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".
Add CHECK_INTERPRETER_SKIP for pkg/38710
Apply the following patches:
1480 7.1.316 when 'cscopetag' is set ":tag" gives an error message
5203 7.1.317 compiler warnings in Motif calls
5428 7.1.318 mem leak when closing xsmp conn.; crash on exit with Lesstif
1514 7.1.319 illegal memory access when pasting illegal utf-8 on cmd line
28763 7.1.320 Win64: Warnings while compiling Python interface
2603 7.1.321 (extra) Win32 / Win64: Install file is outdated
2677 7.1.322 can't get start of Visual area in an <expr> mapping
1734 7.1.323 test 19 and 38 fail with some termcaps
1847 7.1.324 file name path length on Unix is limited to 1024
3559 7.1.325 editing a command line that doesn't fit reverses char order
1641 7.1.326 ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't work, it sees the "!" as a flag
5454 7.1.327 gvimtutor is also installed when not building a GUI version
1859 7.1.328 crash when using Cygwin and non-posix path name in tags file
2172 7.1.329 right halve of double-wide char under popup menu not redrawn
1905 7.1.330 reading uninitialized memory when using Del in replace mode
command line or not -- we want to do what the user specifies via
the pkgsrc PREFER_* settings.
+ Drop dependency on ncurses -- vim only wants a termcap library.
This should fix PR pkg/38110.
+ Add missing dependency on gettext-lib as one of the "normal" feature
sets is to build with gettext and multi-language support.
Bump the PKGREVISION of vim editor packages to 1.
2943 7.1.176 compiling with Aap fails if "compiledby" contains '<' or '>'
5450 7.1.177 freeing memory twice when in debug mode while reading a script
1567 7.1.178 "%" doesn't work on "/* comment *//* comment */"
6581 7.1.179 configure doesn't find TCL 8.5
7099 7.1.180 regexp patterns are not sufficiently tested
1878 7.1.181 accessing uninitialized memory in Farsi mode with ":s"
5457 7.1.182 with tab pages and an argument list session file may be wrong
2489 7.1.183 Internal error for ":echo matchstr('a', 'a\%[\&]')"
2132 7.1.184 crash when deleting backwards over a line break in Insert mode
3744 7.1.185 "gR" and then BS doesn't work properly with multi-byte chars
3294 7.1.186 "expand('<afile>')" returns a bogus value after ":cd dir"
2341 7.1.187 Win32 GUI: custom completion using system() doesn't work
1688 7.1.188 "W10" message could be displayed in the second column
1950 7.1.189 (after 7.1.104) need to call plain_vgetc() in ask_yesno()
1685 7.1.190 cursor after end-of-line: "iA sentence.<Esc>)"
2007 7.1.191 Win32 GUI: when not in focus click in scrollbar doesn't work
2605 7.1.192 CTRL-C doesn't stop duplicating text for "s" in Visual block
2962 7.1.193 some of the Vim 5.x digraphs could be supported
1650 7.1.194 Unix: ":echo glob('~/{}')" results in "/home/user//"
2273 7.1.195 '0 mark doesn't work for "~/foo ~ foo"
2642 7.1.196 (extra) Win32 GUI: "\n" in a tooltip doesn't cause line break
2308 7.1.197 Mac: "make install" doesn't work when $prefix is set
1460 7.1.198 hang when using ":s/\n//gn"
3572 7.1.199 can't do command line completion for a file name extension
2310 7.1.200 (after 7.1.177 and 7.1.182) compiler warnings
2705 7.1.201 when reading stdin 'fenc' and 'ff' are not set
2383 7.1.202 incomplete utf-8 byte sequence is not checked for validity
2261 7.1.203 if 'virtualedit' is "onemore" then ":normal 99|" is not right
2891 7.1.204 (extra) Win32: 'balloonexpr' tooltip disappears after 4 sec
5481 7.1.205 can't get the operator in an ":omap"
1690 7.1.206 compiler warnings when using MODIFIED_BY
7708 7.1.207 netbeans: "remove" cannot delete one line
2051 7.1.208 on Alpha get an unaligned access error
2249 7.1.209 GTK GUI: when using the netrw plugin ":gui" causes a hang
1923 7.1.210 listing mapping for 0xdb fails when 'encoding' is utf-8
25525 7.1.211 matchparen plugin may take so long it looks like Vim hangs
1491 7.1.212 accessing a byte before a line
This is the latest stable version of VIM. Changes since 7.0.243:
* some translation fixes
* the following patches after the official 7.1 release
2404 7.1.001 can't build with Gnome GUI
2011 7.1.002 Oracle Pro*C/C++ files are not detected
* download and extract vim-7.0-extra.tar.gz so that previously unused patches
can be applied and that all future patches will apply without errors
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
1344 7.0.027 (extra) Win32: hang on exit when compiled with SNiFF+
3014 7.0.028 (extra) OS/2: compilation problem
1424 7.0.032 (extra, after 7.0.027) missing semicolon
1741 7.0.045 (extra) Win32: MSVC 2005 compiler warnings for OLE version
1779 7.0.057 (extra, after 7.0.45) compilation trouble with Borland C 5.5
1750 7.0.065 (extra) Mac: horizontal scroll wheel caused vertical scroll
6819 7.0.074 (extra) Win32: tooltips can be in the wrong encoding
2583 7.0.108 (extra) Amiga: compilation error for mch_mkdir()
* changes since 7.0.121
2865 7.0.122 only half of double-wide bold character may be drawn
4200 7.0.123 SCO Openserver: configure selects the wrong terminal library
2376 7.0.124 window-local variables from getwinvar() are for current window
2335 7.0.125 '< and '> marks were set before Visual mode finishes
2112 7.0.126 undo could be wrong when 'formatexpr' uses setline()
2605 7.0.127 crash when swap file has invalid timestamp
2246 7.0.128 GUI: display not updated when cancelling exit dialog
2884 7.0.129 GTK GUI: avoid GTK bug concerning directory for file dialog
5509 7.0.130 (extra) MS-DOS, MS-Windows: may get stuck using a device name
2632 7.0.131 Win32: "vim -r" does not find swap files starting with a dot
2163 7.0.132 (after 7.0.130) crash when reading from stdin
3189 7.0.133 too many messages in history when searching included files
2290 7.0.134 crash when trying to compare recusively looped List or Dict
10022 7.0.135 crash in garbage collector with recusively looped List/Dict
1703 7.0.136 CursorMoved not triggered when inserting a line
2746 7.0.137 configure check for big features is wrong
12174 7.0.138 (extra) Mac: modifiers keys don't work with function keys
2044 7.0.139 undo info missing when using CTRL-PageUp in Insert mode
2235 7.0.140 (after 7.0.134) comparing list/dict with itself is inefficient
6513 7.0.141 extra CR when pasting with the mouse on the command line
2075 7.0.142 middle mouse button didn't work right in Select mode
1531 7.0.143 setting 'scroll' to its default value didn't work correctly
5584 7.0.144 pattern matching may do wrong pointer computations
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".
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.
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)
* Loading the sh.vim syntax file causes error messages
* Using a '@' item in 'viminfo' doesn't work
* The configure check for ACLs on AIX doesn't work
* The find/replace dialog doesn't reuse a previous argument properly
* In Insert mode, "CTRL-O :ls" has a delay before redrawing
* With a vertical split, 'number' set and 'scrolloff' non-zero, making
the window width very small causes a crash
* When setting 'filetype' while there is no FileType autocommand, a
following ":setfiletype" would set 'filetype' again
* 'imdisable' is missing from the options window
* Nextstep doesn't have S_ISBLK
* Using "gf" on a file name starting with "./" or "../" in a buffer
without a name causes a crash
* Python: After replacing or deleting lines get an ml_get error
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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
New since version 5.6
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Not much:
- 19 new syntax files.
- "explorer.vim" script, works like a file browser.
And many bug fixes! This version is aimed at stability.
New since version 5.5
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Not much:
- New "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry for MS-Windows. Avoids problems with
the MS Office taskbar.
- 18 new syntax files.
- "z+" and "z^" commands.
And many bug fixes! This version is aimed at stability.
See ":help version-5.6" in Vim for the details.
