To: vimannounce@prz.tu-berlin.de (Vim announcements) Subject: Vim version 4.5 is available for distribution! Date: Tue, 08 Oct 96 10:39:13 +0200 From: mool@oce.nl Version 4.5 is the new release version. If no serious problems are encountered this version should replace version 4.2 as the official Vim version. I'll wait for the binary versions for OS/2, MiNT and WIN32 to arrive. I'll keep the files in the "beta-test" directory until then. Over the past weeks I have fixed just a few bugs. For a complete list see src/version.c. ------------------------ VIM Distribution Sites Vim can be found at: ftp://ftp.oce.nl/pub/misc/vim/ (Holland) Mirrors: ftp://jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/unix/vim/ (USA, fast) ftp://nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/vim (USA, fast) ftp://petrified.cic.net/mirrors/vim/ (USA) ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/editors/vim/ (Germany) ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/vim/ (Germany, incomplete) A Linux binary statically linked with Motif can soon be found at: ftp://ftp.blarg.net/pub/vim ftp://nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/vim/linux A few Win32 binaries (for NT on Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC) can be found at: ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/local/gvr/vim/ Files (in /pub/misc/vim/beta-test): amiga/vim45src.lha Amiga packed sources (excluding src/tags) amiga/vim45bin.lha Amiga binary + docs atari/... Atari MiNT version (a bit later). os2/vim45os2.zip OS/2 binary (currently still version 4.4) pc/vim45src.zip MS-DOS packed sources (with CR-LF) pc/vim45r16.zip 16 bits MS-DOS binary + docs pc/vim45p32.zip 32 bits MS-DOS binary + docs pc/vim45w32.zip Windows 95/NT binary + docs unix/vim-4.5.tar.gz gzipped tar archive with sources + docs unix/vim-44-45.diff.gz gzipped diff between 4.4 and 4.5 unix/vim-42-45.diff.gz gzipped diff between 4.2 and 4.5 vim_45.txt this file README README for version 4.5 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? -- Holidays! I'll be gone from October 17 till November 19. I don't expect many more bug fixes. It might be a while before version 4.6. It looks like version 5 will: - Improve the Vi compatibility. The goal is to make Vim a drop-in replacement for Vi. This will kick out Nvi from OpenBSD. - Add syntax highlighting. This will be quite a lot of work. - Add conditional statements and a few other things that look like the basics of a script language. This is not too difficult. - Add an interface to Perl. - Add a Windows GUI version. - Probably a lot more... -- Porting -- OS/2: I consider this version to be part of the "normal" distribution now. Mac: Axel Kielhorn started work on this. Will take some time. 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: I didn't get any complaints about this. Appears to be working fine. -- 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@math.fu-berlin.de. Don't ask him to subscribe or remove you from the list, use majordomo for that. Happy Vimming! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bram Moolenaar VIM home page: mool@oce.nl Interested in helping orphans in Uganda? Ask me for info. ===