- Spell checking support for about 50 languages
- Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
- Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
- Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
- Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
- Vim script profiling
- Improved Unicode support
- Highlighting of cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
- Translated manual pages support.
- Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
- Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
- Printing multi-byte text
- find details about the changes since vim-6.4 with :help version7
- /bin/vi /vim-minimal is now using /etc/virc to avoid .rpmnew files when
updating
Tue Jul 13 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 6.3.013-1
- patchlevel 13 to fix some crashes with multi-line patterns and when using
CTRL-R in command mode
Mon Dec 23 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 6.1-18.8x.1
- use official patch for the modeline issue
Sat Dec 21 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 6.1-18.8x.0
- disable libcall() and system() in modelines
Tue Dec 17 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 6.1-17
- Patchlevel 263
- gvim works again (#79355)
- don't backup all those patched files
Tue Nov 12 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- added a lot of upstream patches + the README describing them
- fix alias for zsh (#77007)
- FIXME: gvim is currently broken
Wed Oct 02 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- include the other httpd config files for syntax highlight
Wed Oct 02 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- PL 206
- fix#74135
Wed Aug 28 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- PL 165:
- when conversion to xxd fails 'filetype' was set anyway
- undo information is corrupted when splitting a saved line
- add latin1 to fileencodings to fix 'conversion errors'
Mon Aug 19 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- PL 159: expanding a multi-byte abbreviation deletes too much
- build /bin/vi with --enably-multibyte (#71282)
Thu Aug 15 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- Patchlevel 153: translated menus are not used when lang contains
"iso8859" searching in included files could loop recursively
- don't mark runtime files as %doc or the files will be added to the
package twice. (saves 2M)
- fix 'Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: .../gvim.desktop'
- work around rpm limitations, can't replace directories with symlinks
Sun Aug 11 2002 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>
- fix profile.d/vim.sh
Thu Aug 08 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- Patchlevel 151
Fri Jul 26 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- Patchlevel 141
- use desktop-file-utils (#69443)
- fix /etc/profile.d/vim.sh (#67264)
Tue Jul 09 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 6.1-8
- Update to patchlevel 125
- fix#59176, #65766, #59958, #55065, #62374, #62654, #63248
- reenable alpha
Mon Jul 01 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.1-7
- Update to patchlevel 118
- Fix bug 64589
Tue Jun 25 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 6.1-6
- Update to patchlevel 112
- added a modified patch 49 for INVALCOLOR
Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
- automated rebuild
Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
- automated rebuild
Thu May 09 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.1-3
- Update to patchlevel 57
- Rebuild with current toolchain
- Temporarily exclude alpha, the build environment is broken (no db, no
python 2.x)
Sun Mar 24 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.1-1
- Update to 6.1 (pure bugfix release)
Mon Mar 11 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-14
- Patchlevel 270
- Move vimtutor to /usr/bin and vim-enhanced (#60772)
Mon Jan 28 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-13
- Patchlevel 152
- Add symlinks for evim, rvim and vimdiff as described in vim docs
Tue Jan 22 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-12
- Patchlevel 149
Tue Jan 22 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-11
- Patchlevel 147
Thu Dec 27 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-9
- Patchlevel 101
Mon Nov 26 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-8
- Patchlevel 93
Mon Nov 05 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-7
- 6.0pl78
- Move desktop file (Utilities -> Applications), #53503
Thu Nov 01 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-6
- 6.0pl61
Wed Oct 31 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- 6.0pl44
Mon Oct 29 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-5
- 6.0pl36
- Fix build with gcc 3.1
Tue Oct 23 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-4
- 6.0pl21
- Don't show an error message when trying to "return" to a line that no
longer exists (#54551)
Mon Oct 22 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-3
- 6.0pl19
Sun Sep 30 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-2
- 6.0pl11
Wed Sep 26 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-1
- 6.0
Thu Sep 13 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-0.av.1
- 6.0av
- Use -Os in rescue mode
Tue Sep 04 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-0.au.1
- Update to 6.0au
- Allow rescue build
Tue Aug 28 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 6.0-0.at.1
- vim 6.0at
- Increase epoch so we can update 7.2 systems
Fri Jul 20 2001 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
- don't alias vi to be vim.
Tue Jul 10 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 5.8-5
- Fix vimtutor race condition (#46518)
Mon Jul 02 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de>
- fix vim.sh (vi filename doesn't work, vim filename does)
Wed Jun 27 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 5.8-3
- Fix up lilo.conf syntax highlighting (as done earlier)
- Alias vi to vim in vim-enhanced (as done earlier), fix#44050 while at it
- bzip2 source (as done earlier)
- Add BuildRequires (as done earlier)
- Get rid of patches that worked around bugs in Red Hat Linux 4.x (as done
earlier)
- Send people who downgrade other people's packages WITHOUT AT THE VERY
LEAST backporting fixes/patches to hell!!!!! >:-((
- Add fixes from the maintainer, we're now at 5.8.005
- Add postfix config syntax highlighting (RFE #44778)
Fri Jun 15 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
- Update from 5.7 to 5.8.
Fri Mar 30 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Fix large file handling (#34061)
Mon Feb 26 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
- use %{_tmppath}
Thu Feb 15 2001 Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai@redhat.com>
- vimrc update for 6.0v
Mon Feb 12 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Fix "lba32" keyword in lilo.conf syntax highlighting
- Fix build with current glibc
Fri Feb 02 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Fix crontab -e in vim-minimal (#25376)
Tue Jan 30 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Fix segfault on q, up, up, q (Bug #25261)
Sun Aug 06 2000 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
- xterm doesn't have request version string (#14570)
Sat Aug 05 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Patchlevel 8
Fri Aug 04 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Fix paths in vim.1 manpage (Bug #15387)
Wed Jul 19 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Fix up vimtutor (Bug #11455)
Thu Jul 13 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
- automatic rebuild
Sun Jun 25 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- 5.7 release
- some more fixes to .spec file syntax highlighting rules... About time it
recognizes %{_mandir}...
Sun Jun 18 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
- 5.7a
Sat Jun 03 2000 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero@redhat.com>
- patchlevel 74
- add %makeinstall macro recognition to .spec file syntax highlighting
rules
- fix up Makefiles
Fri Apr 14 2000 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero@redhat.com>
- patchlevel 66
- fix compilation with perl 5.6.0
Mon Mar 20 2000 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero@redhat.com>
- patchlevel 12
Tue Mar 07 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
- fix home/end in vimrc (we did a term = rxvt, totally wrong)
Tue Feb 29 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
- change F1-F4 keybindings for xterm builtin terminfo to match real
terminfo
Thu Feb 17 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
- kill autoindent
Mon Feb 07 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
- wmconfig -> desktop
Sat Feb 05 2000 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Patchlevel 11
- handle compressed man pages
- fix man page symlinks
Wed Feb 02 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
- eliminate dependencies on X in vim-enhanced, and ncurses/gpm in
vim-minimal
Fri Jan 28 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
- eliminate dependencies on csh and perl in vim-common
Wed Jan 19 2000 Bernhard Rosenrkänzer <bero@redhat.com>
- Use awk, not nawk
Tue Jan 18 2000 Bernhard Rosenrkänzer <bero@redhat.com>
- 5.6
- patch 5.6.001
- remove /usr/bin/vi - if you want vim, type vim
Tue Jan 11 2000 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero@redhat.com>
- 5.6a
- Remove dependency on nawk (introduced by base update)
- some tweaks to make updating easier
Tue Nov 09 1999 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero@redhat.com>
- 5.5
- fix path to vimrc
Tue Jul 27 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
- moved from athena to gtk widgets for X version
- removed vim.1 from X11 filelist because X11 depends on vim-common anyway
- fixed rogue dependencies from sample files
Tue Jul 27 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- update to 5.4.
Thu Jul 22 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- man page had buildroot pollution (#3629).
Thu Mar 25 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
- with recent termcap/terminfo fixes, regular vim works in xterm/console
- in color, so vim-color package removed.
Tue Mar 23 1999 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
- removed "set backupdir=/tmp/vim_backup" from default vimrc
Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
- auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 5)
Thu Dec 17 1998 Michael Maher <mike@redaht.com>
- built pacakge for 6.0
Tue Sep 15 1998 Michael Maher <mike@redhat.com>
- removed '--with-tlib=termcap' so that color-vim works
Wed Sep 02 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- update to 5.3.
Mon Aug 10 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- merge in Toshio's changes
- color-vim: changed "--disable-p" to "--disable-perlinterp
--with-tlib=termcap"
- added minimal rvi/rview and man pages.
- move Obsoletes to same package as executable.
Thu Aug 06 1998 Toshio Kuratomi <badger@prtr-13.ucsc.edu>
- Break the package apart similar to the way the netscape package was
broken down to handle navigator or communicator: The vim package is
Obsolete, now there is vim-common with all the common files, and a
package for each binary: vim-minimal (has /bin/vi compiled with no
frills), vim-enhanced (has /usr/bin/vim with extra perl and python
interpreters), and vim-X11 (has /usr/X11R6/bin/gvim compiled with GUI
support.)
- Enable the perl and python interpreters in the gui version (gvim).
Tue Jun 30 1998 Michael Maher <mike@redhat.com>
- Fixed tutor help.
- cvim package added. Thanks to Stevie Wills for finding this one :-)
Thu May 07 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
- translations modified for de, fr, tr
Fri May 01 1998 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
- added patch to turn off the "vi compatibility" by default. You can still
get it via the -C command line option
Thu Apr 23 1998 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
- removed perl and python interpreters (sorry, but those don't belong in a
/bin/vi and having two vi's seemed like overkill...complain to
suggest@redhat.com if you care)
Fri Apr 17 1998 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
- fixed buildroot bug
Sat Apr 11 1998 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
- updated from 4.6 to 5.1
- moved to buildroot
Sun Nov 09 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
- fixed missing man page
Wed Oct 22 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
- added wmconfig entry to vim-X11
Mon Oct 20 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
- upgraded from 4.5 to 4.6
Fri Jun 13 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
- built against glibc
Tue Mar 25 1997 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
- Upgraded to 4.5
- Added ex symlinks
Tue Mar 11 1997 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
- Added view symlink.
