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Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0
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Author: Bram Moolenaar et al.
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Announcement
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Vim 7 is ready! After years of development this feature packed editor
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is waiting for you.
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Since Vim 6.4 many new features have been added. To mention a few:
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- Spell checking support for about 50 languages
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- Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
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- Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
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- Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
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- Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
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- Vim script profiling
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- Improved Unicode support
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- Highlighting of cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
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- Translated manual pages support.
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- Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
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- Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
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- Printing multi-byte text
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Once you have installed Vim 7.0 you can find details about the changes
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since Vim 6.4 with ":help version7".
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Credits
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A lot of people helped making Vim 7 possible by providing patches,
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suggestions, bug reports and proofreading the documentation. You can
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find their names with ":help version7". Many thanks to all of them!
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Also thanks to Vim sponsors who supported me while working on Vim 7. I
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am now going back to a paid job. Please continue sponsoring Vim. The
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money now goes to help children in Uganda. The more you help them the
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more I will feel obliged to work on Vim. There is a drought right now,
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we need to help 200 families with food. http://www.vim.org/sponsor/
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Where to get it
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Information about which files to download for what system:
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http://www.vim.org/download.php
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A list of mirror sites can be found here:
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http://www.vim.org/mirrors.php
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Downloading through ftp from:
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ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/
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Downloading through http from:
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http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/
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Using rsync:
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rsync://ftp.nl.vim.org/Vim
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Using Subversion:
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http://www.vim.org/subversion.php
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Anonymous CVS is five week behind and doesn't have Vim 7.0 yet.
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An overview of the files:
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UNIX:
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unix/vim-7.0.tar.bz2 sources + runtime files, bzip2 compressed
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VARIOUS:
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extra/vim-7.0-extra.tar.gz extra (non-Unix) files
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extra/vim-7.0-lang.tar.gz multi-language files
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doc/vim70html.zip help files converted to HTML
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MS-WINDOWS:
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pc/gvim70.exe self-installing, includes all runtime files
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pc/vim70rt.zip runtime files
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pc/vim70lang.zip files for translated messages and menus
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pc/gvim70.zip GUI binary for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
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pc/gvim70ole.zip GUI binary with OLE support
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pc/gvim70_s.zip GUI binary for Windows 3.1 (untested)
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pc/vim70d16.zip 16 bit console version for MS-DOS
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pc/vim70d32.zip console version for MS-DOS/Windows 95/98
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pc/vim70w32.zip console version for Windows NT/2000/XP
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pc/vim70src.zip sources for PC (with CR-LF)
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DIFFS TO PREVIOUS BETA
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unstable/unix/vim-7.0g-7.0.diff.gz sources + runtime files
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unstable/extra/vim-7.0g-7.0-extra.diff.gz extra files
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unstable/extra/vim-7.0g-7.0-lang.diff.gz multi-language files
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SPELL FILES
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ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/
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http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/
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You should be able to do ":set spellang=xx" and Vim will offer you to
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download spell files for "xx".
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Mailing lists
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For user questions you can turn to the Vim mailing list. There are a
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lot of tips, scripts and solutions. You can ask your Vim questions, but
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only if you subscribe. See http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim
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If you want to help Vim development or get the latest patches, subscribe
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to the vim-dev mailing list. See http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-dev
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Subject specific lists:
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Multi-byte issues: http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-multibyte
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Macintosh issues: http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-mac
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Before you ask a question you should search the archives, someone may
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already have given the answer.
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Reporting bugs
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Send them to <bugs@v...>. Please describe the problem precisely.
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All the time spent on answering mail is subtracted from the time that is
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spent on improving Vim! Always give a reproducible example and try to
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find out which settings or other things influence the appearance of the
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bug. Try starting without your own vimrc file: "vim -u NONE". Try
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different machines if possible. See ":help bugs" in Vim. Send me a
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patch if you can!
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If something needs discussing with other developers, send a message to the
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vim-dev mailing list. You need to subscribe first.
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Happy Vimming!
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--
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Well, you come from nothing, you go back to nothing... What have you
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lost? Nothing!
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-- Monty Python: The life of Brian
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/// Bram Moolenaar -- Bram@M... -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\
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/// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\
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\\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org ///
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\\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///
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