Updated to Vim 9.1.0727

This update mostly syncs to new upstream Vim version, along with small fixes.

Features

New Vim features

• Vim now supports the XDG Base Directory Specification. You can now put your vimrc and plugins in ~/.config/vim intsead of ~/.vim / ~/.vimrc. See :h xdg-base-dir. v9.1.0327
• Auto completion

  • Matched text in a completion popup menu will now be highlighted v9.1.0476

    

  • Insert mode fuzzy completion (:set completopt+=fuzzy). v9.1.0463 / v9.1.0598
• New options:
  • tabclose: specifies tab closing behavior. v9.1.0572
  • winfixbuf: fixes a window to a buffer and prevent navigating away from it. v9.1.0147
• New functions:
  • getregion() / getregionpos(): Helps retrieve the text selected in a visual selection. v9.1.0120 v9.1.0142 v9.1.0394
  • diff(): Diff provided strings. v9.1.0071
  • gettext() / bindtextdomain(): Vim plugins can now add localized messages. v9.1.0509.
  • filecopy(): Copy a file using Vim script. v9.1.0465
• New bundled optional plugins (use packadd to enable them):
  • comment: toggle code comments on/off. vim/vim#14634
  • nohlsearch: simple package to automatically set nohlsearch. vim/vim#15042
• Highlighting for diff files are back to normal. v9.1.0016
• Vim9 script improvements.
• Miscellaneous smoothscroll, termdebug, security fixes.
• Other platforms (these don’t affect MacVim and included for reference only):
  • GTK Vim GUI can now also use <D-...> to map super keys, similar to MacVim for its Cmd key mappings. This should allow sharing cross-platform configs easier. v9.1.0058
  • Vim GUI now supports Wayland in Linux. v9.1.0064

Misc

• When resizing MacVim, the title bar’s message looks a little nicer now. #1488 by @sfsam
• Copyright disclaimer in About MacVim no longer shows a year. #1497

General

• Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.6.4. For legacy builds it’s now updated to 1.27.3. #1494

Fixes

• Fixed dragging tabs to reorder them resulting in a crash. #1499

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above. (10.9 - 10.12 requires downloading a separate legacy build)

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.30
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9 or above
• Ruby 3.3

Updated to Vim 9.1.0

Happy New Year! See #1472 for a retrospective of 2023 and future roadmap.

Also, Vim 9.1 is now released! See announcement.

Features

System monospace font (SF Mono)

MacVim’s guifont option now supports a new -monospace- value, which instructs it to use the system monospace font, which is SF Mono in recent macOS versions. As mentioned below (New Vim features), you can now use tab-completion to see the available values in cmdline. See :h macvim-guifont for more details on how to use it (including using different font weights). #1463

Note: I’m contemplating changing the MacVim default value for guifont to be -monospace- in the future so MacVim will always use the native monospace font instead of being hard-coded to Menlo. This makes it more consistent with Apple Terminal and Xcode. Feel free to leave a comment on #1277 if you have opinions on this.

New Vim features

• Command-line tab completion improvements and bug fixes (see :h cmdline-completion and :h complete-set-option)
  • Most string option values can now be completed. v9.0.1958
  • MacVim options (guifont, fuoptions) also support tab completion. #1436
  • ++opt (e.g. :e ++) and :terminal ++ completion work as well. v9.0.2025
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• New options:
  • set jumpoptions=stack. Ported from Neovim. v9.0.1921
• API changes
  • getmousepos() returns a new “coladd” for tab characters. v9.0.2032
• :Man now works properly when gdefault is set. vim/vim#13097
• A new small Vim script library that may expand in the future. See :h vim-script-library.
• Vim9 script improvements.
• Miscellaneous security fixes.

Misc

New settings:

• “Scroll in one direction only” (Input). Prevents accidental horizontal scrolling when scrolling vertically using a trackpad. #1442

Clean mode (#1453):

• Vim can be opened in clean mode (does not use .vimrc or plugins) via the new menu item “New Clean Window”. The new menu isn’t localized in most languages. Please comment on the issue if you would like to help in localization.
• MacVim can be launched without loading user defaults for a clean experience via a command-line flag. See :h macvim-settings.

General

• Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.5.2. The updater can now show multiple release notes when updating MacVim across multiple versions. #1446 #1469
• Binary release is now built with more optimized compiler settings. Vim will now run slightly faster than before. #1444
• macOS 14 Sonoma:
  • Binary release is now built using the macOS 14 SDK (#1434, #1440, #1448). One small change is that very tall characters (e.g. “นี้”) on the first line will now draw into the title bar instead of being clipped.
  • Fixed printing with :hardcopy under macOS 14. NOTE: Starting from macOS 14, you have to install ps2pdf (available from Ghostscript) yourself before you can print. See #1464
• Python 2 support: The default location for locating the Python 2 lib in the binary release is now under /Library/Frameworks rather than /usr/local. Note: Python 2 has long been obsolete. If you rely on Python 2 plugins, consider this a warning as it’s only supported as long as it’s feasible and could be removed in the future. #1434

Fixes

• Fixed non-native full screen mode when using a MacBook with a notch and having the “Show menu bar in non-native mode” option set. Changing the screen resolution while using non-native full screen also works properly now. #1450
• Fixed Help menu’s documentation search not working with tags with special characters like <Down>. #1455

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above. (10.9 - 10.12 requires downloading a separate legacy build)

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.30
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9 or above
• Ruby 3.2

Updated to Vim 9.0.1897

Special Notes

As some of you may have read, Bram Moolenaar, the creator and maintainer of Vim, has passed away recently. He has worked tirelessly on Vim for more than 30 years and this release is dedicated to him. If you would like, you could pay your respects at this discussion thread.

The Vim project has transitioned to new maintainers, and MacVim will continue to be supported as long as Vim is around.

Features

More flexible Python integration

MacVim now allows you to use Python runtime (via pythonthreedll, used for Python plugins) of any version at or above 3.9. Previously you had to use the exact same version that was used to build MacVim (Python 3.11). The Python detection logic is also updated to always just find the latest version of Homebrew Python instead of a fixed one, and it will also now locate the default macOS / Xcode Python provided by the Xcode Command Line Tools if that is the only Python available. This should hopefully make configuring Python for MacVim a lot more seamless. See :h python3-stable-abi. Vim v9.0.1776 / #1428.

New Vim features

• New built-in support for EditorConfig via an optional package. Use packadd editorconfig to activate it. See vim/vim#12902.
• g<End> now goes to the first non-blank char. v9.0.1753
• API changes
  • undotree() now takes a bufnr v9.0.1686
  • printf() now takes positional arguments v9.0.1704
  • virtcol() now takes winid v9.0.1728
  • quickfix items can now have user data v9.0.1688
• Miscellaneous security fixes.

Security Fixes

• Fixed insecure usages of interprocess communication in MacVim (CVE-2023-41036)

Fixes

• Fixed MacVim to correctly set up the runtime folder in the app bundle. As a corollary, xxd is now bundled with MacVim like most other Vim distributions, and MacVim.app now provides man page for the CLI vim commands if the user wants to associate man pages with the mvim comamnd (see :h macvim-PATH). #1430
• Fixed Vim occasionally crashing and/or hung when autocmd calls serverlist() on exit. #1427

Known issues

• :Man command doesn’t work properly if gdefault option is set. vim/vim#13097.

Scripting

• Scripting languages versions: Python now supports 3.9 or above.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above. (10.9 - 10.12 requires downloading a separate legacy build)

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.30
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9 or above
• Ruby 3.2

Updated to Vim 9.0.1677

Announcements

Website

The official website for MacVim is now https://macvim.org. Previously it just forwarded to https://macvim-dev.github.io/macvim/ (#1385).

You can also now read the MacVim documentation at https://macvim.org/docs/gui_mac.txt.html. See #1382 for announcement.

Features

Updater / What’s New page

There is now a “What’s New” page that will automatically be shown whenever MacVim detected that it has been updated to a new version (can be disabled in Settings). The page will also include all the release notes if you have updated across multiple versions. This feature is useful for users who turned on “Automatically install updates” or installs MacVim through other methods like Homebrew but would still like to see the release notes when a new version comes out. You can also access it through the Help menu. #1414

MacVim should now report its version in a much more consistent manner in the “About MacVim” page and when the updater reports there is a new version. It should look something like “r176 (Vim 9.0.1276)” where “r176” is the MacVim release number and the 9.0.1276 is the bundled Vim version. #1293 #1393

Sparkle (updater for MacVim) is now updated to 2.4.2. #1416

New Vim features

• New bundled colorschemes: wildcharm/retrobox/sorbet/zaibatsu (vim/vim#12163)
• File encryption now has a new cryptmethod: xchacha20v2, which is designed to be more forward compatible with future Vim versions than xchacha20. (v9.0.1481)
• switchbuf works for more commands. (v9.0.1546)
• Statusline now supports multiple alignment “%=” items. (v9.0.1300)
• New UTF-16 utility functions (strutf16len and utf16idx) (v9.0.1485)
• Misc ‘smoothscroll’ bugs fixes

General

• Removed non-Unicode localization files, which helps cut down on app size. #1397
• Miscellaneous documentation fixes. #1415 #1375 #1386 #1363 (by @dkav)
• The disk image for MacVim (MacVim.dmg) is now in APFS and uses better compression for better efficiency. #1409

Fixes

• Printing a file in macOS 13 Ventura (using :hardcopy or File→Print) should work again. #1390
• Fixed a broken symlink to XPCServices in the Sparkle framework. #1367
• Fixed MacVim to not throw (safe) Objective C exceptions when quitting. #1371
• Fixed welcome message not being aligned properly in Simplified Chinese and show the Vim 9 prompt. #1381
• Removed some unnecessary test files in the runtime folders which were included erroneously. #1418

Scripting

• Scripting languages versions:
  • Python is now built against 3.11, up from 3.10.

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above. (10.9 - 10.12 requires downloading a separate legacy build)

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.30
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.11
• Ruby 3.2