Vim 7 Released

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 8, 2006 @04:58AM from the time-to-get-your-upgrade-on dept.

houseofmore writes "After many years of development, Bram Moolenaar, creator of Vim, today announced version 7 of the widely used editor. New features included spell checking in up to 50 languages, intelligent completion, tab pages, extended undo branches and much more. Downloads available here for Unix, Windows, Mac and more."

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waiting by yagu · 2006-05-08 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm waiting for the emacs emulation mode. (kidding, kidding)
1. Re:waiting by quokkapox · 2006-05-08 05:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  M-x shell<enter> vim<enter>
  Creating a macro is left as an exercise to the reader.
  ^X^S
  dammit
  
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2. Re:waiting by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-08 05:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'm waiting for the emacs emulation mode
  Vim now runs on more than 15 different operating systems, so I'm sure emacs can't be far behind.
3. Re:waiting by VE3MTM · 2006-05-08 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  And this, folks, is the sound of a joke going right over someone's head... *WHOOSH*
  
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4. Re:waiting by PGC · 2006-05-08 07:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  <Esc>uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu <Ctrl>-R <Ctrl>-R <Ctrl>-R
  
  Or ... faster :
  <Esc>23 u 3 <Ctrl>-R
  
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5. Re:waiting by RLiegh · 2006-05-08 09:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  >Have you heard of google?
  Nope. What can you tell me about it?
6. Re:waiting by Kehvarl · 2006-05-08 12:09 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  >Have you heard of google?
  Nope. What can you tell me about it?
  
  It's a fully featured calculator, email, calendar, and chat system. Oh, it does searches too.
  It's really rather like emacs in that, someday, it may even get its own text editor.
syntax highlighting! by Gothmolly · 2006-05-08 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny

I, for one, welcome our upgraded syntax highlighting overlords. I can't remember the last time I wrote syntactically incorrect code since I switched from vi. Of course, I can still write BAD code, or silly code, but vim catches my typos every time.

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1. Re:syntax highlighting! by dotgain · 2006-05-08 07:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  What I really love about vim is that no matter what obscure language I might end up writing in during my computer science studies, there always seem to be a syntax highligt setting for vim.
  Dude, you could edit /dev/kmem and vim would somehow figure out syntax highlighting for it.
What's that odor ? by alexhs · 2006-05-08 05:04 · Score: 2, Funny

This thread smells the troll, don't you think ? :)

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Vim 7 by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-08 05:05 · Score: 3, Funny

:%s/vim 6.4/vim 7/
:wq
This alone is worth it... by digitalhermit · 2006-05-08 05:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.

Yup, this one alone is worth it. Need to write some code? Forget your IDE and just use the C "autoprogram" feature of the new Vi. This message was composed with :set autorespond .
Let's try it out by suso · 2006-05-08 05:09 · Score: 4, Funny

quit
q
stop
exit
[esc]
quit damnit
ahhhhh

(just kidding, I know how to quit from vim)
1. Re:Let's try it out by gEvil+(beta) · 2006-05-08 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ctrl-q
  alt-q
  alt-F4
  ctrl-c
  ctrl-d
  esc-esc-esc-esc
  awww, screwit...
  *power button*
  
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Spell Check by Danathar · 2006-05-08 05:09 · Score: 3, Funny

Now I can die.
1. Re:Spell Check by Zontar_Thing_From_Ve · 2006-05-08 07:14 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Now I can die.
  
  Or if you use Emacs you can wish you were dead.
  
  (ducks)
My favorite editor by bennomatic · 2006-05-08 05:24 · Score: 4, Funny

When all the other websites were putting badges on saying, "made with dreamweaver", or "made with go-live", or whatever, I made the following for my site:
made with vi

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Someone had to... by Nightreaver · 2006-05-08 05:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Someone had to remind slashdotters of the superior editor... Ed, man!
1. Re:Someone had to... by stinerman · 2006-05-08 06:08 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The best part:
  
  And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
  
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
  -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs
VI is like a Stanley Kubrick movie by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-08 05:40 · Score: 1, Funny

The ability to become proficient with vi is a lot like being able to watch, follow, and understand a Stanley Kubrick movie. Some folks can just get it and some don't. If you were able to watch SO:2001 or AI from start to end, the very first time, and not get lost, and understand it all... then you'll probably pick up on becoming proficient at using vi/vim very quickly.
Re:On OS X, it's all about SubEthaEdit by caseih · 2006-05-08 05:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Sure but SubEthaEdit has a very annoying and on-going bug that the developers cannot seem to reproduce or fix. Invariably, SubEthaEdit litters my code with random ":" and sometimes ":w". It's very annoying. Occasionally I see other random sequences appear like "gg", "yy", "dd", and "x".
You mean ed users by Cleveland+Steamer · 2006-05-08 05:42 · Score: 5, Funny

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When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi *and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
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Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem> ed

?
help
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?

Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.

"Ed is the standard text editor." Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
Cool. As a Debian user... by just_another_sean · 2006-05-08 05:50 · Score: 2, Funny

I guess I can look forward to getting a package sometime in 2007 :-)

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Version 7? by yet+another+coward · 2006-05-08 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

GNU Emacs is at version 21.4. Can we really trust such an immature editor?
1. Re:Version 7? by Coryoth · 2006-05-08 07:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You do know that Emacs is at version 1.21.4. They stopped using the major version number because it hasn't changed in the last couple of decades...
  
  I had heard they dropped the major version number, but I always presumed it was 0.21.4, with the expectation that Emacs would finally hit 1.0.0 once it was feature complete.
  
  Jedidiah.
  
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And shockingly enough... by ylikone · 2006-05-08 05:55 · Score: 4, Funny

..your site looks like it was made by someone that only uses vi.

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1. Re:And shockingly enough... by Cal+Paterson · 2006-05-08 07:25 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  A quick look at your linked site reveals the following; 91 HTML errors by the W3C html validator A horrible Mac OS X design 8 "use *"/"created by *" buttons "This site best viewed at 1024x768 or higher resolution" Links to Opera and Skype (obviously two perfect examples of good GNU/Linux software) and more a bunch of crappy amazon "paymepaymepaymepaymepaymepaymepayme" links Perhaps you should keep it down.
Re:I just can't get the hang of vim by cicho · 2006-05-08 06:06 · Score: 3, Funny

"These days, you can even use the arrow keys to navigate to make it even easier"

Said with a straight face too, I'm sure. Only on slashdot!

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Re:Interesting... by Macrobat · 2006-05-08 06:19 · Score: 4, Funny

.. When did Perl get demoted to 'etc'?
It didn't. It's right there in '/usr/bin/' where it's been all along.

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Steep learning curve...? by mogrify · 2006-05-08 06:46 · Score: 2, Funny

I tried to figure out exactly how steep vi's learning curve is, and I got a DivideByZeroException... :(

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I hate it when by SlashSquatch · 2006-05-08 07:11 · Score: 1, Funny

a I get into a regular editor and starttypxxxx start typing esc x a all over the place:x

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Re:I 3 VIM by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-08 09:41 · Score: 1, Funny

Ah yes, Cill and Kopy.

(fucknut)