MacVim.app snapshot 52

[björn]

I have uploaded a new snapshot of MacVim.app to

http://code.google.com/p/macvim/wiki/Snapshot

This is mostly a bug fix release and many of the fixes are to the Core Text
renderer. I think most of the really obvious display issues in Core Text
should be fixed now (one exception: dragging to resize a window sometimes
causese display tearing, but I can't decide whether this is a problem that only
occurs on my Mac).

The "Find Pasteboard" interaction has changed slightly to make it easier to
pull searches from MacVim into other apps. Previously, if you hit * on top of
some word, e.g. "test", and then hit Cmd+g in another app, then that app would
search for "\<test\>" and consequently fail to find anything. I have fixed
this and some other common problems (related to using the "Find Dialog").

I also want to mention that I have rearranged the Services menu so that it
works better on Snow Leopard (hopefully I did not break anything on Leopard and
Tiger). There are now two entries: "New MacVim Buffer With Selection" which
opens a new buffer with whatever text is selected, and "New MacVim Buffer Here"
which opens a new buffer and sets the pwd to that of the file or folder you had
selected (in Finder). Note that on Snow Leopard you can access the Services
menus by right-clicking, which makes them a whole lot easier to use than on
Leopard and Tiger (e.g. try right-clicking a file in Finder, or select some
text in Safari and right-click the selection). (The "Open Selected File"
Service has been deprecated since it was not very useful and it was kind of
confusing as to what it really did.)

A warning: it is possible that this release will break Ruby plugins due to a
patch to mainline Vim (which changed return types of certain functions from
String to Fixnum). For example, the LustyExplorer plugin broke because of this
(but has subsequently been patched). At any rate, if you have any problems
with Ruby plugins after updating to snapshot 52 you should contact the plugin
maintainer.

Changes since snapshot 51:
- Ctrl+Tab works (Core Text)
- Improve Cmd+g behavior in other apps when repeating a search that
originated in MacVim
- Support "a" flag in 'guioptions'
- Use device colors instead of calibrated colors (fixes a bug where the
background color in full-screen mode would not match the background color
of the view)
- Get rid of some occasional warning messages on stdout
- Fix drawing issues related to :vsp and 'guioptions' (Core Text)
- Avoid white flashing on new window and zoom (Core Text)
- Scrollbars are placed properly (Core Text)
- Allow manual resizing of window across multiple screens
- Fix Alt+Space mappings in keyboard layouts (e.g. French Dvorak)
- Add wide font support (Core Text)
- Fix memory leak in ATSUI renderer
- Resize view properly when showing toolbar
- Fix issues with Chinese IM (pressing "o" in normal mode no longer inserts
"o" into the buffer)
- Fix Services for Snow Leopard. There are now two services:
* New MacVim Buffer With Selected
* New MacVim Buffer Here
- Support "%" flag in 'viminfo'
- Opening encrypted files from Spotlight works
- Do not reuse "unused windows" (unless the appropriate option in the
Preferences is set)
- Support 'exrc' option when opening files from Finder
- Add support for :winpos
- Update Vim sources and runtime files

Björn

[Cássio Marques]

I've built it from source here and the process went ok, but when trying to run it, I am not able to type anything, I can't even get into insert mode. I'm running OSX 10.5.8.

I've been using MacVim stable since I started to use a Mac, but now I want all the new features from the snapshots :)

Do you have any idea of what may be causing it? In the meanwhile, I've checkout tag snapshot-51 from git and will try and see if it runs ok after building.

Anyway, when will we see a new stable version?

Thanks for such a nice project!

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[Cássio Marques]

OH, I'm having the very same issue with snapshot-51 :-(

And I can't see any output at the terminal about errors that may be occurring.

2010/3/5 Cássio Marques <cass...@gmail.com>

[björn]

2010/3/5 Cássio Marques:

> I've built it from source here and the process went ok, but when trying to
> run it, I am not able to type anything, I can't even get into insert mode.
> I'm running OSX 10.5.8.
> I've been using MacVim stable since I started to use a Mac, but now I want
> all the new features from the snapshots :)
> Do you have any idea of what may be causing it? In the meanwhile, I've
> checkout tag snapshot-51 from git and will try and see if it runs ok after
> building.

Have you tried downloading snapshot 52 and trying it instead of
building from sources? Also, be sure to check this page:

http://code.google.com/p/macvim/wiki/ReportingBugs

to rule out any problems with your rc-files etc.

> Anyway, when will we see a new stable version?

I was thinking I'd release a new stable version when Vim 7.3 is
released. Note that there is not much difference between "stable" and
"snapshot": the former is just a snapshot that has been used for a
long time.

> Thanks for such a nice project!

I'm glad you like it. :-)

Björn

[Cássio Marques]

Yes, before building from sources I downloaded the pre-build MacVim and I ran into the same problem. I'll take a look at the the instructions in this link you gave me.

If i find out what's happening, I'll come back here and tell, maybe it will be useful to others.

Thank you!

Björn

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[Cássio Marques]

Hey Bjorn,

I've renamed my .vim folder and .vimrc file (I don't have a .gvimrc file) and after that I still can't type anything in MacVim. When using the old, stable release, I can.

This is very frustrating, since I built snapshot 51 (which I think is aroud for a while now) and I can't use it either, even without any configuration file. Any clue of what may be happening or something else I can't try?

Thank you very much!

2010/3/5 Cássio Marques <cass...@gmail.com>

[björn]

On 6 March 2010 00:32, Skammer wrote:
> When opening a new window it flashes white before applying proper
> theme colors.

(Replying to vim_mac.)

Have you got Quickstart enabled by any chance?

Björn

[Skammer]

> Have you got Quickstart enabled by any chance?

I have. I turned it off and it had no effect.

Apparently, it's a bug with new renderer. Turning it off eliminated
this weird blinking, but scrolling big files became painfully slow :(

[björn]

On 6 March 2010 15:56, Skammer wrote:
>> Have you got Quickstart enabled by any chance?
>
> I have. I turned it off and it had no effect.

Ok, it may be that something in your rc-files cause this. Can you try
renaming them temporarily to see if that makes any difference? If so,
can you figure out what lines cause it?

> Apparently, it's a bug with new renderer. Turning it off eliminated
> this weird blinking, but scrolling big files became painfully slow :(

Ok, I suspected as much. It shouldn't be too hard to fix, only I need
some way to reproduce it (I don't see any flashes).

Björn

[J Irving]

On Mar 6, 10:00 am, björn <bjorn.winck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 March 2010 15:56, Skammer wrote:
>
> >> Have you got Quickstart enabled by any chance?
>
> > I have. I turned it off and it had no effect.
>
> Ok, it may be that something in your rc-files cause this.  Can you try
> renaming them temporarily to see if that makes any difference?  If so,
> can you figure out what lines cause it?

A quick follow up to my last message (which doesn't seem to have
posted yet).

I switched guioptions back to their default (egmrt) and found that the
flashing stopped. Simply removing "r" caused it to come back. I've
confirmed that adding "r" to my original set of options causes the
flashing to go away (and of course the scrollbar to appear).

HTH

cheers, J

[J Irving]

On Mar 6, 10:00 am, björn <bjorn.winck...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 March 2010 15:56, Skammer wrote:
>
> >> Have you got Quickstart enabled by any chance?
>
> > I have. I turned it off and it had no effect.
>
> Ok, it may be that something in your rc-files cause this.  Can you try
> renaming them temporarily to see if that makes any difference?  If so,
> can you figure out what lines cause it?

I'm also seeing this issue, and have isolated the problem to my
guioptions.

With the following testrc file:

set guioptions=gmLtT
set bg=dark
hi normal guibg=black guifg=white

and the following invocation:

mvim --noplugin -U /dev/null -u ./testrc

I get a white flash when MacVim starts. If I switch off the
experimental renderer, or comment out the guioptions line, this goes
away. I tried removing the guioptions one by one, but couldn't find a
single option which caused it. Perhaps it's an interaction between
multiple options. I will do a little research to see if I can make
sense of it.

> > Apparently, it's a bug with new renderer. Turning it off eliminated
> > this weird blinking, but scrolling big files became painfully slow :(
>
> Ok, I suspected as much.  It shouldn't be too hard to fix, only I need
> some way to reproduce it (I don't see any flashes).

Hopefully the above rc file will do the trick.

cheers, J

[björn]

On 7 March 2010 06:04, J Irving wrote:
>
> I switched guioptions back to their default (egmrt) and found that the
> flashing stopped.  Simply removing "r" caused it to come back.  I've
> confirmed that adding "r" to my original set of options causes the
> flashing to go away (and of course the scrollbar to appear).

Ah good, now I can reproduce the flashing as well (set go-=r in
.gvimrc did the trick). I'll have this fixed for the next snapshot.
Thanks for telling me how to reproduce the problem.

Björn