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News	Vim 9.1.0866 is the current version

Bram Moolenaar receives the Europe SFS Award by the FSFE posthumously

[2024-11-08] Bram has been posthumously honored by the Free Software Foundation Europe and received the Europe SFS Award 2024. (Christian Brabandt)

Support for the XDG Base Directory Specification

[2024-04-18] Patch 9.1.327 brings support for the freedesktop XDG Base Directory Specification and has now been merged. A few more adjustments have been made withe following patches: v9.1.0337 and 9.1.345. That means, you can now place your configuration files under ~/.config/vim/ instead of ~/.vim so Vim will stop littering your home directory. Note: To make this change backwards compatible, Vim will only attempt to source from that location, if ~/.vim/vimrc and ~/.vimrc file do not exist. So it won't impact existing users, but users that want to start using the new location, will need to move their existing configuration to the new place. You can also read about it at :h xdg-base-dir. Thanks to all the contributors that help Vim continuing to grow! (Christian Brabandt)

Vim 9.1 is released!

[2024-01-02] The Vim project is happy to announce that Vim 9.1 has finally been released. This release is dedicated to Bram Moolenaar, Vims lead developer for more than 30 years, who suddenly passed away in August 2023. The most notable changes are support for Vim9 classes and objects, smooth scrolling support and virtual text support. And as usual, runtime files have been updated, many bugs have been fixed and potential security relevant fixes have been included. You can find the full announcement here. (Christian Brabandt)

Vim: The power tool for everyone! See pictures of Bram's latest visit to Uganda on Google Photos. Read the visit report on the ICCF website.

Recent Script Updates	5,959 scripts, 18,780,908 downloads

[2024-11-14]	SnippetComplete : Insert mode completion that completes defined abbreviations and other snippets.
	(2.21) - ENH: Add (unmapped by default) <Plug>-mappings for just [local] abbreviations; this can be useful if there are both many snippets and abbreviations.  *** You need to update to ingo-library (vimscript #4433) version 1.020! *** - Ingo Karkat
[2024-11-14]	SearchSpecial : Generic functions for special search modes.
	(1.21) - Add a:options.isShowPredicateSkips flag to include the number of skipped matches in the predicate prefix. Depending on the type of a:Predicate, this information can be useful to the user, and handling this here avoids cumbersome counting and overriding of a:EchoFunction inside the client plugin. - BUG: A search error when a search offset is used prints the literal List [{pattern}, {offset}] ins... - Ingo Karkat
[2024-11-14]	SearchRepeat : Repeat the last type of search via n/N.
	(2.01) - Remove the remapping of [g]*; its only purpose was the resetting to standard search, and that is now handled (albeit not updated immediately) by comparing @/ contents. Additionally, other plugins can emit the LastSearchPatternChanged event to inform us. - Ingo Karkat
[2024-11-14]	SearchPosition : Show relation to search pattern matches in range or buffer.
	(2.01) - Don't repeat search if the search pattern has changed in the meantime. - Ingo Karkat
[2024-11-14]	TaskMotions : Motions to task and TODO markers.
	(1.10) - ENH: Add alternative ]T mappings that use the Todo highlight group instead of a regular expression pattern to locate Todos. - Ingo Karkat
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