1*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jul 16 2 3 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar 5 6 7Welcome to Vim 7! A large number of features has been added. This file 8mentions all the new items, changes to existing features and bug fixes 9compared to Vim 6.x. 10 11See |vi_diff.txt| for an overview of differences between Vi and Vim 7.0. 12See |version4.txt| for differences between Vim 3.x and Vim 4.x. 13See |version5.txt| for differences between Vim 4.x and Vim 5.x. 14See |version6.txt| for differences between Vim 5.x and Vim 6.x. 15 16INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES |incompatible-7| 17 18NEW FEATURES |new-7| 19 20New data types |new-data-types| 21KDE support |new-KDE| 22Various new items |new-items-7| 23 24IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7| 25 26COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7| 27 28BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7| 29 30============================================================================== 31INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7* 32 33These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you 34run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0 35 36":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match. 37 38 39Minor incompatibilities: 40 41For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use 42*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files. 43 44":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one. 45 46Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code. 47 48Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was 49confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile". 50 51============================================================================== 52NEW FEATURES *new-7* 53 54New data types *new-data-types* 55-------------- 56 57In Vim scripts the following types have been added: 58 59 list ordered list of items 60 dictionary associative array of items 61 function reference to a function 62 63Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types. 64 65NOT IMPLEMENTED YET! 66 67 68KDE support *new-KDE* 69----------- 70 71Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|. 72(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.) 73 74 75MzScheme interface *new-MzScheme* 76------------------ 77 78The MzScheme interpreter is supported. |MzScheme| 79The |:mzscheme| command can be used to execute MzScheme commands. 80The |:mzfile| command can be used to execute an MzScheme script file. 81 82Printing multi-byte text *new-print-multi-byte* 83------------------ 84 85The |:hardcopy| command now supports printing multi-byte characters. 86The 'printmbcharset' and 'printmbfont' options are used for this. 87Also see |postscript-cjk-printing|. (Mike Williams) 88 89 90Various new items *new-items-7* 91----------------- 92 93Normal mode commands: ~ 94 95a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'| 96i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka) 97 98Options: ~ 99 100'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert 101 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert 102 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka) 103'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string. 104 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'| 105'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number' 106 option. (Emmanuel Renieris) 107'mzquantum' Time in msec to schedule MzScheme threads. 108'printmbcharset' CJK character set to be used for :hardcopy 109'printmbfont' font names to be used for CJK output of :hardcopy 110 111 112Ex commands: ~ 113 114Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind) 115 116|:startreplace| Start Replace mode. (Charles Campbell) 117 118|:0file| Removes the name of the buffer. (Charles Campbell) 119 120|:diffoff| Switch off diff mode in the current window or in all 121 windows. 122 123 124New functions: ~ 125 126tr(expr, from, to) |tr()| Translate characters. (Ron Aaron) 127 128 129New autocommand events: ~ 130 131|InsertEnter| starting Insert or Replace mode 132|InsertChange| going from Insert to Replace mode or back 133|InsertLeave| leaving Insert or Replace mode 134 135|ColorScheme| after loading a color scheme 136 137 138New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~ 139 140MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia) 141 142 143Others: ~ 144 145Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and 146character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns) 147Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using 148"yyp". 149 150Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka) 151 152The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used. 153Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell) 154 155============================================================================== 156IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7* 157 158":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it". 159 160Move the help for printing to a separate help file. It's quite a lot now. 161 162":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a 163breakpoint at the cursor. 164 165The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a 166few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann. 167 168Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display 169it. (Johannes Zellner) 170 171Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet) 172 173Added the "acwrite" value for the 'buftype' option. This is for a buffer that 174doesn not have a name that refers to a file and is written with BufWriteCmd 175autocommands. 176 177For lisp indenting and matching parenthesis: (Sergey Khorev) 178- square brackets are recognized properly 179- #\(, #\), #\[ and #\] are recognized as character literals 180- Lisp line comments (delimited by semicolon) are recognized 181 182============================================================================== 183COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7* 184 185 186============================================================================== 187BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7* 188 189When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr" 190instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not 191work. Use "LPT1" then. 192 193The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a 194size. Use a default size of 10. 195 196This example in the documentation didn't work: 197 :e `=foo . ".c" ` 198Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #. 199 200When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message. 201 202"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account. 203 204Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even 205when it doesn't support MDI. 206 207Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work. 208 209"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white 210space. 211 212Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use 213SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched 214for doesn't have an extension. 215 216When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character 217may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the 218cursor and not putting it back where it was. 219 220When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was 221not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used 222to make it work the old way. 223 224When <Space> is mapped to something that starts with a space, typing <Space> 225does not expand abbreviations. Only disable expanding abbreviations when a 226mapping is not remapped, not when the RHS starts with the LHS. 227 228When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim 229filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken. 230 231After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column. 232 233Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart 234fields. (Walter Briscoe) 235 236On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De 237Michele) 238 239Printing with PostScript may keep the printer waiting for more. Append a 240CTRL-D to the printer output. (Mike Williams) 241 242When converting a string with a hex or octal number the leading '-' was 243ignored. ":echo '-05' + 0" resulted in 5 instead of -5. 244 245Using "@:" to repeat a command line didn't work when it contains control 246characters. 247 248When using file completion for a user command, it would not expand environment 249variables like for a regular command with a file argument. 250 251'cindent': When the argument of a #define looks like a C++ class the next line 252is indented too much. 253 254When 'comments' includes multi-byte characters inserting the middle part and 255alignment may go wrong. 'cindent' also suffers from this for right-aligned 256items. 257 258 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 259