Download Vim 7.3

Last week, version 7.3 of Vi IMproved, or Vim, was released. This universal editor Vim was once developed by Bram Moolenaar for the Commodore Amiga, but is now also available for Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, DOS and Windows. Although the previous version saw the light of day two years ago, Bram does not want to call the new version a major release. The main changes can be found in the announcement.

Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.3

This is a minor release of Vim. It consists of Vim 7.2 plus all patches, updated runtime files and some more, see below. It has been two years since the 7.2 release, thus it’s not that “minor”. But not “major” either. Something in between, don’t know how to call that.

The most notable additions since 7.2:

• Persistent undo and undo for reload
• Blowfish encryption, encryption of the swap file
• Conceal text
• Lua interface
• Python 3 interface

Once you have installed Vim 7.3 you can find all the details about the changes since Vim 7.2 with:
:help version-7.3