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Re: Vim 7.3 released

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My MacVim auto-updated to 7.3 when I launched it. :-) I like the incremental improvements to things in this release. Kudos to Bram (and Bjorn for the Mac build).

How did you achieve that? Mine didn't, and doing "Check for updates" in the MacVim says I'm already at the latest version. I'm at "7.2 stable 1.2/33.3".

Probably because you are using a stable version, and MacVim 7.3 is still a snapshot.

Re: Vim 7.3 released

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post #21

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How did you achieve that? Mine didn't, and doing "Check for updates" in the MacVim says I'm already at the latest version. I'm at "7.2 stable 1.2/33.3".

Probably because you are using a stable version, and MacVim 7.3 is still a snapshot.

The home page calls 7.3 a stable release. In my case I think it's because 7.3 is OS X 10.6 only and I'm still on 10.5.

Re: Vim 7.3 released

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post #21

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Probably because you are using a stable version, and MacVim 7.3 is still a snapshot.

The home page calls 7.3 a stable release. In my case I think it's because 7.3 is OS X 10.6 only and I'm still on 10.5.

Not necessarily. I'm on 10.6, but that does not seem to help.

Re: Vim 7.3 released

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Anyone got any links to good guides for getting into Vim if you are a Visual Studio user at present?

I keep hearing people talking about Vim and how it will change your life, mannn. Is there a good beginners guide?

Re: Vim 7.3 released

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post #24

Anyone got any links to good guides for getting into Vim if you are a Visual Studio user at present? I keep hearing people talking about Vim and how it will change your life, mannn. Is there a good beginners guide?

Start by running vimtutor on just about any system that has Vim installed.

Re: Vim 7.3 released

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post #24

Anyone got any links to good guides for getting into Vim if you are a Visual Studio user at present? I keep hearing people talking about Vim and how it will change your life, mannn. Is there a good beginners guide?

I liked the visual guide: http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...

You can also get a vi plugin for Visual Studio http://www.viemu.com/ which is pretty cool.

Re: Vim 7.3 released

#28

It's pretty cool that vim has had the same lead developer running the project for nearly 20 years. It's also pretty cool how he asks for donations to be sent to nonprofits instead of himself. I know this is irrelevant to the new release, but I think it's great that he still keeps it going after 20 years without any monetary gain (at least directly from the project).

s/lead//

Bram is the one and only developer of Vim.

Re: Vim 7.3 released

#29
post #3

Looking forward to playing around with the new Lua interface.

Me too, but I'm getting a "E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version" message when trying the new :lua* commands with the Windows version from the self-installing executable.

EDIT: Ah, the binary distribution is compiled with -lua (see :version). Cloning the Hg repository now...

Re: Vim 7.3 released

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post #24

Anyone got any links to good guides for getting into Vim if you are a Visual Studio user at present? I keep hearing people talking about Vim and how it will change your life, mannn. Is there a good beginners guide?

Peepcode has a pair of excellent starting with vim screen casts. I started a few weeks ago and they helped me a ton.

https://peepcode.com/products/smash-into-vim-i

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