Changes:
7.3.654 creating Vim dictionary from Python an empty key might be used
7.3.655 64 bit MingW xpm .a file is missing
7.3.656 internal error in :pyeval
7.3.657 Python bindings silently truncate string values containing NUL
7.3.658 NUL bytes truncate strings when converted from Python
7.3.659 recent Python changes are not tested
7.3.660 ":help !" jumps to help for ":!"
7.3.661 (after 7.3.652) SEGV in Python code
7.3.662 can't build Ruby interface with Ruby 1.9.3
7.3.663 end of color scheme name not clear in E185
7.3.664 buffer overflow in unescaping multi-byte characters
7.3.665 MSVC 11 is not supported
7.3.666 Win32.mak can't be found
7.3.667 unused variables in Perl interface
7.3.668 loading Perl dynamically still uses static library
7.3.669 when building with Cygwin loading Python dynamically fails
7.3.670 tiny memory leak when throwing exception in Python
7.3.671 more Python code can be shared between Python 2 and 3
7.3.672 not possible to lock/unlock lists in Python interface
7.3.673 "gN" while 'selection' is "exclusive" misses one character
7.3.674 can't compile with Lua/dyn on Cygwin
7.3.675 accessing uninitialized memory with a very long file name
7.3.676 Ruby compilation on Windows 32 bit doesn't work
7.3.677 buf_spname() is used inconsistently
7.3.678 Ruby .so name may not be correct
7.3.679 Ruby detection uses Config, newer Ruby versions use RbConfig
7.3.680 some files missing in the list of distributed files
7.3.681 list of distributed files picks up backup files
7.3.682 (after 7.3.677) compiler complains about incompatible types
7.3.683 ":python" may crash when vimbindeval() returns None
7.3.684 "make test" does not delete lua.vim
7.3.685 no test for what patch 7.3.673 fixes
7.3.686 cannot use CTRL-\ e mapping when entering an expression
7.3.687 test 16 fails when $DISPLAY is not set
7.3.688 Python 3.3 is not supported
7.3.689 MzScheme and Lua may use a NULL string
7.3.690 crash with directory name equal to maximum path length
7.3.691 state specific to the Python thread is discarded
7.3.692 can't build GTK version with GTK 2.0
7.3.693 can't make 'softtabstop' follow 'shiftwidth'
7.3.694 'shiftwidth' is not so easy to use in indent files
7.3.695 balloon cannot show multi-byte text
7.3.696 message about added spell language can be wrong
7.3.697 leaking resources when setting GUI font
7.3.698 Python 3 does not preserve state beween commands
7.3.699 manually set 'ttymouse' is overruled by automatic detection
7.3.700 cannot detect URXVT and SGR mouse support
7.3.701 MS-Windows: Crash with stack overflow when setting 'encoding'
7.3.702 nmake from VS6 service pack 6 is not recognized
7.3.703 when 'undofile' is reset the hash is computed unnecessarily
7.3.704 repeating "cgn" does not always work correctly
7.3.705 mouse features are not in alphabetical order
7.3.706 (after 7.3.697) can't build Motif version
7.3.707 (after 7.3.701) library name with non-latin characters fails
7.3.708 filler lines above the first line may be hidden
7.3.709 compiler warning for unused argument
7.3.710 (after 7.3.704) "fn" is broken
7.3.711 (after 7.3.688) vim.current.buffer is not available
7.3.712 nmake from VS2010 SP1 is not recognized
pkgsrc changes:
- take maintainership of package
- switch to single tarball, created from vim's hg, instead of downloading > 700 files
- which resulted in changes in PLIST in vim-share
- some minor changes to DESCR files (add more vim guis)
- reset PKGREVISION on vim-gtk2
- add new files to vim-lang
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
This is a minor release of Vim. In the 15 months since Vim 7.1 many
bugs were fixed and runtime files have been added and updated. There
are also security improvements, therefore it's a good idea to upgrade.
The main new feature since 7.1 is floating point support. You can use
it in the Vim script language to add up a list of amounts, for example.
Once you have installed Vim 7.2 you can find details about the changes
since Vim 7.1 with ":help version-7.2".
1529 7.1.003 (extra) Win32: menu entries end up in message history
2481 7.1.004 crash when editing a directory
3841 7.1.005 "cit" used on <foo></foo> deletes <foo>
2941 7.1.006 when reading from stdin 'modified' can't be reset in autocmd
6458 7.1.007 (extra) Mac: context menu does not work, scrollbars not dimmed
2631 7.1.008 getfsize() returns an invalid number for very big files
1881 7.1.009 diff mode: tab to spaces change not highlighted correctly
2796 7.1.010 Gnome: tab pages are not included in the saved session
1934 7.1.011 buffer overflow when $VIMRUNTIME is very long
1904 7.1.012 ":let &tw = 'asdf'" does not give an error message
2139 7.1.013 ":syn include" only loads the first file
1479 7.1.014 crash in C-indenting
3743 7.1.015 MzScheme interface doesn't build on Mac; init problem
2368 7.1.016 (after 7.1.012) error message when using ":cwindow"
6729 7.1.017 ":confirm w" does not give a prompt when file is read-only
1771 7.1.018 "p" at end of line doesn't work right when 've' is set
This fixes the vim-motif build.
* Update to 7.0.39
3990 7.0.036 can't compile with small features and syntax HL
1880 7.0.037 crash when resizing Vim window when a line doesn't fit
3236 7.0.038 complete() can be used from expr. mapping after inserting text
3240 7.0.039 third argument for inputdialog() doesn't work in the console
SIZE NAME FIXES
1627 7.0.001 'spellsuggest' could not be added to
2007 7.0.002 C omni complete has problem with % and # in tags file path
1876 7.0.003 GUI: click in tab pages label may warp mouse pointer
1596 7.0.004 Compiler warning for debug_saved used before set
1579 7.0.005 (extra) Win32: uninstall didn't delete spell and autoload dirs
1347 7.0.006 Mac: "make shadow" didn't link infplist.xml
1919 7.0.007 AIX: compiling failed for message.c
2081 7.0.008 Can't call a function that uses both <SID> and {expr}
1625 7.0.009 ml_get errors when 'spell' is set
3705 7.0.010 spellfile plugin required typing login name and password
1989 7.0.011 can't compile with eval feature without folding feature
2532 7.0.012 matchparen plugin changed cursor column in Insert mode
4614 7.0.013 Insert mode completion: CTRL-L jumped back to original text
5712 7.0.014 Motif: doesn't compile with Motif 1.2 and earlier
4485 7.0.015 Athena: type casts for lvalues
1810 7.0.016 recognize encodings "mac-roman", "dec-mcs" and "hp-roman8"
2302 7.0.017 (after 7.0.014) Motif: doesn't link with Motif 1.2 and earlier
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".
This is a bugfix release of Vim. Since Vim 6.3 dozens of reported
problems have been fixed. Also included are new and updated syntax
files, translated menus and messages.
There are no new features. This release is only fixing bugs.
