1.1: • Vim runtime files: - renamed :mksyntax to :mkvimruntime which now generates all Vim related files. - Vimball packages are no longer available. • Removed and mappings. • Add :private command. • Better per-window private browsing support. 1.0: • Extensive Firefox 4 support, including: - Fully restartless. Can now be installed, uninstalled, enabled, disabled, and upgraded without restarting Firefox. [b4] - Tabs in :buffer completions and listings are grouped by panorama groups. [b1] - Only visible tabs are considered in tab numbering, n_gt, n_gn, etc. [b1] • Performance improvements: - Improved startup time by a factor of 7. [b1] - Further improved startup time. [b6] - Significant completion speed improvements, especially for JavaScript. [b1] • Added site-local and script-local groups: [b6] - Added the :group command to define and select groups. - Added the -group flag to :abbreviate, :autocmd, :command, :map, :style, and friends. - Mappings and commands can now be bound to groups which execute only for certain websites. - Autocommands, commands, mappings, and styles are now automatically added to per-script groups so that most traces of a script can be easily purged. • Greatly improved private mode support and :sanitize command. - Full integration with Firefox data clearing dialogs. [b3] - Support for sanitizing items at shutdown. [b3] - Fine-grained control over what data is sanitized and for what timespan. [b1] - Support for sanitizing reference to particular hosts, everywhere from command-line and message history to option values and cookies. [b1] • New and much more powerful incremental search implementation. Improvements over the standard Firefox find include: - Starts at the cursor position in the currently selected frame, unlike Firefox, which always starts at the start of the first frame. [b1] - Returns the cursor and viewport to their original position on cancel. [b1] - Backtracks to the first successful match after pressing backspace. [b1] - Supports reverse incremental search. [b1] - Input boxes are not focused when matches are highlighted. [b1] - Crude regular expression search is supported. [b8] - New searches now start within the current viewport where possible. [b8] • Text editing improvements, including: - Added t_gu, t_gU, and v_o mappings. [b8] - Added t_ and t_ mappings. [b8] - Added o_c, o_d, and o_y mappings. [b8] - Added register and basic kill ring support, t_" and I_/I_ mappings, and :registers command. [b8] - Added operator modes and proper first class motion maps. [b8] - Improved undo support for most mappings. [b8] • General completion improvements - Greatly improved completion rendering performance, especially while scrolling. [b8] - Added c_, c_, c_, and c_ for scrolling the completion list in increments larger than one line. [b8] - Improved handling of asynchronous completions, including: [b8] + Pressing after tabbing past the end of already received completions will execute the command after the desired result has arrived. + Tabbing past the end of available completions more reliably selects the desired completion when it is available. + Late arriving completion results no longer interfere with typing. + It is now possible to skip past the end of incomplete completion groups via the c_ and c_ keys. - JavaScript completion improvements, including: [b2] + The prototype of the function whose arguments are currently being typed is displayed during completion. + Non-enumerable global properties are now completed for the global object, including XMLHttpRequest and encodeURI. - The concept of completion contexts is now exposed to the user (see :contexts), allowing for powerful and fine-grained completion system customization. [b1] • Ex command parsing improvements, including: - Multiple Ex commands may now be separated by | [b1] - Commands can continue over multiple lines in RC files by prefixing the continuation lines with a \ [b3] - The \ character is no longer treated specially within single quotes, i.e., 'fo\o''bar' ⇒ fo\o'bar [b1] • IMPORTANT: Command script files now use the *.penta file extension. [b2] • IMPORTANT: Plugins are now loaded from the 'plugins/' directory in 'runtimepath' rather than 'plugin/'. [b1] • The command line is now hidden by default. Added c, C, and M to 'guioptions'. [b4] • Hints mode improvements, including: - Added [;A] extended hint mode. [rc2] - Added [g;] continued extended hints mode, which allows selecting multiple hints. Removed ;F. [b1] - Hints are now updated after scrolling and window resizing. [b3] - [;s] now prompts for a filename on the command-line rather than in a dialog. [b5] - Added [;a] and [;S] modes for creating bookmarks and search keywords. [b4][b3] - Added 'hintkeys' option. [b2] - Added "transliterated" option to 'hintmatching'. [b1] • The external editor can now be configured to open to a given line number and column, used for opening source links and editing input fields with i_. See :h 'editor'. [b4] • Improved [macro-string] support, including automatic elision of optional elements, and array subscripts. [b4][b7] • Added -pentadactyl-remote command-line option. [b8] • Moved the smooth-scroll plugin to the core. [b8] • Improvements to marks: - Marks are now stored as line and column ordinals rather than percentages. [b8] - Marks now store the marked element and ensure its visibility when followed. [b8] • Mapping changes: - It's now possible to map keys in many more modes, including Hint, Multi-line Output, and Menu. [b4] - and now behave more like Vim. [b8] - n_G now uses 'linenumbers' to determine destination if possible. [b8] - Added n_s and n_S. [b8] - Added Operator mode for motion maps, per Vim. [b8] - Added site-specific mapping groups and related command changes. [b6] - Added 'timeout' and 'timeoutlen' options. [b6] - Added n_{, n_}, n_[ and n_] mappings. [b7] - Added n_g], n_[d and n_]d. [b8] - Added to open the next mapping in a new tab. [b8] - Added to execute a builtin mapping. [b6] - Added l and s to aid in the construction of macros. [b6] - Added pseudo-key. [b6] - Removed the implicit page load delays during macro playback. [b6] - Added the base modes Base, Main, and Command which other modes inherit key bindings from. [b6] • Command changes: - :viusage, :optionusage and :exusage were replaced with :listkeys, :listoptions and :listcommands, providing more powerful and consistent interactive help facility (improvements include listing keys for modes other than Normal, filtering the output, and linking to source code definitions). [b4] - :downloads now opens a download list in the multi-line output buffer. Added -sort flag. [b6][b7] - :style now supports regexp site-filters on Firefox 6+. [b7] - :qa closes only the current window, per Vim. [b7] - Added :background command. [b8] - Removed :bwipeout and :bunload aliases. Changed :bdelete and :tabclose semantics slightly. The latter now only operates on visible tabs. [b8] - Added -id flag to :bmark command and changed updating semantics. [b8] - Added :exit command. [b7] - Added :dlclear command. [b7] - :extensions has been replaced with a more powerful :addons. [b6] - :javascript! now opens a Read Eval Print Loop. [b6] - Added -arg flag to :map. [b6] - Added -literal flag to :command. [b6] - Added :completions command. [b6] - Added :cookies command. [b3] - :extadd now supports remote URLs as well as local files on Firefox 4. [b2] - Added :if/:elseif/:else/:endif conditionals. [b3] - Added -charset and -post to :bmark. [b5] - Added -keyword, -tags, -title to :delbmarks. [b2] - Added :extrehash, :exttoggle, :extupdate, and :rehash commands. [b5] - :abclear, :comclear and :mapclear have been substituted by a bang now accepted by :unabbreviate, :delcommand and :unmap, respectively. [b6] - Added :feedkeys command. [b4] - Added -sort option to :history. [b4] - Added several new options, including -javascript, to :abbreviate and :map. [b2] - Added :mksyntax command to auto-generate Vim syntax files. [b4] - Added 's' and 'e' flags to :pageinfo command. [b7] - Added :pintab and :unpintab commands. [b7] - Extension manipulation commands, including :extenable, :extdisable, and :exttoggle, now accept a -types argument. [b7] - :tabmove now moves to the position of tab N, not after it. Without arguments it no longer moves the tab to the end of the list. [b7] - :open now only opens files beginning with /, ./, ../, or ~/ [b1] - :saveas now provides completions for default file names, and automatically chooses a filename when the save target is a directory. [b4] - :sidebar now accepts a ! flag to toggle the sidebar rather than open it unconditionally. [b6] - Added :write !cmd and :write >>file. [b3] - Added :yank command. [b3] - :delmarks, :marks and :qmarks now also accept ranges, same as :delqmarks. [b4] - :command now accepts comma-separated alternative command names. [b4] - :command -complete custom now also accepts a completions array, see :h :command-completion-custom. [b4] - Removed :beep. [b2] - Removed :edit, :tabedit, and :winedit aliases. [b2] - Removed :play. [b2] • Improvements to :style and :highlight: - Added -link flag to :highlight. [b4] - Added -agent flag to :style. [b2] - The -append flag now updates existing properties rather than simply appending its arguments to the previous value. [b4] - Active filters are now highlighted in :style listings. [b4] - :style-related commands now divide their completions between those active and inactive for the current site. [b4] - CSS property name completion is now available. [b4] - :delstyle, :styleenable, :styledisable and :styletoggle accept a ! to operate on all styles. [b6] - Added Find highlighting group. [b7] • IMPORTANT option changes: - Option value quoting has changed. List options will no longer be split at quoted commas and the option name, operators, and = sign may no longer be quoted. This will break certain automatically-generated configuration files. See :help [stringlist]. [b2] - Boolean options no longer accept an argument. [b4] - 'cdpath' and 'runtimepath' no longer treat ",," specially. Use "." instead. [b2] - 'complete' is now a [stringlist] rather than a [charlist] and supports native autocomplete providers. [b8] - 'extendedhinttags' is now a [regexpmap] rather than a string. [b2] - 'guioptions' default value has changed. [b4][b7] - 'hinttags' and 'extendedhinttags' now treat their values as CSS selectors by default. [b6] - 'incsearch', 'hlsearch', 'ignorecase', and 'smartcase' have been replaced with 'incfind', 'hlfind', and 'findcase'. [b4] - 'laststatus' has been replaced with the "s" flag in 'guioptions'. [b4] - 'linksearch' has been removed. The \l search modifier can still be used for this purpose. [b4] - 'loadplugins' is now a [regexplist] option rather than a boolean. [b2] - Made 'mapleader' an option rather than a :let variable. [b4] - Removed the 'mapleader' option. [rc2] - 'passkeys' is now a [sitemap] with key chain support rather than a [regexpmap]. [b6] - The precise format of 'sanitizeitems' has changed slightly. [b8] - 'showmode' is now a [regexplist]. [b6] - 'showstatuslinks' and 'showtabline' are now [string] options. [b4] • Other option changes: - Added [stringmap], [regexplist], and [regexpmap] option types. [b1] - Added [sitelist] and [sitemap] option types. [b6] - Added "bookmarks", "diverted", and "links" to 'activate' option. [b2] - Added 'altwildmode' and c_ command-line key binding. [b2] - Added 'autocomplete' option for specifying which completion groups should be auto-completed. [b2] - Added 'banghist' option. [b1] - Added 'cookies', 'cookieaccept', and 'cookielifetime' options. [b3] - Added 'downloadsort' option. [b7] - Added 'findflags' option. [b8] - Replaced 'focuscontent' with 'strictfocus'. [b1] - Made 'strictfocus' a [sitemap]. [b7] - 'complete' now defaults to "slf" but file completion only triggers when the URL begins as above. [b1] - Added 'jumptags' option. [b7] - Added 'linenumbers' option. [b8] - Added 's' flag to 'pageinfo' and changed default value. [b7] - Added 'passkeys' option. [b3] - Added 'passunknown' option. [b7] - Changed 'urlseparator' default value to "|". [b3] - Added "passwords", and "venkman" dialogs to :dialog. [b2][b8] - Added 'scrollsteps' and 'scrolltime' options. [b8] - Added 'spelllang' option. [b8] - Make 'showmode' a [stringlist] option. [b7] - Added 'wildanchor' option. [b2] - Added 'yankshort' option. [b8] • Added BookmarkChange, BookmarkRemove autocommands. [b2] • Removed the :source line at the end of files generated by :mkpentadactylrc. [b2] • n_gf now toggles between source and content view. The | key binding has been removed. [b1] • Page zoom information is now shown in the status bar, and change in zoom status no longer appears in :messages. [b1] • Added n_ZO, n_ZI, n_ZM, and n_ZR as aliases for n_zO, n_zI, n_zM, and n_zR. [b1] • Completion list now behaves better when the multi-line output window is displayed. [b1] • Major help system improvements: - Plugins may now provide full-fledged :help documentation. [b1] - Add basic plugin authorship documentation. [b1] - The help system is newly modularized and features significant updates, rewrites, and formatting improvements. [b1] - Added to open the single, consolidated help page. [b5] # vim:set ft=conf sts=2 sw=2 et fo=tcn2 tw=68: