Vim7 on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

[marc]

User Iam said...
> 
> On 7/9/06, Ouattara Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What does version 7 have that you can't live without??
> > >
> > >
> > > User Iam
> > >
> >
> > User Iam, you can get people frustrated with those kind of mail. Just
> > consider that there is a reason for people take their time posting in
> > here. "... you can't live without??" : that part of your sentence can be
> > misjudged.
> 
> What new feature in version 7 are you interested in?

Tabs are a good starting point. In particular, wedded to --remote-tab-
silent, they make it easy to keep to a single vim instance. In addition, 
when used in combination with single-click opening of files through, 
say, Krusader (or Opus 8 on XP) life is very sweet. Yup, always 
workarounds, but for folk used to XP and migrating to Linux this is a 
big deal.

Spell-checking is essential within an editor for anyone producing docs 
(and not the one-word-at-a-time spell-checking of the 80s). This feature 
alone means that I, and others, can revert to a single editor on 
multiple platforms. That is a huge deal, especially when you factor in 
heavy use of LaTeX for docs, books and publishing.

Matching parens - useful for coding, but also essential for LaTeX.

Internal grep - for use on XP, but darn useful on Linux too.

Internal sort

Improved Unicode support

Omni completion - say no more.

Blockwise mouse selection - brilliant when dealing with text dumps from 
spreadsheets and other munged data.

And :diffo(ff)

These things are not necessarily of interest on the geek side of things, 
but for non-geek use - I do both and a bit of translation between the 
two - they are big advances in vim's usefulness.

And we are trying to encourage Windows' folk - who are mostly non-geek - 
onto Linux are we not?

I'm genuinely surprised that vim7 hasn't been fast-tracked into Ubuntu.

-- 
Best,
Marc