Release Digest: General, June 2, 2003

Vim (Vi IMproved) 6.2

[ Thanks to Aschwin
Marsman for this link. ]

Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 6.2 – the Amiga memorial
edition

Author: Bram Moolenaar et al.

Announcement

This is a bugfix release of Vim. Since Vim 6.1 hundreds of
reported problems have been fixed. Also included are new and
updated syntax files, translated menus and messages.

The main new features are:

• Support for GTK 2. (Daniel Elstner)
• Support for editing Arabic text. (Nadim Shaikli & Isam
  Bayazidi)
• “:try” command and exception handling. (Servatius Brandt)
• Support for the neXtaw GUI toolkit (mostly like Athena).
  (Alexey Froloff)
• Cscope support for Win32. (Sergey Khorev)
• Support for PostScript printing in various 8-bit encodings.
  (Mike Williams)

Once you have installed 6.2 you can find details about the
changes since Vim 6.1 with “:help version-6.2”. There is a long
list of fixed bugs.

What is Vim?

Vim is an almost 100% compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.
Many new features have been added: Multi level undo, syntax
highlighting, command line history, filename completion, block
operations, etc. Those who don’t know Vi can probably skip this
message, unless you are prepared to learn something new and useful.
Vim is especially recommended for editing programs.

Vim runs on almost any Unix flavor, MS-DOS, MS-Windows 3.1,
MS-Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, OS/2, Atari MiNT, BeOS, VMS, RISC
OS, Macintosh and Amiga.

For more information, see http://www.vim.org. This is also a
great place to find Vim tips and scripts!

Where to get it

Information about which files to download for what system:

http://www.vim.org/download.php

All files can be found below these directories:

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/
http://ftp.vim.org/editors/vim/

A list of mirror sites can be found here:

http://www.vim.org/mirrors.php

Happy Vimming!