Dedicate the Vim 9.0 release to Sven Guckes , who passed away in February 2022. We will honor Sven, the core maintainer of Vim, who registered the vim.org domain name and created the first Vim website.
After years of incremental improvements, Vim is now a big step forward with a major release. In addition to many small supplemental improvements, this release focuses on a new change to the Vim scripting language: Vim9 Script.
The last version was version 8.2 released in December 2019. Since the latest source code is always available on GitHub , many users have installed later patch versions (there are more than 5000) and these changes have been tried by many users. Based on 8.2, many bugs have been fixed, security issues have been resolved, and code coverage has been greatly improved. This version is more reliable than any previous version.
Vim9 Script
Vim’s scripting has evolved over time while maintaining backward compatibility. This means that wrong choices in the past often cannot be changed, with…
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