----- Forwarded message from Bram Moolenaar ----- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:56:22 +0200 From: Bram Moolenaar To: vim-announce@vim Subject: Vim version 7.0e BETA has been released Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0e BETA This is the fourth BETA release of Vim 7. It appears to be quite stable and about ready for daily use, but I would like to do some more testing to be sure. We are getting closer to a release. Please report every problem you find! Since the third BETA release a few more things were improved, here is a summary: - Added CTRL-W T: move a window to a new tab page. - Fixed a crash on startup in the code that sets $MYVIMRC. - The Win32 install program didn't use the "All Users" but the administrator directory. - In spell files hide the || and ** around tags to make commands easier to read. - Added "tabpages" to 'sessionoptions'. A session can now also restore the tab pages. - When completing menu names, e.g., after ":emenu", don't sort the entries but keep them in the original order. - When a list is indexed with [a : b] and b was greater than the length an error message was given. Now silently truncate the result. - The extra files for XML Omni completion are now also installed. - Added the 'M' flag to 'cinoptions'. - Added gettabwinvar() and settabwinvar(). - For Hungarian the Myspell dictionary is now used again. I gave up on using the Hunspell one, it has too many words. Making this work would require too many changes to the code. - A series of bug fixes, see the end of ":help version7". 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 7.0e BETA you can find details about the changes since Vim 6.4 with ":help version7". There are also a lot of bug fixes. 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 7.0e is also available from CVS and with Aap: http://www.vim.org/develop.php An overview of the files: UNIX: unix/vim-7.0e.tar.bz2 sources + runtime files, bzip2 compressed VARIOUS: extra/vim-7.0e-extra.tar.gz extra files extra/vim-7.0e-lang.tar.gz multi-language files doc/vim70ehtml.zip help files converted to HTML MS-WINDOWS: pc/gvim70e.exe self-installing, includes all runtime files pc/vim70ert.zip runtime files pc/vim70elang.zip files for translated messages and menus pc/gvim70e.zip GUI binary for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP pc/gvim70eole.zip GUI binary with OLE support pc/vim70ed16.zip 16 bit console version for MS-DOS pc/vim70ed32.zip console version for MS-DOS/Windows 95/98 pc/vim70ew32.zip console version for Windows NT/2000/XP pc/vim70esrc.zip sources for PC (with CR-LF) DIFFS TO PREVIOUS BETA: unix/vim-7.0d-7.0e.diff.gz sources + runtime files extra/vim-7.0d-7.0e-extra.diff.gz extra files extra/vim-7.0d-7.0e-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 . 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! -- >From "know your smileys": :-* A big kiss! /// Bram Moolenaar -- Bram@Moolenaar.net -- 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://www.ICCF.nl /// ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Regards, Sir Raorn.