To: vimdev@prz.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Vim version 5.0i ALPHA available!
Date: Tue, 27 May 97 12:58:13 +0200
From: Bram Moolenaar <mool@oce.nl>

Hello all,

Yet another update in the 5.0 series.  No big changes this time.
The most notable improvement is that the cursor can now blink in the GUI.

I didn't get complaints about having 'compatible' set by default.  Maybe this
can be taken one step further, and remove the "magicness" of resetting
'compatible' when there is a ".vimrc" file?  Regular Vim users will then have
to add this line to their .vimrc file then: ":set nocompatible".

Changes:
- Changed: text object commands have been renamed: "a" becomes "aw", "A"
  becomes "aW", "s" becomes "as", "p" becomes "ap", "S" becomes "ab" and
  "P" becomes "aB".
- Improved: For Unix, file name expansion is now done internally instead of
  starting a shell for it.  Should be a big speed improvement.  Not tested
  much yet!
- Included ctags version 1.6, with static tags modification (Darren Hiebert).
  Static tags are now recognized by "<Tab>;"s" at the end of the tag command.
  This makes the tags file backwards compatible with Vi.
- Added: In a help window, a double-click jumps to the tag under the
  cursor (like CTRL-]).
- GUI Win32: CTRL-Z minimizes the window now (Moore).
- Added setting of blink times to 'guicursor'.  Implemented GUI cursor
  blinking for X11 and Win32.
- Changed: For Win32 GUI font name, replace '_' with space (instead of
  dot).
- Made ":highlight link" ignored (batch) or produce a warning message
  (interactive), when highlighting has already been defined for the group.
  Use ":highlight!" to link anyway.
- Changed: Win32 GUI tries to keep the window inside the screen (Pirotte).


NOTE: To save me time and worries, this is a source-code only release.
Binary versions will be made for later versions.  You can compile it yourself,
if you can, all the required stuff is included.

You can find Vim 5.0i in the usual place, including the diff:

	ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/misc/vim/beta-test/unix/vim-5.0i.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/misc/vim/beta-test/unix/vim-50h.50i.diff.gz

And on the mirrors (within in a couple of days).

There is also this file, which currently only contains the Farsi source files:
	ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/misc/vim/beta-test/extra/vime-5.0i.tar.gz
Later this will contain things that don't go in the normal distribution, when
it becomes too large.  The src/Vim_vc4.mak file is another candidate.

Another NOTE: Please don't discuss this in the "vim" mailing list.  This is
for for deveopers only!  At least for now.

Have fun!