Vim 7.0 finally out

Kim Schulz, monday d. 6. february 2012

There can be only one! in the editor world that is Vim.
-- Kim Schulz

Today the first official stable release of Vim v7.0 is released to the ftp mirrors . This is absolutely great news for all vim lovers out there an I sure for one wont wait many seconds before I install it on all my computers.

The new v7.0 comes with some long awaited enhancements whereof I especially like the omnicomplete features. This is a set of completely new functions that makes it possible to add even better auto-completion support to vim. The best thing is that now it can popup in a small window/context menu right next to the text you are writing insted of in a new buffer/vim window.
Completion with omnicomplete has allready been added for a long list of programming languages and more are coming every day.

Other nice features to mention are:

• Tabs - old idea but new in vim. one tab can containg several vim windows
• vimgrep - grep in external files without using an external grep tool. Especially great for windows vim users.
• Full built-in spellchecking support (50languages supported)
• undo branches
• browsing of remote files - even zip and tar archives
• better printing support

and much much more.

Thumbs up to all the vim developers out there for once again showing the world what a superior editor vim is.

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