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Vim text editor reaches version 7.3
OPEN SOURCE text editor Vim has been updated with a version 7.3 refresh.
Dutch open source developer Brian Moolenaar started working on Vim in 1991. The text editor was originally written for Amiga computers but has found extended life on today's cross-OS systems, especially on some Unix systems and Linux.
Moolenaar blogged in his excellent Dutch English that it has been a while since the last release.
"This is a minor release of Vim. It consists of Vim 7.2 plus all patches, updated runtime files and some more, see below. It has been two years since the 7.2 release, thus it's not that 'minor'. But not 'major' either. Something in between, don't know how to call that."
The updates include "persistent" undo and redos for reload by which we think Moolenaar means unlimited. Version 7.3 also gets Blowfish encryption, text conceal, a Lua interface and a Python 3 interface.
Once Vim 7.3 has been downloaded and installed, users will find that Moolenaar has added a help text with a full list of the updates.
Vim 7.3 can be downloaded at Mercurial and Moolenaar encourages users to donate to an ICCF project to help children in Uganda. µ
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Persistent undo-
"Basically, your undo lists are dumped into undo files allowing you to undo/redo even if buffer is unloaded (or even if editor closed). Plus now you are able to undo even after buffer reload (this is separate feature actually)." Quoted somewhere...
:%s/Brian/Bram/g
Please update the article considering the two posts above:
- 'persistent undos' is exactly what is intended by Bram (it is also the name given to this feature while discussing the patch on the mailing list).
- Bram's name is Bram not Brian.
Also, an anouncement on a mailing list is all but a blog post.
Vim is an excellent product - continuing the fine tradition of vi-like editors. Coincidentally my first programming job back in 1986 was at a company that mandated the use of vi (back then it was a 29k vi.com written in assembler on an original IBM PC running at 4.77MHz, though I forget the author's name) and last week I started a new job where everyone uses vi except for one crazy programmer who uses emacs - it's almost like life has come full circle, though I'm now the boss.
Sorry, I'll stick with Notepad2, thanks.
I'm a coder, not wired up to the Matrix.
Vim, indeed...
s/Brian/Bram/g
How condescending of you to "praise" his English and then suggest that he doesn't really know the language.
Persistent undos are undos that are persisted across file saves and reloads. Sounds like the right name for them to me.