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Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Jul 30
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020041Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +020042- Always show the right border, not only when there is a close button?
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +020043- bug: double click in scrollbar starts selection
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +020044- modeless selection fails over ssh and with putty. Mouse dragging not
45 supported? Can we force it on?
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +020046- Allow resizing from the bottom-right corner
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020047- Implement flip option
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +020048- Have a way to scroll to the bottom, e.g. set 'firstline' to -1? (#4577)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020049- Why does 'nrformats' leak from the popup window buffer???
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +020050 Happens in Test_simple_popup() at the second screendump.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020051- Disable commands, feedkeys(), CTRL-W, etc. in a popup window.
52 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for more commands.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020053- For the "moved" property also include mouse movement?
54- Can the buffer be re-used if it was the last one, to avoid using up lots of
55 buffer numbers?
56- Have an option to attach the popup to a text position, like text properties
57 do. (#4560)
58- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
59 - put popup menu also put in popup_mask?
60- Invoke filter with character before mapping?
61- Figure out the size and position better.
62 if wrapping splits a double-wide character
63 if wrapping inserts indent
64- When drawing on top half a double-wide character, display ">" or "<" in the
65 incomplete cell.
66- Use a popup window for the "info" item of completion instead of using a
67 preview window. Ideas in issue #4544.
68 How to add highlighting?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020069
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020070'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010071- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
72 was set. (#3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020073- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
74 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010075- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
76 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020077- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020078- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020079- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
80 isn't one?
81 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
82
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020083Prompt buffer:
84- Add a command line history.
85- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010086- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020087
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020088Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020089- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010090- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
91 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020092- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +010093- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020094- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
95 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
96 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010097- Add support for lldb? #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010098- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
99 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100100 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100101 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200102
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200103Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200104- When typing "exit" in a terminal window with a shell and it's the only
105 window, should exit Vim instead of editing another buffer. (#4539)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100106- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
107 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
108 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100109- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
110 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200111- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
112 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100113- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200114- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200115- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200116- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
117 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200118- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
119 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200120- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
121 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
122- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
123 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200124- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
125 is disabled.
126- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
127- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
128 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200129- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
130 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
131 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
132- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
133- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
134 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
135- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
136 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200137
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200138Error numbers available: E260, E274, E275, E276,
139E278, E279, E290, E292, E362, E366, E450, E451, E452,
140E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
141E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E863, E889, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200142
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200143Patch on issue #4661 to fix resolve(). (Ken Takata)
144https://gist.github.com/k-takata/52d0a677ca9a27bdbaed21d77533244e
145
146Patch to split of map.c from getchar.c (Yegappan, #4740)
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200147
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200148Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200149
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200150Patch to add win_splitmove() function. (Andy Massimino, #4561)
151
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200152Patch for #4733: #4734. Test needs improvements.
153
154Patch to fix session file when using multiple tabs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May
15520)
156Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
157remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
158
159Make heredoc-let a bit more restrictive:
160https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/4705
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200161
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200162Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
163Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
164terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
165Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
166(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200167
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200168Patch to add :spellrare. (#4291)
169
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200170Patch to use timers in matchparen. (Daniel Hahler, #1338)
171Ready to include now?
172
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100173Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
174(#4087)
175
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200176Patch to support 'cursorlineopt' - only highlight the line number of the
177cursor line: #4693
178
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200179Let plugins know how much space is available in the last line before
180triggering the hit-enter prompt. Internally called "sc_col".
181(Daniel Hahler, #4732)
182
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200183Patch for Template string: #4491 Not ready yet. New pull: #4634
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200184
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200185":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
186goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
187unlisted. (#4478)
188
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200189Make 'showbreak' global-local.
190
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200191Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
192(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
193
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200194When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
195default one. #4698
196
197When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
198with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
199
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200200Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
201fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
202
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200203Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
204- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
205- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200206
207Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
20813, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200209
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200210Columns and Rows are long, they should be int.
211
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100212Errors found with random data:
213 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100214
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200215Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
216files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
217Include part of #3242?
218
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200219When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
220it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
221
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200222Patch for Inno Setup: #2739
223
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100224Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
225Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
226
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200227"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
228(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
229
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100230Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
231
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200232The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
233Give a few examples. (#4288)
234
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200235Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
236work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
237
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100238Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
239read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
240be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
241
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200242":registers" should indicate char/block/linewise. (Ayberk Aydin, #4546)
243
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200244Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
245(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
246
247Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
248
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200249Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
250https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
251
252Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
253http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
254http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
255Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
256- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
257- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
258- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
259 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
260- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
261- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
262Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
263- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
264- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
265Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
266- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
267
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100268Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
269Mar 5)
270
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200271Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
272- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
273 line.
274- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
275 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
276- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
277 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
278
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200279Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
280on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
281
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200282Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
283in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
284buffer didn't change at all.
285
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200286Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
287register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
288(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
289
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200290Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
291(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
292
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200293Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
294":let buf = bufcreate('name')
295
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200296Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
297'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
298(#4450)
299
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100300When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
301But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
302similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
303
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200304C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
305(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
306
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100307Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
308"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
309
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100310Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
311added?
312
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200313Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
314negative. (see #4326)
315
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200316All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
317For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax. It also allows for
318chaining: >
319 mylist~get(idx)
320 mylist~uniq()~len()
321 mydict~get(idx)
322 mystring~len()
323Or use -> (like C pointer dereference) >
324 mylist->get(idx)
325 mylist->uniq()->len()
326 mydict->get(idx)
327 mystring->len()
328Alternatives for ~:
329 ^ list^get() could also be used
330 . list.get() already means "member" in Dict
331 $ list$get() harder to read
332 @ list@get() harder to read
333
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200334'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
335`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
336tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
337:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
338
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200339This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
340 vim: syn=nosyntax
341
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200342":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
343a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
344
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100345Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
346#2948. (related to #1512?)
347On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
348balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
34920, #2481)
350Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
351Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
352balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
3532018 Sep 14)
354Another request: #3811.
355
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200356More warnings from static analysis:
357https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200358
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100359Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
360
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200361Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
362
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200363Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
364internals of the dict structure.
365
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200366Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
367manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
368Athena is OK.
369Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100370
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100371nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
372
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200373Missing tests for:
374- add_termcap_entry()
375
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200376Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
377change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
378them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
379
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100380When using exclusive selection and vi" that fails, cursor moves to the left.
381Cursor should not move. (#4024)
382
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100383Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
384Also run all tests with C locale?
385
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100386"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
387#3927
388
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200389Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200390Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200391
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100392When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
393case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
394For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
395
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200396Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
397(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
398expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200399
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200400Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
401 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
402 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
403
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100404Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100405punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100406
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200407ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
408
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200409Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
410":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
411#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
412Updated 2019 May 25.
413
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200414Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
415drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
416
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200417Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
418is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
419
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100420When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
421scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
422using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
423
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200424Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
425#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
426(Sep 8)
427
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200428Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
429unified diff (list of lines).
430
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100431When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
432kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
433when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
434
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100435Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
436(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100437
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100438Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
439
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200440Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200441Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200442memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200443Memory leak in test_terminal:
444==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
445==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
446==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
447==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
448==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
449==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
450==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
451==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
452==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200453TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100454Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200455Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
456Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200457
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200458gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200459
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200460matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
46119.
462
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100463Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
464Probably window.
465Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
466highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200467And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
468'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100469
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100470Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
471Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
472
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200473Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
474Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
475Not ready to include.
476
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200477Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
478Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
479Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
480
481Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
482
483Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
484screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
485
486Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
487 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
488 Not ready to include.
489
490Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
491Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
492
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200493:pedit resets the 'buflisted' option unexpectedly. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Oct 12,
494#3536)
495
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200496home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
497
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200498When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
499terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
500How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
501
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200502Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
503
504Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
505(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
506
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100507Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
508Feedback from someone who uses this?
509
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200510ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
511
512Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
513Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
514values.
515
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100516Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200517- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
518- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
519- omit diff.exe from distribution
520- Can we make this show differences within a line?
521- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200522
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200523Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
524
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100525Patch to properly break CJK lines: #3875
526Requires more tests. dbcs_ functions are not implemented.
527
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100528Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
529What is the practical use for this?
530
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200531When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
532includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
533
534Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100535Ask to write a test first.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200536
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200537MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
538(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
539
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100540Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
541
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200542Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
543when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
544
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100545Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
546mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
547
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200548Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
549
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200550Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
551modified buffers
552 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
553 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
554 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
555 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
556
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100557Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
558- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
559- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
560- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100561- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
562
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200563Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
564characters. (#3246)
565
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200566'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
567
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100568Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
569Oct 28)
570
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200571ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
572Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
573Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
574Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
575
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100576Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
577- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
578
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200579Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
580- Test_setbufvar_options()
581- Test_exit_callback_interval()
582
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200583Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
584Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100585Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
586Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200587
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200588Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
589
590Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
59124)
592
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100593Try out background make plugin:
594 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
595or asyncmake:
596 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
597
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100598Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100599mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100600
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200601Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
602is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
603used for git temp files.
604
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100605Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
606
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200607Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
608#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
609
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200610Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
611behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
612(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
613
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200614Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
615pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
616
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200617Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
618script or function.
619
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200620Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
621Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
622
623When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
624E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
625does nothing otherwise?
626
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200627MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
628If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
629(wait a little while).
630CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100631
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200632Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
633MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
6342017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
635receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
636
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200637Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
638missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
639
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200640":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
641deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
642
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200643Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200644
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100645Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200646Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
647
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200648With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
649included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
650(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
651
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200652Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200653Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200654
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100655Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100656Jan 15, #2555)
657
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200658":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
659
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100660Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
661
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100662No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
663No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
664
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200665Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
666http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
667Should be supported with a flag.
668
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100669Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
670confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
671
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100672Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
673
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100674Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
675Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
676applying the diff, etc.
677
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200678Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
679Apr 26, #2849)
680
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100681User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
682word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100683
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100684Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200685
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200686With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
687(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
688
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200689Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
690:drop (remote commands).
691
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200692Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
6932018 Jun 18, #3027)
694
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200695Implement option_save() and option_restore():
696option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
697 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
698 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
699 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
700 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
701 be called when the same window is the current window.
702 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
703 the local options won't be restored.
704
705option_save({list}) *option_save()*
706 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
707 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
708 let s:saved_options = option_save([
709 \ 'ignorecase',
710 \ 'iskeyword',
711 \ ])
712 au <buffer> BufLeave *
713 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
714< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
715 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
716 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
717 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100718 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
719 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
720 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100721 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200722
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100723"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
724directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
725Also see #1689.
726
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100727crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
72817, #2652)
729
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100730When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100731highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100732
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200733":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
734
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100735No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
7362017 Dec 26, #2501)
737
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200738A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
739
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200740Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
741
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200742A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
743Mention where they were defined somewhere.
744
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100745Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
746(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
747
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200748ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
749
750Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
751
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100752Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
753Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
754
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100755Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
756in #846)
757Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
758
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200759Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
760Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
761
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100762When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
763redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200764
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100765In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
766(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
767
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100768Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
769neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100770
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100771Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
772Nov 21)
773
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200774When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
775triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
776set_color_count().
777
778Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
779responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
780
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100781When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
782CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
783Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
784always nested.
785
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200786matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
787
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100788Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
789
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100790MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100791for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
792
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200793Would be nice for insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100794(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200795
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200796Test runtime files.
797Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200798
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200799Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200800
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200801Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
802defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
803Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
804
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200805After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
80613, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200807
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200808When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
809line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
810
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100811The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
812
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200813Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
814set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
815
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200816Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
817
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100818Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
819
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200820Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200821It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100822Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200823Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200824
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200825Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
826behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
827
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100828'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
829
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200830The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
831
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100832When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
833a command can delete it.
834
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200835Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
836#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
837
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100838The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
839for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
840
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200841X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
842pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
843clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
844Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
845Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
846clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200847Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200848
849Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
850
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200851Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
852attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
853that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
854
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200855Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
856(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
857
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100858Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
859buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
860Also fixes #2166?
861
862Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
863
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200864Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
865stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
866
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100867Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
868possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
869
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200870When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
871case of :bwipe followed by :new.
872
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200873Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
874existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
875Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
876
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200877Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200878
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200879MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
880Jul 4)
881
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200882Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
883Drucker, 2017 May 8).
884This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
885Christian cannot reproduce it.
886
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200887Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
888wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
889Or is this not an actual problem?
890
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200891Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
892
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200893Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
894
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200895Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
896
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200897'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
898#1736)
899
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200900Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
9018, #1690)
902
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200903Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
904(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
905
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200906Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
907it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
908
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200909Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
910Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
911How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
912
913Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
914(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
915
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100916Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
917
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200918assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
919it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
920
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200921New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
922
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100923Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
924for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200925
926Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
927(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
928Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
929later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
930Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
931mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200932Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
933mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200934maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200935
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100936Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200937plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
938be defined when the plugin is loaded.
939
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100940Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
941 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
942 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100943
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200944json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200945What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100946
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200947Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
948
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200949import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
950(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
951
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100952When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
953buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
954Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100955
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200956Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
957Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100958Another example in #1309
959
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100960When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
961when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
962
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100963Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
964#1330)
965
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200966Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
967
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100968Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
969
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100970GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
971g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
972timer expires.
973
974Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
975
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100976Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
977highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
978
9798 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
980 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
981
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100982Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
983Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
984
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200985Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
986key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
987 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
988 echo keytrans(xx)
989 <C-Home>
990
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100991Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
992(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
993Make a function to check for function-like type?
994
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200995Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
996(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
997
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100998Implement optional arguments for functions.
999 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
1000 call Foo(12)
1001 call Foo(12, all = 0)
1002 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001003
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001004Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1005somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1006
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001007Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1008(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1009
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001010Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1011Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
1012New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
1013
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001014Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001015Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001016Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001017
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001018The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1019"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1020Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1021
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001022Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1023
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001024Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1025about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001026Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1027
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001028Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1029#1053) With patch, does it work?
1030
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001031":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001032vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1033
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001034Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001035E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001036Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001037
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001038Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1039Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1040
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001041Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001042Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001043
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001044"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1045(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1046
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001047Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1048(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001049Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001050
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001051'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1052
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001053Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1054
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001055When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1056Apr 23, #1653)
1057
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001058Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1059anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1060
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001061Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001062E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001063
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001064Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1065(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1066
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001067Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1068
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001069Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
1070
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001071Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
1072
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001073On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1074separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1075
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001076min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1077contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1078
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001079Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1080
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001081Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1082
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001083Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1084
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001085Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1086no longer support.
1087
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001088sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
10894#1038)
1090
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001091+channel:
1092- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1093 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001094- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1095- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1096 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1097- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1098 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1099- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001100- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1101 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001102- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1103- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1104 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1105 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1106- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1107- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1108- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1109 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1110 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1111- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1112 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1113- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1114 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1115 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1116
1117Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001118- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1119 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1120 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1121 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001122- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1123 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001124- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1125 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1126- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1127 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1128- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1129 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1130 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1131 LC_CTYPE
1132- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1133 matches everywhere.
1134- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1135 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1136- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1137- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1138 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1139- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1140- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1141 2013 Dec 11)
1142- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1143 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1144- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1145- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1146 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1147- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1148- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1149- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1150- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1151 2015 Feb 7)
1152- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1153 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1154 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1155 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1156 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1157- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1158- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1159- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1160- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1161 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1162 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1163 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1164- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1165 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1166- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1167 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1168 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1169 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1170
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001171Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
1172
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001173Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1174#1350)
1175
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001176Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
11773. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1178Also see #1635.
1179
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001180Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001181Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1182use the current behavior.
1183Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001184
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001185When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1186command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1187
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001188Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
1189change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001190patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
1191(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001192
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001193Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1194doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1195Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001196Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001197E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1198
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001199execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001200#1141)
1201
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001202cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1203
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001204:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1205
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001206Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1207
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001208When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1209synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1210
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001211Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1212Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001213
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001214Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1215(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1216
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001217ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1218Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001219
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001220Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1221
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001222Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001223(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001224
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001225Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1226Jul 25, #948)
1227
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001228Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1229names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1230Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1231the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1232
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001233Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1234(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1235Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1236
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001237'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1238
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001239MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1240Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001241
1242Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1243Also for ":@.".
1244
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001245Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1246
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001247Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1248#1125
1249
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001250Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1251times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1252
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001253Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1254
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001255Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1256
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001257Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1258
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001259Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1260
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001261We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1262the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1263
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001264Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1265
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001266When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1267emoji_width table has only one entry.
1268
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001269It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1270Reject the value? #710.
1271
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001272When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1273Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1274
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001275Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +02001276Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001277
1278Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001279
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001280Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1281No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001282
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001283Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1284(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001285
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001286Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1287
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001288Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1289https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1290Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1291
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001292Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1293but the reference remains valid.
1294
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001295Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001296interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1297Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1298interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1299result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001300
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001301Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001302work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001303
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001304Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1305
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001306Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1307
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001308Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1309Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1310
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001311When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1312Apr 17) #762
1313
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001314exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1315Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1316
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001317Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1318'iskeyword' for syntax.
1319
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001320Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1321(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1322
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001323Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1324
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001325When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1326maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001327Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001328
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001329Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1330It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1331Add configure check?
1332Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1333Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1334Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1335
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001336Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1337Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1338
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001339Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1340Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1341Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1342
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001343Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1344Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1345
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001346":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1347directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1348
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001349In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1350(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1351
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001352If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
13532016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001354
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001355Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1356(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1357
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001358Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001359Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001360
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001361Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1362
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001363When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1364restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1365Do not trigger the event?
1366
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001367Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1368changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1369and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001370Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1371Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
13726, 2nd message)
1373Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001374
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001375Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1376Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1377https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1378
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001379Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1380With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1381
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001382Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001383
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001384Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1385
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001386Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001387Only remembers one error.
1388
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001389GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001390
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001391Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1392(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001393
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001394Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1395github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001396 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001397Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001398
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001399Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001400
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001401Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001402comparing individual items.
1403Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1404Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1405Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1406equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1407
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001408Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1409
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001410MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1411wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1412
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001413Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1414specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1415
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001416Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1417(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1418
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001419Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001420inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001421
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001422Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1423(Luchr, #277)
1424
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001425Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001426'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1427before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001428
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001429C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1430and also line continuation after #include.
1431I can't recommend it though.
1432
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001433Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1434(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1435
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001436To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1437library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1438
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001439When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1440is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1441
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001442Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
144330)
1444
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001445MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1446(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1447
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001448The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
144924): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001450
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001451":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1452effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1453
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001454":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14559)
1456
1457The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1458wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1459
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001460Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001461Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001462
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001463When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1464the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1465
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001466Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001467slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1468inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1469
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001470ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
14712014 Sep 11)
1472
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001473Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1474(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1475
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001476When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1477'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1478
1479Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001480(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001481Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1482- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1483 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1484 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1485- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1486 covered by the above change.
1487So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001488same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001489Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001490
1491Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1492Work in progress.
1493
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001494Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1495when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1496
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001497Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1498Is this right?
1499
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001500Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1501(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1502Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1503
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001504Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1505Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001506
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001507Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1508Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1509
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001510Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1511
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001512When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1513filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1514initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1515
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001516Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1517
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001518Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1519OK to not block marks?
1520
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001521Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1522
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001523Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1524
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001525When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1526(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1527
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001528Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001529
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001530Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1531(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1532
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001533When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1534any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1535
1536Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001537
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001538Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001539
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001540Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1541(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1542
1543Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1544
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001545Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1546Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1547was already defined.
1548(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1549
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001550Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1551
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001552Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001553Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001554Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001555Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001556
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001557Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1558(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1559
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001560Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1561(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1562
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001563Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1564
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001565When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1566these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1567window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1568
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001569Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1570should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1571history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1572Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1573
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001574"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1575Jun 8)
1576
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001577Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1578insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1579
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001580No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1581
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001582Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1583(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1584Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1585arguments.
1586
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001587Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1588
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001589Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001590
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001591Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
15920x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1593New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1594compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1595
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001596Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1597a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1598
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001599xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1600buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1601Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001602Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001603Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001604Also see issue #609.
1605We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001606
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001607Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1608right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001609its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001610
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001611Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1612
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001613This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1614 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1615This neither: (ZyX)
1616 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1617
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001618'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1619Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1620from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001621
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001622Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16232014 Jun 8)
1624
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001625Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001626Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001627Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1628Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1629User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001630- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1631 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1632 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001633- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1634- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1635 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1636 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1637 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1638 on vim.org.
1639- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1640 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1641- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1642- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1643- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1644- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1645Implementation:
1646- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1647 plugin separate.
1648- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1649 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1650 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1651- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1652 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1653- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1654 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1655 installing.
1656Out of scope:
1657- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1658- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1659 useful).
1660
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001661Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1662normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001663
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001664When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1665menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1666
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001667Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1668(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1669
1670":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1671various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001672
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001673Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001674(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1675
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001676VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1677instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1678
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001679Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001680Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001681
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001682Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001683command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001684
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001685Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1686
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001687Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1688highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001689
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001690The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1691For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1692
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001693Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001694possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001695
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001696Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001697
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001698Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1699
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017007 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1701 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1702 "lucida_console:h8").
1703Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1704
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001705:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1706
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001707Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1708
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001709Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1710
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001711When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1712(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1713
1714Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001715Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001716
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001717GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1718(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1719
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001720Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1721registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1722
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001723Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1724
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001725The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1726(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1727Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1728
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001729The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1730- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1731- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1732
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001733Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1734Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1735reliably?
1736
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001737Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1738(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1739
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001740Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1741(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1742
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001743Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17442013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001745
1746Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1747
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001748Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17495)
1750
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001751Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1752carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1753
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001754Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1755highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1756
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001757Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001758
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001759Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200176028) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001761
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001762Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1763
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001764Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1765
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001766- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1767 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1768Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001769
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001770Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001771
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001772In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1773process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1774a reboot.
1775
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001776patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1777
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001778Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1779not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001780
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001781Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1782Or use expand('<sid>')?
1783
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001784Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1785
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001786Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1787
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001788b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17897)
1790
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001791Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1792compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1793
1794Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1795Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1796vim.bindeval().
1797
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001798Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
17992012 Aug 4)
1800
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001801Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1802(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1803
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001804Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1805But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1806
1807Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1808Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1809Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001810
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001811Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1812loading all files.
1813
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001814MS-Windows resizing problems:
1815- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1816 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1817- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1818 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1819 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001820
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001821'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001822
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001823Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001824of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1825
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001826The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1827Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1828But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001829
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001830When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1831is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1832
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001833URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001834- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001835- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1836 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1837
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001838Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1839(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1840Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1841
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001842Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001843New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001844
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001845When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1846for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1847Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001848
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001849Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1850
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001851Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1852
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001853Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1854Apr 18)
1855
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001856Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1857And one for gui_x11.txt.
1858
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001859":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1860finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1861Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1862
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001863Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1864
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001865Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1866
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001867Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1868they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1869
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001870Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1871
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001872Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1873Nov 20)
1874
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001875Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001876Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001877
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001878`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001879(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1880
1881Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1882
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001883BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1884Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1885
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001886Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1887Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1888
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001889Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1890
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001891On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18922012 Jun 19)
1893
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001894'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1895'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1896Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001897Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001898
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001899With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1900(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1901need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1902
1903Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1904only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
190521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1906
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001907The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1908support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1909
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001910'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1911highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1912
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001913Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1914New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1915
1916Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1917Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1918
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001919Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1920Jan 19)
1921
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001922Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1923discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1924meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001925
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001926"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001927Oct 26)
1928
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001929Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1930
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001931With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1932register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001933
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001934Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1935
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001936When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1937(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1938
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001939When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1940then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1941from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1942
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001943Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1944":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
194515)
1946
1947Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1948
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001949BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1950cleared. See test64.
1951
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001952Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001953effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001954Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001955https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001956
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001957On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
195864 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1959right type.
1960
1961string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1962(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1963
1964When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1965(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001966When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1967following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1968(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001969
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001970When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1971doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1972
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001973Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1974
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001975maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1976mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1977
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001978Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1979(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1980
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001981When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1982indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1983the help file.
1984
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001985After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1986Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1987
1988Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1989
1990"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1991
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001992Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1993
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001994Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001995
1996Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19972010 Dec 18)
1998
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001999With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2000number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2001Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2002
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002003Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2004Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2005
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020068 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2007Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2008
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002009Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2010one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2011the match scrolls into view.
2012
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020137 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2014Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2015Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2016
20179 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2018 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2019Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2020
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002021Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2022Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2023
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002024In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2025or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2026sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2027
2028GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2029doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2030
2031GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2032
2033Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2034Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2035
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002036Wish for NetBeans commands:
2037 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2038
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002039Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2040
20417.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2042there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2043do?
2044
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002045Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
204622)
2047
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002048New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2049- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002050- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002051 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2052
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002053"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20542011 Feb 27)
2055
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002056Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2057^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2058
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002059When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2060exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20619) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2062
2063g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2064the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2065
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002066Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2067crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2068
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002069Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2070number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2071
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002072Regexp engine performance:
2073- Profiling:
2074 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2075 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2076 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2077 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2078 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2079 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2080- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2081- Performance tests:
2082 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2083 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2084 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2085 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2086 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2087 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2088 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2089 'hlsearch'.
2090 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2091 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2092 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2093 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2094
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002095Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2096Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2097
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002098'beval' option should be global-local.
2099
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002100Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002101
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002102setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002103
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002104With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21052010 Oct 24)
2106
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002107Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2108
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002109When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2110Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2111
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002112":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2113
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002114'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2115
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002116C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2117checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2118Issue 46.
2119
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002120Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2121
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002122Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2123gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2124
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002125":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2126accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2127
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002128Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2129setwinvar().
2130
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002131Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002132
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002133When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2134instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2135
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002136Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2137Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2138Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002139
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002140Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2141back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2142
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002143Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002144Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2145
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002146CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2147the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2148FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2149
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002150Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2151Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2152
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002153Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2154Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2155
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01002156I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
2157Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
2158an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002159
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002160Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2161
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002162Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2163non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002164
2165iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2166Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2167or replace with a character and continue?
2168
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002169Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2170Requires configure check for localtime().
2171Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2172
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002173Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2174Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2175
2176Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2177
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002178Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2179Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2180path.
2181
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002182Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002183Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002184
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002185'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2186
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002187":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2188like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2189
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002190Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2191https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002192
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002193Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
21942010 Nov 5)
2195
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002196Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002197Jan 7)
2198
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002199Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2200
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002201With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2202entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2203Feb 12)
2204
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002205Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2206characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2207
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002208Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2209
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002210Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2211 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2212
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002213Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2214
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002215When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2216Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2217
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002218When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2219not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2220string value.
2221
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002222For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002223line argument -noregister.
2224
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002225When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2226missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2227
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002228When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2229doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002230
2231Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2232(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2233Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2234There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2235Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2236
2237":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2238highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2239to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2240
2241Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2242Probably needs a bit of work.
2243
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002244List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002245Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2246
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002247Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2248
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002249Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2250
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002251Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2252Sep 1)
2253
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002254Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2255
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002256Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2257on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2258
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002259Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22602009 Jul 18)
2261
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002262Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2263window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2264Needs more work.
2265
2266Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2267
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002268When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2269few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2270
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002271'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002272(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2273
2274Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2275J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2276
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002277When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2278for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2279
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002280Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2281
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002282":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2283because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2284ex_docmd.c.
2285
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002286Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002287Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2288
2289string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2290for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2291
2292Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2293
2294'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
229520)
2296
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002297Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22982009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2299
2300Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2301
2302Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2303SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2304
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002305When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2306indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2307(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2308
2309Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2310are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2311Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2312Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2313that doesn't have a window.
2314
2315When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2316doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2317
2318getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2319displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2320
2321":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2322
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002323There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2324was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2325perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2326
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002327Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2328
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002329Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2330command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2331
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002332Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2333does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2334
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002335opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2336height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002337very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002338
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002339Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2340(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2341
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002342Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002343(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2344
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002345Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2346char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2347
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002348Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2349Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2350
2351This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2352
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002353Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2354messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2355es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23562009 Jan 26)
2357
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002358When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002359in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2360Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002362Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2363a modeline.
2364
2365Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2366Sergey Khorev)
2367
2368Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2369part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002370
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002371After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2372correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2373
2374Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2375(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2376
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002377shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002378'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2379Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2380unix-like shell?
2381
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002382Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2383register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2384(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2385
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002386Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2387Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2388
2389Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2390make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2391
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002392When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2393still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2394
2395"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2396(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2397
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002398Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2399that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2400ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2401Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2402
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002403MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2404doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2405probably causes this.
2406
2407'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024082009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002409
2410Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2411 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2412 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2413(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2414
2415Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2416":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2417option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2418is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002419
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002420":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2421first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002422Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002423
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002424Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2425laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2426Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002427
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002428Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2429anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2430
2431On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2432doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2433Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2434Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2435
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002436When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2437'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2438fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2439the buffer to be unmodified.
2440Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2441another look at it.
2442
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002443c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2444(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2445
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002446You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2447error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2448Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2449at the other match for 0xBF.
2450
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002451When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2452argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2453
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002454Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2455backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2456
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002457When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2458line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2459
2460Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2461position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2462
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002463After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2464(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002465command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002466
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002467":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2468Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2469
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002470When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2471either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2472put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2473
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002474Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2475Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2476Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2477Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2478(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2479
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002480Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2481
2482ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002483
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002484Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2485(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2486escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2487an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002488This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2489July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002490Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2491work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2492
2493When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
249431)
2495
2496Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2497work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2498Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002499
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002500Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2501multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2502(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2503
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002504Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25052008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002506Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002507
2508Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2509Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2510'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2511
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002512Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2513Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2514
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002515Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2516Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2517
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025188 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2519 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2520 several).
2521 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2522 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2523 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2524Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2525
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002526The utf class table is missing some entries:
2527 0x2212, minus sign
2528 0x2217, star
2529 0x2500, bar
2530 0x26ab, circle
2531
2532Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2533line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2534
2535GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2536Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2537
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002538Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2539try the Cocoa version.
2540
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002541Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2542changed or the window is resized.
2543
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002544GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2545the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2546
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002547Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2548Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002549
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002550Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25511) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2552
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002553C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2554with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2555Try to reproduce at work.
2556
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002557Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2558Is there a way to list all the files first?
2559
2560When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2561result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
256216)
2563
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002564Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2565(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2566
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002567Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2568Await response to question to make the register writable.
2569
2570Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25711)
2572
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002573In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2574each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2575
2576try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2577
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002578try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2579
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002580":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2581Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2582
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002583Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2584
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002585Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2586Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2587
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002588Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2589Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2590Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002591
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002592When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2593and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2594
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002595Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2596 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2597
2598New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2599
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002600":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2601a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2602
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002603'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2604Likonen, March 19)
2605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002606Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2607other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2608
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002609The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2610appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2611matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2612
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002613When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2614character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2615'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2616(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2617
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002618Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2619Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002620
2621More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2622
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002623Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2624http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2625
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002626Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2627back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2628Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002629
2630Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2631No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2632
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002633Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2634terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002635
2636Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2637
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002638Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2639but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2640that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002641
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002642Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2643Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2644
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002645Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2646popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2647size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2648This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2649
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002650When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2651it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2652
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002653Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2654then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2655files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002656Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2657indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2658":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002659in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2660quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002661Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002662
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002663When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2664parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2665neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2666particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2667Jun 3)
2668However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2669the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002670
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002671A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2672Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2673
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002674Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2675Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2676
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002677Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2678switch list is noticed:
2679 switch (i)
2680 {
2681 case 1:
2682 foobar:
2683 }
2684
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002685Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2686
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002687Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2688with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2689go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2690moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2691
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002692Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002693GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002694Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2695argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2696(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2697
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002698Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2699(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2700
2701Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2702makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2703.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002704 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002705
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002706Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27072007 Feb 8)
2708
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002709Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2710set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002711
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002712Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2713
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002714Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2715Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2716New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2717patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2718
2719Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2720Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2721
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002722Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
27232007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002724Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002725
2726Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002727label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2728
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002729Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2730with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2731Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002732
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002733Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2734
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002735Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2736Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2737only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2738
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002739Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2740Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002741Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002742properly?
2743
2744Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27452007 Jun 21)
2746
2747When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2748Jun 18)
2749
2750If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2751
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002752Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2753windows. (Adam George)
2754
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002755F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2756modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2757K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002758
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002759In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2760the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2761
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002762C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2763
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002764":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2765
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002766When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002767error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002768
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002769GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002770use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2771
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002772Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2773if_ruby.c.
2774
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002775":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2776
2777The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2778it in keep_msg?
2779
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002780Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002781error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002782name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2783
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002784Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2785longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002786
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002787Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2788Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2789Also for ":w" without a file name.
2790The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002791
2792"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2793Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2794
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002795VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2796directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2797(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2798
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002799VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2800
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002801input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2802name?
2803
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002804Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2805
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002806When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2807(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2808Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2809will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2810
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002811gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2812This also fails with --remote.
2813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002814When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28152008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2816all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2817
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002818aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2819
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002820When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2821(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2822
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002823Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2824the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2825
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002826GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2827
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002828Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2829superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2830
2831Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2832character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2833
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002834Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2835Jun 5)
2836
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002837Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28382008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2839Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2840
2841In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2842but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2843Jul 22)
2844
2845There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2846
2847Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2848":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2849somehow? Or use a new function.
2850
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002851Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2852
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002853Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2854moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2855that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2856
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002857The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2858
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002859When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002860cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2861the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2862
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002863These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2864 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2865 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2866 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2867
2868Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2869partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2870
2871In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2872buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2873reload it then?
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2876
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002877Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2878only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2879
2880Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2881tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2882doesn't contain other directories.
2883
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002884Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2885Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2886
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002887Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2888 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2889 set background=dark
2890This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2891color is, not reset it.
2892
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002893Linux distributions:
2894- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2895 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2896 xfree-xterm".
2897- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2898
2899Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2900start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2901show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2902middle?
2903
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002904Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2905
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002906When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2907current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2908the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2909
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002910When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2911Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2912
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002913Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2914 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2915 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2916 - getting colors in xterm
2917 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2918
2919Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2920Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2921
2922Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2923
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002924A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2925Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2926
2927Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2928Dara, 2006 June 21)
2929
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002930Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2931number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2932
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2934the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2935
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002936Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002937
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002938Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2939Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2940
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002941Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029422008 Sep 29)
2943
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002944In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2945check the result of has("patch13").
2946
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002947Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2948restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2949
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002950Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2951and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2952
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002953Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2954put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2955
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002956Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2957resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2958
2959In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2960can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2961
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002962GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2963maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2964doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002965Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2966visible.
2967
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002968When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2969differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002970
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002971The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2972be only one.
2973
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002974Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002975"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2976name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2977Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002978
2979Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2980(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2981
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002982Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2983as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2984
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002985Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
298623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002987
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002988":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2989tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2990Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002991
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002992When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2993text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2994latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2995
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002996Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2997no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2998
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002999In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3000VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30012007 Oct 16)
3002
3003TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3004Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3005
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003006Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003007
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003008When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3009typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3010Sep 3, 11)
3011
3012When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
3013respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
3014the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
3015what happens for the GUI.
3016
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003017":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3018this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3019
3020When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3021Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3022restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3023
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003024Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30252010 Jun 30)
3026
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003027Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3028'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3029(Kartik Agaram)
3030
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003031
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003032Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003033- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3034 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3035- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3036 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3037 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3038- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3039 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3040 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003041- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3042- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003043
3044
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003045More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003046- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3047 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003048- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003049- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3050 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003051- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3052- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3053- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3054 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3055 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003056- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003057- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3058 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3059- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3060 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3061- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3062 21)
3063- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3064 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3065- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3066 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003067- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3068 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003069- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3070 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3071 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3072 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3073 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003074- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003075
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003076Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030779 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3078 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3079 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3080 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3081 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3082 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3083 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3084 (Alan Schmitt)
3085 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003086 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3087 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030889 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003089 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030908 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030917 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3092 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3093 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030948 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003095 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030967 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003097 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3098- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3099 for multi-byte characters.
3100- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3101- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3102 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3103 been given values.
3104 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
31058 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003106 with an ESC sequence.
3107 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
3108 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
3109 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031107 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3111 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3112- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3113 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3114 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31158 Add functions:
3116 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3117 Update 2004 Sep 10
3118 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3119 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003120 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003121 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3122 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3123 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3124 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3125 (2003 May 13)
3126 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3127 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003128 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3129 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003130 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3131 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3132 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031337 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3134 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031357 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3136 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031378 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3138 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031397 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31408 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3141 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31427 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3143 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031447 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3145- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3146 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3147 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003148- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3149 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3150- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3151
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003152Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3153- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3154 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3155
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003156Quickfix/Location List:
3157- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3158 #2999)
3159- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3160 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3161 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3162 the quickfix buffer?
3163- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3164 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3165- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3166 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3167- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3168 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3169 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3170- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3171 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3172- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3173- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3174 2007 Jan 1)
3175- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3176 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3177- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3178 errors. How do we get the rest?
31798 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3180 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3181 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3182 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31837 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3184 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003185
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003186Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003187- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3188 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031898 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3190 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3191 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3192 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3193 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3194 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031958 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3196 make Vim exit.
31977 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3198 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3199 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32008 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3201 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3202 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32036 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3204 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3205 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32068 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3207 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3208 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3209 names in one buffer???
3210 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3211 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3212 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32137 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3214 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3215 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003216 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3217 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032187 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3219 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32207 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32217 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032227 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3223 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3224 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3225 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32267 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32277 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32287 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3229 to the match with the tag? Option?
32307 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32317 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3232 (Sayre).
32337 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3234 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032357 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3236 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3237 match. Nvi can do it too.
32387 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3239 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3240 line 1\ line 2\\
3241 line 2\ line 3\\
3242 . line4/
32436 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3244 the way the shell is started?
32456 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3246 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3247
3248
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003249GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032509 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032518 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3252 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3253 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032548 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3255 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3256 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032579 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3258 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3259 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3260 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003261- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3262 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3263 blocked for now.
3264
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003265
3266Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003267- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3268 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032698 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3270 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3271 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032726 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3273 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032748 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3275 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3276 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032777 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3278 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3279 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032807 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3281 2004 May 9)
32828 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3283 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3284 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3285 MS-Windows 98?
3286 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3287 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3288 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3289 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032908 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3291 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3292 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3293 doesn't work properly.
32948 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3295 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3296 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32979 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3298 button doesn't give popup menu.
3299 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3300 selection.
3301 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3302 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3303 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33048 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3305 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3306 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3307 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33088 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3309 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3310 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033117 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3312 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3313 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
33147 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3315 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003316 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033177 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3318 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033196 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33208 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3321 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3322 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33238 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3324 know which keyboard is being used?
33257 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3326 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3327 area (Koloseike).
33288 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3329 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3330 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3331 the font name).
3332
3333
3334Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033356 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3336 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3337 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3338 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3339 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033409 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3341 required and it's missing?
33428 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3343 wrong.
33449 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3345 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033469 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003347 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3348 flag.
33498 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3350 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3351 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33528 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33536 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3354 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3355 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3356 the tooltips work though...
33577 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3358 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33598 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3360 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3361 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3362
3363
3364Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033659 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3366 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033679 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3368 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3369 through files.
33707 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3371 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33724 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3373 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3374 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3375 problem during a refresh.
33765 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3377 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3378 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3379 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3380 colors as it should.
3381 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3382 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3383
3384
3385Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003386- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033877 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3388 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033898 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3390 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3391 (Phillipps)
3392
3393
3394GUI:
33959 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3396 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33979 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003398 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003399 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34009 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3401 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34028 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3403 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34048 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3405 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3406 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34078 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3408 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3409 of where it is processing the output.
3410 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34118 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3412 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034138 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034148 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3415 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3416 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034178 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034188 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3419 browse().
34208 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3421 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34228 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3423 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034247 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3425 - regexp on/off
3426 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3427 when all buffers/directory is used:
3428 - filter for file name
3429 when directory is used:
3430 - subdirectory on/off
3431 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034328 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3433 to avoid problems.
34348 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3435 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3436 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34378 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3438 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3439 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34408 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3441 up. Set erase character somehow?
34428 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3443 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3444 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3445 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34468 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34477 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3448 visible.
34497 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3450 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34517 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3452 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34538 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3454 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34558 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3456 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3457 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3458 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3459- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34604 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3461 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3462 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3463
3464
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003465Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034668 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3467 a good fallback, thus use:
3468 $HOME
3469 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3470 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3471 $USERPROFILE
3472 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3473 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3474 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3475 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034768 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3477 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34788 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3479 Should work like in the GUI version.
34808 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3481 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34828 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3483 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34848 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3485 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3486 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034878 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3488 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3489 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3490
3491
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003492Win32 console:
34939 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3494 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3495 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3496 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3497 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3498 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3499 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3500 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3501 and the file is not saved.
3502 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3503 long name.
35048 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3505 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35067 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3507 besides the console.
35088 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35099 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3510 <C-S-i>?
35119 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3512 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35138 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3514 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003515
3516
3517Amiga:
35188 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3519 sequences.
35209 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3521 backslashes in result.
35228 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3523 all options, using white space separation.
3524
3525
3526Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003527- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035287 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3529 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3530 (Jack)
3531 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035328 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3533 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035348 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35358 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35369 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3537 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035389 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003539
3540
3541"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003542- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3543 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003544- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3545 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003546- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3547 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3548 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3549 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3550 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3551 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3552 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035539 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3554 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035559 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003556 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3557 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035588 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3559 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3560 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003561 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035627 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3563 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35648 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3565 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3566 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035677 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3568 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003569- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3570 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035718 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3572 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3573 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3574 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35757 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3576 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3577 invocations belong together.
35788 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3579 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35808 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3581 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3582 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003583 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035848 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3585 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3586 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035878 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3588 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035897 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3590 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3591 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3592 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035937 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3594 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3595 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35967 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3597 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3598 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35997 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3600 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036017 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3602 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036039 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3604 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3605 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3606 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3607 script can be called.
36088 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3609 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3610 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036118 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3612 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036138 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003614 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3615 configurable?
36168 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036178 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3618 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036198 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3620 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036218 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3622 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036239 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3624 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3625 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036267 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036278 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3628 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3629 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036308 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3631 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003632 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3633 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036348 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3635 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36369 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3637 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3638 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003639 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036407 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3641 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036427 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3643 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3644 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3645 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036468 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003647 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3648 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3649 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3650 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003651 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3652 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003653 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003654 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003655 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3656 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3657 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3658 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3659 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036608 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3661 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36628 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3663 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36648 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3665 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3666 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36678 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3668 'linebreak'.
36698 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3670 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3671 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036729 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3673 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3674 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3675 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36769 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3677 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036789 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36799 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3680 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3681 cause another redraw, etc.
36828 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3683 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36848 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3685 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3686 ":w!!" for that.
3687 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3688 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003689 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036907 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3691 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3692 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3693 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3694 clipboard)
36957 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3696 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3697 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036986 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3699 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3700 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037018 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3702 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37038 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3704 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3705 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000037068 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037078 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3708 (e.g., ":w").
37098 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3710 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037118 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3712 script in do_cmdline().
37138 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3714 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3715 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3716 changes.
37178 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3718 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37198 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3720 check for file marks. This can be slow.
37217 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3722 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3723 needed.
3724 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
37258 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3726 to skip catch_signals()?
37279 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3728 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3729 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3730 text?
37318 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3732 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37338 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3734 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37359 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3736 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3737 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3738 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3739 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37407 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3741 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3742 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3743 in the list?
37448 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3745 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3746 instead of on button down.
37478 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37489 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3749 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003750 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3751 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037528 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3753 character is typed.
37548 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3755 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37568 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3757 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37588 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3759 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3760 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3761 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3762 cygwin bash.
37637 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3764 Remember flags for backreferences.
37657 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3766 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37677 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3768 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37698 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3770 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37717 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3772 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037737 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3774 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3775 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37767 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3777 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37788 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3779 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3780 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37817 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3782 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003783
3784
3785I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37869 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3787 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3788 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003789
3790
3791Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003792- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3793 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3794 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003795- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3796 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3797 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3798 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3799 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3800 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003801 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003802- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3803 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003804 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003805 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3806 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3807 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003808- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3809 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3810 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3811 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3812 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3813- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3814 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3815 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3816- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3817 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003818- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003819- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3820 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3821 character gets the highlighting.
3822- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3823 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3824- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3825 (Jennings)
3826- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003827- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003828- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003829 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003830- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3831 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3832 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3833- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3834 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3835 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3836 (Benzinger).
3837- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3838 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3839 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3840- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3841 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3842- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3843 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3844- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3845 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3846 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3847 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3848 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3849 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3850- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3851 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3852 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003853- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3854 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3855 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003856- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3857 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3858 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3859- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3860 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3861- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3862 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003863- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3864 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3865- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3866 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3867 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3868 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3869 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3870- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3871 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3872 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3873- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3874 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3875 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003876- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3877 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003878- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3879 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3880 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3881 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3882 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3883- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3884 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3885
3886--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3887 *extensions-improvements*
3888
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003889Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3890- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3891 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3892 calling a function.
3893 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3894 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003895- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3896 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003897 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003898- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3899 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3900 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3901 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3902 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3903 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003904 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003905- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3906 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3907 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003908- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3909 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039108 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3911 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3912 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3913 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003914- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3915 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003916
3917
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003918Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039198 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3920 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039218 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3922 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039238 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3924 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039258 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039269 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3927 - change to cursor position and curswant
3928 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3929 - how it works for folded lines
3930 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39319 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3932 work too.
39338 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3934 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3935 text.
39368 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39377 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3938 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39397 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3940 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003941 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003942- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3943
3944
3945Help:
3946- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3947 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3948- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3949 to the other matches.
3950- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003951- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3952 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3953 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3954 default contents.
3955- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3956 height for the help window (and other windows).
3957- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3958- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3959- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3960
3961
3962User Friendlier:
39638 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3964 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3965 Briscoe)
39668 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39678 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3968 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3969 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39708 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3971 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3972- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3973 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003974- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39759 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3976 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3977 item?).
3978 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039798 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039807 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3981 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3982 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039838 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3984 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3985 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3986 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003987
3988
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003989Tab pages:
39909 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039917 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3992 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039938 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039948 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039957 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039967 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003997 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039988 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3999 tab pages.
40007 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4001
4002
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004003Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004004- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
4005 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
4006- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4007 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4008 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4009- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4010 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004011- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4012 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4013 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004014- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4015 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4016 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004017- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4018 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004019- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004020 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4021 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040228 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4023 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40248 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4025 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40268 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4027 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004028 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004029 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4030 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4031 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4032 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004033- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4034 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004035- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004036- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4037 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004038- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004039 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004040- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004041 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004042- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4043 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004044- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4045 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4046- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004047 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004048 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4049 in the affix file separately.
4050 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004051 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004052 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4053 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4054 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4055- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4056 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4057 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4058 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4059 Alternative:
4060 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4061 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4062 affix which is required.
4063- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004064 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004065- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4066 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4067 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004068- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4069 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004070- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4071 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4072- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040738 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4074 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4075 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4076 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004077- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4078 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4079 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4080 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040818 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4082 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040838 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40848 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4085 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040867 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40878 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4088 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4089 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4090 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004091
4092
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004093Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040949 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4095 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040968 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004097 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004098
4099Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004100 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4101 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041028 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4103 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041048 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4105 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041068 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4107 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4108 user aware of this?
41098 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4110 commands skip over a closed fold.
41118 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41128 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041137 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004114- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4115 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4116 missing line goes unnoticed.
4117 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004118- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4119 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4120 smoother?
4121- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4122 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004123- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4124 file can contain:
4125 args version.c main.c
4126 edit version.c
4127 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004128- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004129- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4130 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004131- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4132 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004133- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4134 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004135- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004136
4137Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004138- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4139 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4140 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4141 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041429 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4143 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4144 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4145 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041469 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4147 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4148 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041498 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4150 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4151 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4152 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4153 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4154 item.
41558 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004156 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4157 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041588 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4159 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041608 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4161 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4162 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041637 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4164 so that the user can fix the problem.
41658 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4166 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041679 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41688 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041698 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41708 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041717 Searching and composing characters:
4172 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004173 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4174 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041758 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41768 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41778 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4178 characters.
41798 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41808 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4181 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41827 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4183 'display' option to specify this.
41847 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4185 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4186- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4187 fontselector somehow.
4188- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4189 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4190- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4191 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4192- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4193 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4194 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4195 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4196 if a font exists?
4197- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004198 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004199- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4200 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004201- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4202 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4203 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4204 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004205- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4206 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004207 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004208- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4209 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4210 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4211 But it's very complicated...
4212
4213
4214Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042157 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004216- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4217- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4218 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004219- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4220 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004221- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4222- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4223 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004224- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4225 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004226- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4227 units as for the margins.
4228- Support right-to-left text?
42298 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4230 color.
4231
4232
4233Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042348 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4235 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42368 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4237 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42388 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4239 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042407 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4241 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042428 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4243 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4244 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042457 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4246 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4247 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042488 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42499 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4250 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042517 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4252 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042537 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4254 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042558 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4256 change this for each release.
42578 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4258 pattern, but not in the body.
42598 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4260 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4261 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042628 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042638 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004264 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4265 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042668 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4267 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42688 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4269 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004270 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042718 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4272 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4273 used.
42748 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4275 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42768 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4277 re-insert the [] if possible.
42788 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4279 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042808 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4281 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4282 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4283 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4284 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042858 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4286 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42878 Support for deleting syntax items:
4288 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4289 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4290 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42918 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4292 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4293 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42947 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4295 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4296 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42977 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4298 detected.
42998 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004300 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043018 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4302 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043038 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43048 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43057 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4306 ":mkvimrc".
43078 Improve c.vim:
4308 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4309 "c_strict_ansi".
4310 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43118 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4312 current line while in Insert mode.
43138 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4314 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43158 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4316 display position.
43178 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4318 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4319 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43208 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4321 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4322 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043237 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4324 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4325 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4326 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4327 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043287 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4329 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4330 E.g. for this html:
4331 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043327 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43337 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4334 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043358 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43368 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043377 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4338 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4339 completion?
43408 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4341 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43427 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4343 select one of the sets.
43448 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4345 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4346 2, etc.
43478 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4348 highlighting (for "." command).
43498 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4350 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43518 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43527 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4353 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43546 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4355 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4356- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4357 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4358- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004359- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4360 (for comment blocks).
4361- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4362 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4363 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4364 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4365 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4366 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4367 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4368 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4369 (Campbell)
4370 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4371 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43727 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4373 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43747 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4375 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4376 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43777 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4378 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4379 messages. And external commands?
43808 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4381 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43827 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4383 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4384
4385
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004386Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043878 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4388 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004389 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043907 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4391 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4392 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043938 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4394 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004395- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043968 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4397 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4398 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4399 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4400 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4401 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044027 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4403 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044048 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044058 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4406 can be the plugin name.
4407 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4408 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044097 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4410 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4411 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4412 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4413 autocommand.
4414 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4415 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4416 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4417 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044187 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4419 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044206 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4421 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044228 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004423 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4424 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004425 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4426 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4427 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004428 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4429 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4430 3 2002
4431 Only add this when also implemented for
4432 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4433 be used.
4434 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004435 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4436 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4437 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4438 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4439 File.Open..." argument.
4440 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4441 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4442 with properties instead.
4443 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4444 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4445 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004446 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004447 crypt() encrypt string
4448 decrypt() decrypt string
4449 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4450 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004451 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004452 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004453 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004454 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004455 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004456 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4457 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004458 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4459 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004460 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004461 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4462 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4463 to allow the library to execute a command or
4464 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044657 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4466 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44678 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4468 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044698 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4470 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044718 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044729 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004473 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44746 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044758 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4476 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044778 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4478 option or environment variable.
44798 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044808 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004481 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044827 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4483 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044848 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4485 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44868 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44878 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4488 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4489 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4490 charwise({expr}).
44917 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4492 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4493 buffer for this?
4494 result = scratch(string, command)
4495 result = apply(string, command)
4496 result = execute(string, command)
4497 "command" would use <> notation.
4498 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44997 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004500
4501
4502Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045036 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4504 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4505 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4506 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4507 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4508 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4509 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004510
4511
4512Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045137 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4514 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045157 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4516 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4517 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4518 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045198 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4520 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4521 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4522 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004523 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045248 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45259 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45268 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45277 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4528 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45298 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4530 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4531 when starting up in a color terminal.
45328 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4533 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045348 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4535 function be improved?
45368 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4537 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4538 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4539 this be improved?
45408 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4541 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045427 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4543 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045447 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4545 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45467 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4547 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045487 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4549 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4550 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4551 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4552 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4553 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4554 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045558 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4556 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4557 using strcmp() too often?
45587 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4559 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4560 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4561 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4562 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4563 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45647 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4565 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4566 with an argument that can be messed with.
4567 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4568 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45697 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4570- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45718 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4572 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4573- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4574 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4575- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4576- Do profiling on:
4577 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004578 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4579 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4580 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4581 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4582 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4583 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004584 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045857 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4586 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4587 changed).
4588 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4589 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4590- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4591- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4592 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4593- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4594 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4595 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004596- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4597- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4598 cursor is right of the screen.
45998 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4600 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4601
4602
4603Code size:
46048 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4605- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4606 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46078 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46088 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4609 it.
46107 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4611 left out.
46128 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4613 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046148 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004615
4616
4617Messages:
46188 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4619 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46208 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4621 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46228 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4623 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004624- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4625 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4626- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046278 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4628 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046299 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4630 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4631 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4632 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4633 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046348 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4635 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46368 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4637 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4638 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4639 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4640 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4641 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004642- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004643 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046448 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4645 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4646 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4647 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4648 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4649 error messages, printing text, etc.
46508 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4651 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4652 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4653
4654
4655Screen updating:
46567 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4657 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4658 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4659- screen_line():
4660 - insert/delete character stuff.
4661 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4662- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4663 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4664- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4665 waiting for a character.
46668 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4667 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4668 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004669
4670Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046718 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046726 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4673- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4674 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4675 windows.
46767 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4677 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4678 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4679- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4680 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4681 (Goldfarb)
4682- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4683 bound windows.
4684- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4685 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004686- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004687- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4688 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4689 of lines but not with a single line).
4690
4691
4692Autoconf:
46938 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46948 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4695 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4696- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4697 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4698- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4699- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4700- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4701
4702
4703Perl interface:
47048 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047057 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47067 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47076 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4708
4709
4710Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047118 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4712 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047136 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4714 :libload internal-name libname
4715 :libunload internal-name
4716 :liblist
4717 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4718 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4719 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47206 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4721
4722
4723Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047249 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4725 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4726 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4727 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4728 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047298 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4730 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4731 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004732 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004733 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047347 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4735 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4736 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047378 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47388 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4739 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047407 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4741 window for each tag.
47427 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47437 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4744 bottom" search message.
47457 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4746 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4747 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004748- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4749- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004750- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4751 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4752 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047537 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4754 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4755 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4756 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47577 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4758 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4759 :tagargs clear
4760 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4761 matching).
47627 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4763 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4764 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4765 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47667 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4767 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47687 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4769 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4770 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004771
4772
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004773Win32 GUI:
47748 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4775 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047767 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4777 (Mike McCollister)
47788 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4779 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4780 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4781 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4782 common part of the path.
47838 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47848 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4785 gettext and menus work.
47868 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4787 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004788 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004789 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47908 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4791 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47928 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4793 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47947 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4795 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47967 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47977 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47987 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4799 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4800 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4801 prompts.
48027 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4803 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4804 the file added into an already running Vim.
48057 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4806 functions to find the window title.
4807
4808
4809GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048108 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004811- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4812 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
48137 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48148 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48156 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48168 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4817 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48189 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48197 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48208 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4821 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48228 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4823 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4824 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48258 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4826 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48278 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4828 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4829 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4830 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048317 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48328 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4833 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048347 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4835 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4836 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048378 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48388 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004839 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048408 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48418 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48428 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4843 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4844 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48457 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4846 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4847 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48487 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4849 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48507 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4851 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4852 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4853 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048547 Should support multi-column menus.
4855- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4856 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4857- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48588 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48596 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4860 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48617 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48627 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4863 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4864 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48657 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48668 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4867 name can be chosen free.
48687 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4869 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48706 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4871 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4872 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4873 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4874 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4875 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4876 things.
48777 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4878 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048797 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004880 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004881- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4882 where it was started from?
48837 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4884
4885
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004886Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048879 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4888 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004889- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048908 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4891 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4892 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4893 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48948 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4895 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048967 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4897 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4898 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4899 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049007 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049018 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4902 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049038 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4904 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4905 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049067 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4907 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4908 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049098 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4910 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4911 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049128 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4913 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049148 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049156 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4916 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049177 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049187 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004919 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4920 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4921 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049225 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4923 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4924 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49257 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4926 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4927 file.
49288 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4929 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4930 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004931- Add events to autocommands:
4932 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004933 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004934 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4935 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004936 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004937 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004938 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4939 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4940 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4941 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004942 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004943 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4944 the char.
4945 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4946 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4947 file from CVS).
4948 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4949 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4950 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4951 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4952 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4953 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004954 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4955 changes.
4956 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4957 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004958- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004959 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004960 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004961 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4962 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4963 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4964 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4965 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4966
4967
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004968Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004969- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4970 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004971- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4972 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4973 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4974 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4975 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004976- Ideas from others:
4977 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4978 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4979 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4980 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4981 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4982 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4983 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4984 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4985 Uses Perl for C++.
4986 Uses ctags to find the info:
4987 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4988 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4989 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4990 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4991 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4992 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004993 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004994 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4995- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4996
4997
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004998Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004999- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050007 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5001 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050027 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5003 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5004 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050058 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5006 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50079 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5008 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5009 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050108 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5011 - ignore/match case
5012 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050138 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5014 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5015 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5016 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5017 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5018 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050198 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050207 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5021 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050228 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5023 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5024 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5025 Should work for C++ and Java.
5026 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50277 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50287 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5029 instead of words.
50308 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50318 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5032 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50338 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5034 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005035- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5036 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005037- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5038 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5039 wildcards in the file name)?
5040- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5041- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5042- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5043 be in another file).
5044- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5045- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5046- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5047 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5048- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5049- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5050- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005051- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5052
5053
5054Command line editing:
50557 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5056 line.
50578 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5058 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5059 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5060- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5061 lines wraps to start of line).
5062- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5063 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5064 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5065 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5066 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5067 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5068 cmdwin does now already.
5069 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5070 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5071 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5072 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5073 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5074 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5075 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5076 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5077 Problems:
5078 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5079 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5080 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5081 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5082 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5083 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5084 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5085 character in first column?
5086 - Implementation ideas:
5087 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5088 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5089 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5090 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5091 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5092 Mode.
5093
5094
5095Command line completion:
50968 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50978 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5098 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50998 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5100 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051018 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5102 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051037 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5104 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005105- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5106- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5107 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051088 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5109 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51107 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5111 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5112- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5113 identifiers (Webb).
51148 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5115 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51167 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5117 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5118- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5119 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5120- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5121 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5122 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005123
5124
5125Command line history:
5126- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5127 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5128 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005129 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005130- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5131 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5132
5133
5134Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051359 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5136 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5137 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051388 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5139 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5140 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5141 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5142 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051438 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5144 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5145 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051467 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5147 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005148- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051497 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5150 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5151- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5152 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5153 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5154 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5155 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5156 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5157- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5158 Normal mode.
5159- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5160 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5161 are used.
5162- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5163- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5164- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5165
5166
5167'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051689 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5169 char * veryLongName =
5170 "very long string"
5171 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051728 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051738 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5174 long_type foo =
5175 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051768 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5177 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005178 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051798 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5180 func(
5181 new String[] {
5182 "asdf",
5183 "asdf"
5184 }
5185 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051868 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5187 (Chow Loong Jin)
5188 namespace {
5189 int
5190 func(int arg) {
5191 }
5192 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051936 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5194 func( arg1
5195 , arg2
5196 , arg3
5197 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051987 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005199 func(
5200 int x) // indent like "(4"
5201 {
5202 if (a
5203 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052049 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5205 if (a)
5206 {
5207 if (b)
5208 {
5209 // {
5210 }
5211 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005212 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5213 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5214 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005215- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005216 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52177 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5218- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5219 line).
5220- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5221- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5222 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005223- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5224 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5225- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5226 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5227- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5228- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5229 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52308 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5231 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5232 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5233- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5234- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5235 lines start with "\item".
5236- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5237 /* here is a comment that
5238 is just autoindented, and
5239 nothing else */
5240- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52417 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5242 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5243 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005244 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005245
5246
5247Java:
52488 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5249 Odendahl?
52508 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5251 "[i" commands and friends.
5252- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5253 (Jason)
5254- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5255 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5256
5257
5258'comments':
52598 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5260 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5261 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5262 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005263 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5264 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052657 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5266 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52677 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52686 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5269 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5270 regexp is used.
52718 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5272 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5273
5274
5275Virtual edit:
52768 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052777 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5278
5279
5280Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052818 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052828 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052838 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005284 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052858 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5286 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005287 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5288 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052898 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052908 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5291 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052928 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5293 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5294 the end of the line or before a ".".
52957 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5296 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52977 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5298 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052996 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53005 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5301 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5302 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5303 cursor is on.
5304
5305
5306Select mode:
53078 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5308 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53097 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005310 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053117 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5312 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5313 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5314 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5315 normal_cmd().
5316 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5317 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5318
5319
5320Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053218 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5322 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005323- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5324 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5325 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005326- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5327 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5328 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053298 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005330 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005331 where needed.
53327 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5333 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53347 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5335 of each selected line.
53368 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53378 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5338 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5339 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53408 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5341 Ben Godfrey)
53427 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5343 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53447 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5345 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053467 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005347 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005348 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53498 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5350 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53517 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5352 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5353 option!
53547 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5355 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5356 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5357 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5358 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5359 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5360 without changing the column.
53616 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053627 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5363 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053646 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5365 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53666 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053676 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005368 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005369 or other special character.
53706 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5371
5372
5373More advanced repeating commands:
5374- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005375- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005376- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005377 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5378 "y." will repeat last yank.
5379 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5380 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5381 and/or pick an older command.
5382- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5383
5384
5385Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053868 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5387 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5388 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53898 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53907 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5391 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053928 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5393 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53948 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053957 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053968 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5397 entering search strings.
53988 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5399 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5400 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054018 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5402 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054037 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054047 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5405 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054066 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5407 abbreviations are to be used.
5408- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5409 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5410 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005411- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5412 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5413 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5414 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5415 Or implicit:
5416 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005417- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5418 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5419 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005420- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5421 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5422- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5423 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54246 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5425 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5426 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5427 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005428- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5429 non-replace Insert mode?
5430- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005431- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5432- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5433 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5434- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005435 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005436- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5437 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5438- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5439- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5440 ":freekeys".
5441- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5442
5443
5444Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005445- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5446 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5447- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5448 folds when going to another line.
5449 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5450- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5451 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005452- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5453 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5454 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005455- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5456 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5457 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5458 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054599 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5460 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005461
5462
5463Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054649 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054658 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005466 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005467 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005468 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005469 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054709 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5471 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054728 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5473 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054748 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5475 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5476 Perl does it this way:
5477 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5478 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5479 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5480 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054818 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5482 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5483 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054847 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5485 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054868 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5487 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054887 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005489 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5490 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5491 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054927 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005493 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054947 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5495 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054968 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5497 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54988 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5499 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055007 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005501 example.
55028 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5503 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5504- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5505 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5506 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5507 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055088 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5509 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5510 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55117 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5512 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055137 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5514 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055158 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5516 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055178 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5518 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055198 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5520 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5521 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5522 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005523- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5524 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005525- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5526 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5527- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5528 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5529 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5530 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055318 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5532 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005533- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5534 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055358 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5536 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5537 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005538- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5539 i ignore case
5540 I use case
5541 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5542 v use Vi regexp syntax
5543 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5544 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5545 Perl uses these too:
5546 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5547 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5548 o compile only once (Perl only)
5549 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5550 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5551 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5552 following command.
5553 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5554- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5555 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5556 for search string)?
55577 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5558 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5559- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5560 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5561- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5562 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5563- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5564- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005565 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005566 a for the next file in the argument list
5567 f for file in the buffer list
5568 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005569 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5570 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005571 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5572 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5573- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055747 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005575 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055767 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5577 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5578 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5579 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55806 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5581 effects.
55827 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5583 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5584 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055857 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005586 Also ":dselect".
5587
5588
5589Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055909 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5591 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5592 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055939 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5594 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055958 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5596 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055978 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5598 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5599 timestamp?
5600 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5601 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005602- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5603 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005604- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5605 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5606 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56078 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5608 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5609 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5610 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56118 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5612 only remember the lines that really changed.
56137 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5614 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5615 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5616 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005617- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5618 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5619- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5620 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5621- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5622 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5623 [-99].
5624- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5625- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005626- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5627 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5628
5629
5630Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056317 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5632 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5633 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5634 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56358 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5636 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56378 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5638 inode too.
56397 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005640 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5641 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056427 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5643 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5644- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5645 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5646- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5647 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56487 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5649 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56507 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5651 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56528 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056537 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5654 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056558 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5656 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5657 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005658
5659
5660Swap (.swp) files:
56618 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5662 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5663 there are short file name problems.
56648 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5665 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56668 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56678 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005668 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005669 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5670 file the same as the actual file?
5671 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056727 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5673 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56747 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005675 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005676 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5677 enough room.
56787 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5679 or /var/preserve.
5680- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5681 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5682- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005683 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005684- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5685 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5686 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5687 cached list of which line is where.
5688
5689
5690Viminfo:
56917 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5692 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5693 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056948 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5695 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5696 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056978 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5698 name. (Schild)
56998 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57008 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057018 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057028 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5703 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5704 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5705 this?
57067 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57077 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5708 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57096 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5710 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5711 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5712- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5713 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5714
5715
5716Modelines:
57178 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5718 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5719 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005720- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5721 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5722 'shiftwidth'.
5723- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5724 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005725- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5726 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5727 modeline setting.
5728- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5729 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5730- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5731 .cpp files.
5732- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5733 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5734- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5735 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5736
5737
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005738Sessions:
57398 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5740 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57417 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5742 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057438 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5744 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057458 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5746 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5747 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057487 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5749 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057507 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005751
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005752
5753Options:
57547 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5755 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057568 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5757 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5758 also be supported.
57598 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5760 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5761 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57627 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005763
5764
5765External commands:
57668 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5767 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57684 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5769 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5770 -f).
57714 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57724 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5773 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57744 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5775
5776
5777Multiple Windows:
57787 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57798 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5780 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57817 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5782 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5783 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057847 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5785 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057867 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5787 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057886 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5789 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005790 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005791 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57927 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5793 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5794 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5795 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5796- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5797 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5798 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5799 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5800
5801
5802Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058038 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058048 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5805 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058068 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058078 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5808 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58098 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5810 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5811 the mark was set.
58127 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5813 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5814 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5815 ":browse marks"?
58166 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058177 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5818 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58197 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5820 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58217 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5822 command).
58237 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5824 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5825 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5826 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58275 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5828 mappings.
58296 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5830 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5831 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5832
5833
5834Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058357 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005836 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005837- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5838 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058398 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058407 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5841 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5842
5843
5844Writing files:
5845- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5846 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5847 shortname conversion.
58488 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58498 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5850 file.
58518 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5852 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5853 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058546 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5855 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58566 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5857 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58586 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5859 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058608 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005861 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58627 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5863 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58647 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5865 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5866 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5867 waiting for a character to be typed).
58688 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5869 line of the window, like "[time]".
5870 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5871 Automatic and/or with a command.
5872
5873
5874Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058758 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5876 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058778 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005878 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5879- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5880- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58818 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5882 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005883- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005884 :s///N substitutes N times.
5885- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5886 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5887 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58887 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5889 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5890 last line column 5.
58915 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5892 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5893 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5894 (Stanislav Sitar)
5895
5896
5897Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058988 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58997 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59008 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5901 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5902 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005903- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5904- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5905 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5906- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5907- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5908
5909
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005910Argument list:
59116 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5912 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5913 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59146 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5915
5916
5917Registers:
59188 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059198 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5920 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5921 for every line.
59226 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5923 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5924 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5925- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5926 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5927- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5928 leader when line wraps?
5929- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5930 line in the range.
5931- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5932 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59338 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5934 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005935
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005936
5937Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059388 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059398 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059407 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59417 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5942
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005943Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059447 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5945 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5946 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5947 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5948 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5949 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5950 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005951 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059527 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5953 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059547 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5955 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059568 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5957 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059587 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5959 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5960 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005961- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005962 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059637 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5964 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59658 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059667 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5967 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59688 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5969 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059706 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059718 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5972 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5973 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5974 in this Vim.
59758 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005976 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059778 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5978 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5979 have it apply to the following command.
59808 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5981 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5982 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5983 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059847 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5985 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059867 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5987 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5988 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5989 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059906 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59918 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59929 Support ACLs on more systems.
59937 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5994 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059957 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5996 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5997 (truncated to fit in the space).
59987 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59998 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60008 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6001 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060027 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006003 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60047 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6005 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060067 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060077 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60087 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060098 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60108 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6011 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6012 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6013 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60148 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060158 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060168 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6017 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6018 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6019 does something like this. (Shah)
60207 Use growarray for replace stack.
60217 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6022 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60233 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060247 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6025 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060267 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6027 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006028- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6029- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6030- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6031- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60327 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6033 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6034- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6035 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006036- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006037- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6038 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6039- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6040 call "play newbeep.au").
6041- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6042 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6043 (Bhatt).
6044- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6045 blockwise registers).
6046- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6047 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6048- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6049 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6050 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6051 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006052- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060537 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6054 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6055- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6056 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6057 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6058 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6059 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060608 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6061 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060628 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6063 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6064 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6065 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6066 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6067- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006068- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060697 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6070 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6071- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6072 not in column 1.
60736 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6074 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60757 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6076- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006077- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006078 :redir #> bufname
6079 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006080- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6081 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006082- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6083 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6084 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60856 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6086 console? (Klaus Hast)
6087- Add :delcr command:
6088 *:delcr*
6089 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6090 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6091 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6092 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6093 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006094 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006095- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6096- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6097 characters from 'isprint'.
6098- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6099- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6100 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6101- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6102 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6103 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6104- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6105- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6106 Nvi).
6107- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6108 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61097 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6110- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6111 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61126 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6113- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6114 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6115 macro).
6116- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006117- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6118 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6119- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61208 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006121- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6122- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6123- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6124 if it is not the first or last window.
6125- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6126 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61277 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6128 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6129 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6130- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6131- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006132 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006133 many percent down the windows).
6134- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6135 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6136 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006137 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006138- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6139 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6140- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6141 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6142- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6143- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6144- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6145 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061468 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6147 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6148 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6149 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6150 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006151- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6152 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6153- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006154 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6155- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006156 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6157 (Webb).
6158- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006159 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006160- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6161 hex codes like 0xff).
6162- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6163 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6164 the last TYPED command.
6165- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6166- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6167- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6168 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006169- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061708 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6171 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6172 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006173- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006174 trailing '.'.
6175- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6176 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6177 find_file_in_path().
6178- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6179 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6180- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6181- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6182 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6183- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006184 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006185- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6186 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6187 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006188- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6189- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6190- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6191 to the minimal size.
6192- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6193- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6194- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6195- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6196- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006197- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6198 entered)?
6199- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6200 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006201- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006202- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6203- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6204- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6205- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6206- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6207 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006208- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062098 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6210 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6211 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6212 or in octal.
62137 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6214 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006215- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006216 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6217- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6218- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6219 insert line command).
6220- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6221- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6222- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6223- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6224- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6225 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006226- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006227 yet.
6228- Implement 'redraw' option.
6229- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6230 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062317 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6232 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006233 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6234 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062358 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6236 do it.
6237- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6238- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6239 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6240- Add text justification option.
6241- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6242- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6243 off".
6244- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6245- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6246- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006247 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006248- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006249- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006250- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6251 commands.
6252- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6253- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6254- :table command (Webb)
6255- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006256- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6257- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6258- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6259- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6260- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6261 (Demirel).
6262- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6263- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6264 for use in macro's and the like.
6265- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006266 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006267- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006268 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006269- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006270 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006271 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6272- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6273 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006274- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006275 mkopttab to make option table?
6276- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6277 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6278- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6279 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006280- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006281 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6282- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6283 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006284- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062858 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6286 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6287 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6288 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6289 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062908 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6291 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6292 (Netherton)
62936 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6294 space after "(", for example.
62955 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6296 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6297 (Servatius Brandt)
6298
6299
6300From Elvis:
6301- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6302- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006303- Search patterns:
6304 \@ match word under cursor.
6305 but do:
6306 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6307 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63088 ":window" command:
6309 :win + next window (up)
6310 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6311 :win - previous window (down)
6312 :win -- idem, wrapping
6313 :win nr to window number "nr"
6314 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63157 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6316 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6317
6318
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006319From xvi:
6320- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6321- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6322
6323
6324From vile:
6325- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6326- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6327 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6328
6329
6330Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006331- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6332 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006333 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006334 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6335 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006336- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6337 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6338- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6339 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6340 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6341 current layout mirrored.
6342- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6343- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6344 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6345- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6346- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6347 font in each top-level window.
6348- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6349- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6350- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6351- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6352 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006353- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6354 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6355- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6356 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63574 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6358 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6359 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6360 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006361 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006362 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6363 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6364- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6365 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6366 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6367
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006368vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006369vim: set fo+=n :