The most notable additions since 7.2:
- Persistent undo and undo for reload
- Blowfish encryption, encryption of the swap file
- Conceal text
- Lua interface
- Python 3 interface
Once you have installed Vim 7.3 you can find all the details about the
changes since Vim 7.2 with:
:help version-7.3
4691 7.1.162 crash when using a modifier before "while" or "for"
2367 7.1.163 warning for the unknown option 'bufsecret'
1576 7.1.164 reading past end of regexp pattern
5538 7.1.165 crash related to getting X window ID
2134 7.1.166 memory leak when using "gp" in Visual mode
2528 7.1.167 xxd crashes when using "xxd -b -c 110"
2989 7.1.168 (extra) Win32 GUI: when no focus click doesn't position cursor
1926 7.1.169 using uninitialized memory when system() fails
1722 7.1.170 overlapping arguments to strcpy()
2324 7.1.171 reading one byte before allocated memory.
1536 7.1.172 if 'buftype' is "acwrite" Vim still does overwrite check
1928 7.1.173 accessing freed memory when using "\%^" pattern
2197 7.1.174 writing NUL past end of a buffer
4722 7.1.175 <BS> doesn't work with some combination of option settings
4306 7.0.163 can't get the position of a sign over the netbeans interface
1518 7.0.164 ":redir @+" doesn't work
2284 7.0.165 using CTRL-L to add to a search pattern fails for some chars
1865 7.0.166 crash with cscope when a file descriptor is NULL
1942 7.0.167 can't redefine a function in a dictionary
2224 7.0.168 reading uninitialized memory and a memory leak in recovery
be embedded in the installed share/vim/vim70/tools/efm_perl.pl script;
make this script interpreter be '${SETENV} perl' hence avoiding a run-time
package dependency on perl.
Approved by MAINTAINER.
Since Vim 6.4 many new features have been added. To mention a few:
- Spell checking support for about 50 languages
- Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
- 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 cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
- Translated manual pages support.
- Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
- Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
- Printing multi-byte text
Once you have installed Vim 7.0 you can find details about the changes
since Vim 6.4 with ":help version7".
1745 6.3.075 syntax highlighting wrong after unloading another buffer
3546 6.3.076 crash when using Cscope interface with very long result
1853 6.3.079 crash after executing a command in the command-line window
2083 6.3.072 crash for substitute message when using UTF-8 and Chinese
2017 6.3.073 Win32 GUI: display errors when scrolling up/down
2365 6.3.074 with 'insertmode' CTRL-V after Select mode doesn't work
bin/vi, bin/ex and bin/view. Bump their PKGREVISIONs.
vim-kde is an exception because it currently installs programs with these
names. So, as it's currently marked as vulnerable and as I don't have KDE
installed ATM, I'm marking it as conflicting.
This is a bugfix release of Vim. Since Vim 6.2 hundreds of reported
problems have been fixed. Also included are new and updated syntax
files, translated menus and messages.
This is a bugfix release of Vim. Since Vim 6.1 hundreds of reported
problems have been fixed. Also included are new and updated syntax
files, translated menus and messages.
The main new features are:
- Support for GTK 2. (Daniel Elstner)
- Support for editing Arabic text. (Nadim Shaikli & Isam Bayazidi)
- ":try" command and exception handling. (Servatius Brandt)
- Support for the neXtaw GUI toolkit (mostly like Athena). (Alexey Froloff)
- Support for PostScript printing in various 8-bit encodings. (Mike Williams)
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The number of changes is huge. These are just the main new items:
Folding - momentarily hide part of the text
Vertically split windows - mixed with horizontal splits
Diff mode - show and remove differences between files
Easy Vim: click-and-type - for those who really don't like two modes
User manual - learn to use Vim, reads like a book
Flexible indenting - automatic indenting for any language
Extended search patterns - more regexp power than you will need
UTF-8 support - Unicode allows editing nearly all languages
Multi-language support - translated messages and menus
Plugin support - drop a script in a directory and you can use it
Filetype plugins - an easy way to setup for editing a type of file
File browser - browse directories, also on a terminal
Editing files over a network - read and write a remote file directly
command-line editing window - use any Vim command to edit an Ex command
Debugging mode - debug your Vim functions and scripts
Cursor in virtual position - edit tables and draw ASCII pictures
Debugger interface - use Vim with Sun Visual Workshop
Communication between Vims - let one Vim tell another Vim what to do
Printing - print with syntax colors
Quickfix extended - see error messages in a window and jump there
Writing files improved - rename or copy to make a backup file
Argument list - select groups of files to work on
Restore a View - save the looks of a window and restore it later
Color schemes - quickly switch between different color setups
