Out today in kicking off the new year is a new release of Vim, the powerful screen-based text editor.

Vim 9.1 is considered primarily a bug fix release with "hundreds of bug fixes" in tow but also a few new features. Vim 9.1 now supports Vim9 classes and objects for the Vim9 scripting language, a new ":defer" command, support for adding virtual-text to a buffer like for language server features, smooth scrolling support, updated OpenVMS support, and XXD has been updated to support color output.

Vim 9.1 adds a "smoothscroll" option for smooth scrolling.

Downloads and more details on the changes with the Vim 9.1 text editor are available via Vim.org .