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• Vim 7.4 released! - (posted to vim_dev but not vim_announce)
• Vim 7.3 released!
  • help: changes for 7.3
• Vim 7.2 released!
  • The main new feature since 7.1 is floating point support.
  • help: changes for 7.2
• Vim 7.1 released!
  • help: changes for 7.1
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Version History

Vim 7.0

Ref: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/vimannounce/conversations/messages/161

New features:

• Omni completion
• Lists, Dicts and FuncRef support.  Python vim.eval call will return a Python List or Dict if the result was a Vim List or Dict.
• Tab pages
• Undo branches
• CursorMoved autocommand.  Ref: matchparen
• cursorline and cursorcolumn
• Internal grep, vimgrep, introduced.  See example with getqflist()
• Support for custom operators.  See operatorfunc'](http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'operatorfunc'), g@ and :map-operator
• Expressions mappings for map and abbr.  See map-<expr>
• Per window location list.
• at and it for selecting text between XML tags.  (And likewise a'/i' for selecting strings.)
• relativenumber
• mac
  • When starting up Vim will load the $VIMRUNTIME/macmap.vim script to define default command-key mappings.

Since Vim 6.4 many new features have been added.  To mention a few:

• Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
• Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
• Highlighting of cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
• Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
• Improved Unicode support
• Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
• Vim script profiling
• Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
• Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
• Printing multi-byte text
• Spell checking support for about 50 languages
• Translated manual pages support.