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Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Aug 08
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 Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +020041
42Methods:
43- Support lambda? #4768
44 echo (10.0 / 100.0)->{x -> x * 100}
45- Define a user defined function for a specific type only?
46 func Len(expr) method=list,dict
47 return a:expr->len()
48 endfunc
49 echo [1, 2, 3]->Len()
50 3
51 call Len([1, 2, 3])
52 error!
53
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020054Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +020055- :pedit from help doesn't reset help flag, see pedit example
56- check popupmenu using preview window
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +020057- modeless selection fails over ssh and with putty. Mouse dragging not
58 supported? Can we force it on?
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +020059- modeless selection extends into the scrollbar. (#4773)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020060- Implement flip option
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +020061- Have a way to scroll to the bottom, e.g. set 'firstline' to -1? (#4577)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020062- Why does 'nrformats' leak from the popup window buffer???
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +020063 Happens in Test_simple_popup() at the second screendump.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020064- Disable commands, feedkeys(), CTRL-W, etc. in a popup window.
65 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for more commands.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020066- For the "moved" property also include mouse movement?
67- Can the buffer be re-used if it was the last one, to avoid using up lots of
68 buffer numbers?
69- Have an option to attach the popup to a text position, like text properties
70 do. (#4560)
71- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
72 - put popup menu also put in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +020073- Invoke filter with character before mapping? #4759
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020074- Figure out the size and position better.
75 if wrapping splits a double-wide character
76 if wrapping inserts indent
77- When drawing on top half a double-wide character, display ">" or "<" in the
78 incomplete cell.
79- Use a popup window for the "info" item of completion instead of using a
80 preview window. Ideas in issue #4544.
81 How to add highlighting?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020082
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020083'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010084- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
85 was set. (#3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020086- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
87 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010088- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
89 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020090- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020091- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020092- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
93 isn't one?
94 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
95
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020096Prompt buffer:
97- Add a command line history.
98- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010099- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200100
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200101Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200102- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100103- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
104 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200105- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100106- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200107- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
108 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
109 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100110- Add support for lldb? #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100111- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
112 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100113 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100114 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200115
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200116Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200117- When typing "exit" in a terminal window with a shell and it's the only
118 window, should exit Vim instead of editing another buffer. (#4539)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100119- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
120 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
121 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100122- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
123 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200124- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
125 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100126- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200127- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200128- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200129- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
130 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200131- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
132 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200133- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
134 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
135- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
136 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200137- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
138 is disabled.
139- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
140- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
141 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200142- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
143 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
144 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
145- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
146- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
147 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
148- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
149 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200150
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200151Error numbers available: E274, E275, E276,
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200152E278, E279, E290, E292, E362, E366, E450, E451, E452,
153E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
154E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E863, E889, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200155
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200156Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200157
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200158Patch to add win_splitmove() function. (Andy Massimino, #4561)
159
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200160Patch for #4733: #4734. Test needs improvements.
161
162Patch to fix session file when using multiple tabs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May
16320)
164Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
165remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
166
167Make heredoc-let a bit more restrictive:
168https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/4705
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200169
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200170Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
171Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
172terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
173Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
174(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200175
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200176Patch to add :spellrare. (#4291)
177
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200178Patch to use timers in matchparen. (Daniel Hahler, #1338)
179Ready to include now?
180
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100181Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
182(#4087)
183
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200184Patch to support 'cursorlineopt' - only highlight the line number of the
185cursor line: #4693
186
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200187Let plugins know how much space is available in the last line before
188triggering the hit-enter prompt. Internally called "sc_col".
189(Daniel Hahler, #4732)
190
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200191Patch for Template string: #4491 Not ready yet. New pull: #4634
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200192
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200193":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
194goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
195unlisted. (#4478)
196
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200197Make 'showbreak' global-local.
198
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200199The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
200support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
201
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200202Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
203(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
204
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200205When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
206default one. #4698
207
208When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
209with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
210
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200211Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
212
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200213Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
214fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
215
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200216Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
217- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
218- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200219
220Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
22113, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200222
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200223Columns and Rows are long, they should be int.
224
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100225Errors found with random data:
226 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100227
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200228Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
229files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
230Include part of #3242?
231
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200232When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
233it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
234
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200235Patch for Inno Setup: #2739
236
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200237Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
238t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
239
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100240Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
241Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
242
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200243'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
244
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200245"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
246(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
247
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100248Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
249
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200250The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
251Give a few examples. (#4288)
252
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200253Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
254work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
255
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100256Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
257read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
258be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
259
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200260":registers" should indicate char/block/linewise. (Ayberk Aydin, #4546)
261
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200262Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
263(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
264
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200265Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
266
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200267Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
268
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200269Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
270https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
271
272Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
273http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
274http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
275Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
276- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
277- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
278- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
279 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
280- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
281- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
282Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
283- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
284- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
285Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
286- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
287
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100288Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
289Mar 5)
290
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200291Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
292- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
293 line.
294- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
295 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
296- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
297 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
298
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200299Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
300on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
301
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200302Add CmdwinLeavePost (#4762). Also add WinLeavePost then?
303
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200304Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
305in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
306buffer didn't change at all.
307
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200308Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
309register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
310(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
311
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200312Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
313(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
314
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200315Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
316":let buf = bufcreate('name')
317
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200318Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
319'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
320(#4450)
321
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100322When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
323But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
324similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
325
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200326C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
327(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
328
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100329Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
330"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
331
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100332Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
333added?
334
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200335Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
336negative. (see #4326)
337
338'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
339`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
340tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
341:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
342
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200343This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
344 vim: syn=nosyntax
345
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200346":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
347a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
348
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100349Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
350#2948. (related to #1512?)
351On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
352balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
35320, #2481)
354Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
355Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
356balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
3572018 Sep 14)
358Another request: #3811.
359
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200360More warnings from static analysis:
361https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200362
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100363Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
364
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200365Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
366
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200367Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
368internals of the dict structure.
369
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200370Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
371manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
372Athena is OK.
373Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100374
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100375nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
376
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200377Missing tests for:
378- add_termcap_entry()
379
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200380Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
381change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
382them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
383
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100384When using exclusive selection and vi" that fails, cursor moves to the left.
385Cursor should not move. (#4024)
386
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100387Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
388Also run all tests with C locale?
389
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100390"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
391#3927
392
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200393Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200394Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200395
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100396When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
397case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
398For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
399
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200400Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
401(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
402expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200403
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200404Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
405 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
406 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
407
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100408Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100409punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100410
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200411ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
412
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200413Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
414":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
415#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
416Updated 2019 May 25.
417
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200418Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
419drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
420
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200421Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
422is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
423
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100424When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
425scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
426using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
427
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200428Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
429#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
430(Sep 8)
431
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200432Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
433unified diff (list of lines).
434
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100435When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
436kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
437when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
438
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100439Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
440(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100441
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100442Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
443
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200444Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200445Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200446memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200447Memory leak in test_terminal:
448==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
449==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
450==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
451==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
452==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
453==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
454==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
455==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
456==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200457TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100458Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200459Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
460Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200461
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200462gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200463
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200464matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
46519.
466
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100467Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
468Probably window.
469Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
470highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200471And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
472'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100473
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100474Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
475Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
476
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200477Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
478Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
479Not ready to include.
480
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200481Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
482Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
483Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
484
485Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
486
487Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
488screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
489
490Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
491 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
492 Not ready to include.
493
494Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
495Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
496
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200497:pedit resets the 'buflisted' option unexpectedly. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Oct 12,
498#3536)
499
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200500home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
501
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200502When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
503terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
504How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
505
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200506Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
507
508Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
509(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
510
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100511Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
512Feedback from someone who uses this?
513
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200514ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
515
516Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
517Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
518values.
519
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100520Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200521- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
522- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
523- omit diff.exe from distribution
524- Can we make this show differences within a line?
525- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200526
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200527Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
528
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100529Patch to properly break CJK lines: #3875
530Requires more tests. dbcs_ functions are not implemented.
531
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100532Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
533What is the practical use for this?
534
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200535When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
536includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
537
538Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100539Ask to write a test first.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200540
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200541MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
542(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
543
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100544Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
545
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200546Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
547when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
548
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100549Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
550mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
551
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200552Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
553
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200554Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
555modified buffers
556 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
557 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
558 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
559 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
560
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100561Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
562- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
563- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
564- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100565- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
566
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200567Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
568characters. (#3246)
569
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200570'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
571
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100572Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
573Oct 28)
574
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200575ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
576Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
577Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
578Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
579
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100580Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
581- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
582
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200583Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
584- Test_setbufvar_options()
585- Test_exit_callback_interval()
586
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200587Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
588Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100589Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
590Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200591
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200592Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
593
594Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
59524)
596
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100597Try out background make plugin:
598 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
599or asyncmake:
600 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
601
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100602Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100603mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100604
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200605Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
606is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
607used for git temp files.
608
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100609Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
610
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200611Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
612#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
613
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200614Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
615behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
616(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
617
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200618Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
619pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
620
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200621Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
622script or function.
623
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200624Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
625Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
626
627When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
628E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
629does nothing otherwise?
630
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200631MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
632If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
633(wait a little while).
634CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100635
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200636Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
637MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
6382017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
639receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
640
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200641Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
642missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
643
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200644":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
645deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
646
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200647Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200648
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100649Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200650Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
651
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200652With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
653included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
654(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
655
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200656Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200657Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200658
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100659Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100660Jan 15, #2555)
661
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200662":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
663
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100664Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
665
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100666No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
667No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
668
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200669Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
670http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
671Should be supported with a flag.
672
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100673Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
674confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
675
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100676Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
677
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100678Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
679Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
680applying the diff, etc.
681
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200682Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
683Apr 26, #2849)
684
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100685User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
686word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100687
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100688Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200689
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200690With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
691(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
692
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200693Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
694:drop (remote commands).
695
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200696Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
6972018 Jun 18, #3027)
698
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200699Implement option_save() and option_restore():
700option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
701 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
702 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
703 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
704 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
705 be called when the same window is the current window.
706 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
707 the local options won't be restored.
708
709option_save({list}) *option_save()*
710 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
711 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
712 let s:saved_options = option_save([
713 \ 'ignorecase',
714 \ 'iskeyword',
715 \ ])
716 au <buffer> BufLeave *
717 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
718< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
719 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
720 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
721 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100722 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
723 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
724 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100725 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200726
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100727"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
728directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
729Also see #1689.
730
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100731crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
73217, #2652)
733
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100734When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100735highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100736
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200737":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
738
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100739No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
7402017 Dec 26, #2501)
741
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200742A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
743
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200744Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
745
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200746A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
747Mention where they were defined somewhere.
748
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100749Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
750(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
751
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200752ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
753
754Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
755
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100756Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
757Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
758
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100759Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
760in #846)
761Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
762
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200763Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
764Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
765
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100766When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
767redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200768
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100769In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
770(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
771
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100772Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
773neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100774
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100775Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
776Nov 21)
777
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200778When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
779triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
780set_color_count().
781
782Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
783responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
784
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100785When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
786CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
787Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
788always nested.
789
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200790matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
791
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100792Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
793
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100794MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100795for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
796
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200797Would be nice for insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100798(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200799
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200800Test runtime files.
801Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200802
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200803Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200804
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200805Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
806defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
807Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
808
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200809After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
81013, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200811
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200812When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
813line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
814
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100815The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
816
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200817Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
818set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
819
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200820Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
821
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100822Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
823
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200824Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200825It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100826Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200827Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200828
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200829Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
830behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
831
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100832'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
833
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200834The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
835
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100836When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
837a command can delete it.
838
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200839Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
840#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
841
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100842The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
843for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
844
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200845X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
846pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
847clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
848Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
849Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
850clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200851Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200852
853Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
854
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200855Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
856attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
857that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
858
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200859Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
860(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
861
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100862Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
863buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
864Also fixes #2166?
865
866Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
867
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200868Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
869stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
870
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100871Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
872possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
873
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200874When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
875case of :bwipe followed by :new.
876
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200877Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
878existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
879Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
880
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200881Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200882
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200883MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
884Jul 4)
885
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200886Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
887Drucker, 2017 May 8).
888This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
889Christian cannot reproduce it.
890
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200891Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
892wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
893Or is this not an actual problem?
894
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200895Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
896
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200897Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
898
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200899Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
900
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200901'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
902#1736)
903
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200904Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
9058, #1690)
906
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200907Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
908(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
909
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200910Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
911it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
912
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200913Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
914Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
915How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
916
917Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
918(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
919
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100920Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
921
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200922assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
923it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
924
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200925New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
926
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100927Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
928for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200929
930Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
931(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
932Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
933later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
934Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
935mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200936Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
937mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200938maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200939
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100940Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200941plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
942be defined when the plugin is loaded.
943
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100944Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
945 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
946 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100947
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200948json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200949What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100950
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200951Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
952
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200953import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
954(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
955
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100956When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
957buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
958Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100959
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200960Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
961Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100962Another example in #1309
963
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100964When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
965when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
966
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100967Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
968#1330)
969
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200970Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
971
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100972Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
973
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100974GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
975g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
976timer expires.
977
978Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
979
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100980Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
981highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
982
9838 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
984 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
985
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100986Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
987Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
988
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200989Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
990key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
991 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
992 echo keytrans(xx)
993 <C-Home>
994
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100995Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
996(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
997Make a function to check for function-like type?
998
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200999Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1000(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1001
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001002Implement optional arguments for functions.
1003 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
1004 call Foo(12)
1005 call Foo(12, all = 0)
1006 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001007
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001008Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1009somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1010
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001011Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1012(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1013
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001014Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1015Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
1016New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
1017
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001018Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001019Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001020Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001021
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001022The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1023"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1024Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1025
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001026Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1027
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001028Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1029about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001030Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1031
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001032Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1033#1053) With patch, does it work?
1034
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001035":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001036vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1037
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001038Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001039E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001040Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001041
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001042Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1043Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1044
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001045Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001046Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001047
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001048"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1049(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1050
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001051Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1052(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001053Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001054
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001055'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1056
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001057Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1058
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001059When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1060Apr 23, #1653)
1061
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001062Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1063anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1064
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001065Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001066E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001067
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001068Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1069(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1070
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001071Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1072
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001073Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
1074
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001075Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
1076
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001077On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1078separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1079
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001080min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1081contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1082
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001083Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1084
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001085Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1086
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001087Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1088
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001089Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1090no longer support.
1091
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001092sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
10934#1038)
1094
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001095+channel:
1096- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1097 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001098- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1099- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1100 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1101- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1102 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1103- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001104- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1105 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001106- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1107- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1108 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1109 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1110- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1111- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1112- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1113 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1114 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1115- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1116 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1117- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1118 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1119 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1120
1121Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001122- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1123 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1124 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1125 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001126- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1127 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001128- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1129 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1130- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1131 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1132- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1133 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1134 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1135 LC_CTYPE
1136- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1137 matches everywhere.
1138- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1139 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1140- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1141- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1142 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1143- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1144- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1145 2013 Dec 11)
1146- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1147 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1148- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1149- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1150 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1151- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1152- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1153- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1154- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1155 2015 Feb 7)
1156- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1157 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1158 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1159 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1160 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1161- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1162- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1163- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1164- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1165 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1166 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1167 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1168- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1169 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1170- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1171 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1172 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1173 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1174
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001175Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
1176
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001177Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1178#1350)
1179
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001180Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
11813. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1182Also see #1635.
1183
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001184Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001185Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1186use the current behavior.
1187Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001188
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001189When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1190command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1191
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001192Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
1193change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001194patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
1195(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001196
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001197Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1198doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1199Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001200Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001201E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1202
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001203execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001204#1141)
1205
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001206cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1207
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001208:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1209
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001210Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1211
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001212When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1213synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1214
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001215Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1216Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001217
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001218Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1219(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1220
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001221ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1222Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001223
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001224Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1225
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001226Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001227(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001228
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001229Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1230Jul 25, #948)
1231
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001232Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1233names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1234Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1235the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1236
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001237Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1238(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1239Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1240
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001241'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1242
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001243MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1244Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001245
1246Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1247Also for ":@.".
1248
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001249Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1250
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001251Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1252#1125
1253
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001254Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1255times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1256
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001257Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1258
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001259Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1260
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001261Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1262
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001263Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1264
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001265We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1266the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1267
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001268Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1269
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001270When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1271emoji_width table has only one entry.
1272
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001273It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1274Reject the value? #710.
1275
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001276When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1277Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1278
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001279Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +02001280Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001281
1282Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001283
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001284Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1285No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001286
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001287Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1288(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001289
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001290Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1291
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001292Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1293https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1294Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1295
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001296Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1297but the reference remains valid.
1298
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001299Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001300interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1301Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1302interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1303result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001304
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001305Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001306work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001307
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001308Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1309
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001310Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1311
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001312Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1313Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1314
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001315When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1316Apr 17) #762
1317
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001318exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1319Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1320
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001321Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1322'iskeyword' for syntax.
1323
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001324Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1325(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1326
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001327Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1328
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001329When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1330maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001331Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001332
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001333Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1334It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1335Add configure check?
1336Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1337Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1338Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1339
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001340Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1341Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1342
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001343Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1344Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1345Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1346
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001347Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1348Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1349
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001350":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1351directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1352
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001353In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1354(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1355
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001356If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
13572016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001358
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001359Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1360(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1361
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001362Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001363Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001364
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001365Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1366
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001367When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1368restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1369Do not trigger the event?
1370
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001371Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1372changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1373and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001374Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1375Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
13766, 2nd message)
1377Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001378
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001379Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1380Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1381https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1382
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001383Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1384With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1385
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001386Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001387
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001388Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1389
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001390Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001391Only remembers one error.
1392
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001393GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001394
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001395Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1396(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001397
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001398Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1399github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001400 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001401Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001402
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001403Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001404
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001405Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001406comparing individual items.
1407Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1408Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1409Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1410equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1411
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001412Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1413
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001414MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1415wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1416
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001417Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1418specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1419
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001420Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1421(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1422
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001423Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001424inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001425
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001426Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1427(Luchr, #277)
1428
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001429Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001430'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1431before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001432
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001433C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1434and also line continuation after #include.
1435I can't recommend it though.
1436
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001437Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1438(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1439
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001440To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1441library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1442
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001443When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1444is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1445
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001446Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
144730)
1448
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001449MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1450(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1451
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001452The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
145324): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001454
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001455":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1456effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1457
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001458":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14599)
1460
1461The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1462wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1463
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001464Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001465Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001466
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001467When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1468the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1469
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001470Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001471slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1472inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1473
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001474ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
14752014 Sep 11)
1476
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001477Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1478(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1479
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001480When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1481'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1482
1483Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001484(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001485Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1486- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1487 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1488 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1489- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1490 covered by the above change.
1491So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001492same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001493Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001494
1495Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1496Work in progress.
1497
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001498Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1499when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1500
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001501Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1502Is this right?
1503
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001504Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1505(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1506Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1507
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001508Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1509Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001510
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001511Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1512Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1513
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001514Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1515
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001516When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1517filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1518initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1519
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001520Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1521
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001522Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1523OK to not block marks?
1524
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001525Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1526
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001527Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1528
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001529When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1530(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1531
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001532Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001533
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001534Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1535(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1536
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001537When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1538any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1539
1540Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001541
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001542Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001543
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001544Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1545(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1546
1547Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1548
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001549Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1550Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1551was already defined.
1552(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1553
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001554Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1555
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001556Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001557Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001558Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001559Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001560
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001561Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1562(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1563
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001564Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1565(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1566
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001567Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1568
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001569When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1570these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1571window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1572
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001573Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1574should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1575history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1576Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1577
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001578"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1579Jun 8)
1580
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001581Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1582insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1583
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001584No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1585
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001586Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1587(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1588Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1589arguments.
1590
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001591Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1592
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001593Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001594
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001595Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
15960x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1597New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1598compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1599
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001600Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1601a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1602
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001603xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1604buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1605Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001606Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001607Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001608Also see issue #609.
1609We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001610
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001611Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1612right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001613its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001614
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001615Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1616
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001617This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1618 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1619This neither: (ZyX)
1620 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1621
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001622'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1623Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1624from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001625
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001626Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16272014 Jun 8)
1628
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001629Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001630Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001631Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1632Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1633User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001634- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1635 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1636 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001637- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1638- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1639 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1640 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1641 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1642 on vim.org.
1643- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1644 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1645- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1646- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1647- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1648- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1649Implementation:
1650- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1651 plugin separate.
1652- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1653 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1654 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1655- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1656 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1657- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1658 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1659 installing.
1660Out of scope:
1661- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1662- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1663 useful).
1664
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001665Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1666normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001667
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001668When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1669menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1670
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001671Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1672(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1673
1674":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1675various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001676
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001677Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001678(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1679
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001680VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1681instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1682
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001683Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001684Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001685
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001686Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001687command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001688
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001689Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1690
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001691Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1692highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001693
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001694The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1695For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1696
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001697Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001698possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001699
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001700Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001701
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001702Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1703
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017047 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1705 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1706 "lucida_console:h8").
1707Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1708
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001709:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1710
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001711Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1712
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001713Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1714
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001715When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1716(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1717
1718Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001719Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001720
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001721GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1722(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1723
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001724Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1725registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1726
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001727Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1728
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001729The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1730(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1731Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1732
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001733The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1734- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1735- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1736
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001737Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1738Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1739reliably?
1740
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001741Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1742(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1743
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001744Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1745(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1746
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001747Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17482013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001749
1750Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1751
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001752Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17535)
1754
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001755Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1756carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1757
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001758Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1759highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1760
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001761Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001762
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001763Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200176428) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001765
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001766Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1767
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001768Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1769
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001770- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1771 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1772Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001773
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001774Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001775
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001776In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1777process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1778a reboot.
1779
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001780patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1781
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001782Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1783not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001784
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001785Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1786Or use expand('<sid>')?
1787
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001788Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1789
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001790Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1791
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001792b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17937)
1794
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001795Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1796compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1797
1798Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1799Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1800vim.bindeval().
1801
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001802Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18032012 Aug 4)
1804
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001805Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1806(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1807
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001808Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1809But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1810
1811Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1812Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1813Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001814
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001815Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1816loading all files.
1817
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001818MS-Windows resizing problems:
1819- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1820 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1821- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1822 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1823 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001824
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001825'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001826
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001827Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001828of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1829
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001830The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1831Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1832But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001833
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001834When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1835is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1836
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001837URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001838- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001839- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1840 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1841
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001842Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1843(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1844Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1845
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001846Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001847New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001848
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001849When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1850for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1851Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001852
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001853Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1854
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001855Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1856
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001857Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1858Apr 18)
1859
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001860Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1861And one for gui_x11.txt.
1862
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001863":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1864finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1865Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1866
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001867Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1868
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001869Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1870
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001871Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1872they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1873
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001874Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1875
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001876Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1877Nov 20)
1878
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001879Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001880Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001881
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001882`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001883(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1884
1885Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1886
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001887BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1888Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1889
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001890Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1891Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1892
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001893Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1894
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001895On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18962012 Jun 19)
1897
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001898'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1899'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1900Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001901Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001902
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001903With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1904(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1905need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1906
1907Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1908only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
190921, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1910
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001911'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1912highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1913
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001914Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1915New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1916
1917Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1918Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1919
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001920Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1921Jan 19)
1922
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001923Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1924discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1925meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001926
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001927"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001928Oct 26)
1929
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001930Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1931
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001932With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1933register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001934
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001935Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1936
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001937When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1938(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1939
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001940When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1941then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1942from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1943
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001944Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1945":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
194615)
1947
1948Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1949
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001950BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1951cleared. See test64.
1952
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001953Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001954effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001955Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001956https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001957
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001958On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
195964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1960right type.
1961
1962string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1963(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1964
1965When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1966(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001967When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1968following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1969(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001970
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001971When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1972doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1973
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001974Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1975
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001976maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1977mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1978
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001979Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1980(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1981
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001982When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1983indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1984the help file.
1985
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001986After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1987Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1988
1989Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1990
1991"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1992
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001993Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1994
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001995Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001996
1997Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19982010 Dec 18)
1999
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002000With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2001number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2002Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2003
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002004Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2005Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2006
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020078 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2008Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2009
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002010Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2011one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2012the match scrolls into view.
2013
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020147 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2015Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2016Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2017
20189 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2019 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2020Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2021
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002022Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2023Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2024
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002025In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2026or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2027sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2028
2029GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2030doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2031
2032GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2033
2034Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2035Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2036
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002037Wish for NetBeans commands:
2038 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2039
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002040Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2041
20427.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2043there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2044do?
2045
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002046Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
204722)
2048
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002049New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2050- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002051- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002052 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2053
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002054"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20552011 Feb 27)
2056
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002057Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2058^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2059
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002060When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2061exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20629) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2063
2064g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2065the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2066
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002067Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2068crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2069
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002070Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2071number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2072
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002073Regexp engine performance:
2074- Profiling:
2075 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2076 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2077 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2078 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2079 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2080 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2081- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2082- Performance tests:
2083 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2084 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2085 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2086 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2087 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2088 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2089 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2090 'hlsearch'.
2091 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2092 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2093 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2094 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2095
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002096Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2097Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2098
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002099'beval' option should be global-local.
2100
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002101Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002102
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002103setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002104
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002105With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21062010 Oct 24)
2107
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002108Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2109
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002110When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2111Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2112
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002113":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2114
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002115'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2116
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002117C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2118checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2119Issue 46.
2120
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002121Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2122
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002123Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2124gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2125
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002126":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2127accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2128
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002129Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2130setwinvar().
2131
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002132Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002133
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002134When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2135instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2136
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002137Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2138Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2139Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002140
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002141Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2142back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2143
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002144Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002145Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2146
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002147CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2148the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2149FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2150
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002151Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2152Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2153
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002154Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2155Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2156
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01002157I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
2158Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
2159an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002160
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002161Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2162
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002163Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2164non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002165
2166iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2167Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2168or replace with a character and continue?
2169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002170Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2171Requires configure check for localtime().
2172Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2173
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002174Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2175Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2176
2177Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2178
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002179Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2180Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2181path.
2182
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002183Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002184Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002185
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002186'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2187
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002188":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2189like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2190
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002191Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2192https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002193
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002194Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
21952010 Nov 5)
2196
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002197Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002198Jan 7)
2199
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002200Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2201
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002202With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2203entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2204Feb 12)
2205
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002206Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2207characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2208
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002209Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2210
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002211Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2212 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2213
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002214Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2215
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002216When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2217Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2218
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002219When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2220not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2221string value.
2222
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002223For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002224line argument -noregister.
2225
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002226When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2227missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2228
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002229When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2230doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002231
2232Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2233(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2234Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2235There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2236Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2237
2238":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2239highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2240to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2241
2242Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2243Probably needs a bit of work.
2244
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002245List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002246Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2247
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002248Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2249
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002250Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2251
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002252Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2253Sep 1)
2254
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002255Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2256
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002257Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2258on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2259
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002260Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22612009 Jul 18)
2262
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002263Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2264window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2265Needs more work.
2266
2267Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2268
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002269When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2270few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2271
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002272'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002273(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2274
2275Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2276J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2277
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002278When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2279for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2280
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002281Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2282
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002283":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2284because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2285ex_docmd.c.
2286
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002287Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002288Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2289
2290string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2291for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2292
2293Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2294
2295'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
229620)
2297
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002298Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22992009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2300
2301Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2302
2303Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2304SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2305
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002306When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2307indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2308(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2309
2310Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2311are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2312Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2313Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2314that doesn't have a window.
2315
2316When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2317doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2318
2319getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2320displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2321
2322":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2323
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002324There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2325was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2326perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2327
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002328Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2329
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002330Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2331command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2332
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002333Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2334does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2335
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002336opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2337height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002338very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002339
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002340Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2341(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2342
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002343Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002344(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2345
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002346Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2347char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2348
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002349Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2350Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2351
2352This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2353
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002354Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2355messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2356es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23572009 Jan 26)
2358
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002359When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002360in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2361Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2362
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002363Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2364a modeline.
2365
2366Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2367Sergey Khorev)
2368
2369Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2370part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002371
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002372After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2373correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2374
2375Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2376(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2377
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002378shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002379'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2380Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2381unix-like shell?
2382
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002383Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2384register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2385(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2386
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002387Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2388Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2389
2390Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2391make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002393When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2394still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2395
2396"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2397(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2398
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002399Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2400that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2401ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2402Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2403
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002404MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2405doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2406probably causes this.
2407
2408'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024092009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002410
2411Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2412 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2413 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2414(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2415
2416Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2417":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2418option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2419is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002420
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002421":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2422first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002423Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002424
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002425Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2426laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2427Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002428
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002429Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2430anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2431
2432On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2433doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2434Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2435Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2436
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002437When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2438'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2439fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2440the buffer to be unmodified.
2441Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2442another look at it.
2443
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002444c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2445(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2446
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002447You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2448error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2449Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2450at the other match for 0xBF.
2451
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002452When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2453argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2454
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002455Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2456backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2457
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002458When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2459line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2460
2461Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2462position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2463
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002464After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2465(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002466command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002467
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002468":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2469Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2470
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002471When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2472either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2473put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2474
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002475Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2476Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2477Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2478Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2479(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2480
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002481Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2482
2483ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002484
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002485Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2486(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2487escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2488an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002489This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2490July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002491Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2492work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2493
2494When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
249531)
2496
2497Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2498work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2499Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002500
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002501Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2502multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2503(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2504
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002505Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25062008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002507Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002508
2509Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2510Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2511'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2512
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002513Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2514Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2515
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002516Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2517Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2518
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025198 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2520 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2521 several).
2522 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2523 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2524 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2525Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2526
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002527The utf class table is missing some entries:
2528 0x2212, minus sign
2529 0x2217, star
2530 0x2500, bar
2531 0x26ab, circle
2532
2533Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2534line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2535
2536GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2537Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2538
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002539Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2540try the Cocoa version.
2541
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002542Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2543changed or the window is resized.
2544
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002545GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2546the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2547
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002548Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2549Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002550
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002551Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25521) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2553
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002554C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2555with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2556Try to reproduce at work.
2557
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002558Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2559Is there a way to list all the files first?
2560
2561When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2562result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
256316)
2564
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002565Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2566(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2567
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002568Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2569Await response to question to make the register writable.
2570
2571Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25721)
2573
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002574In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2575each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2576
2577try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2578
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002579try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2580
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002581":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2582Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2583
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002584Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2585
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002586Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2587Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2588
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002589Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2590Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2591Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002592
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002593When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2594and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2595
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002596Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2597 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2598
2599New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2600
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002601":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2602a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2603
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002604'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2605Likonen, March 19)
2606
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002607Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2608other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2609
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002610The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2611appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2612matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2613
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002614When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2615character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2616'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2617(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2618
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002619Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2620Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002621
2622More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2623
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002624Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2625http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2626
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002627Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2628back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2629Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002630
2631Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2632No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2633
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002634Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2635terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002636
2637Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2638
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002639Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2640but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2641that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002642
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002643Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2644Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2645
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002646Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2647popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2648size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2649This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2650
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002651When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2652it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2653
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002654Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2655then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2656files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002657Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2658indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2659":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002660in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2661quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002662Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002663
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002664When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2665parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2666neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2667particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2668Jun 3)
2669However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2670the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002671
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002672A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2673Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2674
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002675Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2676Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2677
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002678Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2679switch list is noticed:
2680 switch (i)
2681 {
2682 case 1:
2683 foobar:
2684 }
2685
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002686Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2687
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002688Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2689with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2690go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2691moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2692
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002693Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002694GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002695Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2696argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2697(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2698
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002699Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2700(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2701
2702Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2703makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2704.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002705 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002706
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002707Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27082007 Feb 8)
2709
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002710Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2711set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002712
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002713Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2714
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002715Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2716Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2717New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2718patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2719
2720Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2721Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2722
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002723Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
27242007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002725Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002726
2727Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002728label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2729
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002730Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2731with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2732Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002733
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002734Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2735
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002736Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2737Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2738only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2739
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002740Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2741Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002742Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002743properly?
2744
2745Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27462007 Jun 21)
2747
2748When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2749Jun 18)
2750
2751If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2752
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002753Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2754windows. (Adam George)
2755
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002756F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2757modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2758K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2761the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2762
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002763C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2764
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002765":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2766
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002767When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002768error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002769
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002770GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002771use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2772
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002773Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2774if_ruby.c.
2775
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002776":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2777
2778The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2779it in keep_msg?
2780
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002781Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002782error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002783name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2784
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002785Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2786longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002787
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002788Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2789Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2790Also for ":w" without a file name.
2791The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002792
2793"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2794Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2795
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002796VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2797directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2798(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2799
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002800VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2801
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002802input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2803name?
2804
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002805Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2806
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002807When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2808(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2809Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2810will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2811
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002812gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2813This also fails with --remote.
2814
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002815When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28162008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2817all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2818
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002819aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2820
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002821When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2822(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2823
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002824Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2825the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2826
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002827GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2828
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002829Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2830superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2831
2832Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2833character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2834
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002835Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2836Jun 5)
2837
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002838Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28392008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2840Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2841
2842In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2843but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2844Jul 22)
2845
2846There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2847
2848Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2849":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2850somehow? Or use a new function.
2851
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002852Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2853
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002854Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2855moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2856that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2857
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002858The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2859
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002860When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002861cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2862the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2863
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002864These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2865 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2866 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2867 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2868
2869Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2870partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2871
2872In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2873buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2874reload it then?
2875
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002876For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2877
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002878Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2879only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2880
2881Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2882tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2883doesn't contain other directories.
2884
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002885Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2886Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2887
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002888Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2889 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2890 set background=dark
2891This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2892color is, not reset it.
2893
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002894Linux distributions:
2895- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2896 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2897 xfree-xterm".
2898- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2899
2900Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2901start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2902show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2903middle?
2904
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002905Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2906
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002907When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2908current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2909the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2910
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002911When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2912Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2913
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002914Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2915 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2916 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2917 - getting colors in xterm
2918 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2919
2920Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2921Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2922
2923Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2924
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002925A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2926Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2927
2928Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2929Dara, 2006 June 21)
2930
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002931Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2932number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2933
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002934After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2935the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2936
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002937Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002938
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002939Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2940Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2941
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002942Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029432008 Sep 29)
2944
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002945In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2946check the result of has("patch13").
2947
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002948Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2949restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2950
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002951Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2952and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2953
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002954Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2955put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2956
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002957Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2958resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2959
2960In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2961can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2962
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002963GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2964maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2965doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002966Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2967visible.
2968
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002969When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2970differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002971
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002972The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2973be only one.
2974
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002975Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002976"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2977name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2978Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002979
2980Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2981(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2982
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002983Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2984as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2985
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002986Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
298723)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002988
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002989":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2990tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2991Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002992
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002993When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2994text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2995latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2996
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002997Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2998no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2999
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003000In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3001VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30022007 Oct 16)
3003
3004TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3005Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3006
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003007Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003009When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3010typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3011Sep 3, 11)
3012
3013When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
3014respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
3015the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
3016what happens for the GUI.
3017
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003018":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3019this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3020
3021When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3022Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3023restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3024
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003025Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30262010 Jun 30)
3027
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003028Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3029'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3030(Kartik Agaram)
3031
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003032
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003033Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003034- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3035 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3036- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3037 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3038 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3039- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3040 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3041 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003042- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3043- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003044
3045
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003046More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003047- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3048 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003049- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003050- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3051 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003052- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3053- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3054- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3055 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3056 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003057- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003058- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3059 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3060- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3061 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3062- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3063 21)
3064- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3065 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3066- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3067 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003068- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3069 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003070- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3071 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3072 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3073 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3074 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003075- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003076
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003077Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030789 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3079 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3080 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3081 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3082 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3083 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3084 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3085 (Alan Schmitt)
3086 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003087 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3088 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030899 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003090 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030918 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030927 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3093 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3094 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030958 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003096 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030977 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003098 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3099- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3100 for multi-byte characters.
3101- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3102- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3103 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3104 been given values.
3105 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
31068 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003107 with an ESC sequence.
3108 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
3109 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
3110 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031117 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3112 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3113- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3114 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3115 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31168 Add functions:
3117 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3118 Update 2004 Sep 10
3119 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3120 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003121 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003122 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3123 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3124 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3125 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3126 (2003 May 13)
3127 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3128 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003129 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3130 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003131 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3132 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3133 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031347 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3135 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031367 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3137 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031388 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3139 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031407 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31418 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3142 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31437 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3144 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031457 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3146- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3147 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3148 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003149- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3150 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3151- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3152
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003153Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3154- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3155 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3156
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003157Quickfix/Location List:
3158- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3159 #2999)
3160- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3161 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3162 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3163 the quickfix buffer?
3164- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3165 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3166- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3167 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3168- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3169 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3170 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3171- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3172 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3173- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3174- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3175 2007 Jan 1)
3176- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3177 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3178- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3179 errors. How do we get the rest?
31808 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3181 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3182 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3183 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31847 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3185 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003186
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003187Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003188- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3189 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031908 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3191 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3192 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3193 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3194 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3195 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031968 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3197 make Vim exit.
31987 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3199 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3200 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32018 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3202 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3203 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32046 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3205 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3206 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32078 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3208 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3209 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3210 names in one buffer???
3211 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3212 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3213 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32147 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3215 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3216 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003217 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3218 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032197 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3220 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32217 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32227 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032237 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3224 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3225 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3226 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32277 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32287 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32297 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3230 to the match with the tag? Option?
32317 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32327 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3233 (Sayre).
32347 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3235 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032367 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3237 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3238 match. Nvi can do it too.
32397 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3240 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3241 line 1\ line 2\\
3242 line 2\ line 3\\
3243 . line4/
32446 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3245 the way the shell is started?
32466 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3247 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3248
3249
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003250GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032519 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032528 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3253 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3254 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032558 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3256 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3257 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032589 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3259 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3260 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3261 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003262- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3263 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3264 blocked for now.
3265
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003266
3267Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003268- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3269 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032708 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3271 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3272 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032736 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3274 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032758 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3276 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3277 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032787 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3279 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3280 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032817 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3282 2004 May 9)
32838 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3284 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3285 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3286 MS-Windows 98?
3287 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3288 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3289 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3290 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032918 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3292 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3293 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3294 doesn't work properly.
32958 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3296 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3297 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32989 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3299 button doesn't give popup menu.
3300 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3301 selection.
3302 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3303 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3304 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33058 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3306 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3307 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3308 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33098 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3310 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3311 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033127 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3313 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3314 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
33157 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3316 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003317 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033187 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3319 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033206 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33218 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3322 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3323 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33248 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3325 know which keyboard is being used?
33267 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3327 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3328 area (Koloseike).
33298 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3330 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3331 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3332 the font name).
3333
3334
3335Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033366 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3337 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3338 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3339 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3340 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033419 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3342 required and it's missing?
33438 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3344 wrong.
33459 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3346 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033479 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003348 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3349 flag.
33508 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3351 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3352 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33538 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33546 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3355 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3356 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3357 the tooltips work though...
33587 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3359 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33608 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3361 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3362 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3363
3364
3365Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033669 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3367 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033689 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3369 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3370 through files.
33717 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3372 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33734 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3374 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3375 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3376 problem during a refresh.
33775 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3378 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3379 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3380 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3381 colors as it should.
3382 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3383 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3384
3385
3386Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003387- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033887 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3389 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033908 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3391 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3392 (Phillipps)
3393
3394
3395GUI:
33969 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3397 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33989 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003399 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003400 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34019 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3402 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34038 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3404 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34058 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3406 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3407 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34088 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3409 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3410 of where it is processing the output.
3411 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34128 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3413 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034148 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034158 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3416 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3417 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034188 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034198 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3420 browse().
34218 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3422 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34238 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3424 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034257 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3426 - regexp on/off
3427 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3428 when all buffers/directory is used:
3429 - filter for file name
3430 when directory is used:
3431 - subdirectory on/off
3432 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034338 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3434 to avoid problems.
34358 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3436 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3437 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34388 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3439 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3440 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34418 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3442 up. Set erase character somehow?
34438 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3444 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3445 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3446 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34478 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34487 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3449 visible.
34507 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3451 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34527 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3453 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34548 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3455 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34568 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3457 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3458 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3459 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3460- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34614 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3462 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3463 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3464
3465
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003466Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034678 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3468 a good fallback, thus use:
3469 $HOME
3470 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3471 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3472 $USERPROFILE
3473 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3474 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3475 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3476 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034778 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3478 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34798 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3480 Should work like in the GUI version.
34818 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3482 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34838 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3484 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34858 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3486 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3487 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034888 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3489 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3490 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3491
3492
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003493Win32 console:
34949 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3495 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3496 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3497 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3498 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3499 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3500 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3501 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3502 and the file is not saved.
3503 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3504 long name.
35058 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3506 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35077 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3508 besides the console.
35098 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35109 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3511 <C-S-i>?
35129 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3513 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35148 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3515 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003516
3517
3518Amiga:
35198 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3520 sequences.
35219 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3522 backslashes in result.
35238 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3524 all options, using white space separation.
3525
3526
3527Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003528- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035297 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3530 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3531 (Jack)
3532 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035338 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3534 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035358 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35368 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35379 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3538 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035399 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003540
3541
3542"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003543- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3544 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003545- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3546 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003547- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3548 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3549 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3550 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3551 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3552 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3553 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035549 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3555 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035569 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003557 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3558 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035598 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3560 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3561 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003562 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035637 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3564 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35658 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3566 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3567 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035687 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3569 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003570- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3571 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035728 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3573 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3574 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3575 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35767 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3577 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3578 invocations belong together.
35798 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3580 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35818 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3582 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3583 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003584 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035858 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3586 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3587 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035888 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3589 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035907 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3591 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3592 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3593 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035947 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3595 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3596 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35977 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3598 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3599 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36007 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3601 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036027 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3603 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036049 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3605 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3606 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3607 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3608 script can be called.
36098 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3610 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3611 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036128 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3613 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036148 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003615 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3616 configurable?
36178 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036188 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3619 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036208 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3621 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036228 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3623 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036249 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3625 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3626 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036277 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036288 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3629 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3630 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036318 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3632 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003633 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3634 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036358 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3636 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36379 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3638 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3639 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003640 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036417 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3642 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036437 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3644 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3645 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3646 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036478 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003648 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3649 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3650 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3651 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003652 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3653 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003654 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003655 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003656 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3657 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3658 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3659 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3660 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036618 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3662 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36638 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3664 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36658 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3666 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3667 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36688 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3669 'linebreak'.
36708 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3671 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3672 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036739 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3674 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3675 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3676 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36779 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3678 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036799 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36809 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3681 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3682 cause another redraw, etc.
36838 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3684 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36858 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3686 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3687 ":w!!" for that.
3688 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3689 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003690 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036917 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3692 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3693 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3694 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3695 clipboard)
36967 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3697 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3698 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036996 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3700 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3701 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037028 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3703 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37048 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3705 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3706 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000037078 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037088 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3709 (e.g., ":w").
37108 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3711 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037128 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3713 script in do_cmdline().
37148 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3715 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3716 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3717 changes.
37188 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3719 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37208 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3721 check for file marks. This can be slow.
37227 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3723 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3724 needed.
3725 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
37268 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3727 to skip catch_signals()?
37289 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3729 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3730 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3731 text?
37328 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3733 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37348 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3735 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37369 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3737 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3738 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3739 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3740 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37417 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3742 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3743 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3744 in the list?
37458 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3746 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3747 instead of on button down.
37488 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37499 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3750 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003751 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3752 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037538 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3754 character is typed.
37558 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3756 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37578 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3758 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37598 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3760 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3761 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3762 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3763 cygwin bash.
37647 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3765 Remember flags for backreferences.
37667 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3767 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37687 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3769 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37708 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3771 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37727 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3773 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037747 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3775 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3776 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37777 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3778 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37798 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3780 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3781 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37827 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3783 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003784
3785
3786I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37879 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3788 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3789 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003790
3791
3792Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003793- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3794 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3795 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003796- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3797 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3798 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3799 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3800 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3801 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003802 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003803- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3804 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003805 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003806 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3807 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3808 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003809- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3810 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3811 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3812 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3813 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3814- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3815 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3816 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3817- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3818 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003819- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003820- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3821 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3822 character gets the highlighting.
3823- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3824 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3825- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3826 (Jennings)
3827- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003828- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003829- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003830 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003831- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3832 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3833 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3834- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3835 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3836 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3837 (Benzinger).
3838- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3839 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3840 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3841- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3842 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3843- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3844 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3845- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3846 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3847 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3848 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3849 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3850 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3851- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3852 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3853 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003854- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3855 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3856 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003857- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3858 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3859 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3860- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3861 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3862- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3863 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003864- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3865 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3866- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3867 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3868 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3869 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3870 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3871- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3872 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3873 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3874- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3875 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3876 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003877- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3878 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 +00003879- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3880 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3881 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3882 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3883 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3884- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3885 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3886
3887--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3888 *extensions-improvements*
3889
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003890Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3891- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3892 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3893 calling a function.
3894 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3895 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003896- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3897 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003898 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003899- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3900 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3901 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3902 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3903 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3904 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003905 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003906- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3907 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3908 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003909- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3910 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039118 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3912 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3913 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3914 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003915- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3916 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003917
3918
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003919Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039208 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3921 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039228 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3923 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039248 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3925 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039268 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039279 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3928 - change to cursor position and curswant
3929 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3930 - how it works for folded lines
3931 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39329 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3933 work too.
39348 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3935 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3936 text.
39378 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39387 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3939 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39407 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3941 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003942 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003943- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3944
3945
3946Help:
3947- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3948 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3949- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3950 to the other matches.
3951- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003952- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3953 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3954 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3955 default contents.
3956- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3957 height for the help window (and other windows).
3958- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3959- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3960- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3961
3962
3963User Friendlier:
39648 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3965 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3966 Briscoe)
39678 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39688 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3969 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3970 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39718 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3972 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3973- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3974 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003975- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39769 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3977 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3978 item?).
3979 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039808 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039817 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3982 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3983 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039848 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3985 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3986 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3987 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003988
3989
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003990Tab pages:
39919 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039927 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3993 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039948 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039958 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039967 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039977 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003998 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039998 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4000 tab pages.
40017 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4002
4003
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004004Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004005- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
4006 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
4007- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4008 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4009 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4010- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4011 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004012- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4013 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4014 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004015- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4016 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4017 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004018- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4019 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004020- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004021 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4022 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040238 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4024 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40258 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4026 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40278 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4028 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004029 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004030 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4031 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4032 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4033 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004034- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4035 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004036- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004037- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4038 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004039- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004040 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004041- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004042 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004043- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4044 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004045- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4046 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4047- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004048 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004049 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4050 in the affix file separately.
4051 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004052 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004053 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4054 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4055 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4056- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4057 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4058 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4059 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4060 Alternative:
4061 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4062 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4063 affix which is required.
4064- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004065 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004066- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4067 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4068 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004069- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4070 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004071- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4072 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4073- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040748 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4075 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4076 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4077 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004078- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4079 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4080 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4081 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040828 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4083 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040848 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40858 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4086 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040877 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40888 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4089 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4090 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4091 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004092
4093
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004094Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040959 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4096 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040978 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004098 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004099
4100Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004101 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4102 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041038 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4104 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041058 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4106 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041078 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4108 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4109 user aware of this?
41108 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4111 commands skip over a closed fold.
41128 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41138 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041147 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004115- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4116 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4117 missing line goes unnoticed.
4118 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004119- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4120 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4121 smoother?
4122- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4123 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004124- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4125 file can contain:
4126 args version.c main.c
4127 edit version.c
4128 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004129- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004130- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4131 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004132- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4133 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004134- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4135 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004136- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004137
4138Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004139- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4140 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4141 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4142 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041439 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4144 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4145 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4146 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041479 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4148 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4149 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041508 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4151 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4152 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4153 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4154 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4155 item.
41568 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004157 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4158 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041598 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4160 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041618 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4162 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4163 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041647 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4165 so that the user can fix the problem.
41668 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4167 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041689 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41698 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041708 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41718 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041727 Searching and composing characters:
4173 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004174 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4175 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041768 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41778 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41788 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4179 characters.
41808 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41818 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4182 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41837 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4184 'display' option to specify this.
41857 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4186 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4187- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4188 fontselector somehow.
4189- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4190 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4191- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4192 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4193- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4194 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4195 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4196 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4197 if a font exists?
4198- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004199 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004200- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4201 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004202- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4203 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4204 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4205 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004206- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4207 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004208 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004209- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4210 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4211 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4212 But it's very complicated...
4213
4214
4215Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042167 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004217- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4218- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4219 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004220- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4221 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004222- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4223- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4224 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004225- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4226 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004227- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4228 units as for the margins.
4229- Support right-to-left text?
42308 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4231 color.
4232
4233
4234Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042358 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4236 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42378 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4238 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42398 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4240 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042417 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4242 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042438 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4244 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4245 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042467 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4247 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4248 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042498 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42509 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4251 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042527 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4253 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042547 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4255 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042568 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4257 change this for each release.
42588 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4259 pattern, but not in the body.
42608 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4261 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4262 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042638 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042648 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004265 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4266 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042678 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4268 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42698 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4270 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004271 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042728 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4273 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4274 used.
42758 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4276 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42778 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4278 re-insert the [] if possible.
42798 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4280 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042818 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4282 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4283 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4284 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4285 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042868 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4287 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42888 Support for deleting syntax items:
4289 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4290 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4291 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42928 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4293 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4294 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42957 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4296 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4297 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42987 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4299 detected.
43008 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004301 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043028 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4303 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043048 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43058 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43067 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4307 ":mkvimrc".
43088 Improve c.vim:
4309 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4310 "c_strict_ansi".
4311 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43128 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4313 current line while in Insert mode.
43148 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4315 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43168 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4317 display position.
43188 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4319 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4320 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43218 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4322 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4323 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043247 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4325 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4326 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4327 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4328 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043297 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4330 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4331 E.g. for this html:
4332 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043337 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43347 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4335 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043368 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43378 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043387 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4339 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4340 completion?
43418 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4342 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43437 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4344 select one of the sets.
43458 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4346 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4347 2, etc.
43488 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4349 highlighting (for "." command).
43508 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4351 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43528 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43537 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4354 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43556 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4356 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4357- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4358 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4359- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004360- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4361 (for comment blocks).
4362- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4363 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4364 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4365 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4366 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4367 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4368 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4369 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4370 (Campbell)
4371 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4372 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43737 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4374 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43757 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4376 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4377 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43787 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4379 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4380 messages. And external commands?
43818 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4382 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43837 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4384 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4385
4386
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004387Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043888 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4389 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004390 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043917 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4392 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4393 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043948 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4395 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004396- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043978 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4398 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4399 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4400 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4401 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4402 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044037 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4404 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044058 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044068 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4407 can be the plugin name.
4408 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4409 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044107 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4411 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4412 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4413 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4414 autocommand.
4415 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4416 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4417 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4418 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044197 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4420 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044216 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4422 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044238 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004424 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4425 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004426 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4427 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4428 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004429 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4430 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4431 3 2002
4432 Only add this when also implemented for
4433 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4434 be used.
4435 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004436 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4437 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4438 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4439 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4440 File.Open..." argument.
4441 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4442 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4443 with properties instead.
4444 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4445 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4446 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004447 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004448 crypt() encrypt string
4449 decrypt() decrypt string
4450 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4451 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004452 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004453 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004454 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004455 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004456 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004457 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4458 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004459 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4460 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004461 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004462 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4463 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4464 to allow the library to execute a command or
4465 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044667 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4467 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44688 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4469 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044708 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4471 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044728 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044739 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004474 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44756 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044768 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4477 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044788 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4479 option or environment variable.
44808 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044818 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004482 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044837 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4484 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044858 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4486 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44878 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44888 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4489 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4490 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4491 charwise({expr}).
44927 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4493 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4494 buffer for this?
4495 result = scratch(string, command)
4496 result = apply(string, command)
4497 result = execute(string, command)
4498 "command" would use <> notation.
4499 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45007 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004501
4502
4503Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045046 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4505 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4506 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4507 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4508 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4509 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4510 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004511
4512
4513Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045147 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4515 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045167 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4517 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4518 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4519 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045208 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4521 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4522 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4523 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004524 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045258 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45269 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45278 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45287 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4529 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45308 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4531 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4532 when starting up in a color terminal.
45338 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4534 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045358 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4536 function be improved?
45378 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4538 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4539 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4540 this be improved?
45418 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4542 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045437 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4544 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045457 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4546 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45477 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4548 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045497 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4550 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4551 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4552 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4553 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4554 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4555 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045568 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4557 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4558 using strcmp() too often?
45597 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4560 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4561 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4562 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4563 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4564 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45657 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4566 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4567 with an argument that can be messed with.
4568 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4569 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45707 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4571- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45728 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4573 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4574- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4575 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4576- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4577- Do profiling on:
4578 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004579 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4580 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4581 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4582 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4583 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4584 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004585 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045867 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4587 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4588 changed).
4589 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4590 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4591- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4592- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4593 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4594- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4595 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4596 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004597- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4598- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4599 cursor is right of the screen.
46008 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4601 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4602
4603
4604Code size:
46058 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4606- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4607 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46088 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46098 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4610 it.
46117 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4612 left out.
46138 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4614 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046158 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004616
4617
4618Messages:
46198 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4620 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46218 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4622 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46238 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4624 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004625- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4626 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4627- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046288 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4629 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046309 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4631 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4632 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4633 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4634 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046358 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4636 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46378 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4638 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4639 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4640 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4641 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4642 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004643- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004644 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046458 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4646 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4647 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4648 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4649 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4650 error messages, printing text, etc.
46518 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4652 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4653 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4654
4655
4656Screen updating:
46577 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4658 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4659 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4660- screen_line():
4661 - insert/delete character stuff.
4662 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4663- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4664 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4665- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4666 waiting for a character.
46678 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4668 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4669 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004670
4671Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046728 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046736 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4674- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4675 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4676 windows.
46777 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4678 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4679 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4680- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4681 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4682 (Goldfarb)
4683- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4684 bound windows.
4685- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4686 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004687- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004688- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4689 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4690 of lines but not with a single line).
4691
4692
4693Autoconf:
46948 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46958 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4696 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4697- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4698 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4699- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4700- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4701- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4702
4703
4704Perl interface:
47058 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047067 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47077 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47086 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4709
4710
4711Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047128 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4713 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047146 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4715 :libload internal-name libname
4716 :libunload internal-name
4717 :liblist
4718 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4719 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4720 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47216 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4722
4723
4724Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047259 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4726 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4727 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4728 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4729 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047308 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4731 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4732 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004733 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004734 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047357 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4736 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4737 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047388 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47398 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4740 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047417 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4742 window for each tag.
47437 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47447 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4745 bottom" search message.
47467 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4747 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4748 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004749- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4750- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004751- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4752 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4753 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047547 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4755 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4756 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4757 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47587 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4759 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4760 :tagargs clear
4761 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4762 matching).
47637 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4764 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4765 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4766 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47677 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4768 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47697 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4770 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4771 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004772
4773
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004774Win32 GUI:
47758 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4776 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047777 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4778 (Mike McCollister)
47798 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4780 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4781 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4782 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4783 common part of the path.
47848 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47858 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4786 gettext and menus work.
47878 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4788 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004789 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004790 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47918 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4792 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47938 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4794 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47957 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4796 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47977 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47987 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47997 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4800 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4801 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4802 prompts.
48037 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4804 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4805 the file added into an already running Vim.
48067 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4807 functions to find the window title.
4808
4809
4810GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048118 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004812- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4813 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
48147 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48158 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48166 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48178 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4818 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48199 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48207 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48218 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4822 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48238 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4824 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4825 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48268 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4827 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48288 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4829 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4830 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4831 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048327 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48338 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4834 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048357 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4836 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4837 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048388 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48398 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004840 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048418 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48428 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48438 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4844 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4845 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48467 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4847 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4848 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48497 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4850 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48517 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4852 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4853 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4854 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048557 Should support multi-column menus.
4856- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4857 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4858- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48598 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48606 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4861 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48627 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48637 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4864 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4865 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48667 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48678 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4868 name can be chosen free.
48697 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4870 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48716 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4872 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4873 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4874 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4875 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4876 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4877 things.
48787 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4879 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048807 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004881 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004882- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4883 where it was started from?
48847 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4885
4886
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004887Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048889 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4889 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004890- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048918 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4892 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4893 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4894 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48958 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4896 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048977 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4898 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4899 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4900 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049017 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049028 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4903 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049048 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4905 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4906 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049077 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4908 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4909 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049108 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4911 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4912 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049138 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4914 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049158 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049166 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4917 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049187 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049197 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004920 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4921 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4922 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049235 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4924 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4925 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49267 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4927 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4928 file.
49298 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4930 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4931 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004932- Add events to autocommands:
4933 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004934 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004935 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4936 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004937 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004938 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004939 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4940 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4941 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4942 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004943 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004944 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4945 the char.
4946 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4947 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4948 file from CVS).
4949 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4950 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4951 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4952 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4953 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4954 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004955 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4956 changes.
4957 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4958 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004959- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004960 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004961 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004962 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4963 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4964 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4965 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4966 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4967
4968
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004969Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004970- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4971 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004972- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4973 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4974 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4975 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4976 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004977- Ideas from others:
4978 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4979 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4980 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4981 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4982 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4983 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4984 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4985 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4986 Uses Perl for C++.
4987 Uses ctags to find the info:
4988 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4989 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4990 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4991 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4992 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4993 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004994 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004995 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4996- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4997
4998
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004999Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005000- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050017 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5002 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050037 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5004 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5005 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050068 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5007 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50089 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5009 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5010 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050118 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5012 - ignore/match case
5013 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050148 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5015 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5016 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5017 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5018 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5019 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050208 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050217 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5022 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050238 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5024 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5025 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5026 Should work for C++ and Java.
5027 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50287 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50297 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5030 instead of words.
50318 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50328 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5033 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50348 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5035 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005036- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5037 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005038- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5039 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5040 wildcards in the file name)?
5041- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5042- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5043- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5044 be in another file).
5045- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5046- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5047- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5048 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5049- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5050- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5051- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005052- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5053
5054
5055Command line editing:
50567 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5057 line.
50588 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5059 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5060 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5061- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5062 lines wraps to start of line).
5063- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5064 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5065 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5066 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5067 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5068 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5069 cmdwin does now already.
5070 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5071 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5072 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5073 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5074 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5075 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5076 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5077 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5078 Problems:
5079 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5080 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5081 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5082 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5083 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5084 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5085 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5086 character in first column?
5087 - Implementation ideas:
5088 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5089 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5090 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5091 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5092 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5093 Mode.
5094
5095
5096Command line completion:
50978 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50988 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5099 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51008 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5101 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051028 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5103 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051047 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5105 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005106- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5107- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5108 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051098 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5110 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51117 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5112 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5113- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5114 identifiers (Webb).
51158 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5116 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51177 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5118 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5119- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5120 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5121- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5122 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5123 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005124
5125
5126Command line history:
5127- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5128 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5129 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005130 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005131- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5132 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5133
5134
5135Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051369 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5137 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5138 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051398 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5140 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5141 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5142 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5143 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051448 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5145 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5146 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051477 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5148 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005149- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051507 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5151 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5152- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5153 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5154 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5155 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5156 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5157 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5158- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5159 Normal mode.
5160- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5161 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5162 are used.
5163- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5164- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5165- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5166
5167
5168'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051699 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5170 char * veryLongName =
5171 "very long string"
5172 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051738 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051748 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5175 long_type foo =
5176 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051778 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5178 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005179 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051808 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5181 func(
5182 new String[] {
5183 "asdf",
5184 "asdf"
5185 }
5186 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051878 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5188 (Chow Loong Jin)
5189 namespace {
5190 int
5191 func(int arg) {
5192 }
5193 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051946 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5195 func( arg1
5196 , arg2
5197 , arg3
5198 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051997 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005200 func(
5201 int x) // indent like "(4"
5202 {
5203 if (a
5204 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052059 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5206 if (a)
5207 {
5208 if (b)
5209 {
5210 // {
5211 }
5212 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005213 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5214 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5215 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005216- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005217 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52187 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5219- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5220 line).
5221- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5222- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5223 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005224- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5225 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5226- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5227 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5228- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5229- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5230 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52318 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5232 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5233 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5234- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5235- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5236 lines start with "\item".
5237- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5238 /* here is a comment that
5239 is just autoindented, and
5240 nothing else */
5241- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52427 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5243 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5244 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005245 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005246
5247
5248Java:
52498 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5250 Odendahl?
52518 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5252 "[i" commands and friends.
5253- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5254 (Jason)
5255- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5256 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5257
5258
5259'comments':
52608 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5261 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5262 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5263 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005264 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5265 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052667 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5267 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52687 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52696 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5270 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5271 regexp is used.
52728 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5273 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5274
5275
5276Virtual edit:
52778 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052787 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5279
5280
5281Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052828 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052838 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052848 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005285 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052868 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5287 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005288 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5289 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052908 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052918 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5292 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052938 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5294 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5295 the end of the line or before a ".".
52967 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5297 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52987 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5299 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053006 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53015 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5302 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5303 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5304 cursor is on.
5305
5306
5307Select mode:
53088 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5309 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53107 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005311 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053127 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5313 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5314 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5315 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5316 normal_cmd().
5317 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5318 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5319
5320
5321Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053228 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5323 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005324- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5325 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5326 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005327- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5328 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5329 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053308 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005331 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005332 where needed.
53337 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5334 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53357 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5336 of each selected line.
53378 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53388 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5339 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5340 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53418 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5342 Ben Godfrey)
53437 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5344 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53457 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5346 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053477 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005348 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005349 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53508 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5351 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53527 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5353 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5354 option!
53557 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5356 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5357 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5358 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5359 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5360 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5361 without changing the column.
53626 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053637 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5364 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053656 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5366 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53676 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053686 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005369 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005370 or other special character.
53716 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5372
5373
5374More advanced repeating commands:
5375- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005376- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005377- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005378 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5379 "y." will repeat last yank.
5380 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5381 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5382 and/or pick an older command.
5383- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5384
5385
5386Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053878 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5388 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5389 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53908 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53917 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5392 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053938 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5394 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53958 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053967 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053978 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5398 entering search strings.
53998 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5400 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5401 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054028 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5403 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054047 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054057 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5406 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054076 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5408 abbreviations are to be used.
5409- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5410 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5411 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005412- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5413 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5414 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5415 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5416 Or implicit:
5417 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005418- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5419 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5420 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005421- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5422 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5423- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5424 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54256 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5426 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5427 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5428 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005429- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5430 non-replace Insert mode?
5431- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005432- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5433- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5434 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5435- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005436 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005437- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5438 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5439- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5440- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5441 ":freekeys".
5442- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5443
5444
5445Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005446- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5447 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5448- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5449 folds when going to another line.
5450 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5451- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5452 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005453- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5454 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5455 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005456- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5457 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5458 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5459 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054609 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5461 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005462
5463
5464Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054659 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054668 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005467 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005468 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005469 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005470 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054719 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5472 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054738 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5474 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054758 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5476 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5477 Perl does it this way:
5478 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5479 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5480 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5481 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054828 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5483 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5484 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054857 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5486 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054878 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5488 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054897 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005490 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5491 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5492 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054937 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005494 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054957 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5496 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054978 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5498 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54998 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5500 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055017 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005502 example.
55038 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5504 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5505- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5506 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5507 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5508 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055098 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5510 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5511 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55127 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5513 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055147 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5515 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055168 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5517 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055188 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5519 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055208 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5521 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5522 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5523 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005524- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5525 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005526- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5527 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5528- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5529 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5530 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5531 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055328 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5533 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005534- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5535 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055368 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5537 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5538 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005539- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5540 i ignore case
5541 I use case
5542 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5543 v use Vi regexp syntax
5544 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5545 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5546 Perl uses these too:
5547 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5548 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5549 o compile only once (Perl only)
5550 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5551 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5552 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5553 following command.
5554 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5555- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5556 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5557 for search string)?
55587 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5559 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5560- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5561 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5562- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5563 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5564- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5565- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005566 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005567 a for the next file in the argument list
5568 f for file in the buffer list
5569 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005570 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5571 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005572 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5573 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5574- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055757 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005576 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055777 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5578 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5579 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5580 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55816 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5582 effects.
55837 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5584 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5585 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055867 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005587 Also ":dselect".
5588
5589
5590Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055919 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5592 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5593 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055949 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5595 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055968 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5597 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055988 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5599 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5600 timestamp?
5601 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5602 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005603- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5604 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005605- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5606 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5607 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56088 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5609 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5610 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5611 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56128 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5613 only remember the lines that really changed.
56147 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5615 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5616 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5617 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005618- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5619 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5620- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5621 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5622- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5623 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5624 [-99].
5625- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5626- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005627- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5628 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5629
5630
5631Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056327 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5633 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5634 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5635 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56368 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5637 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56388 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5639 inode too.
56407 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005641 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5642 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056437 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5644 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5645- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5646 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5647- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5648 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56497 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5650 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56517 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5652 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56538 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056547 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5655 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056568 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5657 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5658 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005659
5660
5661Swap (.swp) files:
56628 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5663 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5664 there are short file name problems.
56658 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5666 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56678 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56688 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005669 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005670 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5671 file the same as the actual file?
5672 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056737 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5674 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56757 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005676 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005677 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5678 enough room.
56797 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5680 or /var/preserve.
5681- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5682 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5683- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005684 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005685- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5686 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5687 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5688 cached list of which line is where.
5689
5690
5691Viminfo:
56927 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5693 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5694 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056958 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5696 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5697 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056988 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5699 name. (Schild)
57008 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57018 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057028 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057038 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5704 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5705 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5706 this?
57077 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57087 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5709 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57106 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5711 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5712 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5713- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5714 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5715
5716
5717Modelines:
57188 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5719 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5720 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005721- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5722 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5723 'shiftwidth'.
5724- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5725 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005726- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5727 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5728 modeline setting.
5729- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5730 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5731- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5732 .cpp files.
5733- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5734 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5735- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5736 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5737
5738
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005739Sessions:
57408 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5741 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57427 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5743 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057448 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5745 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057468 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5747 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5748 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057497 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5750 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057517 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005752
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005753
5754Options:
57557 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5756 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057578 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5758 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5759 also be supported.
57608 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5761 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5762 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57637 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005764
5765
5766External commands:
57678 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5768 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57694 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5770 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5771 -f).
57724 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57734 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5774 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57754 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5776
5777
5778Multiple Windows:
57797 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57808 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5781 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57827 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5783 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5784 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057857 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5786 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057877 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5788 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057896 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5790 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005791 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005792 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57937 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5794 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5795 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5796 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5797- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5798 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5799 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5800 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5801
5802
5803Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058048 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058058 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5806 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058078 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 +000058088 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5809 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58108 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5811 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5812 the mark was set.
58137 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5814 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5815 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5816 ":browse marks"?
58176 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058187 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5819 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58207 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5821 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58227 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5823 command).
58247 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5825 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5826 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5827 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58285 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5829 mappings.
58306 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5831 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5832 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5833
5834
5835Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058367 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005837 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005838- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5839 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058408 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058417 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5842 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5843
5844
5845Writing files:
5846- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5847 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5848 shortname conversion.
58498 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58508 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5851 file.
58528 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5853 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5854 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058556 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5856 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58576 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5858 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58596 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5860 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058618 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005862 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58637 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5864 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58657 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5866 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5867 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5868 waiting for a character to be typed).
58698 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5870 line of the window, like "[time]".
5871 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5872 Automatic and/or with a command.
5873
5874
5875Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058768 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5877 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058788 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005879 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5880- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5881- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58828 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5883 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005884- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005885 :s///N substitutes N times.
5886- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5887 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5888 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58897 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5890 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5891 last line column 5.
58925 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5893 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5894 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5895 (Stanislav Sitar)
5896
5897
5898Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058998 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59007 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59018 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5902 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5903 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005904- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5905- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5906 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5907- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5908- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5909
5910
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005911Argument list:
59126 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5913 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5914 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59156 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5916
5917
5918Registers:
59198 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059208 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5921 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5922 for every line.
59236 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5924 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5925 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5926- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5927 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5928- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5929 leader when line wraps?
5930- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5931 line in the range.
5932- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5933 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59348 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5935 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005936
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005937
5938Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059398 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059408 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059417 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59427 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5943
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005944Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059457 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5946 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5947 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5948 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5949 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5950 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5951 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005952 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059537 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5954 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059557 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5956 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059578 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5958 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059597 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5960 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5961 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005962- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005963 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059647 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5965 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59668 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059677 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5968 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59698 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5970 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059716 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059728 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5973 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5974 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5975 in this Vim.
59768 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005977 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059788 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5979 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5980 have it apply to the following command.
59818 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5982 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5983 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5984 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059857 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5986 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059877 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5988 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5989 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5990 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059916 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59928 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59939 Support ACLs on more systems.
59947 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5995 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059967 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5997 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5998 (truncated to fit in the space).
59997 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60008 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60018 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6002 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060037 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006004 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60057 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6006 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060077 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060087 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60097 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060108 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60118 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6012 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6013 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6014 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60158 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060168 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060178 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6018 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6019 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6020 does something like this. (Shah)
60217 Use growarray for replace stack.
60227 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6023 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60243 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060257 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6026 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060277 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6028 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006029- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6030- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6031- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6032- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60337 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6034 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6035- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6036 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006037- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006038- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6039 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6040- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6041 call "play newbeep.au").
6042- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6043 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6044 (Bhatt).
6045- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6046 blockwise registers).
6047- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6048 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6049- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6050 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6051 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6052 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006053- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060547 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6055 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6056- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6057 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6058 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6059 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6060 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060618 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6062 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060638 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6064 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6065 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6066 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6067 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6068- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006069- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060707 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6071 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6072- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6073 not in column 1.
60746 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6075 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60767 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6077- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006078- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006079 :redir #> bufname
6080 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006081- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6082 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006083- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6084 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6085 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60866 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6087 console? (Klaus Hast)
6088- Add :delcr command:
6089 *:delcr*
6090 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6091 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6092 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6093 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6094 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006095 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006096- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6097- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6098 characters from 'isprint'.
6099- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6100- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6101 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6102- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6103 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6104 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6105- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6106- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6107 Nvi).
6108- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6109 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61107 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6111- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6112 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61136 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6114- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6115 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6116 macro).
6117- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006118- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6119 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6120- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61218 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006122- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6123- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6124- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6125 if it is not the first or last window.
6126- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6127 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61287 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6129 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6130 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6131- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6132- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006133 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006134 many percent down the windows).
6135- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6136 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6137 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006138 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006139- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6140 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6141- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6142 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6143- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6144- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6145- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6146 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061478 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6148 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6149 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6150 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6151 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006152- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6153 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6154- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006155 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6156- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006157 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6158 (Webb).
6159- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006160 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006161- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6162 hex codes like 0xff).
6163- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6164 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6165 the last TYPED command.
6166- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6167- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6168- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6169 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006170- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061718 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6172 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6173 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006174- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006175 trailing '.'.
6176- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6177 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6178 find_file_in_path().
6179- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6180 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6181- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6182- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6183 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6184- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006185 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006186- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6187 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6188 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006189- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6190- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6191- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6192 to the minimal size.
6193- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6194- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6195- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6196- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6197- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006198- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6199 entered)?
6200- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6201 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006202- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006203- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6204- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6205- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6206- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6207- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6208 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006209- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062108 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6211 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6212 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6213 or in octal.
62147 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6215 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006216- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006217 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6218- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6219- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6220 insert line command).
6221- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6222- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6223- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6224- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6225- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6226 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006227- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006228 yet.
6229- Implement 'redraw' option.
6230- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6231 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062327 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6233 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006234 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6235 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062368 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6237 do it.
6238- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6239- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6240 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6241- Add text justification option.
6242- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6243- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6244 off".
6245- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6246- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6247- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006248 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006249- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006250- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006251- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6252 commands.
6253- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6254- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6255- :table command (Webb)
6256- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006257- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6258- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6259- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6260- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6261- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6262 (Demirel).
6263- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6264- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6265 for use in macro's and the like.
6266- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006267 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006268- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006269 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006270- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006271 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006272 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6273- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6274 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006275- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006276 mkopttab to make option table?
6277- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6278 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6279- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6280 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006281- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006282 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6283- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6284 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006285- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062868 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6287 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6288 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6289 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6290 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062918 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6292 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6293 (Netherton)
62946 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6295 space after "(", for example.
62965 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6297 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6298 (Servatius Brandt)
6299
6300
6301From Elvis:
6302- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6303- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006304- Search patterns:
6305 \@ match word under cursor.
6306 but do:
6307 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6308 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63098 ":window" command:
6310 :win + next window (up)
6311 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6312 :win - previous window (down)
6313 :win -- idem, wrapping
6314 :win nr to window number "nr"
6315 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63167 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6317 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6318
6319
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006320From xvi:
6321- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6322- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6323
6324
6325From vile:
6326- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6327- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6328 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6329
6330
6331Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006332- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6333 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006334 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006335 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6336 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006337- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6338 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6339- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6340 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6341 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6342 current layout mirrored.
6343- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6344- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6345 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6346- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6347- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6348 font in each top-level window.
6349- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6350- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6351- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6352- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6353 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006354- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6355 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6356- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6357 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63584 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6359 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6360 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6361 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006362 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006363 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6364 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6365- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6366 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6367 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6368
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006369vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006370vim: set fo+=n :