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Vim 7.2 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the vigor-too dept.

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."

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  1. in addition to the new release... by yagu · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

  2. Am I crazy? by liebeskind · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)

  3. Please... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.