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Bram Moolenaar receives the Europe SFS Award by the FSFE posthumously

[2024-11-08] Bram has been posthumously honored by the Free Software Foundation Europe and received the Europe SFS Award 2024. (Christian Brabandt)

Support for the XDG Base Directory Specification

[2024-04-18] Patch 9.1.327 brings support for the freedesktop XDG Base Directory Specification and has now been merged. A few more adjustments have been made withe following patches: v9.1.0337 and 9.1.345. That means, you can now place your configuration files under ~/.config/vim/ instead of ~/.vim so Vim will stop littering your home directory. Note: To make this change backwards compatible, Vim will only attempt to source from that location, if ~/.vim/vimrc and ~/.vimrc file do not exist. So it won't impact existing users, but users that want to start using the new location, will need to move their existing configuration to the new place. You can also read about it at :h xdg-base-dir. Thanks to all the contributors that help Vim continuing to grow! (Christian Brabandt)

Vim 9.1 is released!

[2024-01-02] The Vim project is happy to announce that Vim 9.1 has finally been released. This release is dedicated to Bram Moolenaar, Vims lead developer for more than 30 years, who suddenly passed away in August 2023. The most notable changes are support for Vim9 classes and objects, smooth scrolling support and virtual text support. And as usual, runtime files have been updated, many bugs have been fixed and potential security relevant fixes have been included. You can find the full announcement here. (Christian Brabandt)

Vim: The power tool for everyone! See pictures of Bram's latest visit to Uganda on Google Photos. Read the visit report on the ICCF website.

Recent Script Updates	5,959 scripts, 18,759,885 downloads

[2024-11-08]	asyncrun : Run Async Shell Commands in Vim 8.0 and Output to Quickfix in Realtime
	(2.13.2) - Update asyncrun.vim version to 2.13.2 and fix handling of shellslash on Windows. - Wei Lin
[2024-11-04]	link.vim : Keep long URLs out of your way
	(1.1.0) Support <Plug> mappings - Qad Zek
[2024-11-03]	The ObjectSense Programming Language : An object-oriented reincarnation of VimL
	(2.5.26) 1.  Windows platform is supported in this version. 2.  Deprecated Borrow, Borrow! and Import!, use more straight forward constructs by specifying the exact items in Import statement.  Namely, static, variable, constant, and micro.      3.  Introduced table driven test framework - UnitTest, which has more succinct syntax than the counterpart in Go.              4.  Paving ways to speed up Vi... - XO
[2024-11-02]	UnconditionalPaste : Force character-/line-/block-wise paste, regardless of how it was yanked.
	(4.40) - CHG: g=p and g==p apply the expression to the whole register contents, not to individual lines. Instead, the expression can now be applied individually to matches of prepended /{pattern}/, or to items separated by ^{pattern}^, or via prepended "." to individual lines. So, to keep the previous behavior, just put a "." before the expression. Because of that change, single lines are not unjoined by... - Ingo Karkat
[2024-11-02]	CmdlineSpecialEdits : Useful replacements of parts of the cmdline.
	(1.10) - CHG: Switch <C-G>y to <C-G>Y and add <C-G>y{x} variant that allows to pass the register to yank the command-line to. - BUG: <C-G><C-S> introduces an additional separator if the cursor is before the final substitution separator (i.e. in the replacement part). - ENH: Allow customization of the <C-R><C-V> literal pattern / replacement for custom :Substitute commands and add :SmartCase by default.... - Ingo Karkat
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