2 • Extensive Firefox 4 support, including:
3 - Fully restartless. Can now be installed, uninstalled,
4 enabled, disabled, and upgraded without restarting Firefox.
6 - Tabs in :buffer completions and listings are grouped
7 by panorama groups. [b1]
8 - Only visible tabs are considered in tab numbering,
10 • Performance improvements:
11 - Improved startup time by a factor of 7. [b1]
12 - Further improved startup time. [b6]
13 - Significant completion speed improvements, especially for
15 • Added site-local and script-local groups: [b6]
16 - Added the :group command to define and select groups.
17 - Added the -group flag to :abbreviate, :autocmd, :command,
18 :map, :style, and friends.
19 - Mappings and commands can now be bound to groups which
20 execute only for certain websites.
21 - Autocommands, commands, mappings, and styles are now
22 automatically added to per-script groups so that most traces
23 of a script can be easily purged.
24 • Greatly improved private mode support and :sanitize command.
25 - Full integration with Firefox data clearing dialogs. [b3]
26 - Support for sanitizing items at shutdown. [b3]
27 - Fine-grained control over what data is sanitized and for
29 - Support for sanitizing reference to particular hosts,
30 everywhere from command-line and message history to option
31 values and cookies. [b1]
32 • New and much more powerful incremental search implementation.
33 Improvements over the standard Firefox find include: [b1]
34 - Starts at the cursor position in the currently selected
35 frame, unlike Firefox, which always starts at the start of
37 - Returns the cursor and viewport to their original position
39 - Backtracks to the first successful match after pressing
41 - Supports reverse incremental search.
42 - Input boxes are not focused when matches are highlighted.
43 • Ex command parsing improvements, including:
44 - Multiple Ex commands may now be separated by | [b1]
45 - Commands can continue over multiple lines in RC files by
46 prefixing the continuation lines with a \ [b3]
47 - The \ character is no longer treated specially within single
48 quotes, i.e., 'fo\o''bar' ⇒ fo\o'bar [b1]
49 • The command line is now hidden by default. Added c, C, and M to
51 • Hints mode improvements, including:
52 - Added g; continued extended hints mode, which allows
53 selecting multiple hints. Removed ;F. [b1]
54 - Hints are now updated after scrolling and window resizing. [b3]
55 - ;s now prompts for a filename on the command-line rather
56 than in a dialog. [b5]
57 - Added ;a and ;S modes for creating bookmarks and search keywords. [b4][b3]
58 - Added 'hintkeys' option. [b2]
59 - Added "transliterated" option to 'hintmatching'. [b1]
60 • General completion improvements
61 - JavaScript completion improvements, including: [b2]
62 + The prototype of the function whose arguments are currently
63 being typed is displayed during completion.
64 + Non-enumerable global properties are now completed for the
65 global object, including XMLHttpRequest and encodeURI.
66 - The concept of completion contexts is now exposed to the user
67 (see :contexts), allowing for powerful and fine-grained
68 completion system customization. [b1]
69 • The external editor can now be configured to open to a given
70 line number and column, used for opening source links and
71 editing input fields with i_<C-i>. See :h 'editor'. [b4]
72 • Improved [macro-string] support, including automatic elision
73 of optional elements, and array subscripts. [b4][b7]
75 - It's now possible to map keys in many more modes, including
76 Hint, Multi-line Output, and Menu. [b4]
77 - Added site-specific mapping groups and related command
79 - Added 'timeout' and 'timeoutlen' options. [b6]
80 - Added n_{, n_}, n_[, and n_] mappings. [b7]
81 - Added <A-b> to execute a builtin mapping. [b6]
82 - Added <A-m>l and <A-m>s to aid in the construction of
84 - Added <Pass> pseudo-key. [b6]
85 - Removed the implicit page load delays during macro playback. [b6]
86 - Added the base modes Base, Main, and Command which other
87 modes inherit key bindings from. [b6]
89 - :viusage, :optionusage and :exusage were replaced with :listkeys,
90 :listoptions and :listcommands, providing more powerful and
91 consistent interactive help facility (improvements include
92 listing keys for modes other than Normal, filtering the output,
93 and linking to source code locations). [b4]
94 - :downloads now opens a download list in the multi-line output
95 buffer. Added -sort flag. [b6][b7]
96 - :style now supports regexp site-filters on Firefox 6+. [b7]
97 - :qa closes only the current window, per Vim. [b7]
98 - Added :exit command. [b7]
99 - Added :dlclear command. [b7]
100 - :extensions has been replaced with a more powerful :addons. [b6]
101 - :javascript! now opens a Read Eval Print Loop. [b6]
102 - Added -arg flag to :map. [b6]
103 - Added -literal flag to :command. [b6]
104 - Added :completions command. [b6]
105 - Added :cookies command. [b3]
106 - :extadd now supports remote URLs as well as local files on Firefox 4. [b2]
107 - Added :if/:elseif/:else/:endif conditionals. [b3]
108 - Added -charset and -post to :bmark. [b5]
109 - Added -keyword, -tags, -title to :delbmarks. [b2]
110 - Added :extrehash, :exttoggle, :extupdate, and :rehash commands. [b5]
111 - :abclear, :comclear and :mapclear have been substituted by a bang now
112 accepted by :unabbreviate, :delcommand and :unmap, respectively. [b6]
113 - Added :feedkeys command. [b4]
114 - Added -sort option to :history. [b4]
115 - Added several new options, including -javascript, to :abbreviate and
117 - Added :mksyntax command to auto-generate Vim syntax files. [b4]
118 - Added 's' and 'e' flags to :pageinfo command. [b7]
119 - Added :pintab and :unpintab commands. [b7]
120 - Extension manipulation commands, including :extenable, :extdisable,
121 and :exttoggle, now accept a -types argument. [b7]
122 - :tabmove now moves to the position of tab N, not after it.
123 Without arguments it no longer moves the tab to the end of
125 - :open now only opens files beginning with /, ./, ../, or ~/ [b1]
126 - :saveas now provides completions for default file names, and
127 automatically chooses a filename when the save target is a
129 - :sidebar now accepts a ! flag to toggle the sidebar rather
130 than open it unconditionally. [b6]
131 - Added :write !cmd and :write >>file. [b3]
132 - Added :yank command. [b3]
133 - :delmarks, :marks and :qmarks now also accept ranges, same as
135 - :command now accepts comma-separated alternative command names. [b4]
136 - :command -complete custom now also accepts a completions array, see
137 :h :command-completion-custom. [b4]
138 • Improvements to :style and :highlight:
139 - Added -link flag to :highlight. [b4]
140 - Added -agent flag to :style. [b2]
141 - The -append flag now updates existing properties rather than
142 simply appending its arguments to the previous value. [b4]
143 - Active filters are now highlighted in :style listings. [b4]
144 - :style-related commands now divide their completions between
145 those active and inactive for the current site. [b4]
146 - CSS property name completion is now available. [b4]
147 - :delstyle, :styleenable, :styledisable and :styletoggle accept a !
148 to operate on all styles. [b6]
149 - Added Find highlighting group. [b7]
150 • IMPORTANT option changes:
151 - Option value quoting has changed. List options will
152 no longer be split at quoted commas and the option name,
153 operators, and = sign may no longer be quoted. This will
154 break certain automatically-generated configuration files.
155 See :help [stringlist]. [b2]
156 - Boolean options no longer accept an argument. [b4]
157 - 'cdpath' and 'runtimepath' no longer treat ",,"
158 specially. Use "." instead. [b2]
159 - 'extendedhinttags' is now a [regexpmap] rather than a
161 - 'guioptions' default value has changed. [b4][b7]
162 - 'hinttags' and 'extendedhinttags' now treat their values as
163 CSS selectors by default. [b6]
164 - 'incsearch', 'hlsearch', 'ignorecase', and 'smartcase' have
165 been replaced with 'incfind', 'hlfind', and 'findcase'. [b4]
166 - 'laststatus' has been replaced with the "s" flag in
168 - 'linksearch' has been removed. The \l search modifier can
169 still be used for this purpose. [b4]
170 - 'loadplugins' is now a [regexplist] option rather than
172 - 'mapleader' is now an option rather than a :let
174 - 'passkeys' is now a [sitemap] with key chain support rather
175 than a [regexpmap]. [b6]
176 - 'showmode' is now a [regexplist]. [b6]
177 - 'showstatuslinks' and 'showtabline' are now [string] options. [b4]
178 • IMPORTANT: Command script files now use the *.penta file extension. [b2]
179 • IMPORTANT: Plugins are now loaded from the 'plugins/'
180 directory in 'runtimepath' rather than 'plugin/'. [b1]
182 - Added [stringmap], [regexplist], and [regexpmap] option
184 - Added [sitelist] and [sitemap] option types. [b6]
185 - Added "bookmarks", "diverted", and "links" to 'activate'
187 - Added 'altwildmode' and c_<A-Tab> command-line key binding. [b2]
188 - Added 'autocomplete' option for specifying which completion
189 groups should be auto-completed. [b2]
190 - Added 'banghist' option. [b1]
191 - Added 'cookies', 'cookieaccept', and 'cookielifetime' options. [b3]
192 - Added 'downloadsort' option. [b7]
193 - Replaced 'focuscontent' with 'strictfocus'. [b1]
194 - Made 'strictfocus' a [sitemap]. [b7]
195 - 'complete' now defaults to "slf" but file completion only
196 triggers when the URL begins as above. [b1]
197 - Added 'jumptags' option. [b7]
198 - Added 's' flag to 'pageinfo' and changed default value. [b7]
199 - Added 'passkeys' option. [b3]
200 - Added 'passunknown' option. [b7]
201 - Changed 'urlseparator' default value to "|". [b3]
202 - Added "passwords" and "venkman" dialogs to :dialog. [b2]
203 - Make 'showmode' a [stringlist] option. [b7]
204 - Added 'wildanchor' option. [b2]
205 • Added BookmarkChange, BookmarkRemove autocommands. [b2]
206 • Removed the :source line at the end of files generated by
207 :mkpentadactylrc. [b2]
208 • gf now toggles between source and content view.
209 The | key binding has been removed. [b1]
210 • Page zoom information is now shown in the status bar, and
211 change in zoom status no longer appears in :messages. [b1]
212 • Added n_ZO, n_ZI, n_ZM, and n_ZR as aliases for n_zO, n_zI,
214 • Completion list now behaves better when the multi-line output
215 window is displayed. [b1]
216 • Major help system improvements:
217 - Plugins may now provide full-fledged :help documentation. [b1]
218 - Add basic plugin authorship documentation. [b1]
219 - The help system is newly modularized and features significant
220 updates, rewrites, and formatting improvements. [b1]
221 - Added <A-F1> to open the single, consolidated help page. [b5]
222 • Removed :beep. [b2]
223 • Removed :edit, :tabedit, and :winedit aliases. [b2]
224 • Removed :play. [b2]
226 # vim:set ft=conf sts=2 sw=2 et fo=tcn2 tw=68: