Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Vim 9 - but older releases preferred Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:58:35 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <10fat2b$3p5tk$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="96778917db45757ee63e3ac97f654718"; logging-data="3970996"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19BRGgNXmTAAmndFqTIqhB3" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:aIEw0IseG9+uMNc78rqn1d7iotA= Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.editors:106844 In a new Linux system installation I'm presented a Vim 9 version. It seems to be completely incompatible with the various releases that I used before. When I was looking on the net for some older release I got always directed to version 9, though. (I'm obviously missing something?) Can someone provide a link to some Vim release where modelines and all the other things work as in former (pre-Lua or whatever) times? Some source code tar-ball would be okay. - Thanks. Or is there some other simple way to make Vim 9 behave like earlier versions concerning the configuration files and user settings? Janis PS: How did other Vim users perceive those changes in Vim releases? (I'm just curious.)