MacVim r177

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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/. You can also read the MacVim documentation at https://macvim.org/docs/gui_mac.txt.html. #1385

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 (update colorschemes 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. Don't build/install non-UTF-8 and encoding-converted locales #1397
• Miscellaneous documentation fixes. Misc documentation updates and cleanups #1415 Clean up syntax / formatting / typos in MacVim docs #1375 Improve login shell docs #1386 Update gui_mac.txt headings #1363 (by @dkav)

Fixes

• Printing a file in macOS 13 Ventura (using :hardcopy or File→Print) should work again. Fix :hardcopy not working in macOS 13 Ventura #1390
• Fixed a broken symlink to XPCServices in the Sparkle framework. Remove Sparkle 2's XPCServices symlink #1367
• Fixed MacVim to not throw (safe) Objective C exceptions when quitting. Don't throw Objective C exception when quitting MacVim #1371
• Fixed welcome message not being aligned properly in Simplified Chinese and show the Vim 9 prompt. Fix MacVim localized intro text, and don't hide the :h version9 prompt #1381
• Removed some unnecessary test files in the runtime folders which were included erroneously. Clean up runtime dir after copying them to the app bundle #1418

Scripting

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

Compatibility

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

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This discussion was created from the release MacVim r177.