1*version7.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jun 30 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 79 80Options: ~ 81 82 83Ex commands: ~ 84 85Win32: The ":winpos" command now also works in the console. (Vipin Aravind) 86 87 88New functions: ~ 89 90 91New autocommand events: ~ 92 93InsertEnter starting Insert or Replace mode 94InsertChange going from Insert to Replace mode or back 95InsertLeave leaving Insert or Replace mode 96 97 98New Syntax files: ~ 99 100Others: ~ 101 102Mac: Add the selection type to the clipboard, so that Block, line and 103character selections can be used between two Vims. (Eckehard Berns) 104Also fixes the problem that setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" breaks using 105"yyp". 106 107The netrw plugin now also supports viewing a directory, when "scp://" is used. 108Deleting and renaming files is possible. (Charles Campbell) 109 110============================================================================== 111IMPROVEMENTS *improvements-7* 112 113":helpgrep" accepts a language specifier after the pattern: "pat@it". 114 115":breakadd here" and ":breakdel here" can be used to set or delete a 116breakpoint at the cursor. 117 118The tutor was updated to make it simpler to use and added text to explain a 119few more important commands. Used ideas from Gabriel Zachmann. 120 121============================================================================== 122COMPILE TIME CHANGES *compile-changes-7* 123 124 125============================================================================== 126BUG FIXES *bug-fixes-7* 127 128When using PostScript printing on MS-DOS the default 'printexpr' used "lpr" 129instead of "copy". When 'printdevice' was empty the copy command did not 130work. Use "LPT1" then. 131 132The GTK font dialog uses a font size zero when the font name doesn't include a 133size. Use a default size of 10. 134 135This example in the documentation didn't work: 136 :e `=foo . ".c" ` 137Skip over the expression in `=expr` when looking for comments, |, % and #. 138 139When ":helpgrep" doesn't find anything there is no error message. 140 141"L" and "H" did not take closed folds into account. 142 143Win32: The "-P title" argument stopped at the first title that matched, even 144when it doesn't support MDI. 145 146Mac GUI: CTRL-^ and CTRL-@ did not work. 147 148"2daw" on "word." at the end of a line didn't include the preceding white 149space. 150 151Win32: Using FindExecutable() doesn't work to find a program. Use 152SearchPath() instead. For executable() use $PATHEXT when the program searched 153for doesn't have an extension. 154 155When 'virtualedit' is set, moving the cursor up after appending a character 156may move it to a different column. Was caused by auto-formatting moving the 157cursor and not putting it back where it was. 158 159When indent was added automatically and then moving the cursor, the indent was 160not deleted (like when pressing ESC). The "I" flag in 'cpoptions' can be used 161to make it work the old way. 162 163When <Space> is mapped to something that starts with a space, typing <Space> 164does not expand abbreviations. Only disable expanding abbreviations when a 165mapping is not remapped, not when the RHS starts with the LHS. 166 167When opening a command-line window, 'textwidth' gets set to 78 by the Vim 168filetype plugin. Reset 'textwidth' to 0 to avoid lines are broken. 169 170After using cursor(line, col) moving up/down doesn't keep the same column. 171 172Win32: Borland C before 5.5 requires using ".u." for LowPart and HighPart 173fields. (Walter Briscoe) 174 175On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't always defined. Define it ourselves. (Cristiano De 176Michele) 177 178 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 179