Re: Installing 7.4 windows over 7.2 windows

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 6:16:21 PM UTC-5, russur wrote:
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> I have been very happy using vim 7.2 under windows, but was wondering if i download and install vim 7.4, will that undo all my plugins, customizations, etc. that i have set up currently under 7.2?
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> I'd like to try the new one, but don't want to loose the customizations i have?
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A word of caution:

The official installer from vim.org contains 7.4.0 which has a few very noticeable defects, one of which is that diff won't work out-of-the-box. If at some point you copied the MyDiff function from the default installed .vimrc you'll encounter this issue.

You can either grab a more recent version (e.g. "Vim without Cream" from cream.sf.net) to get an updated default .vimrc, or apply the fix yourself: http://superuser.com/questions/697847/cant-run-vimdiff-7-4-on-windows-7

There are several other big improvements since the 7.4.0 release, I'd recommend getting a relatively recent version anyway to get:
* bugfixes in the new regular expression engine
* a few crash fixes
* improved encryption
* improvements to editing in visual block mode
* buffer-local 'undolevels'
* fixes for directory permissions on the default empty buffer
* 'breakindent' feature (repeats the indent of a line when it soft-wraps)
* hundreds of other bugfixes and additions

Since you're going from 7.2 to 7.4, be sure to look into the new features:
* persistent undo
* relative line numbering
* various new autocmd events
* "conceal" feature for syntax files

More details in the help, of course, at :help version7. Also see ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.4/README for the changes after the 7.4.0 installer came out.

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