MacVim r178

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Updated to Vim 9.0.1897

Special Notes

As some of you may have read, Bram Moolenaar, the creator of Vim, has passed away recently. He has worked tirelessly on Vim for more than 30 years and this release is dedicated to him. If you would like, you could pay your respects at this discussion thread.

The Vim project has transitioned to new maintainers, and MacVim will continue to be supported as long as Vim is around.

Features

More flexible Python integration

MacVim now allows you to use Python runtime (via pythonthreedll, used for Python plugins) of any version at or above 3.9. Previously you had to use the exact same version that was used to build MacVim (Python 3.11). The Python detection logic is also updated to always just find the latest version of Homebrew Python instead of a fixed one, and it will also now locate the default macOS / Xcode Python provided by the Xcode Command Line Tools if that is the only Python available. This should hopefully make configuring Python for MacVim a lot more seamless. See :h python3-stable-abi. Vim v9.0.1776 / #1428.

New Vim features

• New built-in support for EditorConfig via an optional package. Use packadd editorconfig to activate it. See runtime: Distribute the editorconfig with vim vim/vim#12902.
• g<End> now goes to the first non-blank char. v9.0.1753
• API changes
  • undotree() now takes a bufnr v9.0.1686
  • printf() now takes positional arguments v9.0.1704
  • virtcol() now takes winid v9.0.1728
  • quickfix items can now have user data v9.0.1688
• Miscellaneous security fixes.

Security Fixes

• Fixed insecure usages of interprocess communication in MacVim (CVE-2023-41036)

Fixes

• Fixed MacVim to correctly set up the runtime folder in the app bundle. As a corollary, xxd is now bundled with MacVim like most other Vim distributions, and MacVim.app now provides man page for the CLI vim commands if the user wants to associate man pages with the mvim comamnd (see :h macvim-PATH). Install Vim runtime to the MacVim app bundle properly #1430
• Fixed Vim occasionally crashing and/or hung when autocmd calls serverlist() on exit. Fix Vim crashing when querying serverlist when quitting #1427

Scripting

• Scripting languages versions: Python now supports 3.9 or above.

Compatibility

Compatibility

Requires macOS 10.9 or above. (10.9 - 10.12 requires downloading a separate legacy build)

Script interfaces have compatibility with these versions:

• Lua 5.4
• Perl 5.30
• Python2 2.7
• Python3 3.9 or above
• Ruby 3.2

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This discussion was created from the release MacVim r178.