To:	vim-announce@vim.org
Subject: Vim version 5.0w BETA is available
Date:	Mon, 09 Feb 98 09:51:50 +0100
From:	Bram Moolenaar <mool@oce.nl>
Message-Id: <9802090848.AA27431@smtp02.oce.nl>

Hello Vim users!

This is the fifth BETA version.  No big changes this time.

With a little bit of luck it will be the *last* BETA version.
This mostly depends on whether the last changes to the tags file format
will be generally accepted.  And if serious problems are discovered.
If nothing gets in the way, 5.0 will be released in one or two weeks.

I'm still taking compilation notes for Unix systems.
Look in src/Makefile for the format of the line.


WHERE TO GET IT
---------------

You can find Vim 5.0w in the usual place:

	ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/vim/beta-test/

Or use one of the mirrors (updated within in a couple of days), see:

	ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/vim/MIRRORS


unix/vim-5.0w.tar.gz		Source files for Unix
unix/vim-50v-50w.diff.gz	Idem, diff with version 5.0v
extra/vime-5.0w.tar.gz		Extra files for Unix and others

pc/vim50wsrc.zip		Sources packed for DOS
pc/vim50wd16.zip		binary+docs 16 bit DOS
pc/vim50wd32.zip		binary+docs 32 bit DOS
pc/vim50ww32.zip		binary+docs 32 bit Windows NT/95
pc/gvim50w.zip			binary+docs Windows NT/95 GUI
pc/gvim50wole.zip		exe for Windows NT/95 GUI with OLE

amiga/vim50wsrc.tgz		sources packed for Amiga
amiga/vim50wbin.tgz		binary+docs for Amiga
amiga/vim50wbig.tgz		binary for Amiga with more features

os2/vim50wos2.zip		binary+docs for OS/2

Note that the source archives don't have all the files.
This was done to reduce their size.  If you want to get all
the source files, get both the Unix and the extra archive.


RELEASE NOTES
-------------

Changed:

- Changed <Esc> back to "!_" for informative tag lines.  Skip lines before
  "!_TAG_" in tags file, in case a tag sorts to before them (e.g., "!!").

- Changed "type:" field in tags to "kind:".  Type already has a meaning in
  C programs.  "kind of tag" is more generic and not confusing.

- Included all doc files in all distributions.
  Avoids that tags don't go anywhere.


Added:

- Added 'W' flag to 'cpoptions': Let ":w!" behave like Vi:
  don't overwrite readonly files, or a file owned by someone else.

- Added highlighting to output of ":tselect".

- Give a tag with a global match in the current file
  a higher priority than a global match in another file.

- Added "+extra_search" feature to disable 'hlsearch' and 'incsearch'.


Fixed:

- A number of minor errors.  See src/version.c.

- ":set ro" didn't redraw the status line to show the [RO].
  Also other status line redrawing problems.

- Win32 GUI: ":umenu Hello" didn't remove the top-level menu.

- putenv() in pty.c needs to use "const char *" for Linux.

- Crash for ":he <C-A>" (command line longer than screen).

- ":s/this/that/gc", type "y" two times, then undo, did reset
  the modified option, even though the file is still modified.

- Win32 GUI dead key problem (Vyskovsky).

- ":amenu" didn't work when in insert/Visual mode: "i^Ov".  Added CTRL-C
  command in normal/Visual mode: like ESC, but don't restart Insert mode.

- Empty lines in a tags file caused a ":tag" to be aborted.

- For a tagaddress like "/pat1/;/pat2/" the extra fields were not found.

- Setting ":hi Normal ctermbg=darkblue" caused the color to stick after
  exiting Vim.  Now reset the color when exiting Vim, with the "op" termcap
  entry.  Added the 't_op' option.

- When sourcing commands from "$VIM/_vimrc", <sfile> would be set to that
  name, and "<sfile>:p" would be "<current-dir>$VIM/_vimrc".  Now expand the
  path, so that "<sfile>" is the actually used path name.


Happy Vimming!