vim (1:7.0-017+6) unstable; urgency=low

  * "vim" vs "vi" revisited

    Invoking Vim as "vi" now only provides a vi-compatiable environment for
    the vim-tiny package (which is included in base).  The remaining variants
    will retain their normal behavior.

    Since this behavior was restricted to vim-tiny, /etc/vim/virc has been
    renamed /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny.  As was the case with the initial "vi"
    changes, the only setting in /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny is "set compatible".

 -- James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>  Mon,  5 Jun 2006 20:00:02 -0400

vim (1:7.0-015+1) unstable; urgency=low

  * "vim" vs "vi"

    Vim now behaves differently when invoked as "vim" or "vi". In the former
    case the usual Debian configuration (/etc/vim/vimrc, /etc/vim/gvimrc) is
    sourced. When invoked as "vi" only /etc/vim/virc is sourced, providing a
    minimal Vim environment, which strives to be compatible with the original
    "vi". Run Vim as "vim" if you want a full-fledged environment (a shell
    alias vi=vim usually works too).

    The actual content of /etc/vim/virc sets 'compatible' and nothing else.

    Note that user configuration files (~/.vimrc) and other files found in the
    runtimepath are still sourced when Vim is invoked as "vi".

  * /etc/vim/vimrc.local is deprecated

    Vim system-wide configuration files (/etc/vim/*rc) no longer contain paths
    with hard-coded Vim version numbers. They can now be freely modified
    without risking to loose access to Vim runtime files on version changes
    (this used to happen in the past if the sysadm failed to merge changes
    applied in the Debian packages).

    Therefore .local files in /etc/vim/ are no longer needed and can be no
    longer sourced in future versions of the default Vim configuration in
    Debian. Please merge .local files in /etc/vim/vimrc and /etc/vim/gvimrc.

 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>  Fri, 12 May 2006 21:19:55 -0500

vim (1:6.4+7.0g01-1) experimental; urgency=low

  /etc/vim/vimrc (and gvimrc) no longer contain the default system-wide
  settings for Vim.  They have been moved to $VIMRUNTIME/debian.vim in order
  to ensure any changes we maintainers make are properly applied (such as
  further modifications to the runtimepath option).

  This frees up /etc/vim/vimrc (and gvimrc) for the sysadmin to make any
  changes directly to that file instead of using vimrc.local as had previously
  been suggested.  The only line which need be maintained is "runtime!
  debian.vim" as that is what sources the package's system-wide settings.

  It is highly recommended that the new vimrc and gvimrc files are accepted or
  carefully merged with the existing files since not doing so will very
  likely cause Vim not to operate correctly.

 -- James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>  Wed,  3 May 2006 10:54:15 -0400

vim (1:6.4-004+1) unstable; urgency=low

  * The vim-tiny package is back.

    It contains a compact version of the vim executable (no GUI, a small
    subset of Vim features) and does not depend on the Vim runtime (which, in
    the meantime, has been moved to a separate vim-runtime package). You can
    now have a 1 Mb installation of your favorite editor!

  * Vim variants no longer conflict.

    You can now install at the same time different variants of the Vim editor.
    The default one is configured via alternatives, with priorities increasing
    with the amount of features compiled in. Specific variants are available
    as /usr/bin/vim.variantname.

  * /usr/bin/gvim as gnome-text-editor.

    GNOME enabled vim variants (namely "vim-gnome" and "vim-full") provide
    again alternatives for /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor. Still, their priorities
    are smaller than gedit's (40 vs 50 and 45 vs 50 respectively), you have to
    manually choose gvim with update-alternatives if you want to use it as
    your default GNOME text editor.

 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>  Sat,  2 Dec 2005 10:03:08 +0100

vim (1:6.3-068+4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * The kvim patch is unmaintained and has some annoying bugs, so we decided
    to remove the kvim packages from Debian.

 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:39:52 +0200
