From: Bram Moolenaar <mool@oce.nl>
To: vim-dev@vim.org
Subject: Vim version 5.1a BETA available
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 98 10:15:43 +0100
Message-Id: <9803160911.AA09832@smtp02.oce.nl>

Hello Vim users!

This is a bug-fix release for Vim 5.0.  There are a few new features though.
See the release notes below.

If this versions appears to be OK, version 5.1 will be released in a couple
of weeks.  I plan to do only minimal changes between 5.1a and 5.1.
All new features are postponed until version 5.2.


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

You can find Vim 5.1a here:

	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-5.1a.tar.gz		Source files for Unix
unix/vim-5.0-5.1a.diff.gz	Idem, diff with version 5.0
extra/vime-5.1a.tar.gz		Extra files for Unix and others
extra/vime-5.0-5.1a.tar.gz	Idem, diff with version 5.0

pc/vim51asrc.zip		Sources packed for DOS
pc/vim51ad16.zip		binary+docs 16 bit DOS
pc/vim51ad32.zip		binary+docs 32 bit DOS
pc/vim51aw32.zip		binary+docs 32 bit Windows NT/95
pc/gvim51a.zip			binary+docs Windows NT/95 GUI
pc/gvim51aole.zip		exe for Windows NT/95 GUI with OLE

amiga/vim51asrc.tgz		sources packed for Amiga
amiga/vim51abin.tgz		binary+docs for Amiga
amiga/vim51abig.tgz		binary for Amiga with more features

os2/vim51aos2.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.

Hopefully the binary versions for BeOS, Macintosh and Atari Mint will be
available soon.


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

Changed:

- The expand() function now separates file names with <NL> instead of a space.
  This avoids problems for file names with embedded spaces.  To get the old
  result, use substitute(expand(foo), "\n", " ", "g").

- For Insert-expanding dictionaries allow a backslash to be used for
  wildchars.  Allows expanding "ze\kra", when 'isk' includes a backslash.

- New icon for the Win32 GUI.

- ":tag", ":tselect" etc. only use the argument as a regexp when it starts
  with '/'.  Avoids that ":tag xx~" gives an error message: "No previous sub.
  regexp".  Also, when the :tag argument contained wildcard characters, it was
  not Vi compatible.
  When using '/', errors for the regexp are ignored and the argument is taken
  literally too, with a higher priority, so it's found before wildcard
  matches.
  Only when the '/' is used are matches with different case found, even though
  'ignorecase' isn't set.

- Changed some of the default colors, because they were not very readable on a
  dark background.

- A character offset to a search pattern can move the cursor to the next or
  previous line.  Also fixes that "/pattern/e+2" got stuck on "pattern" at the
  end of a line.


Added:

- "shell_error" internal variable: result of last shell command.

- ":echohl" command: Set highlighting for ":echo".

- 'A', 'N' and 'I' flags to 'mouse': Do position the cursor, but don't start
  Visual mode, only start xterm-like selection.

- 'S' flag in 'highlight' and StatusLineNC highlight group: highlighting for
  status line of not-current window.  Default is to use bold for current
  window.

- Added buffer_name() and buffer_number() functions (Aaron).

- Added flags argument "g" to substitute() function (Aaron).

- Win32: When an external command starts with "start ", no console is opened
  for it (Aaron).

- Win32 console: Use termcap codes for bold/reverse based on the current
  console attributes.

- Configure check for "strip". (Napier)

- CTRL-R CTRL-R x in Insert mode: Insert the contents of a register literally,
  instead of as typed.

- Made a few "No match" error messages more informative by adding the pattern
  that didn't match.

- "make install" now also copies the macro files.

- tools/tcltags, a shell script to generate a tags file from a TCL file.

- "--with-tlib" setting for configure.  Easy way to use termlib: "./configure
  --with-tlib=termlib".

- 'u' flag in 'cino' for setting the indent for contained () parts.


Fixed:

[only the most important ones, see ":he version-5.1" for more]

- ":ts" changed position in the tag stack when cancelled with <CR>.
- ":ts" changed the cursor position for CTRL-T when cancelled with <CR>.
- ":tn" would always jump to the second match.	Was using the wrong entry in
  the tag stack.
- Doing "tag foo", then ":tselect", overwrote the original cursor postition in
  the tag stack.

- "make install" changed the vim.1 manpage in a wrong way, causing "doc/doc"
  to appear for the documentation files.

- Was leaking memory when using selection in X11.

- When expanding directories for ":set path=", put two extra backslashes
  before a space in a directory name.

- When 'lisp' set, first line of a function would be indented.  Now its indent
  is set to zero.  And use the indent of the first previous line that is at
  the same () level.  Added test33.

- DOS: "seek error in swap file write" errors, when using DOS 6.2 share.exe,
  because the swap file was made hidden.  It's no longer hidden.

- ":global" command would sometimes not execute on a matching line.  Happened
  when a data block is full in ml_replace().

- Win32 gvim now only sets the console size for external commands to 25x80
  on Windows 95, not on NT.

- Win32 console: Dead key could cause a crash, because of a missing "WINAPI"
  (Deshpande).

- The right mouse button started Visual mode, even when 'mouse' is empty, and
  in the command line, a left click moved the cursor when 'mouse' is empty.
  In Visual mode, 'n' in 'mouse' would be used instead of 'v'.

- A blinking cursor or focus change cleared a non-Visual selection.

- CTRL-Home and CTRL-End didn't work for MS-DOS versions.

- Could include NUL in 'iskeyword', causing a crash when doing insert mode
  completion.

- "gqG" in a file with one-word-per-line (e.g. a dictionary) was very slow and
  not interruptable.

- "gq" operator inserted screen lines in the wrong situation.  Now screen
  lines are inserted or deleted when this speeds up displaying.

- cindent was wrong when an "if" contained "((".

- Win32 GUI with OLE: if_ole_vc.mak could not be converted into a project.
  Hand-edited to fix this...

- Dos32 version changed "\dir\file" into "/dir/file", to work around a DJGPP
  bug.  That bug appears to have been fixed, therefore this translation has
  been removed.

- "/^*" didn't work (find '*' in first column).

- "<afile>" was not always set for autocommands.  E.g., for ":au BufEnter *
  let &tags = expand("<afile>:p:h") . "/tags".

- When starting with "gvim -bg black -fg white", the value of 'background' is
  only set after reading the .gvimrc file.  This causes a ":syntax on" to use
  the wrong colors.  Now allow using ":gui" to open the GUI window and set the
  colors.  Previously ":gui" in a gvimrc crashed Vim.

Happy Vimming!