1*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jul 03 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| 21Various new items |new-items-7| 22 23IMPROVEMENTS |improvements-7| 24 25COMPILE TIME CHANGES |compile-changes-7| 26 27BUG FIXES |bug-fixes-7| 28 29============================================================================== 30INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES *incompatible-7* 31 32These changes are incompatible with previous releases. Check this list if you 33run into a problem when upgrading from Vim 6.x to 7.0 34 35":helpgrep" now uses a help window to display a match. 36 37 38Minor incompatibilities: 39 40For filetype detection: For many types, instead of ~/.dir/filename use 41*/.dir/filename, so that it also works for other user's files. 42 43":0verbose" now sets 'verbose' to zero instead of one. 44 45Removed the old and incomplete "VimBuddy" code. 46 47Buffers without a name report "No Name" instead of "No File". It was 48confusing for buffers with a name and 'buftype' set to "nofile". 49 50============================================================================== 51NEW FEATURES *new-7* 52 53New data types *new-data-types* 54-------------- 55 56In Vim scripts the following types have been added: 57 58 list ordered list of items 59 dictionary associative array of items 60 function reference to a function 61 62Many functions and commands have been added to support the new types. 63 64NOT IMPLEMENTED YET! 65 66 67KDE support *new-kde* 68----------- 69 70Kvim is the KDE version of Vim. It uses the Qt toolkit. See |KVim|. 71(Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, Mickael Marchand, Mark Westcott, et al.) 72 73 74Various new items *new-items-7* 75----------------- 76 77Normal mode commands: ~ 78 79a", a' and a` New text objects to select quoted strings. |a'| 80i", i' and i' (Taro Muraoka) 81 82Options: ~ 83 84'completefunc' The name of a function used for user-specified Insert 85 mode completion. CTRL-X CTRL-U can be used in Insert 86 mode to do any kind of completion. (Taro Muraoka) 87'quoteescape' Characters used to escape quotes inside a string. 88 Used for the a", a' and a` text objects. |a'| 89'numberwidth' Minimal width of the space used for the 'number' 90 option. (Emmanuel Renieris) 91 92Ex commands: ~ 93 94Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind) 95 96 97New functions: ~ 98 99 100New autocommand events: ~ 101 102InsertEnter starting Insert or Replace mode 103InsertChange going from Insert to Replace mode or back 104InsertLeave leaving Insert or Replace mode 105 106ColorScheme after loading a color scheme 107 108 109New Syntax/Indent/FTplugin files: ~ 110 111MuPAD source syntax, indent and ftplugin. (Dave Silvia) 112 113 114Others: ~ 115 116Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and 117character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns) 118Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using 119"yyp". 120 121Mac: GUI font selector. (Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka) 122 123The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used. 124Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell) 125 126============================================================================== 127IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7* 128 129":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it". 130 131":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a 132breakpoint at the cursor. 133 134The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a 135few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann. 136 137Unix: When libcall() fails obtain an error message with dlerror() and display 138it. (Johannes Zellner) 139 140Added "nbsp" in 'listchars'. (David Blanchet) 141 142============================================================================== 143COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7* 144 145 146============================================================================== 147BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7* 148 149When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr" 150instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not 151work. Use "LPT1" then. 152 153The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a 154size. Use a default size of 10. 155 156This example in the documentation didn't work: 157 :e `=foo . ".c" ` 158Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #. 159 160When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message. 161 162"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account. 163 164Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even 165when it doesn't support MDI. 166 167Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work. 168 169"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white 170space. 171 172Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use 173SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched 174for doesn't have an extension. 175 176When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character 177may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the 178cursor and not putting it back where it was. 179 180When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was 181not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used 182to make it work the old way. 183 184When <Space> is mapped to something that starts with a space, typing <Space> 185does not expand abbreviations. Only disable expanding abbreviations when a 186mapping is not remapped, not when the RHS starts with the LHS. 187 188When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim 189filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken. 190 191After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column. 192 193Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart 194fields. (Walter Briscoe) 195 196On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De 197Michele) 198 199 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 200