Download Vim 7.1

The universal editor Vim has arrived at version 7.1. Vim is present on most Linux systems and runs on almost all common and less common operating systems. This new version has many new features, including a built-in spell checker, built-in grep, extensions in vimscript (macro language), greatly improved automatic word and line completion, and a tree-accessible undo history. More information can be found in this announcement are found in Yahoo groups. Below is a portion of that announcement:

Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.1

This is a stable release of Vim, version 7.1. Since version 7.0 lots of problems were fixed and runtime files were updated. It has been one year and five days since 7.0!

Most of Vim 7.1 was already available as patches for quite a while. A couple of test versions were made to spot problems in the distribution. Therefore Vim 7.1 can be considered very stable.

If you are using an older version, it is highly recommended you install Vim 7.1. Several crashing bugs and a security issue were fixed.

Once you have installed Vim 7.1 you can find details about the changes since Vim 7.0 with “:help version-7.1”.

I will not make an Amiga or OS/2 binary for Vim 7.1. A Mac version is hopefully available soon on http://macvim.org/[break]