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Vim 7.2 Released
sanguisdex writes "After fifteen months of work: a brand new Vim release! This is a stable version. There are many bug fixes and updated runtime files. The only new feature worth mentioning is support for floating point. Upgrading from a previous version is highly recommended: a few crashing bugs and several security issues were fixed. For the details see the announcement or go directly to the download page."
O'Reilly released the latest new version of their vi book, (now "Learning the vi and Vim Editors") last summer with seven new chapters devoted to vim!
:x
fixed for ya.
beep constantly, and break everything
Am I crazy - or has vim 7.2 been out for a while?
The date on the announcement is from August 8, 2009.
Also:
~$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Nov 11 2008 17:20:43)
I've gone back in time six months!
I've been using this for months now.
hey malda, I'm sure you and your corporate overlords are trying to save money these days. Rather than posting more slashvertisements, how about firing this douchebag?
News for the vim people, these days "vi compatible" means "nvi compatible". KTHX.
I will not make an Amiga or OS/2 binary for Vim 7.2.
Why not? Then you would have an editor as antiquated as the OS it runs on.
Ooooh! BURRRRN!
Hey! Check out this post I came across while browsing usenet. Have any of you heard anything about this? Sounds like it might be kinda cool.
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
Keywords: 386, preliminary version
Message-ID:
Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Lines: 55
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote :-)
their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying
to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you
finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-
nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just
for you
As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I'm working on a free version of a
minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage
where it's even usable (though may not be depending on what you want),
and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is
just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I've successfully
run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it.
Sources for this pet project of mine can be found at nic.funet.fi /pub/OS/Linux. The directory also :-). Full kernel /pub/gnu.
(128.214.6.100) in the directory
contains some README-file and a couple of binaries to work under linux
(bash, update and gcc, what more can you ask for
source is provided, as no minix code has been used. Library sources are
only partially free, so that cannot be distributed currently. The
system is able to compile "as-is" and has been known to work. Heh.
Sources to the binaries (bash and gcc) can be found at the same place in
ALERT! WARNING! NOTE! These sources still need minix-386 to be compiled
(and gcc-1.40, possibly 1.37.1, haven't tested), and you need minix to
set it up if you want to run it, so it is not yet a standalone system
for those of you without minix. I'm working on it. You also need to be
something of a hacker to set it up (?), so for those hoping for an
alternative to minix-386, please ignore me. It is currently meant for
hackers interested in operating systems and 386's with access to minix.
The system needs an AT-compatible harddisk (IDE is fine) and EGA/VGA. If
you are still interested, please ftp the README/RELNOTES, and/or mail me
for additional info.
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
minix. This is a program for hackers by a hacker. I've enjouyed doing
it, and somebody might enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for
their own needs. It is still small enough to understand, use and
modify, and I'm looking forward to any comments you might have.
I'm also interested in hearing from anybody who has written any of the
utilities/library functions for minix. If your efforts are freely
distributable (under copyright or even public domain), I'd like to hear
from you, so I can add them to the system. I'm using Earl Chews estdio
right now (thanks for a nice and working system Earl), and similar works
will be very wellcome. Your (C)'s will of course be left intact. Drop me
a line if you are willing to let me use your code.
Linus
PS. to PHIL NELSON! I'm unable to get through to you, and keep getting
"forward error - strawberry unknown domain" or something.
This guy's the limit!
I work daily with humongous text files. I have found no other editor that performs as well when you work with text files that are in several gigabytes range. All the other major shell text editors cough instantly (tried for instance Emacs, it loaded one of those files for 30 minutes before I got bored of waiting) and most of the shiny new GUI editors are even worse. For instance gedit practically dies instantly on the stuff I work with.
There is a place for vi*. You use them when the tool has to work. They are pain in the ass to use, but they manage things others do not.
No, but this is. IOW, if you want Qedit, you know where to find it. :)
My blog
We now know for sure kdawson is not a Vim user.
Do not anger the worm.
i sure wish the vim developers would fix that buggy gtk2 frontend, i get artifacts in the menus and the buffer loses text...
Midnight Commander's built in editor (mcedit) is good enough for me...
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
:q!
The editors were using emacs so it took a while to publish.
Of all major operating systems, UNIX is the only one originally meant for gaming.
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You mean, like emacs has supported in elisp for half of forever now?
Oh, and the lovely captcha: "reinvent" :D
... is in front of the screen ;-)
I've been waitti^H^H damn! ^H^H ^Q ^[ .... :w :q :wq :wq! ^d :quitbye CtrlAltDel ~~q :~q logout save/quit :!QUIT
exit X Q ^C ^?
^[zz ^[ZZZZZZ ^H man vi ^@ ^L ^[c ^# ^E ^X ^I ^T ? help helpquit ^D
man quit ^C ^c ?Quit ?q CtrlShftDel "Hey, what does this button d..."
Have gnu, will travel.
The problem with vim is that half the time you have to give it a quick bang before it'll do what you want.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Depending on what you need to replace, how large the file is, and how many files you need to change, dd might be your "editor" of choice. Although IANA('nix pro), so I'm not sure it's possible to get dd to just overwrite a few bytes in the middle of a file without setting up a loopback device.
Hmm..
A quick skim through the shred man page suggests it might be useful if the bits you want to overwrite are at the begining of the file...
It always bothered me that Perl's "in place" option actually is nothing of the sort.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
So,then, Vim is male?
I was very tempted to use my mod points to mod this TROLL, but I try staying far away from anything that even smells like "modding down stuff you disagree with", so I'll Feed the Troll, instead...
How do I search-replace SMARTLY (i.e. with regexp) in Notepad?
Does notepad support syntax highlighting?
Does notepad support "jumping" to the last position when reopening a file?
Does notepad support auto-indentation? Language-dependent auto-indentation?
Does notepad support multiple buffers? (cut-n-paste)
Does notepad support variable tabstops? Using spaces as tabs?
Does notepad support collapsing/folding sections into a single line?
These features are just a tiny fraction of what I use in VIM *every single day*. Notepad does none of these. I used to use emacs, because the insert, command and visual modes confused me. It really didn't take long to get used to, however, and I generally prefer VIM now (although I'm perfectly happy using emacs instead).
I feel I should now come up with a car analogy, comparing VIM and Notepad, but the only word that comes to mind is Yugo. And that would be Notepad, in case you were wondering.
command mode (beep constantly?)
insert mode (not sure how you are breaking things here)
and
visual mode.
USE EMACS!!
Seeing as you seem to know what you're talking about I'm going to risk being rude by hijacking this sub-thread to ask a question:
Is it possible to fold not lines, but groups of words in vi(m)? E.g. to change
This is some text (and it contains this paranthesized phrase which I wish to fold away) which has a paranthesized phrase hidden away in the first line. I'd like the text to be a little shorter.
into this
This is some text FOLD+-- which has a paranthesized phrase hidden away in the first line. I'd like the text to be a little shorter.