Vim News

[2009-05-12] Vim comes for free. I do ask you to consider helping Vim's charity, please read on. In April I have visited the Kibaale Childrens Centre. You can read my report, with lots of pictures, here. The new clinic has become very popular. Every day many patients come here for medical help that would otherwise not be available to them. The Kibaale clinic saves lives! This popularity comes at a price. We struggle to pay for all the medicine, salaries of the medical staff, maintenance of equipment, etc. Therefore I have set up this page for sponsoring a room in the clinic. We need your help! (Bram Moolenaar)

[2008-12-21] The usual Vim desktop calendar is now available for download and printing: http://www.moolenaar.net/#Calendar. If you print it on thick paper you can fold it so that it stands on your desk. One side contains a useful 12-month calendar. On the other side there is brief information about ICCF-Holland, Vim and A-A-P. Happy Vimming in 2009! (Bram Moolenaar)

[2008-08-09] After fifteen months of work: a brand new Vim release! This is a stable version. There are many bug fixes and updated runtime files. The only new feature worth mentioning is support for floating point. Upgrading from a previous version is highly recommended: a few crashing bugs and several security issues were fixed. For the details see the announcement. Or go directly to the download page. (Bram Moolenaar)

[2008-08-07] There were too many changes since 7.2b was released to jump to the 7.2 release. So this is another beta test round. Hopefully all the important issues were fixed now. Most of them were in the runtime files. Give it a try and report any problems you find. More information in the announcement. (Bram Moolenaar)

[2008-07-13] We are getting closer to the 7.2 release, but another BETA test round is needed. This version has a few bug fixes and updated runtime files since 7.2a. Main new feature compared to Vim 7.1: support for floating point numbers. More information can be found in the announcement. This is a beta test version. It's quite stable, but we want to make sure it's perfect. Let me know when you find a problem! (Bram Moolenaar)

[2008-06-26] Yes, we are working towards the 7.2 release. Mostly bug fixes and updated runtime files. Main new feature: support for floating point numbers. More information can be found in the announcement. This is a beta test version. It's quite stable, but we want to make sure it's perfect. Let me know when you find a problem! (Bram Moolenaar)

[2008-06-18] The Kibaale Childrens Centre is building a new clinic. The construction is almost ready, now it has to be filled with furniture and medical equipment. We need your help for that! You can read about this on the new Kibaale clinic page. This is Vim's charity project. If you enjoy using Vim, please consider helping the clinic. (Bram Moolenaar)

[2007-08-01] Kim Schulz has written a book about using Vim. The full title is: "Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to get the Most out of the Latest Vim Editor". I have written a bit of info about it on the Vim books page. (Bram Moolenaar)

[2007-07-18] I have decided to move the maillists to Google Groups. It appears to work well enough to do this, and should be a good long-term solution. IMPORTANT: subscribers of the old lists are not automatically added! You need to subscribe to the new groups to get messages! More info about the maillists on the Vim maillist page. (Bram Moolenaar)

[2007-07-13] As you noticed the @vim.org mail and maillists are still not working. We were working on a replacement, but the person implementing it became unreachable. Several people suggested using Google groups. To try this out I have setup the list vim-experiment@googlegroups.com. You can reach it at vim-experiment@vim.org. Please use this list for discussions about moving the maillists to Google groups. If there are not too many negative remarks I will move all the Vim lists there. (Bram Moolenaar)