{"id":41789,"date":"2022-07-01T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=41789"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:02:49","slug":"vim-new-script-syntax-popup-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/07\/vim-new-script-syntax-popup-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Vim 9.0 Released with New Script Syntax, Popup Menu Command Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The popular Vim text editor released new major 9.0 version few days ago with many new features and large number of new features.<\/p>\n

The new release introduced Vim9 script<\/b> with drastic performance improvements. The execution speed can be increased via 10 to 100 times faster<\/b><\/i>. However, function must be defined with def<\/code>, and the argument and return types must be specified to benefit from the speed-up.<\/p>\n

Legacy scripts will keep working as before<\/b>. The new script syntax now looks a lot more like most programming languages. Line continuation does not require using a backslash; Function calls do not require call<\/code>, assignments are done without let<\/code> and expressions are evaluated without eval<\/code>. And, comments now start with #<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Instead of the ‘wildmenu’ option, now a popup menu can be used in Vim 9 by setting “wildoptions’ to “pum”. Which, allows for showing many more command line completion matches. The updated colorschemes<\/a> are also included in the release.<\/p>\n

New options in the release including:<\/p>\n