doesn't fit in the window doesn't show a line of @@@ anymore. Redrawing starts at a character further on in the line, such that the text around the cursor can be seen. This makes it possible to edit these long lines when wrapping is on. File browser added *file-browser-5.2* The Win32, Athena and Motif GUI bring up a file requester if the user asks to ":browse" for the ":e", ":w", ":r", ":so", ":redirect" and ":mkexrc/vimrc/vsess" commands. ::browse e /foo/bar" opens the requester in the /foo/bar directory, so you can have nice mapping rhs's like ":browse so $vim/macros". If no initial dir specified for ":browse e", can be compiled to either begin in the current directory, or that of the current buffer. (Negri and Kahn) Added the 'browsedir' option, with value "current", "last" or "buffer". Tells whether a browse dialog starts in last used dir, dir of current buffer, or current dir. ":browse w" is unaffected. The default menus have been changed to use the ":browse" command. Dialogs added *dialogs-added* Added the ":confirm" command. Works on ":e", ":q", ":w", ":cl". Win32, Athena and Motif GUI uses a window-dialog. All other platforms can use prompt in command-line. ":confirm qa" offers a choice to save all modified files. confirm() function: allows user access to the confirm engine. Added 'v' flag to 'guioptions'. When included, a vertical button layout is always used for the Win32 GUI dialog. Otherwise, a horizontal layout is preferred. Win32 GUI: ":promptfind" and ":promptrepl" pop up a dialog to find/replace. To be used from a menu entry. (Negri) Popup menu added *popup-menu-added* When the 'mousemodel' option is set to "popup", the right mouse button displays the top level menu headed with "PopUp" as pop-up context menu. The "PopUp" menu is not displayed in the normal menu bar. This currently only works for Win32 and Athena GUI. Select mode added *new-Select-mode* A new mode has been added: "Select mode". It is like Visual mode, but typing a printable character replaces the selection. - CTRL-G can be used to toggle between Visual mode and Select mode. - CTRL-O can be used to switch from Select mode to Visual mode for one command. - Added 'selectmode' option: tells when to start Select mode instead of Visual mode. - Added 'mousemodel' option: Change use of mouse buttons. - Added 'keymodel' option: tells to use shifted special keys to start a Visual or Select mode selection. - Added ":behave". Can be used to quickly set 'selectmode', 'mousemodel' and 'keymodel' for MS-Windows and xterm behavior. - The xterm-like selection is now called modeless selection. - Visual mode mappings and menus are used in Select mode. They automatically switch to Visual mode first. Afterwards, reselect the area, unless it was deleted. The "gV" command can be used in a mapping to skip the reselection. - Added the "gh", "gH" and "g^H" commands: start Select (highlight) mode. - Backspace in Select mode deletes the selected area. "mswin.vim" script. Sets behavior mostly like MS-Windows. Session files added *new-session-files* ":mks[ession]" acts like "mkvimrc", but also writes the full filenames of the currently loaded buffers and current directory, so that :so'ing the file re-loads those files and cd's to that directory. Also stores and restores windows. File names are made relative to session file. The 'sessionoptions' option sets behavior of ":mksession". (Negri) User defined functions and commands *new-user-defined* Added user defined functions. Defined with ":function" until ":endfunction". Called with "Func()". Allows the use of a variable number of arguments. Included support for local variables "l:name". Return a value with ":return". See |:function|. Call a function with ":call". When using a range, the function is called for each line in the range. |:call| "macros/justify.vim" is an example of using user defined functions. User functions do not change the last used search pattern or the command to be redone with ".". 'maxfuncdepth' option. Restricts the depth of function calls. Avoids trouble (crash because of out-of-memory) when a function uses endless recursion. User definable Ex commands: ":command", ":delcommand" and ":comclear". (Moore) See |user-commands|. New interfaces *interfaces-5.2* Tcl interface. (Wilken) See |tcl|. Uses the ":tcl", ":tcldo" and "tclfile" commands. Cscope support. (Kahn) (Sekera) See |cscope|. Uses the ":cscope" and ":cstag" commands. Uses the options 'cscopeprg', 'cscopetag', 'cscopetagorder' and 'cscopeverbose'. New ports *ports-5.2* Amiga GUI port. (Nielsen) Not tested much yet! RISC OS version. (Thomas Leonard) See |riscos|. This version can run either with a GUI or in text mode, depending upon where it is invoked. Deleted the "os_archie" files, they were not working anyway. Multi-byte support *new-multi-byte* MultiByte support for Win32 GUI. (Baek) The 'fileencoding' option decides how the text in the file is encoded. ":ascii" works for multi-byte characters. Multi-byte characters work on Windows 95, even when using the US version. (Aaron) Needs to be enabled in feature.h. This has not been tested much yet! New functions *new-functions-5.2* |browse()| puts up a file requester when available. (Negri) |escape()| escapes characters in a string with a backslash. |fnamemodify()| modifies a file name. |input()| asks the user to enter a line. (Aaron) There is a separate history for lines typed for the input() function. |argc()| |argv()| can be used to access the argument list. |winbufnr()| buffer number of a window. (Aaron) |winnr()| window number. (Aaron) |matchstr()| Return matched string. |setline()| Set a line to a string value. New options *new-options-5.2* 'allowrevins' Enable the CTRL-_ command in Insert and Command-line mode. 'browsedir' Tells in which directory a browse dialog starts. 'confirm' when set, :q :w and :e commands always act as if ":confirm" is used. (Negri) 'cscopeprg' 'cscopetag' 'cscopetagorder' 'cscopeverbose' Set the |cscope| behavior. 'filetype' RISC-OS specific type of file. 'grepformat' 'grepprg' For the |:grep| command. 'keymodel' Tells to use shifted special keys to start a Visual or Select mode selection. 'listchars' Set character to show in 'list' mode for end-of-line, tabs and trailing spaces. (partly by Smith) Also sets character to display if a line doesn't fit when 'nowrap' is set. 'matchpairs' Allows matching '<' with '>', and other single character pairs. 'mousefocus' Window focus follows mouse (partly by Terhaar). Changing the focus with a keyboard command moves the pointer to that window. Also move the pointer when changing the window layout (split window, change window height, etc.). 'mousemodel' Change use of mouse buttons. 'selection' When set to "inclusive" or "exclusive", the cursor can go one character past the end of the line in Visual or Select mode. When set to "old" the old behavior is used. When "inclusive", the character under the cursor is included in the operation. When using "exclusive", the new "ve" entry of 'guicursor' is used. The default is a vertical bar. 'selectmode' Tells when to start Select mode instead of Visual mode. 'sessionoptions' Sets behavior of ":mksession". (Negri) 'showfulltag' When completing a tag in Insert mode, show the tag search pattern (tidied up) as a choice as well (if there is one). 'swapfile' Whether to use a swap file for a buffer. 'syntax' When it is set, the syntax by that name is loaded. Allows for setting a specific syntax from a modeline. 'ttymouse' Allows using xterm mouse codes for terminals which name doesn't start with "xterm". 'wildignore' List of patterns for files that should not be completed at all. 'wildmode' Can be used to set the type of expansion for 'wildchar'. Replaces the CTRL-T command for command line completion. Don't beep when listing all matches. 'winaltkeys' Win32 and Motif GUI. When "yes", ALT keys are handled entirely by the window system. When "no", ALT keys are never used by the window system. When "menu" it depends on whether a key is a menu shortcut. 'winminheight' Minimal height for each window. Default is 1. Set to 0 if you want zero-line windows. Scrollbar is removed for zero-height windows. (Negri) New Ex commands *new-ex-commands-5.2* |:badd| Add file name to buffer list without side effects. (Negri) |:behave| Quickly set MS-Windows or xterm behavior. |:browse| Use file selection dialog. |:call| Call a function, optionally with a range. |:cnewer| |:colder| To access a stack of quickfix error lists. |:comclear| Clear all user-defined commands. |:command| Define a user command. |:continue| Go back to ":while". |:confirm| Ask confirmation if something unexpected happens. |:cscope| Execute cscope command. |:cstag| Use cscope to jump to a tag. |:delcommand| Delete a user-defined command. |:delfunction| Delete a user-defined function. |:endfunction| End of user-defined function. |:function| Define a user function. |:grep| Works similar to ":make". (Negri) |:mksession| Create a session file. |:nohlsearch| Stop 'hlsearch' highlighting for a moment. |:Print| This is Vi compatible. Does the same as ":print". |:promptfind| Search dialog (Win32 GUI). |:promptrepl| Search/replace dialog (Win32 GUI). |:return| Return from a user-defined function. |:simalt| Win32 GUI: Simulate alt-key pressed. (Negri) |:smagic| Like ":substitute", but always use 'magic'. |:snomagic| Like ":substitute", but always use 'nomagic'. |:tcl| Execute TCL command. |:tcldo| Execute TCL command for a range of lines. |:tclfile| Execute a TCL script file. |:tearoff| Tear-off a menu (Win32 GUI). |:tmenu| |:tunmenu| Win32 GUI: menu tooltips. (Negri) |:star| :* Execute a register. Changed *changed-5.2* Renamed functions: buffer_exists() -> bufexists() buffer_name() -> bufname() buffer_number() -> bufnr() file_readable() -> filereadable() highlight_exists() -> hlexists() highlightID() -> hlID() last_buffer_nr() -> bufnr("$") The old ones are still there, for backwards compatibility. The CTRL-_ command in Insert and Command-line mode is only available when the new 'allowrevins' option is set. Avoids that people who want to type SHIFT-_ accidentally enter reverse Insert mode, and don't know how to get out. When a file name path in ":tselect" listing is too long, remove a part in the middle and put "..." there. Win32 GUI: Made font selector appear inside Vim window, not just any odd place. (Negri) ":bn" skips help buffers, unless currently in a help buffer. (Negri) When there is a status line and only one window, don't show '^' in the status line of the current window. ":*" used to be used for "'<,'>", the Visual area. But in Vi it's used as an alternative for ":@". When 'cpoptions' includes '*' this is Vi compatible. When 'insertmode' is set, using CTRL-O to execute a mapping will work like 'insertmode' was not set. This allows "normal" mappings to be used even when 'insertmode' is set. When 'mouse' was set already (e.g., in the .vimrc file), don't automatically set 'mouse' when the GUI starts. Removed the 'N', 'I' and 'A' flags from the 'mouse' option. Renamed "toggle option" to "boolean option". Some people thought that ":set xyz" would toggle 'xyz' on/off each time. The internal variable "shell_error" contains the error code from the shell, instead of just 0 or 1. When inserting or replacing, typing CTRL-V CTRL-<CR> used to insert "<C-CR>". That is not very useful. Now the CTRL key is ignored and a <CR> is inserted. Same for all other "normal" keys with modifiers. Mapping these modified key combinations is still possible. In Insert mode, <C-CR> and <S-Space> can be inserted by using CTRL-K and then the special character. Moved "quotes" file to doc/quotes.txt, and "todo" file to doc/todo.txt. They are now installed like other documentation files. winheight() function returns -1 for a non-existing window. It used to be zero, but that is a valid height now. The default for 'selection' is "inclusive", which makes a difference when using "$" or the mouse to move the cursor in Visual mode. ":q!" does not exit when there are changed buffers which are hidden. Use ":qa!" to exit anyway. Disabled the Perl/Python/Tcl interfaces by default. Not many people use them and they make the executable a lot bigger. The internal scripting language is now powerful enough for most tasks. The strings from the 'titlestring' and 'iconstring' options are used untranslated for the Window title and icon. This allows for including a <CR>. Previously a <CR> would be shown as "^M" (two characters). When a mapping is started in Visual or Select mode which was started from Insert mode (the mode shows "(insert) Visual"), don't return to Insert mode until the mapping has ended. Makes it possible to use a mapping in Visual mode that also works when the Visual mode was started from Select mode. Menus in $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim no longer overrule existing menus. This helps when defining menus in the .vimrc file, or when sourcing mswin.vim. Unix: Use /var/tmp for .swp files, if it exists. Files there survive a reboot (at least on Linux). Added *added-5.2* --with-motif-lib configure argument. Allows for using a static Motif library. Support for mapping numeric keypad +,-,*,/ keys. (Negri) When not mapped, they produce the normal character. Win32 GUI: When directory dropped on Gvim, cd there and edit new buffer. (Negri) Win32 GUI: Made CTRL-Break work as interrupt, so that CTRL-C can be used for mappings. In the output of ":map", highlight the "*" to make clear it's not part of the rhs. (Roemer) When showing the Visual area, the cursor is not switched off, so that it can be located. The Visual area is now highlighted with a grey background in the GUI. This makes the cursor visible when it's also reversed. Win32: When started with single full pathname (e.g. via double-clicked file), cd to that file's directory. (Negri) Win32 GUI: Tear-off menus, with ":tearoff <menu-name>" command. (Negri) 't' option to 'guioptions': Add tearoff menu items for Win32 GUI and Motif. It's included by default. Win32 GUI: tearoff menu with submenus is indicated with a ">>". (Negri) Added ^Kaa and ^KAA digraphs. Added "euro" symbol to digraph.c. (Corry) Support for Motif menu shortcut keys, using '&' like MS-Windows (Ollis). Other GUIs ignore '&' in a menu name. DJGPP: Faster screen updating (John Lange). Clustering of syntax groups ":syntax cluster" (Bigham). Including syntax files: ":syntax include" (Bigham). Keep column when switching buffers, when 'nosol' is set (Radics). Number function for Perl interface. Support for Intellimouse in Athena GUI. (Jensen) ":sleep" also accepts an argument in milliseconds, when "m" is used. Added 'p' flag in 'guioptions': Install callbacks for enter/leave window events. Makes cursor blinking work for Terhaar, breaks it for me. "--help" and "--version" command-line arguments. Non-text in ":list" output is highlighted with NonText. Added text objects: "i(" and "i)" as synonym for "ib". "i{" and "i}" as synonym for "iB". New: "i<" and "i>", to select <thing>. All this also for "a" objects. 'O' flag in 'shortmess': message for reading a file overwrites any previous message. (Negri) Win32 GUI: 'T' flag in 'guioptions': switch toolbar on/off. Included a list with self-made toolbar bitmaps. (Negri) Added menu priority for sub-menus. Implemented for Win32 and Motif GUI. Display menu priority with ":menu" command. Default and Syntax menus now include priority for items. Allows inserting menu items in between the default ones. When the 'number' option is on, highlight line numbers with the LineNr group. "Ignore" highlight group: Text highlighted with this is made blank. It is used to hide special characters in the help text. Included Exuberant Ctags version 2.3, with C++ support, Java support and recurse into directories. (Hiebert) When a tags file is not sorted, and this is detected (in a simplistic way), an error message is given. ":unlet" accepts a "!", to ignore non-existing variables, and accepts more than one argument. (Roemer) Completion of variable names for ":unlet". (Roemer) When there is an error in a function which is called by another function, show the call stack in the error message. New file name modifiers: ":.": reduce file name to be relative to current dir. ":~": reduce file name to be relative to home dir. ":s?pat?sub?": substitute "pat" with "sub" once. ":gs?pat?sub?": substitute "pat" with "sub" globally. New configure arguments: --enable-min-features and --enable-max-features. Easy way to switch to minimum or maximum features. New compile-time feature: modify_fname. For file name modifiers, e.g, "%:p:h". Can be disabled to save some code (16 bit DOS). When using whole-line completion in Insert mode, and 'cindent' is set, indent the line properly. MSDOS and Win32 console: 'guicursor' sets cursor thickness. (Negri) Included new set of Farsi fonts. (Shiran) Accelerator text now also works in Motif. All menus can be defined with & for mnemonic and TAB for accelerator text. They are ignored on systems that don't support them. When removing or replacing a menu, compare the menu name only up to the <Tab> before the mnemonic. 'i' and 'I' flags after ":substitute": ignore case or not. "make install" complains if the runtime files are missing. Unix: When finding an existing swap file that can't be opened, mention the owner of the file in the ATTENTION message. The 'i', 't' and 'k' options in 'complete' now also print the place where they are looking for matches. (Acevedo) "gJ" command: Join lines without inserting a space. Setting 'keywordprg' to "man -s" is handled specifically. The "-s" is removed when no count given, the count is added otherwise. Configure checks if "man -s 2 read" works, and sets the default for 'keywordprg' accordingly. If you do a ":bd" and there is only one window open, Vim tries to move to a buffer of the same type (i.e. non-help to non-help, help to help), for consistent behavior to :bnext/:bprev. (Negri) Allow "<Nop>" to be used as the rhs of a mapping. ":map xx <Nop>", maps "xx" to nothing at all. In a ":menu" command, "<Tab>" can be used instead of a real tab, in the menu path. This makes it more easy to type, no backslash needed. POSIX compatible character classes for regexp patterns: [:alnum:], [:alpha:], [:blank:], [:cntrl:], [:digit:], [:graph:], [:lower:], [:print:], [:punct:], [:space:], [:upper:] and [:xdigit:]. (Briscoe) regexp character classes (for fast syntax highlight matching): digits: \d [0-9] \D not digit (Roemer) hex: \x [0-9a-fA-F] \X not hex octal: \o [0-7] \O not octal word: \w [a-zA-Z0-9_] \W not word head: \h [a-zA-Z_] \H not head alphabetic: \a [a-zA-Z] \A not alphabetic lowercase: \l [a-z] \L not lowercase uppercase: \u [A-Z] \U not uppercase ":set" now accepts "+=", |^=" and "-=": add or remove parts of a string option, add or subtract a number from a number option.  Filetype feature, for autocommands. Uses a file type instead of a pattern to match a file. Currently only used for RISC OS. (Leonard) In a pattern for an autocommand, environment variables can be used. They are expanded when the autocommand is defined. "BufFilePre" and "BufFilePost" autocommand evens: Before and after applying the ":file" command to change the name of a buffer. "VimLeavePre" autocommand event: before writing the .viminfo file. For autocommands argument: <abuf> is buffer number, like <afile>. Made syntax highlighting a bit faster when scrolling backwards, by keeping more syncing context. Win32 GUI: Made scrolling faster by avoiding a redraw when deleting or inserting screen lines. GUI: Made scrolling faster by not redrawing the scrollbar when the thumb moved less than a pixel. Included ":highlight" in bugreport.vim. Created install.exe program, for simplistic installation on DOS and MS-Windows. New register: '_', the black hole. When writing to it, nothing happens. When reading from it, it's always empty. Can be used to avoid a delete or change command to modify the registers, or reduce memory use for big changes. CTRL-V xff enters character by hex number. CTRL-V o123 enters character by octal number. (Aaron) Improved performance of syntax highlighting by skipping check for "keepend" when there isn't any. Moved the mode message ("-- INSERT --") to the last line of the screen. When 'cmdheight' is more than one, messages will remain readable. When listing matching files, they are also sorted on 'suffixes', such that they are listed in the same order as CTRL-N retrieves them. synIDattr() takes a third argument (optionally), which tells for which terminal type to get the attributes for. This makes it possible to run 2html.vim outside of gvim (using color names instead of #RRGGBB). Memory profiling, only for debugging. Prints at exit, and with "g^A" command. (Kahn) DOS: When using a file in the current drive, remove the drive name: "A:\dir\file" -> "\dir\file". This helps when moving a session file on a floppy from "A:\dir" to "B:\dir". Increased number of remembered jumps from 30 to 50 per window. Command to temporarily disable 'hls' highlighting until the next search: ":nohlsearch". "gp" and "gP" commands: like "p" and "P", but leave the cursor just after the inserted text. Used for the CTRL-V command in MS-Windows mode. Fixed *fixed-5.2* Win32 GUI: Could draw text twice in one place, for fake-bold text. Removed this, Windows will handle the bold text anyway. (Negri) patch 5.1.1: Win32s GUI: pasting caused a crash (Negri) patch 5.1.2: When entering another window, where characters before the cursor have been deleted, could have a cursor beyond the end of the line. patch 5.1.3: Win32s GUI: Didn't wait for external command to finish. (Negri) patch 5.1.4: Makefile.w32 can now also be used to generate the OLE version (Scott). patch 5.1.5: Crashed when using syntax highlighting: cursor on a line that doesn't fit in the window, and splitting that line in two. patch 5.1.6: Visual highlighting bug: After ":set nowrap" go to end of line (so that the window scrolls horizontally), ":set wrap" Following Visual selection was wrong. patch 5.1.7: When 'tagbsearch' off, and 'ignorecase' off, still could do binary searching. patch 5.1.8: Win32 GUI: dragging the scrollbar didn't update the ruler. patch 5.1.9: Using ":gui" in .vimrc, caused xterm cursor to disappear. patch 5.1.10: A CTRL-N in Insert mode could cause a crash, when a buffer without a name exists. patch 5.1.11: "make test" didn't work in the shadow directory. Also adjusted "make shadow" for the links in the ctags directory. patch 5.1.12: "buf 123foo" used "123" as a count, instead as the start of a buffer name. patch 5.1.13: When completing file names on the command-line, reallocating the command-line may go wrong. patch 5.1.14: ":[nvci]unmenu" removed menu for all modes, when full menu patch specified. Graceful handling of NULLs in drag-dropped file list. Handle passing NULL to Fullname_save(). (Negri) Win32: ":!start" to invoke a program without opening a console, swapping screens, or waiting for completion in either console or gui version, e.g. you can type ":!start winfile". ALSO fixes "can't delete swapfile after spawning a shell" bug. (enhancement of Aaron patch) (Negri) Win32 GUI: Fix CTRL-X default keymapping to be more Windows-like. (Negri) Shorten filenames on startup. If in /foo/bar, entering "vim ../bar/bang.c" displays "bang.c" in status bar, not "/foo/bar/bang.c" (Negri) Win32 GUI: No copy to Windows clipboard when it's not desired. Win32s: Fix pasting from clipboard - made an assumption not valid under Win32s. (Negri) Win32 GUI: Speed up calls to gui_mch_draw_string() and cursor drawing functions. (Negri) Win32 GUI: Middle mouse button emulation now works in GUI! (Negri) Could skip messages when combining commands in one line, e.g.: ":echo "hello" | write". Perl interpreter was disabled before executing VimLeave autocommands. Could not use ":perl" in them. (Aaron) Included patch for the Intellimouse (Aaron/Robinson). Could not set 'ls' to one, when last window has only one line. (Mitterand) Fixed a memory leak when removing menus. After ":only" the ruler could overwrite a message. Dos32: removed changing of __system_flags. It appears to work better when it's left at the default value. p_aleph was an int instead of along, caused trouble on systems where sizeof(int) != sizeof(long). (Schmidt) Fixed enum problems for Ultrix. (Seibert) Small redraw problem: "dd" on last line in file cleared wrong line. Didn't interpret "cmd | endif" when "cmd" starts with a range. E.g. "if 0 | .d | endif". Command "+|" on the last line of the file caused ml_get errors. Memory underrun in eval_vars(). (Aaron) Don't rename files in a difficult way, except on Windows 95 (was also done on Windows NT). Win32 GUI: An external command that produces an error code put the error message in a dialog box. had to close the window and close the dialog. Now the error code is displayed in the console. (Negri) "comctl32.lib" was missing from the GUI libraries in Makefile.w32. (Battle) In Insert mode, when entering a window in Insert mode, allow the cursor to be one char beyond the text. Renamed machine dependent rename() to mch_rename(). Define mch_rename() to rename() when it works properly. Rename vim_chdir() to mch_chdir(), because it's machine dependent. When using an arglist, and editing file 5 of 4, ":q" could cause "-1 more files to edit" error. In if_python.c, VimCommand() caused an assertion when a do_cmdline() failed. Moved the Python_Release_Vim() to before the VimErrorCheck(). (Harkins) Give an error message for an unknown argument after "--". E.g. for "vim --xyz". The FileChangedShell autocommand didn't set <afile> to the name of the changed file. When doing ":e file", causing the attention message, there sometimes was no hit-enter prompt. Caused by empty line or "endif" at end of sourced file. A large number of patches for the VMS version. (Hunsaker) When CTRL-L completion (find longest match) results in a shorter string, no completion is done (happens with ":help"). Crash in Win32 GUI version, when using an Ex "@" command, because LinePointers[] was used while not initialized. Win32 GUI: allow mapping of Alt-Space. Output from "vim -h" was sent to stderr. Sending it to stdout is better, so one can use "vim -h | more". In command-line mode, ":vi[!]" should reload the file, just like ":e[!]". In Ex mode, ":vi" stops Ex mode, but doesn't reload the file. This is Vi compatible. When using a ":set ls=1" in the .gvimrc file, would get a status line for a single window. (Robinson) Didn't give an error message for ":set ai,xx". (Roemer) Didn't give an error message for ":set ai?xx", ":set ai&xx", ":set ai!xx". Non-Unix systems: That a file exists but is unreadable is recognized as "new file". Now check for existence when file can't be opened (like Unix). Unix: osdef.sh didn't handle declarations where the function name is at the first column of the line. DJGPP: Shortening of file names didn't work properly, because get_cwd() returned a path with backslashes. (Negri) When using a 'comments' part where a space is required after the middle part, always insert a space when starting a new line. Helps for C comments, below a line with "/****". Replacing path of home directory with "~/" could be wrong for file names with embedded spaces or commas. A few fixes for the Sniff interface. (Leherbauer) When asking to hit 'y' or 'n' (e.g. for ":3,1d"), using the mouse caused trouble. Same for ":s/x/y/c" prompt. With 'nowrap' and 'list', a Tab halfway on the screen was displayed as blanks, instead of the characters specified with 'listchars'. Also for other characters that take more than one screen character. When setting 'guifont' to an unknown font name, the previous font was lost and a default font would be used. (Steed) DOS: Filenames in the root directory didn't get shortened properly. (Negri) DJGPP: making a full path name out of a file name didn't work properly when there is no _fullpath() function. (Negri) Win32 console: ":sh" caused a crash. (Negri) Win32 console: Setting 'lines' and/or 'columns' in the _vimrc failed miserably (could hang Windows 95). (Negri) Win32: The change-drive function was not correct, went to the wrong drive. (Tsindlekht) GUI: When editing a command line in Ex mode, Tabs were sometimes not backspaced properly, and unprintable characters were displayed directly. non-GUI can still be wrong, because a system function is called for this. ":set" didn't stop after an error. For example ":set no ai" gave an error for "no", but still set "ai". Now ":set" stops after the first error. When running configure for ctags, $LDFLAGS wasn't passed to it, causing trouble for IRIX. "@%" and "@#" when file name not set gave an error message. Now they just return an empty string. (Steed) CTRL-X and CTRL-A didn't work correctly with negative hex and octal numbers. (Steed) ":echo" always started with a blank. Updating GUI cursor shape didn't always work (e.g., when blinking is off). In silent Ex mode ("ex -s" or "ex <file") ":s///p" didn't print a line. Also a few other commands that explicitly print a text line didn't work. Made this Vi compatible. Win32 version of _chdrive() didn't return correct value. (Tsindlekht) When using 't' in 'complete' option, no longer give an error message for a missing tags file. Unix: tgoto() can return NULL, which was not handled correctly in configure. When doing ":help" from a buffer where 'binary' is set, also edited the help file in binary mode. Caused extra ^Ms for DOS systems. Cursor position in a file was reset to 1 when closing a window. ":!ls" in Ex mode switched off echo. When doing a double click in window A, while currently in window B, first click would reset double click time, had to click three times to select a word. When using <F11> in mappings, ":mkexrc" produced an exrc file that can't be used in Vi compatible mode. Added setting of 'cpo' to avoid this. Also, add a CTRL-V in front of a '<', to avoid a normal string to be interpreted as a special key name. Gave confusing error message for ":set guifont=-*-lucida-*": first "font is not fixed width", then "Unknown font". Some options were still completely left out, instead of included as hidden options. While running the X11 GUI, ignore SIGHUP signals. Avoids a crash after executing an external command (in rare cases). In os_unixx.h, signal() was defined to sigset(), while it already was. Memory leak when executing autocommands (was reported as a memory leak in syntax highlighting). Didn't print source of error sometimes, because pointers were the same, although names were different. Avoid a number of UMR errors from Purify (third argument to open()). A swap file could still be created just after setting 'updatecount' to zero, when there is an empty buffer and doing ":e file". (Kutschera) Test 35 failed on 64 bit machines. (Schild) With "p" and "P" commands, redrawing was slow. Awk script for html documentation didn't work correctly with AIX awk. Replaced "[ ,.);\] ]" with "[] ,.); ]". (Briscoe) The makehtml.awk script had a small problem, causing extra lines to be inserted. (Briscoe) "gqgq" could not be repeated. Repeating for "gugu" and "gUgU" worked in a wrong way. Also made "gqq" work to be consistent with "guu". C indent was wrong after "case ':':". ":au BufReadPre *.c put": Line from put text was deleted, because the buffer was still assumed to be empty. Text pasted with the Edit/Paste menu was subject to 'textwidth' and 'autoindent'. That was inconsistent with using the mouse to paste. Now "*p is used. When using CTRL-W CTRL-] on a word that's not a tag, and then CTRL-] on a tag, window was split. ":ts" got stuck on a tags line that has two extra fields. In Insert mode, with 'showmode' on, <C-O><C-G> message was directly overwritten by mode message, if preceded with search command warning message. When putting the result of an expression with "=<expr>p, newlines were inserted like ^@ (NUL in the file). Now the string is split up in lines at the newline. putenv() was declared with "const char *" in pty.c, but with "char *" in osdef2.h.in. Made the last one also "const char *". ":help {word}", where +{word} is a feature, jumped to the feature list instead of where the command was explained. E.g., ":help browse", ":help autocmd". Using the "\<xx>" form in an expression only got one byte, even when using a special character that uses several bytes (e.g., "\<F9>"). Changed "\<BS>" to produce CTRL-H instead of the special key code for the backspace key. "\<Del>" produces 0x7f. ":mkvimrc" didn't write a command to set 'compatible' or 'nocompatible'. The shell syntax didn't contain a "syn sync maxlines" setting. In a long file without recognizable items, syncing took so long it looked like Vim hangs. Added a maxlines setting, and made syncing interruptible. The "gs" command didn't flush output before waiting. Memory leaks for: ":if 0 | let a = b . c | endif" "let a = b[c]" ":so {file}" where {file} contains a ":while" GUI: allocated fonts were never released. (Leonard) Makefile.bor: - Changed $(DEFINES) into a list of "-D" options, so that it can also be used for the resource compiler. (not tested!) - "bcc.cfg" was used for all configurations. When building for another configuration, the settings for the previous one would be used. Moved "bcc.cfg" to the object directory. (Geddes) - Included targets for vimrun, install, ctags and xxd. Changed the default to use the Borland DLL Runtime Library, makes Vim.exe a log smaller. (Aaron) "2*" search for the word under the cursor with "2" prepended. (Leonard) When deleting into a specific register, would still overwrite the non-Win32 GUI selection. Now ""x"*P works. When deleting into the "" register, would write to the last used register. Now ""x always writes to the unnamed register. GUI Athena: A submenu with a '.' in it didn't work. E.g., ":amenu Syntax.XY\.Z.foo lll". When first doing ":tag foo" and then ":tnext" and/or ":tselect" the order of matching tags could change, because the current file is different. Now the existing matches are kept in the same order, newly found matches are added after them, not matter what the current file is. ":ta" didn't find the second entry in a tags file, if the second entry was longer than the first one. When using ":set si tw=7" inserting "foo {^P}" made the "}" inserted at the wrong position. can_si was still TRUE when the cursor is not in the indent of the line. Running an external command in Win32 version had the problem that Vim exits when the X on the console is hit (and confirmed). Now use the "vimrun" command to start the external command indirectly. (Negri) Win32 GUI: When running an external filter, do it in a minimized DOS box. (Negri) ":let" listed variables without translation into printable characters. Win32 console: When resizing the window, switching back to the old size (when exiting or executing an external command) sometimes failed. (Negri) This appears to also fix a "non fixable" problem: Win32 console in NT 4.0: When running Vim in a cmd window with a scrollbar, the scrollbar disappeared and was not restored when Vim exits. This does work under NT 3.51, it appears not to be a Vim problem. When executing BufDelete and BufUnload autocommands for a buffer without a name, the name of the current buffer was used for <afile>. When jumping to a tag it reported "tag 1 of >2", while in fact there could be only two matches. Changed to "tag 1 of 2 or more". ":tjump tag" did a linear search in the tags file, which can be slow. Configure didn't find "LibXm.so.2.0", a Xm library with a version number. Win32 GUI: When using a shifted key with ALT, the shift modifier would remain set, even when it was already used by changing the used key. E.g., "<M-S-9>" resulted in "<M-S-(>", but it should be "<M-(>". (Negri) A call to ga_init() was often followed by setting growsize and itemsize. Created ga_init2() for this, which looks better. (Aaron) Function filereadable() could call fopen() with an empty string, which might be illegal. X Windows GUI: When executing an external command that outputs text, could write one character beyond the end of a buffer, which caused a crash. (Kohan) When using "*" or "#" on a string that includes '/' or '?' (when these are included in 'isk'), they were not escaped. (Parmelan) When adding a ToolBar menu in the Motif GUI, the submenu_id field was not cleared, causing random problems. When adding a menu, the check if this menu (or submenu) name already exists didn't compare with the simplified version (no mnemonic or accelerator) of the new menu. Could get two menus with the same name, e.g., "File" and "&File". Breaking a line because of 'textwidth' at the last line in the window caused a redraw of the whole window instead of a scroll. Speeds up normal typing with 'textwidth' a lot for slow terminals. An invalid line number produced an "invalid range" error, even when it wasn't to be executed (inside "if 0"). When the unnamed, first buffer is re-used, the "BufDelete" autocommand was not called. It would stick in a buffer list menu. When doing "%" on the NUL after the line, a "{" or "}" in the last character of the line was not found. The Insert mode menu was not used for the "s" command, the Operator-pending menu was used instead. With 'compatible' set, some syntax highlighting was not correct, because of using "[\t]" for a search pattern. Now use the regexps for syntax highlighting like the 'cpoptions' option is empty (as was documented already). When using "map <M-Space> ms" or "map <Space> sss" the output of ":map" didn't show any lhs for the mapping (if 'isprint' includes 160). Now always use <Space> and <M-Space>, even when they are printable. Adjusted the Syntax menu, so that the lowest entry fits on a small screen (for Athena, where menus don't wrap). When using CTRL-E or CTRL-Y in Insert mode for characters like 'o', 'x' and digits, repeating the insert didn't work. The file "tools/ccfilter.README.txt" could not be unpacked when using short file names, because of the two dots. Renamed it to "tools/ccfilter_README.txt". For a dark 'background', using Blue for Directory and SpecialKey highlight groups is not very readable. Use Cyan instead. In the function uc_scan_attr() in ex_docmd.c there was a goto that jumped into a block with a local variable. That's illegal for some compilers. Win32 GUI: There was a row of pixels at the bottom of the window which was not drawn. (Aaron) Under DOS, editing "filename/" created a swap file of "filename/.swp". Should be "filename/_swp". Win32 GUI: pointer was hidden when executing an external command. When 'so' is 999, "J" near the end of the file didn't redisplay correctly. ":0a" inserted after the first line, instead of before the first line. Unix: Wildcard expansion didn't handle single quotes and {} patterns. Now ":file 'window.c'"' removes the quotes and ":e 'main*.c'"' works (literal '*'). ":file {o}{n}{e}" now results in file name "one". Memory leak when setting a string option back to its default value.
VERSION 5.3 *version-5.3* Version 5.3 was a bug-fix version of 5.2. There are not many changes. Improvements made between version 5.2 and 5.3: Changed *changed-5.3* Renamed "IDE" menu to "Tools" menu. Added *added-5.3* Win32 GUI: Give a warning when Vim is activated, and one of the files changed since editing started. (Negri) Fixed *fixed-5.3* 5.2.1: Win32 GUI: space for external command was not properly allocated, could cause a crash. (Aaron) This was the reason to bring out 5.3 quickly after 5.2. 5.2.2: Some commands didn't complain when used without an argument, although they need one: ":badd", ":browse", ":call", ":confirm", ":behave", ":delfunction", ":delcommand" and ":tearoff". ":endfunction" outside of a function gave wrong error message: "Command not implemented". Should be ":endfunction not inside a function". 5.2.3: Win32 GUI: When gvim was installed in "Program files", or another path with a space in it, executing external commands with vimrun didn't work. 5.2.4: Pasting with the mouse in Insert mode left the cursor on the last pasted character, instead of behind it. 5.2.5: In Insert mode, cursor after the end of the line, a shift-cursor-left didn't include the last character in the selection. 5.2.6: When deleting text from Insert mode (with "<C-O>D" or the mouse), which includes the last character in the line, the cursor could be left on the last character in the line, instead of just after it. 5.2.7: Win32 GUI: scrollbar was one pixel too big. 5.2.8: Completion of "PopUp" menu showed the derivatives "PopUpc", "PopUPi", etc. ":menu" also showed these. 5.2.9: When using two input() functions on a row, the prompt would not be drawn in column 0. 5.2.10: A loop with input() could not be broken with CTRL-C. 5.2.11: ":call asdf" and ":call asdf(" didn't give an error message. 5.2.12: Recursively using ":normal" crashes Vim after a while. E.g.: ":map gq :normal gq<CR>" 5.2.13: Syntax highlighting used 'iskeyword' from wrong buffer. When using ":help", then "/\k*" in another window with 'hlsearch' set. 5.2.14: When using ":source" from a function, global variables would not be available unless "g:" was used. 5.2.15: XPM files can have the extension ".pm", which is the same as for Perl modules. Added "syntax/pmfile.vim" to handle this. 5.2.16: On Win32 and Amiga, "echo expand("%:p:h")" removed one dirname in an empty buffer. mch_Fullname() didn't append a slash at the end of a directory name. Should include the character under the cursor in the Visual area when using 'selection' "exclusive". This wasn't done for "%", "e", "E", "t" and "f". ""p would always put register 0, instead of the unnamed (last used) register. Reverse the change that ""x doesn't write in the unnamed (last used) register. It would always write in register 0, which isn't very useful. Use "-x for the paste mappings in Visual mode. When there is one long line on the screen, and 'showcmd' is off, "0$" didn't redraw the screen. Win32 GUI: When using 'mousehide', the pointer would flicker when the cursor shape is changed. (Negri) When cancelling Visual mode, and the cursor moves to the start, the wanted column wasn't set, "k" or "j" moved to the wrong column. When using ":browse" or ":confirm", was checking for a comment and separating bar, which can break some commands. Included fixes for Macintosh. (Kielhorn)