Patches for Vim - Vi IMproved 6.3 The files in this directory contain source code changes to fix problems in released versions 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. If you did not unpack the extra archive, you may want to skip patches marked with "extra:". Similarly for the "lang" archive. 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 < 6.3.001 patch -p0 < 6.3.001 After applying a patch, you need to compile Vim. There are no patches for binaries. Individual patches for Vim 6.3: SIZE NAME FIXES 2672 6.3.001 ":browse split" gives file selection dialog twice 3913 6.3.002 utf-8 detection in translated help files is wrong 1891 6.3.003 crash when using console dialog without default choice 2438 6.3.004 too many hit-enter prompts when searching for long string 2809 6.3.005 crash when searching with character offset in closed fold 1566 6.3.006 the current directory is prepended to the ":breakadd" argument 1755 6.3.007 swap file is not deleted for a "nofile" buffer after ":cd" 1865 6.3.008 OS/2: can't compile, missing error message 3670 6.3.009 (after 6.3.006) ":breakadd file" does not match for a symlink 2450 6.3.010 writing to a named pipe causes an error message for fsync() 1896 6.3.011 crash when user command completion uses "normal :cmd" 2882 6.3.012 lalloc(0) error for substitute command with multi-line pattern 11947 6.3.013 crash when using CTRL-R = in command line uses "normal :cmd" 1566 6.3.014 default value of 'helplang' is wrong for Chinese and Taiwanese 1207 6.3.015 the string returned by winrestcmd() may end in garbage 1735 6.3.016 'define' default had "\s" before #, breaks "[d" 1364 6.3.017 "9zz" could place the cursor beyond the end of a line 1844 6.3.018 ":0argadd zero" added the argument after the first one 1992 6.3.019 crash during startup when compiled for debugging 1915 6.3.020 "dw" doesn't work right for UTF-8 when 'delcombine' is set 2822 6.3.021 can't edit file with path separator in trail byte of last char 2173 6.3.022 (extra) Win32: can't write file with path sep. in trail byte 6419 6.3.023 when <Space> is remapped abbreviations are not expanded 2456 6.3.024 missing NUL for strings created with ga_concat() 1409 6.3.025 (extra) missing NUL for list of server names 3070 6.3.026 setting 'bg' in syncolor.vim may cause endless loop or crash 7500 6.3.027 VMS: Writing a file may insert extra CR characters 2128 6.3.028 the BOM marker is written when appending to a file 2173 6.3.029 crash in syntax highlighting code when inserting a line break 4579 6.3.030 GTK 2: crash when 'enc' is set to "utf-8" and menus redefined 1483 6.3.031 pressing Tab when entering a mapping may cause a display error 2094 6.3.032 with Python 2.3 using threads doesn't work 1552 6.3.033 mapping ending in two-char command doesn't restart Insert mode 1618 6.3.034 VMS: crash in RTL when using :help, caused by ? wildcard 7883 6.3.035 (extra) RISC OS: compilation problems, better Makefile