Vim 7 Released

houseofmore writes "After many years of development, Bram Moolenaar, creator of Vim, today announced version 7 of the widely used editor. New features included spell checking in up to 50 languages, intelligent completion, tab pages, extended undo branches and much more. Downloads available here for Unix, Windows, Mac and more."

waiting

[yagu]

I'm waiting for the emacs emulation mode. (kidding, kidding)

syntax highlighting!

[Gothmolly]

I, for one, welcome our upgraded syntax highlighting overlords. I can't remember the last time I wrote syntactically incorrect code since I switched from vi. Of course, I can still write BAD code, or silly code, but vim catches my typos every time.

What's that odor ?

[alexhs]

This thread smells the troll, don't you think ? :)

Vim 7

[Anonymous Coward]

:%s/vim 6.4/vim 7/
:wq

This alone is worth it...

[digitalhermit]

Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.

Yup, this one alone is worth it. Need to write some code? Forget your IDE and just use the C "autoprogram" feature of the new Vi. This message was composed with :set autorespond .

Re:waiting

[quokkapox]

M-x shell<enter> vim<enter>

Creating a macro is left as an exercise to the reader.
^X^S
dammit

Let's try it out

[suso]

quit
q
stop
exit
[esc]
quit damnit
ahhhhh

(just kidding, I know how to quit from vim)

Spell Check

[Danathar]

Now I can die.

Re:waiting

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm waiting for the emacs emulation mode

Vim now runs on more than 15 [vim.org] different operating systems, so I'm sure emacs can't be far behind.

Re:Let's try it out

[gEvil (beta)]

ctrl-q
alt-q
alt-F4
ctrl-c
ctrl-d
esc-esc-esc-esc
awww, screwit...
*power button*

My favorite editor

[bennomatic]

When all the other websites were putting badges on saying, "made with dreamweaver", or "made with go-live", or whatever, I made the following for my site:
made with vi [dimspace.com]

Re:waiting

[VE3MTM]

And this, folks, is the sound of a joke going right over someone's head... *WHOOSH*

Someone had to...

[Nightreaver]

Someone had to remind slashdotters of the superior editor... Ed, man! [gnu.org]

VI is like a Stanley Kubrick movie

[Anonymous Coward]

The ability to become proficient with vi is a lot like being able to watch, follow, and understand a Stanley Kubrick movie. Some folks can just get it and some don't. If you were able to watch SO:2001 or AI from start to end, the very first time, and not get lost, and understand it all... then you'll probably pick up on becoming proficient at using vi/vim very quickly.

Re:On OS X, it's all about SubEthaEdit

[caseih]

Sure but SubEthaEdit has a very annoying and on-going bug that the developers cannot seem to reproduce or fix. Invariably, SubEthaEdit litters my code with random ":" and sometimes ":w". It's very annoying. Occasionally I see other random sequences appear like "gg", "yy", "dd", and "x".

You mean ed users

[Cleveland Steamer]

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When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi *and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
          ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
          ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
          Ed is the standard text editor.
---

Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem> ed

?
help
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?

Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.

"Ed is the standard text editor." Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

Cool. As a Debian user...

[just_another_sean]

I guess I can look forward to getting a package sometime in 2007 :-)

Version 7?

[yet another coward]

GNU Emacs is at version 21.4 [gnu.org]. Can we really trust such an immature editor?

And shockingly enough...

[ylikone]

..your site looks like it was made by someone that only uses vi.

Re:I just can't get the hang of vim

[cicho]

"These days, you can even use the arrow keys to navigate to make it even easier"

Said with a straight face too, I'm sure. Only on slashdot!

Re:Someone had to...

[stinerman]

The best part:

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Re:Interesting...

[Macrobat]

.. When did Perl get demoted to 'etc'?

It didn't. It's right there in '/usr/bin/' where it's been all along.

Steep learning curve...?

[mogrify]

I tried to figure out exactly how steep vi's learning curve is, and I got a DivideByZeroException... :(

Re:Version 7?

[Coryoth]

You do know that Emacs is at version 1.21.4. They stopped using the major version number because it hasn't changed in the last couple of decades...

I had heard they dropped the major version number, but I always presumed it was 0.21.4, with the expectation that Emacs would finally hit 1.0.0 once it was feature complete.

Jedidiah.

I hate it when

[SlashSquatch]

a I get into a regular editor and starttypxxxx start typing esc x a all over the place:x

Re:Spell Check

[Zontar_Thing_From_Ve]

Now I can die.

Or if you use Emacs you can wish you were dead.

(ducks)

Re:waiting

[PGC]

<Esc>uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu <Ctrl>-R <Ctrl>-R <Ctrl>-R

Or ... faster :
<Esc>23 u 3 <Ctrl>-R

Re:And shockingly enough...

[Cal Paterson]

A quick look at your linked site reveals the following; 91 HTML errors by the W3C html validator A horrible Mac OS X design 8 "use *"/"created by *" buttons "This site best viewed at 1024x768 or higher resolution" Links to Opera and Skype (obviously two perfect examples of good GNU/Linux software) and more a bunch of crappy amazon "paymepaymepaymepaymepaymepaymepayme" links Perhaps you should keep it down.

Re:syntax highlighting!

[dotgain]

What I really love about vim is that no matter what obscure language I might end up writing in during my computer science studies, there always seem to be a syntax highligt setting for vim.

Dude, you could edit /dev/kmem and vim would somehow figure out syntax highlighting for it.

Re:waiting

[RLiegh]

>Have you heard of google?
Nope. What can you tell me about it?

Re:I 3 VIM

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah yes, Cill and Kopy.

(fucknut)

Re:waiting

[Kehvarl]

>Have you heard of google?
Nope. What can you tell me about it?


It's a fully featured calculator, email, calendar, and chat system. Oh, it does searches too.
It's really rather like emacs in that, someday, it may even get its own text editor.