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Complete Changelog ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/README (it includes all changes from 7.3 up to 7.4) New patches for 7.4 will be in the patches/7.4 folder.
Wow. Actual .patch files. In 2013. This is ridiculous.
Very nice! Does anyone remember that nifty syntax highlighting script from a while ago that required a recentish version of Vim? I'll install 7.4 and want to try that out, but I don't remember what it was...
It’s not syntax highlighting, but it needs a recent version of Vim: http://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/ ?
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It sounds like someone read Russ Cox's work on regexp. Russ Cox? You know that regular expressions have existed since Kleene's first proposals, and everyone with a CS degrees knows that you can compile them to deterministic finite state automata. Right?
And that's why the RE2 implementation has existed equally long! Oh, wait.
However, the problem is that not all regular expressions 'dialects' (most notably Perl regexes) are not regular languages and cannot be represented as a finite state automata. For instance, the introduction of back-references makes regular expressions non-regular.
So, it's not so much being enlightened by Russ Cox, but a trade-off between the convenience of some of the Perl extensions and the ability to apply matching in linear time. Also, for complex expressions, constructing the automaton can be slow.
[1] A small selection:
http://www.brics.dk/automaton/
http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/Fsa/
http://www.complang.org/ragel/
http://open.xerox.com/Services/fst-nlp-tools
Some of the packages can also be used to construct transducers, weighted automata, etc.
And still no viable competitor to emacs.
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It sounds like someone read Russ Cox's work on regexp. Russ Cox? You know that regular expressions have existed since Kleene's first proposals, and everyone with a CS degrees knows that you can compile them to deterministic finite state automata. Right?
Sadly not everybody is familiar with Automata theory - furthermore, I'm sure he knows and his link is about implementation and is none trivial and none obvious. I'm struggling to understand your negativity here..
Sorry, that was indeed a bit harsh. I wanted to point out that Bram Molenaar is probably well-aware of DFAs given how well-known they are and how many implementations there are available. I don't think Russ Cox has much too do with it and rather that it is driven by demand - linear time matching is attractive for syntax highlighting.
It doesn't appear as though MacVim for 10.7 and 10.8 is released yet though the 10.6 is: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/downloads/list