Vim 8.0 Is Released After 10 Years
New Features in Vim 8.0 - Jobs - Asynchronous I/O support, channels, JSON - Timers - Supports partials, lambdas, and closures - Enables new style testing - Viminfo merged by timestamp - Supports GTK+3 - Support for MS-Windows DirectX You can install it through an unofficial ppa with just a few commandlines. -- source: http://www.tecmint.com/vim-8-0-install-in-ubuntu-linux-systems/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
New Features in Vim 8.0
Does it understand the more usual forms of regular expressions yet?
This plugin apparently does the job, if you can't live without PCRE: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Perl_compatible_regular_expressions Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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