From: Bram Moolenaar To: vim-dev@vim.org Subject: Vim 6.0c alpha available Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:00:47 +0200 Message-Id: <200007231900.VAA94010@moolenaar.net> Another Vim in the 6.0 series. WARNING: This is really an unstable version. Many things have been added without proper testing. It does crash. It may destroy your work. This version is for developers, thus it comes as source code only. If you run into something that doesn't work, please try to figure out why, try to solve it and send me a patch. If you can't do that, at least send me precise information to save me time. If you don't like the syntax of a command, the name of an option or how the new features work, let's discuss this in the vim-dev maillist. In version 6.0c: I have spent some time fixing reported problems. This took a lot of time, and there are still quite a few in the todo list. I have removed the big switch for Ex commands in ex_docmd.c. There are now function references in the commands table. This should make maintenance a bit easier, and helps optimizers a lot (the SASC compiler on the Amiga ran out of memory and crashed). More info for the new 6.0 features at ":help version6". Lots of things are not working yet. Check ":help todo" for known items. I NEED YOUR HELP: There is still a lot of work to be done. If I have to do it all by myself it will take a very long time until Vim.6.0 is ready. Please give a hand by implementing one of the items in the todo list. You can find it here: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unreleased/ unix/vim-6.0c-rt.tar.gz runtime files unix/vim-6.0c-src.tar.gz sources extra/vim-6.0c-extra.tar.gz extra files extra/vim-6.0c-lang.tar.gz multi-language files Happy Vimming!