First look at Vim 7

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Vim 7 is out! There are following significant changes since version 6.4:

  • 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

Have a look the article “First look at Vim 7” to get more details.

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