X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:23:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.017-1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.0.017-1. This is the long awaited vim 7.0, latest patchlevel 17. Cygwin Vim still builds from the vanilla sources. The official release message: ======================================================================= Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0 Vim 7 is ready! After years of development this feature packed editor is waiting for you. 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". Credits ------- A lot of people helped making Vim 7 possible by providing patches, suggestions, bug reports and proofreading the documentation. You can find their names with ":help version7". Many thanks to all of them! Also thanks to Vim sponsors who supported me while working on Vim 7. I am now going back to a paid job. Please continue sponsoring Vim. The money now goes to help children in Uganda. The more you help them the more I will feel obliged to work on Vim. There is a drought right now, we need to help 200 families with food. http://www.vim.org/sponsor/ Where to get it --------------- Information about which files to download for what system: http://www.vim.org/download.php A list of mirror sites can be found here: http://www.vim.org/mirrors.php Downloading through ftp from: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/ Downloading through http from: http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/ Using rsync: rsync://ftp.nl.vim.org/Vim Using Subversion: http://www.vim.org/subversion.php Anonymous CVS is five week behind and doesn't have Vim 7.0 yet. An overview of the files: UNIX: unix/vim-7.0.tar.bz2 sources + runtime files, bzip2 compressed VARIOUS: extra/vim-7.0-extra.tar.gz extra (non-Unix) files extra/vim-7.0-lang.tar.gz multi-language files doc/vim70html.zip help files converted to HTML MS-WINDOWS: pc/gvim70.exe self-installing, includes all runtime files pc/vim70rt.zip runtime files pc/vim70lang.zip files for translated messages and menus pc/gvim70.zip GUI binary for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP pc/gvim70ole.zip GUI binary with OLE support pc/gvim70_s.zip GUI binary for Windows 3.1 (untested) pc/vim70d16.zip 16 bit console version for MS-DOS pc/vim70d32.zip console version for MS-DOS/Windows 95/98 pc/vim70w32.zip console version for Windows NT/2000/XP pc/vim70src.zip sources for PC (with CR-LF) DIFFS TO PREVIOUS BETA unstable/unix/vim-7.0g-7.0.diff.gz sources + runtime files unstable/extra/vim-7.0g-7.0-extra.diff.gz extra files unstable/extra/vim-7.0g-7.0-lang.diff.gz multi-language files SPELL FILES ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/ http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/ You should be able to do ":set spellang=xx" and Vim will offer you to download spell files for "xx". 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! ======================================================================= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/