To: vim-announce@vim.org
Subject: Vim version 5.2k BETA available
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 98 16:57:34 +0200
From: Bram Moolenaar <mool@oce.nl>
Message-Id: <9808171458.AA04540@smtp02.oce.nl>


Hello Vim fans!

Here is another BETA release of 5.2, hopefully the last one.  There are mostly
bug fixes.

See below for the complete list of changes.

Release 5.2 is planned for next week.
Please test version 5.2k as much as possible!

The files are in the "unreleased" directory.


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

You can find Vim 5.2k here:

        ftp://ftp.nl.vim.org/pub/vim/unreleased/

See this file for Mirrors:

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

unix/vim-5.2k-src.tar.gz           source files for Unix
unix/vim-5.2j-5.2k-src.diff.gz     diff with version 5.2j
unix/vim-5.2k-rt.tar.gz            runtime files for Unix
unix/vim-5.2j-5.2k-rt.diff.gz      diff with version 5.2j

extra/vim-5.2k-extra.tar.gz        extra files
extra/vim-5.2j-5.2k-extra.diff.gz  diff with version 5.2j

pc/vim52krt.zip                    runtime files for PC
pc/vim52kd16.zip                   16 bit DOS binaries for PC
pc/vim52kd32.zip                   32 bit DOS binaries for PC
pc/vim52kw32.zip                   Win32 binaries for PC
pc/gvim52k.zip                     Win32 GUI binaries for PC
pc/gvim52kole.zip                  Win32 GUI binaries with OLE for PC
pc/gvim52k_s.zip                   Windows 3.1 GUI binaries for PC
pc/vim52ksrc.zip                   source files for PC

amiga/vim52krt.tgz                 runtime files for Amiga
amiga/vim52kbin.tgz                binaries for Amiga
amiga/vim52kbig.tgz                binaries with more features for Amiga
amiga/vim52ksrc.tgz                source files for Amiga

os2/vim52kos2.zip                  binaries + runtime files for OS/2


WHAT IS NEW
-----------

This is the complete list of changes since version 5.2j.  For a list of
changes since version 5.1, see ":help version-5.2".


Changed:

Menus in $VIM/menu.vim no longer overrule existing menus.  This helps when
defining menus in the .vimrc file, or when sourcing mswin.vim.

Removed the intro-advert.  Nobody volunteered to help the orphans in Uganda
this way.


Added:

Win32 GUI: When Vim can't find the "vimrun.exe", a messagebox is shown to make
the user aware of this problem. (Negri)

In a pattern for an autocommand, environment variables can be used.  They are
expanded when the autocommand is defined.

Cscope interface: Allow the use of environment variables in the 'csprg' option
and for the ":cs add" command. (Kahn)

Included Exuberant ctags 2.2.6. (Hiebert)

When using the TCL interface on SunOS, add a -R argument for the linker, so
that the library is found at runtime.

Increased number of remembered jumps from 30 to 50 per window.

Command to temporarily disable 'hls' highlighting until the next search:
":nohlsearch".


Fixed:

The lines in Makefile for using the Athena 3D widgets were wrong. (Kahlert)

Win32 GUI: When using a shifted key with ALT, the shift modifier would remain
set, even when it was already used by changing the used key.  E.g., "<M-S-9>"
resulted in "<M-S-(>", but it should be "<M-(>". (Negri)

Win32 GUI: When adding a submenu with a dot in it, the tearoff would be added
to the wrong submenu.
Win32 GUI: When adding tear-off items afterwards ('t' flag in 'guioptions'),
the tearoff would get a wrong priority, and got added somewhere at the end of
each menu.

A call to ga_init() was often followed by seting growsize and itemsize.
Created ga_init2() for this, which looks better. (Aaron)

Win32 GUI: Purify detected a write outside of an array from the
FindExecutableA() function on Windows NT.  Use FindExecutableW() to avoid
this.  But that is not available on Windows 95, so use the 'A' version there.

Function filereadable() could call fopen() with an empty string, which might
be illegal.

Win32 GUI: An input() function in a _vimrc file caused a crash or a hang.
Don't wait for a character when the GUI has not started yet.

"vim -c "echo input('what')"" didn't show the prompt.

X Windows GUI: When executing an external command that outputs text, could
write one character beyond the end of a buffer, which caused a crash. (Kohan)

Included new RISC OS files. (Leonard)

When using "*" or "#" on a string that includes '/' or '?' (when these are
included in 'isk'), they were not escaped. (Parmelan)

":mksession" tried to restore a window with an unnamed buffer, which caused an
error.

When setting 'winaltkeys' in the Motif GUI version, but before starting the
GUI, Vim crashed.

When adding a ToolBar menu in the Motif GUI, the submenu_id field was not
cleared, causing random problems.

Removed PopUp menu from Motif, it was only causing problems.

Motif file selector would not work if the first menu was not a menubar menu.
The Motif file selector would appear at the top-left of the screen.  Now it's
in the middle of the Vim window.

"aunmenu PopUp.xxx" could result in spurious "no menu of that name" or other
error messages.

When adding a menu, the check if this menu (or submenu) name already exists
didn't compare with the simplified version (no mnemonic or accelerator) of the
new menu.  Could get two menus with the same name, e.g., "File" and "&File".

"^Vj$y" yanked three lines instead of two.  Also for other Visual block mode
operators that include the end of line.

Breaking a line because of 'textwidth' at the last line in the window caused a
redraw of the whole window instead of a scroll.  Speeds up normal typing with
'textwidth' a lot for slow terminals.

An invalid line number produced an "invalid range" error, even when it wasn't
to be executed (inside "if 0").

Athena GUI: The arrows of the scrollbar didn't work for larger files, they
stopped working after two clicks in the same direction.

When the unnamed, first buffer is re-used, the "BufDelete" autocommand was
not called.  It would stick in a buffer list menu.

When doing "%" on the NUL after the line, a "{" or "}" in the last character
of the line was not found.

The Insert mode menu was not used for the "s" command, the Operator-pending
menu was used instead.

Adding or deleting a function while executing a function caused problems.
Changed the array with user functions into a linked list.

When listing functions, a TAB was shown as ^I.  Now uses the right amount of
spaces, and uses 'list'.

With 'compatible' set, some syntax highlighting was not correct, because of
using "[\t]" for a search pattern.  Now use the regexps for syntax
highlighting like the 'cpoptions' option is empty (as was documented already).

When using "map <M-Space> ms" or "map <Space> sss" the output of ":map" didn't
show any lhs for the mapping (if 'isprint' includes 160).  Now always use
<Space> and <M-Space>, even when they are printable.

Adjusted the Syntax menu, so that the lowest entry fits on a small screen (for
Athena, where menus don't wrap).

Colors of Athena file selector were not set.  Now it uses the same colors as
for the menu.

Copying of vimrun.exe was missing from install.exe.

Happy Vimming!