Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0g BETA
This is the last BETA release of Vim 7 (hopefully). The last few days there have been too many changes to do a release. This is the last chance to report problems. It would be very disappointing to discover a problem just after sending out the final release! Since the fifth BETA release there are mostly bug fixes. Here is a summary: - For Motif and GTK tooltips were added to the tab page labels, so that you can see the full path. - Help files with a non-utf-8 byte reported an illegal byte when 'encoding' is "utf-8". - Restricted what the expression for ":map <expr>" can do to avoid unpredictable problems. - Prevent that CTRL-R = in Insert mode can start Visual mode. - Typing a multi-byte character or a special key at the hit-enter prompt did not work (old problem). - 'formatexpr' could not work properly without knowing what character is going to be inserted. Added the v:char variable. - With 8 colors Search highlighting could make text disappear. - Allow "all" to appear together with other values in 'eventignore'. - Win32: Dropping a shortcut on the Vim icon edited the shortcut instead of the file it refers to (old problem). - In Insert mode the matchparen plugin highlighted the wrong paren when there is a string just next to a paren. The coming days I will only fix serious problems, to avoid that changes introduce new bugs. Since Vim 6.4 many new features have been added. To mention a few: - Spell checking support for about 50 languages - Intelligent completion: Omni completion - Tab pages, each containing multiple windows - Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again - Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python) - Vim script profiling - Improved Unicode support - Highlighting of matching parens, cursor line and cursor column - Translated manual pages support. - Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files - Browsing of remote directories, zip and tar archives - Printing multi-byte text Once you have installed Vim 7.0g BETA you can find details about the changes since Vim 6.4 with ":help version7". The changes since version 7.0f are at the end. Testing ------- This is a BETA test version. Please give it a good test and report anything that isn't right. That includes a crash but also a typo in the documentation. I will not make an Amiga or OS/2 binary for Vim 7. A Mac version should be available soon on http://macvim.org/ Where to get it --------------- Information about which files to download for what system: http://www.vim.org/download.php All files can be found below this directory: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unstable/ A list of mirror sites can be found here: http://www.vim.org/mirrors.php Vim 7.0g is also available (after a few hours) from Subversion, CVS and with Aap: http://www.vim.org/develop.php An overview of the files: UNIX: unix/vim-7.0g.tar.bz2 sources + runtime files, bzip2 compressed VARIOUS: extra/vim-7.0g-extra.tar.gz extra (non-Unix) files extra/vim-7.0g-lang.tar.gz multi-language files doc/vim70ghtml.zip help files converted to HTML MS-WINDOWS: pc/gvim70g.exe self-installing, includes all runtime files pc/vim70grt.zip runtime files pc/vim70glang.zip files for translated messages and menus pc/gvim70g.zip GUI binary for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP pc/gvim70gole.zip GUI binary with OLE support pc/gvim70g_s.zip GUI binary for Windows 3.1 (untested) pc/vim70gd16.zip 16 bit console version for MS-DOS pc/vim70gd32.zip console version for MS-DOS/Windows 95/98 pc/vim70gw32.zip console version for Windows NT/2000/XP pc/vim70gsrc.zip sources for PC (with CR-LF) DIFFS TO PREVIOUS BETA: unix/vim-7.0f-7.0g.diff.gz sources + runtime files extra/vim-7.0f-7.0g-extra.diff.gz extra files extra/vim-7.0f-7.0g-lang.diff.gz multi-language files Mailing lists ------------- For user questions you can turn to the Vim mailing list. There are a lot of tips, scripts and solutions. You can ask your Vim questions, but only if you subscribe. See http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim If you want to help Vim development or get the latest patches, subscribe to the vim-dev mailing list. See http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-dev Subject specific lists: Multi-byte issues: http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-multibyte Macintosh issues: http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-mac Before you ask a question you should search the archives, someone may already have given the answer. Reporting bugs -------------- Send them to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please describe the problem precisely. All the time spent on answering mail is subtracted from the time that is spent on improving Vim! Always give a reproducible example and try to find out which settings or other things influence the appearance of the bug. Try starting without your own vimrc file: "vim -u NONE". Try different machines if possible. See ":help bugs" in Vim. Send me a patch if you can! If something needs discussing with other developers, send a message to the vim-dev mailing list. You need to subscribe first. Happy Vimming! -- (letter from Mark to Mike, about the film's probable certificate) For an 'A' we would have to: Lose as many shits as possible; Take Jesus Christ out, if possible; Loose "I fart in your general direction"; Lose "the oral sex"; Lose "oh, fuck off"; Lose "We make castanets out of your testicles" "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///
