Patches for Vim - Vi IMproved 7.4 The files in this directory contain source code changes to fix problems in a released version of Vim. Each file also contains an explanation of the problem that is fixed, like the message that was sent to the vim-dev maillist. The best is to apply the patches in sequence. This avoids problems when a patch depends on a previous patch. Before patching, change to the top Vim directory, where the "src" and "runtime" directories are located. Depending on the version of "patch" that you use, you may have add an argument to make it patch the right file: patch -p < 7.4.001 patch -p0 < 7.4.001 After applying a patch, you need to compile Vim. There are no patches for binaries. Checksums for the patch files can be found in the file MD5. Individual patches for Vim 7.4: SIZE NAME FIXES 13179 7.4.001 'ic' doesn't work for patterns such as [a-z] 2522 7.4.002 pattern with two alternative look-behind matches doesn't match 2680 7.4.003 memory access error in Ruby syntax highlighting 7145 7.4.004 when closing a window fails ":bwipe" may hang 1391 7.4.005 "vaB" while 'virtualedit' is set selects the wrong area 1952 7.4.006 mkdir("foo/bar/", "p") gives an error message 2538 7.4.007 creating a preview window on startup messes up the screen 2176 7.4.008 new regexp engine can't be interrupted 2051 7.4.009 too easy to write a file was not decrypted (yet) 2307 7.4.010 (after 7.4.006) crash with invalid argument to mkdir() 2270 7.4.011 cannot find out if "acl" and "xpm" features are supported 6180 7.4.012 MS-Windows: resolving multi-bye shortcut does not work 2986 7.4.013 MS-Windows: File name buffer too small for utf-8 2671 7.4.014 MS-Windows: check for writing to device does not work 3135 7.4.015 MS-Windows: Detecting node type fails for multi-byte chars 5999 7.4.016 MS-Windows: File name completion has problem with Chinese