Subject: Vim beta version 3.29 is available!
Date: Thu, 23 May 96 14:30:12 +0200
From: mool@oce.nl

This version is going to be the last public beta release (again :-).

Please check if your mappings still work!  I made a few changes to make it
possible to avoid <> strings to be interpreted as a special key code by
putting a CTRL-V in front of it.  Previously this was impossible.  Also check
out the 'B' flag in 'cpoptions'.  This makes the <> notation work for mapping,
abbreviation and menu commands when typed or copy/pasted.

See the end of version.c for the complete list of changes since 3.28.  Quite
a few problems have been reported and fixed.  Thanks to all who helped
testing!

The ctags version 0.42 is included.  Only minor changes since last time,
mostly to make it compile on different systems.

[there is one known problem: Using the 'paste' entry from the "Edit" menu in
GUI Athena makes Vim crash silently a little later :-((.  Just discovered
this, no time to fix it right now]

Here is an overview of the changes between version 3.28 and 3.29:

-- New features --

GUI  Added 'A' flag to 'guioptions': only when included does the ALT key set
     the 8th bit of a typed character.  It is included by default, remove it
     for a German or other foreign keyboard that uses ALT for special
     characters.

Added 'B' flag in 'cpoptions': accept a backslash like a CTRL-V in a mapping.
This makes the <> notation work for mappings, abbreviations and menus.

Added: "CTRL-W W" goes to previous window, with wrap around.

Added function keys F13 to F20 to GUI (for Sun keyboards).


-- Changes incompatible with the previous version --

The last argument to the ":menu" command and friends is now interpreted
exactly like for the ":map" command.  This means that extra CTRL-V characters
may need to be inserted in existing menu's!!!  Things like <Esc> can be used
now, and the <> notation, if you remove 'B' from 'cpoptions'.  I hope it is
more logical now.

Changed "-w {scriptout}" argument back to appending.  Added "-W {scriptout}"
for writing a new script file, overwriting any existing file.


-- Various changes --

LOTS of bugs fixed again.

GUI  Fixed: Deleting of the "new file" message and other problems when
     starting the Athena GUI.  Added a wait in main(), so callbacks are called
     early.

Fixed: When RIGHTLEFT was defined, lots of inserted characters were lost (when
repeating insert, pasting, mappings, etc.).

Included the first few patches for VMS in the existing files.  The set of new
files for VMS will be made available separately.

------------------------

Please test this version as much as you can. Send me a single line for every
Unix system that you have compiled it on.  I'll collect these in the Makefile.
Use the existing lines as an example.

-- Where to get it --

Vim can be found at:
        ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/misc/vim/beta-test/     (slow)

You can probably also find it at:
	ftp://petrified.cic.net/mirrors/vim/beta-test/
	ftp://jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/unix/vim/beta-test/
        ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/vim/beta-test/
	ftp://ftp.prz.tu-berlin.de/pub/unix/editors/vim/
	ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/editors/vim/beta-test/
	ftp://nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/vim            (all in one directory)

A Linux binary statically linked with Motif can soon be found at:
	ftp://ftp.blarg.net/pub/vim

A few Win32 binaries (for NT on Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC) can be found at:
	ftp://www.halcyon.com/local/gvr/vim/


Files (in /pub/misc/vim/beta-test):

amiga/vim329src.lha        Amiga packed sources (excluding src/tags)
amiga/vim329bin.lha        Amiga binary + docs

atari/...                  First Atari MiNT version.

os2/vim329os2.zip          OS/2 binary (currently still version 3.27)

pc/vim329src.zip           MS-DOS packed sources (with CR-LF)
pc/vim329r16.zip           16 bits MS-DOS binary + docs
pc/vim329p32.zip           32 bits MS-DOS binary + docs
pc/vim329w32.zip           Windows 95/NT binary + docs

unix/vim-3.29.tar.gz       gzipped tar archive with sources + docs
unix/vim-328-329.diff.gz   gzipped diff between 3.28 and 3.29

vim_329.txt                this file
README                     README for version 3.29

If you have problems with the diff for the documentation files, that's
probably because there is a star in the first column of the first line in each
file.  You'll have to fix this by hand.

-- What's next? --

For the final release the "329" will be replaced with "40".  Otherwise these
are the filenames I plan to use for the distribution.  The diff will not be in
the 4.0 release.

I hope that this week no more serious bugs are reported.  Then I hope version
4.0 can be released on May 29!!!!

Any bug reports should reach me on Monday May 27 (consider the time
difference).

-- Porting --

OS/2:
Thanks to Paul Slootman there is an OS/2 port now!!!  It is still new, lots of
testing needs to be done.  There is a binary available in the beta-test/os2
directory.  Currently this is the 3.27 version, the 3.29 version should be
available soon.

Mac:
Still nobody is working on this.  Any volunteer?

VMS:
The first set of patches has been posted on vimdev.  It will be made available
as a separate set of files later.  Still quite a bit of work remains to be
done.

Atari MiNT:
A first version of the Atari MiNT port is ready for testing!  It uses the Unix
code, there should not be too many problems.


-- Reporting bugs --

If you run into bugs or just don't like what you see, let me know.  Best is to
send me patches if you can.  Otherwise send me a clear description of the
problem.  Include info about the machine you run it on, and the output of:
	:set all
	:set termcap
	:map
	:map!
	:au
And any other things that apply.

-- Vim mailing lists --

There are three mailing lists for Vim:

	vim@prz.tu-berlin.de		about using Vim
	vimdev@prz.tu-berlin.de		about developing Vim
	vimannounce@prz.tu-berlin.de	announcements

If you want to join send a message to
		majordomo@prz.tu-berlin.de
and put "info" in the body.  Then Majordomo will give you a little help.
If you have trouble with a mailing list, send a message to Felix von Leitner,
who made this mailing list work: leitner@prz.tu-berlin.de.  Don't ask him to
subscribe or remove you from the list, use majordomo for that.

Happy Vimming!

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