Software Update: Vim 7.4

Version 7.4 of Vi IMproved, or Vim, has been released. This universal editor was once developed by Bram Moolenaar for the Commodore Amiga, but is now also available for Unix, Linux, OS X, OS/2, DOS and Windows. Although the previous version saw the light of day almost three years ago, Bram does not want to call the new version a major release. The main changes can be found in the announcement.

Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.4

A small number of problems have been fixed since 7.4b BETA. It’s now tested sufficiently, time for a release!

The biggest additions since 7.3:

• A new, faster regular expression engine.
• More than a thousand fixes and small improvements.

Once you have installed Vim 7.4 you can find details about the changes since Vim 7.3 with:

:help version-7.4