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Bram Moolenaareb490412022-06-28 13:44:46 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 9.0. Last change: 2022 Jun 27
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 -----------------------
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Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +010041Prepare for the Vim 9.0 release:
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +010042- Update version number in help
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010043
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020044Further Vim9 improvements, possibly after launch:
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +010045- Use Vim9 for more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaara4d131d2021-12-27 21:33:07 +000046- Check performance with callgrind and kcachegrind.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010047 getline()/substitute()/setline() in #5632
Bram Moolenaar2f0936c2022-01-08 21:51:59 +000048- Better implementation for partial and tests for that.
49- when using "const" mark the variable type as const with TTFLAG_CONST, so
50 that an error is given at compile time when trying to change it. E.g. for a
51 const list and trying to call add().
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020052- Compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010053 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
54 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
55 Give an error if compilation fails. (#7625)
Bram Moolenaar6aa57292021-08-14 21:25:52 +020056 Alternatively: Detect a compiled function call and skip the expression
57 evaluation.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010058 Use the location where the option was set for deciding whether it's to be
59 evaluated in Vim9 script context.
Bram Moolenaar6f4754b2022-01-23 12:07:04 +000060- implement :type
61- implement :enum
Bram Moolenaara4d131d2021-12-27 21:33:07 +000062- implement :class and :interface: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010063- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
64 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +020065- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010066- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
67 EVAL expr
68 LOADVARARG (varargs idx)
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020069- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
70 has(featureName), len(someString)
71- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010072
Bram Moolenaarfa3b7232021-12-24 13:18:38 +000073Update list of features to vote on:
74- multiple cursors
75- built-in LSP support
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +010076- virtual text, using text properties
77- start first line halfway, scroll per screen line
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010078
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020079Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +020080- Preview popup not properly updated when it overlaps with completion menu.
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +010081 (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2021 May 22)
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +010082- Scrollbar thumb sometimes not visible #10492
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +010083- Add a function to redraw a specific popup window. Esp. to be used when
84 editing the command line, when screen updating doesn't happen. (Shougo)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +020085- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
86 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
87 current window.
88 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
89 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020090- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
91 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010092- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +020093- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
94 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010095- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
96 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
97 the way. (#5737)
98 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +020099- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
100 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100101- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200102- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
103 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100104- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
105 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
106- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200107- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200108 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100109- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
110 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200111- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100112 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100113- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200114
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200115Text properties:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200116- property is overruled by cursorline. (#8225).
117 Add better control over priority? Make list of all highlighting, specify
118 where property fits in.
119 Or Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight
120 if the priority is above a certain value? (#7392)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +0100121 Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
122 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar3f32a5f2022-05-12 20:34:15 +0100123- "C" works OK. "dd" fails to delete text property in a buffer with a single
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100124 line.
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100125- Add text property that shifts text to make room for annotation (e.g.
126 variable type). Like the opposite of conceal. Requires fixing the cursor
127 positioning and mouse clicks as with conceal mode.
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100128- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200129
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100130'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200131- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
132 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
133- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200134- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200135- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
136 isn't one?
137 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
138
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200139Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100140- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200141- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100142- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200143
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200144Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100145- Add a mechanism for configuration. Instead of several global variables use
146 a dictionary. Use callbacks for some things, e.g. opening a debug window in
147 a certain position.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200148- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100149- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
150 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100151- Use the optional token on requests, match the result with it. #10300
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200152- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200153- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200154 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
155 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100156- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100157- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
158 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100159 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100160 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200161
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200162Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100163- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200164- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200165- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
166 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
167 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200168- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
169 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
170 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
171 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200172- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
173 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100174- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
175 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200176 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
177 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100178 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100179- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100180- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
181 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200182- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
183 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200184- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200185- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
186 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
187- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
188 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200189- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
190 is disabled.
191- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
192- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
193 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200194- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
195 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
196 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100197- Redrawing is slow with Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200198- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
199 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
200- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
201 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200202
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100203Patches considered for including:
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100204- make functions static if possible, add a few tests. #10612
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100205- use ngettext() in a few more places #10606
Bram Moolenaara57b5532022-06-24 11:48:03 +0100206- move f_hasmapto() to map.c #10611
207- allow for nesting of timeout, sketch in #10595
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100208- Add "-n" option to xxd. #10599
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100209- Add support for "underdouble", "underdot" and "underdash". #9553
210- Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
211 Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
212- Patch to make fillchars global-local. (#5206)
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100213- Version of getchar() that does not move the cursor - #10603
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100214 Use a separate argument for the new flag.
Bram Moolenaar8a3b8052022-06-26 12:21:15 +0100215- Improved VB filetype detection. (Doug Kearns, June 26)
216- Improved FreeBasic runtime files (and a second one). (Doug Kearns, June 26)
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100217
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100218Autoconf: must use autoconf 2.69, later version generates lots of warnings
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100219- try using autoconf 2.71 and fix all "obsolete" warnings
220
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100221Can deref_func_name() and deref_function_name() be merged?
222
Bram Moolenaar921bde82022-05-09 19:50:35 +0100223After patch 8.2.4915 w_botline is computed much more often. Can this be
224reduced?
Bram Moolenaarfd31be22022-01-16 14:46:06 +0000225
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100226NFA regexp does not handle composing characters well: #10286
227 [ɔ̃] matches both ɔ and ɔ̃
228 \(ɔ\|ɔ̃\) matches ɔ and not ɔ̃
229
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000230Improvement in terminal configuration mess: Request the terminfo entry from
231the terminal itself. The $TERM value then is only relevant for whether this
232feature is supported or not. Replaces the xterm mechanism to request each
233entry separately. #6609
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100234Multiplexers (screen, tmux) can request it to the underlying terminal, and
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000235pass it on with modifications.
236
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100237Can "CSI nr X" be used instead of outputting spaces? Is it faster? #8002
238
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100239With a window height of 6 and 'scrolloff' set to 3, using "j" does not scroll
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100240evenly. (#10545) Need to handle this in scroll_cursor_bot().
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100241
Bram Moolenaar89a9c152021-08-29 21:55:35 +0200242Idea: when typing ":e /some/dir/" and "dir" does not exist, highlight in red.
243
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100244":set shellpipe&" and ":set shellredir&" should use the logic from
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200245initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
246this.
247
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100248With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
249(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
250need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
251IDEA: when drawing the text, store the text byte index in ScreenLinesIdx[].
252When converting screen column to text position use this.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100253The line number can be obtained from win->w_lines[].
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100254
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200255MS-Windows: did path modifier :p:8 stop working? #8600
256
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100257test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200258
Bram Moolenaar47003982021-12-05 21:54:04 +0000259Information for a specific terminal (e.g. gnome, tmux, konsole, alacritty) is
260spread out. Make a section with copy/paste examples of script and pointers to
261more information.
262
Bram Moolenaar90df4b92021-07-07 20:26:08 +0200263Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
264work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
265Also see #8487 for an example.
266
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200267Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
268(#8179)
269
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000270":filter set termcap" only filters terminal codes, not keys. (#9297)
271
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100272Add an option to restrict 'incsearch' to not scroll the view. (Tavis Ormandy)
273
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000274Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
275
Bram Moolenaar519cc552021-11-16 19:18:26 +0000276When 'term' starts with "foot" then default t_TI and t_TE to the values used
277for the builtin xterm termcap.
278
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100279Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100280(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100281Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
282interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000283New English spell files also have very slow suggestions.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200284
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200285Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left.
286Also for a block selection. #8558
287
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000288When using dictionary insert completion with 'ignorecase', the leading capital
289in a word should be preserved.
290
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200291Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
292to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
293Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
294inconsistent with the documentation.
295
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100296globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all? (related to #8350)
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200297
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200298Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
299with 'termguicolors'. #1740
300
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200301Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200302
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100303Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
304
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200305Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
306changes.
307
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100308Add ??= operator, "a ??= b" works like "a = a ?? b". #10343
309
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100310When ":redir" is used while already active, the previous one is ended. But
311when redirecting to a local variable (function or script) storing the value
312won't work. At least give an error. Is there a way to make it work?
313#10616
314
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200315Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
316This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
317to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
318
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200319Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
320Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
321
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200322Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
323Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
324
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200325Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
326time bound navigation, like with undo?
327
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100328For testing, make a copy of ml_line_ptr instead of pointing it into the data
329block, so that valgrind can do out of bounds check. Set ML_LINE_DIRTY flag or
330add ML_LINE_ALLOCED.
331
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100332Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
333 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
334 aaa
335 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
336 aaa bbb
337Should also work without any group:
338 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
339 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
340
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200341Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position
342of submatches. #8355
343
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200344Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200345Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200346(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
347Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
348- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
349 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
350 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
351- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
352 covered by the above change.
353So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
354same thing.
355Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200356
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200357Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
358Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200359
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200360Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
361Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
362After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
363work.
364
365Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
366autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200367
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200368Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character.
369Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out.
370(#8288)
371
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200372Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
373 replace this:
374 let left = GetLeftFunc()
375 let right = GetRightFunc()
376 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
377 by:
378 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200379Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
380
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200381Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
382
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100383":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
384
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200385Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
386(#6539)
387
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100388File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
389
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100390A syntax plugin cannot use autocommands, it could be sourced from setting
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100391'syntax' in a modeline. Add a function that indicates whether "secure"
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100392and/or "sandbox" are set.
393
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200394Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
395character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200396
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100397When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
398(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
399
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200400With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
401'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100402
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200403Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
404which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
405#6127
406
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200407Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
408
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200409When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
410":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
411Might be related to #6088.
412
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200413Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
414(#6919)
415
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200416When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
417Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
418(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
419
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100420Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
421(Paul Jolly, #5656)
422Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100423 Later more requests for what to track.
424 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
425 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
426 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100427BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100428Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100429
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200430Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
431
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200432Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
433
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100434:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
435Dec 19)
436
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200437Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
438Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
439
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100440Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
441May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200442Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
443remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100444Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200445
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100446When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
447the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
448
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200449Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100450Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
451in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200452Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
453(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200454
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200455Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
456that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
457Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100458
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100459Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100460
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200461":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
462find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
463
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200464Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
465
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100466Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
467
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100468Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
469
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100470"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
471
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200472Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
473Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
474
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100475Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
476
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200477When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
478the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
479
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200480Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
481(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
482
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200483When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
484default one. #4698
485
486When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
487with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
488
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100489Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200490Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100491
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200492Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200493fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
494
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200495Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200496
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200497Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
498- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
499- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100500- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200501
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100502Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200503Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100504
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100505When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
506when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
507gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
508input buffer. (#5302)
509
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200510Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200511
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100512Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5132007 Feb 18)
514Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
515
516Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
517Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
518
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200519Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
520
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200521Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200522Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
523Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200524
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200525Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
526files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
527Include part of #3242?
528
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200529Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
530Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
531Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
532
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200533Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
534t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
535
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100536Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
537Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
538
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200539'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
540
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100541Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
542
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200543Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
544
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100545When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
546in a long line. #5189
547
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200548The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
549Give a few examples. (#4288)
550
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200551Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200552work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200553
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005547 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
555 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
556 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200557Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200558
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100559Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
560read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
561be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
562
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100563Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
564CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
565with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
566fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
567displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
568
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200569Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
570
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200571Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
572
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100573Color schemes:
574NOTE: modernizing the default colorschemes _AND_ introducing new ones is now
575a project in its own right: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes. Feel free to
576reach out if you want to lend a hand.
577- Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
578 https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
579- Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
580 - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200581http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100582- Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
583 - monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
584 - seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
585 - gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
586 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
587 - janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
588 - apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
589- Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
590 - [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
591 - [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
592- Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
593 - Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200594
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100595Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
596Mar 5)
597
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200598Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
599on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
600
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200601Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
602in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
603buffer didn't change at all.
604
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100605When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
606But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
607similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
608
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200609C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
610(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
611
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100612Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
613added?
614
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200615Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
616negative. (see #4326)
617
618'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
619`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
620tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
621:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
622
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200623This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
624 vim: syn=nosyntax
625
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100626Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
627#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100628Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
629Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
630balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6312018 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100632
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200633More warnings from static analysis:
634https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200635
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200636Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
637
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200638Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
639internals of the dict structure.
640
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100641nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
642
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200643Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
644change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
645them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
646
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100647When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
648case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
649For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
650
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200651Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
652(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
653expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200654
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200655Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
656 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
657 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
658
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100659Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100660punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100661
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200662Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
663drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
664
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100665When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
666scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
667using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
668
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200669Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
670unified diff (list of lines).
671
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100672When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
673kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
674when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
675
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100676Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
677(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100678
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200679matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
68019.
681
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100682Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
683highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200684And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
685'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100686
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100687Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, make them empty, keep redirect.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100688Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
689
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200690Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
691Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
692Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
693
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100694Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
695Feedback from someone who uses this?
696
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200697Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
698Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
699values.
700
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100701Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200702- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
703- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
704- omit diff.exe from distribution
705- Can we make this show differences within a line?
706- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200707
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200708Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
709
710When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
711includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
712
713Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200714Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200715
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100716Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
717
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200718Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
719window for the buffer.
720
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000721Compiler warning (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100722- undefined left shift in eval_string(), before hex2nr() (#2250)
723 Use unsigned for "nr".
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100724
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100725Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
726Oct 28)
727
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200728Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
729Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100730Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
731Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200732
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200733Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
734
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200735Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
736behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
737(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
738
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200739Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
740script or function.
741
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100742Using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200743E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
744does nothing otherwise?
745
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200746MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
747If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
748(wait a little while).
749CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100750
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200751Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
752MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
7532017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
754receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
755
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100756Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100757Jan 15, #2555)
758
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100759Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
760Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
761applying the diff, etc.
762
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100763User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
764word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100765
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100766Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200767
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200768Implement option_save() and option_restore():
769option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
770 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
771 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
772 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
773 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
774 be called when the same window is the current window.
775 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
776 the local options won't be restored.
777
778option_save({list}) *option_save()*
779 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
780 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
781 let s:saved_options = option_save([
782 \ 'ignorecase',
783 \ 'iskeyword',
784 \ ])
785 au <buffer> BufLeave *
786 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
787< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
788 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
789 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
790 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100791 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
792 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
793 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100794 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200795
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100796"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
797directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
798Also see #1689.
799
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100800When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100801highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100802
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100803No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
8042017 Dec 26, #2501)
805
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200806A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
807
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200808Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
809
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200810A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
811Mention where they were defined somewhere.
812
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200813ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
814
815Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
816
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100817Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
818Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
819
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100820Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
821in #846)
822Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
823
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100824When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
825redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200826
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100827In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
828(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
829
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100830Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
831neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100832
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100833Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
834Nov 21)
835
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100836When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200837triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
838set_color_count().
839
840Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
841responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
842
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100843When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
844CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
845Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
846always nested.
847
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200848matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
849
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100850Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
851
Bram Moolenaar6c391a72021-09-09 21:55:11 +0200852'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
85320)
854
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100855MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100856for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
857
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200858Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100859(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200860
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200861Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200862
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200863Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200864
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200865Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
866defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
867Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
868
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200869After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
87013, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200871
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200872When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
873line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
874
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100875Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
876
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200877Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
878behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
879
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100880'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
881
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200882The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
883
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200884Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
885#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
886
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100887The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100888for another buffer. (lacygoill) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100889
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200890X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
891pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
892clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
893Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
894Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
895clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200896Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200897
898Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
899
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200900Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
901attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +0200902that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200903
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200904Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
905(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
906
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100907Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
908buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
909Also fixes #2166?
910
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100911Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
912possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
913
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200914When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
915case of :bwipe followed by :new.
916
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200917Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
918existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
919Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
920
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200921MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
922Jul 4)
923
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200924Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
925Drucker, 2017 May 8).
926This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
927Christian cannot reproduce it.
928
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200929Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
930wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
931Or is this not an actual problem?
932
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200933Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
934
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200935Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
936
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200937'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
938#1736)
939
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200940Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
9418, #1690)
942
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100943Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
944
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200945assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
946it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
947
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100948Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
949for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200950
951Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
952(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
953Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
954later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
955Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
956mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200957Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
958mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200959maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200960
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100961Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200962plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
963be defined when the plugin is loaded.
964
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100965Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
966 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
967 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100968
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200969json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200970What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100971
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200972Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
973
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200974import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
975(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
976
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200977Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
978Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100979Another example in #1309
980
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100981Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
982#1330)
983
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200984Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
985
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100986Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
987highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
988
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100989Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
990Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
991
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200992Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
993key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
994 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
995 echo keytrans(xx)
996 <C-Home>
997
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100998Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
999(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1000Make a function to check for function-like type?
1001
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001002Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1003 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001004 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001005
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001006Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1007somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1008
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001009The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1010"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1011Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1012
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001013Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1014
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001015Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1016about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001017Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1018
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001019":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001020vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1021
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001022Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001023E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001024Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001025
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001026Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1027Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1028
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001029Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001030Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001031
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001032"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1033(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1034
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001035Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1036(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001037
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001038Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1039
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001040Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1041anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1042
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001043Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001044E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001045
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001046Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1047(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1048
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001049Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1050
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001051On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1052separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1053
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001054Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1055
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001056Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1057
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001058Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1059no longer support.
1060
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001061Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001062
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001063sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
10644#1038)
1065
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001066sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1067is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1068
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001069+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001070- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001071- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1072 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1073 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001074- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1075 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001076- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1077 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001078- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1079 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1080- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1081 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1082- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001083- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1084 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001085- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1086- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1087 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1088 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1089- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1090- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1091- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1092 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1093 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1094- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1095 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1096- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1097 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1098 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1099
1100Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001101- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1102 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1103 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1104 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001105- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1106 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001107- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1108 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1109- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1110 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1111- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1112 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1113 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1114 LC_CTYPE
1115- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1116 matches everywhere.
1117- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1118 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1119- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1120- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1121 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1122- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001123- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001124 2013 Dec 11)
1125- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1126 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1127- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1128- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1129 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1130- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1131- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1132- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1133- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1134 2015 Feb 7)
1135- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1136 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1137 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1138 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1139 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1140- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1141- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1142- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1143- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1144 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1145 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1146 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1147- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1148 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1149- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1150 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1151 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1152 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1153
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001154Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1155doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1156Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001157Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001158E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1159
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001160cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1161
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001162:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1163
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001164Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1165
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001166Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1167Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001168
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001169ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1170Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001171
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001172Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1173Jul 25, #948)
1174
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001175Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1176names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1177Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1178the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1179
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001180MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1181Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001182
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001183Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1184times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1185
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001186Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1187
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001188We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1189the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1190
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001191Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1192
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001193When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1194emoji_width table has only one entry.
1195
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001196It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1197Reject the value? #710.
1198
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001199When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1200Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1201
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001202Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1203No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001204
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001205Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1206(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001207
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001208Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1209
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001210Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1211https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001212Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001213
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001214Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1215but the reference remains valid.
1216
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001217Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001218interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1219Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1220interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1221result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001222
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001223Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1224
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001225Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1226
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001227Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1228Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1229
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001230exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1231Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1232
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001233Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1234'iskeyword' for syntax.
1235
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001236Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1237It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1238Add configure check?
1239Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1240Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1241Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1242
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001243Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1244Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1245
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001246Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1247Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1248
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001249":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1250directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1251
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001252Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1253(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1254
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001255When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1256restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1257Do not trigger the event?
1258
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001259Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1260With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1261
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001262Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001263
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001264Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1265
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001266Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001267Only remembers one error.
1268
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001269GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001270
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001271Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1272(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001273
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001274Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1275github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001276 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001277Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001278
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001279Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001280
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001281Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001282comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001283
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001284Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1285
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001286MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1287wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1288
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001289Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1290specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1291
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001292Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1293(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1294
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001295Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001296'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1297before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001298
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001299C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1300and also line continuation after #include.
1301I can't recommend it though.
1302
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001303Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1304(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1305
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001306To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1307library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1308
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001309Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
131030)
1311
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001312MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1313(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1314
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001315The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
131624): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001317
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001318":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1319effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1320
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001321":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
13229)
1323
1324The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1325wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1326
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001327Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001328Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001329
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001330When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1331the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1332
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001333Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001334slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1335inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1336
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001337ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
13382014 Sep 11)
1339
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001340Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1341(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1342
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001343When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1344'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1345
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001346Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1347Work in progress.
1348
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001349Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1350when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1351
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001352Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1353Is this right?
1354
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001355Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1356(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1357Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1358
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001359Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1360Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001361
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001362Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1363Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1364
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001365Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1366
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001367Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1368
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001369Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1370OK to not block marks?
1371
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001372Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1373
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001374When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1375(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1376
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001377Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001378
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001379Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1380(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1381
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001382When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1383any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1384
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001385Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001386
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001387Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1388(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1389
1390Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1391
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001392Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1393Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1394was already defined.
1395(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1396
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001397Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1398
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001399Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1400(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1401
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001402Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1403(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1404
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001405Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1406
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001407When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1408these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1409window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1410
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001411Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1412should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1413history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1414Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1415
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001416"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1417Jun 8)
1418
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001419Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1420insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1421
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001422No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1423
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001424Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1425(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1426Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1427arguments.
1428
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001429Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1430
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001431Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1432right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001433its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001434
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001435Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1436
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001437This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1438 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1439This neither: (ZyX)
1440 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1441
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001442'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1443Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1444from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001445
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001446Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1447https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001448Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001449Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1450package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001451Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1452Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1453User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001454- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1455 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1456 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001457- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1458- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1459 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1460 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1461 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1462 on vim.org.
1463- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1464 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1465- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1466- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1467- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1468- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1469Implementation:
1470- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1471 plugin separate.
1472- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1473 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1474 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1475- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1476 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1477- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1478 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1479 installing.
1480Out of scope:
1481- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1482- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1483 useful).
1484
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001485When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1486menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1487
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001488Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1489(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1490
1491":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1492various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001493
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001494Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001495(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1496
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001497VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1498instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1499
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001500Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001501Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001502Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001503
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001504Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1505
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001506Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001507
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001508Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1509
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010015107 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1511 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1512 "lucida_console:h8").
1513Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1514
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001515:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1516
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001517Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1518
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001519Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1520
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001521When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1522(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1523
1524Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001525Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001526
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001527Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1528
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001529The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1530(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1531Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1532
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001533Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1534Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1535reliably?
1536
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001537Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1538(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1539
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001540Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1541(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001542Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1543(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1544try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1545try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001546
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001547Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
15482013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001549
1550Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1551
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001552Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1553carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1554
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001555Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1556highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1557
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001558Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001559
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001560Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200156128) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001562
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001563Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1564
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001565- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1566 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1567Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001568
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001569Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001570
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001571Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1572Or use expand('<sid>')?
1573
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001574Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1575
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001576Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1577
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001578b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
15797)
1580
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001581Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1582compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1583
1584Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1585Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1586vim.bindeval().
1587
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001588Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
15892012 Aug 4)
1590
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001591Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1592(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1593
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001594Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1595But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1596
1597Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1598Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1599Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001600
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001601'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001602
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001603Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001604of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1605
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001606The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1607Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1608But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001609
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001610When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1611is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1612
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001613URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001614- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001615- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1616 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1617
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001618Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001619New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001620
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001621Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1622
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001623Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1624
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001625Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1626Apr 18)
1627
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001628Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1629And one for gui_x11.txt.
1630
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001631":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1632finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1633Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1634
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001635Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1636
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001637Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1638
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001639Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1640they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1641
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001642Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1643
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001644Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1645Nov 20)
1646
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001647Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001648Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001649
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001650`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001651(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1652
1653Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1654
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001655BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1656Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1657
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001658Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1659Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1660
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001661Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1662
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001663On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
16642012 Jun 19)
1665
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001666'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1667'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1668Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001669Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001670
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001671Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1672New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1673
1674Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1675Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1676
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001677Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1678Jan 19)
1679
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001680Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1681discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1682meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001683
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001684"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001685Oct 26)
1686
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001687Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1688
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001689Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1690
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001691When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1692(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1693
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001694When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1695then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1696from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1697
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001698Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1699":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
170015)
1701
1702Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1703
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001704BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1705cleared. See test64.
1706
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001707On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
170864 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1709right type.
1710
1711string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1712(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1713
1714When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1715(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001716When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1717following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1718(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001719
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001720When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1721doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1722
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001723Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1724
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001725When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1726indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1727the help file.
1728
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001729After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1730Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1731
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001732"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001733
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001734Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1735
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001736Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001737
1738Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
17392010 Dec 18)
1740
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001741With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1742number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1743Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1744
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001745Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1746Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1747
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020017488 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1749Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1750
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001751Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1752one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1753the match scrolls into view.
1754
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020017557 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1756Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1757Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1758
17599 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1760 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1761Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1762
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001763Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1764Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1765
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001766In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1767or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1768sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1769
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001770Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1771Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1772
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001773Wish for NetBeans commands:
1774 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1775
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +020017767.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1777there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1778do?
1779
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001780New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1781- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001782- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001783 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1784
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001785"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
17862011 Feb 27)
1787
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001788Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1789^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1790
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001791When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1792exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
17939) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1794
1795g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1796the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1797
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001798Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1799crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1800
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001801Regexp engine performance:
1802- Profiling:
1803 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1804 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1805 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1806 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1807 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1808 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1809- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1810- Performance tests:
1811 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1812 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1813 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1814 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1815 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1816 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1817 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1818 'hlsearch'.
1819 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1820 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1821 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1822 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1823
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001824Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1825Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1826
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001827'beval' option should be global-local.
1828
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001829Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001830
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001831setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001832
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001833With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
18342010 Oct 24)
1835
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001836Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1837
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001838When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1839Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1840
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001841":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1842
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001843'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1844
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001845C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1846checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1847Issue 46.
1848
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001849Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1850gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1851
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001852":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1853accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1854
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001855Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1856setwinvar().
1857
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001858Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001859
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001860When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1861instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1862
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001863Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1864Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1865Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001866
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001867Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001868Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1869
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001870CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1871the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001872FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001873
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001874Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1875Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1876
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001877Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1878Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1879
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001880Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1881
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001882Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1883non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001884
1885iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1886Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1887or replace with a character and continue?
1888
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001889Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1890Requires configure check for localtime().
1891Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1892
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001893Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1894
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001895Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1896Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1897path.
1898
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001899Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001900Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001901
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001902'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1903
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001904":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1905like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1906
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001907Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1908https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001909
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001910Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1911
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001912Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1913characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1914
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001915Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1916
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001917Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1918 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1919
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001920For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001921line argument -noregister.
1922
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001923When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1924missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1925
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001926When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1927doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001928
1929Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1930(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1931Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1932There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1933Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1934
1935":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1936highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1937to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1938
1939Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1940Probably needs a bit of work.
1941
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001942List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001943Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1944
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001945Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1946
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001947Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1948
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001949Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1950
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001951Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1952on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1953
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001954Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
19552009 Jul 18)
1956
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001957Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1958window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1959Needs more work.
1960
1961Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1962
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001963When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1964few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1965
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001966'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001967(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1968
1969Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1970J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1971
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001972When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1973for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1974
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001975":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1976because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1977ex_docmd.c.
1978
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001979Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001980Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1981
1982string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1983for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1984
1985Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1986
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001987Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
19882009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1989
1990Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1991
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001992Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1993are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1994Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1995Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1996that doesn't have a window.
1997
1998When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1999doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2000
2001getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2002displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2003
2004":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2005
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002006Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2007
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002008Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2009does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2010
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002011opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2012height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002013very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002014
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002015Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2016char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2017
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002018This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2019
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002020Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2021messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2022es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
20232009 Jan 26)
2024
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002025When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002026in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2027Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2028
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002029Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2030a modeline.
2031
2032Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2033Sergey Khorev)
2034
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002035Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2036(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2037
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002038shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002039'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2040Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2041unix-like shell?
2042
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002043Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2044register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2045(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2046
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002047Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2048Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2049
2050Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2051make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2052
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002053When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2054still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2055
2056"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2057(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002059MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2060doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2061probably causes this.
2062
2063'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020020642009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002065
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002066Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2067":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2068option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2069is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002070
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002071":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2072first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002073Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002074
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002075Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2076anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2077
2078On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2079doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2080Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2081Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2082
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002083When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2084'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2085fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2086the buffer to be unmodified.
2087Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2088another look at it.
2089
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002090c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2091(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2092
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002093You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2094error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2095Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2096at the other match for 0xBF.
2097
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002098When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2099argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2100
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002101Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2102backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2103
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002104When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2105line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2106
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002107":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2108Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2109
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002110When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2111either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2112put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2113
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002114Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2115Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2116Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2117Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2118(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2119
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002120Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2121
2122ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002123
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002124Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2125(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2126escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2127an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002128This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2129July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002130Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2131work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2132
2133When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
213431)
2135
2136Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2137work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2138Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002139
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002140Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002141multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002142(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2143
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002144Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2145Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2146'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2147
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002148Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2149Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2150
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002151Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2152Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2153
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020021548 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2155 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2156 several).
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +02002157
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002158The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002159 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002160 0x2217, star
2161 0x2500, bar
2162 0x26ab, circle
2163
2164Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2165line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2166
2167GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2168Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2169
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002170C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2171with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2172Try to reproduce at work.
2173
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002174Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2175Is there a way to list all the files first?
2176
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002177Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2178(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2179
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002180Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
21811)
2182
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002183":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2184Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2185
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002186Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2187Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2188
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002189When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2190and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2191
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002192Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2193 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2194
2195New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2196
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002197":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2198a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2199
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002200Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2201other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2202
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002203The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2204appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2205matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2206
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002207When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2208character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2209'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2210(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2211
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002212Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2213Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002214
2215More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2216
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002217Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2218http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2219
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002220Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2221No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2222
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002223Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2224terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002225
2226Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2227
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002228Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2229but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2230that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002231
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002232Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2233Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2234
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002235Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2236popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2237size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2238This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2239
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002240When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2241parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2242neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2243particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2244Jun 3)
2245However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2246the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002247
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002248A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2249Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2250
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002251Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2252Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2253
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002254Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2255switch list is noticed:
2256 switch (i)
2257 {
2258 case 1:
2259 foobar:
2260 }
2261
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002262Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2263
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002264Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2265with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2266go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2267moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2268
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002269Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002270GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002271Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2272argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2273(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2274
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002275Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2276(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2277
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002278Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
22792007 Feb 8)
2280
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002281Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2282set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002283
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002284Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2285
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002286Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2287Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2288New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2289patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2290
2291Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2292Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2293
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002294Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002295label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2296
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002297Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2298with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2299Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002300
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002301Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2302
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002303Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2304Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2305only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2306
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002307Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2308Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002309Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002310properly?
2311
2312Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
23132007 Jun 21)
2314
2315When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2316Jun 18)
2317
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002318C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2319
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002320":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2321
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002322When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002323error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002324
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002325GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002326use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2327
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002328Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2329if_ruby.c.
2330
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002331":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2332
2333The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2334it in keep_msg?
2335
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002336Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002337error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002338name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2339
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002340Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2341longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002342
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002343Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2344Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2345Also for ":w" without a file name.
2346The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002347
2348"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2349Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2350
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002351VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2352directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2353(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2354
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002355VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2356
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002357input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2358name?
2359
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002360Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2361
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002362When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2363(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002364Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002365will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2366
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002367gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2368This also fails with --remote.
2369
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002370When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
23712008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2372all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2373
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002374aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2375
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002376When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2377(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2378
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002379Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2380the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2381
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002382GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2383
2384Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2385Jun 5)
2386
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002387Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
23882008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2389Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2390
2391In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2392but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2393Jul 22)
2394
2395There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2396
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002397Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2398moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2399that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2400
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002401The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2402
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002403When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002404cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2405the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2406
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002407These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2408 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2409 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2410 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2411
2412Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2413partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2414
2415In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2416buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2417reload it then?
2418
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002419For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2420
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002421Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2422Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2423
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002424Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2425 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2426 set background=dark
2427This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2428color is, not reset it.
2429
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002430Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2431start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2432show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2433middle?
2434
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002435Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2436
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002437When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2438current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2439the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2440
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002441When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2442Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2443
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002444Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2445Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2446
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002447A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2448Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2449
2450Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2451Dara, 2006 June 21)
2452
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002453Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2454number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2455
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002456After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2457the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2458
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002459Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002460
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002461Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2462Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2463
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002464Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010024652008 Sep 29)
2466
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002467In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2468check the result of has("patch13").
2469
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002470Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2471restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2472
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002473Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2474and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2475
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002476Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2477put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002479In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2480can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2481
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002482When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2483differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002484
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002485The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2486be only one.
2487
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002488Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002489"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2490name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2491Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002492
2493Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2494(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2495
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002496Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2497as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2498
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002499Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
250023)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002501
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002502":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2503tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2504Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002505
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002506When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2507text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2508latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2509
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002510In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2511VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
25122007 Oct 16)
2513
2514TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2515Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2516
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002517Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002518
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002519When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2520typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2521Sep 3, 11)
2522
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002523":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2524this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2525
2526When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2527Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2528restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2529
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002530Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2531'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2532(Kartik Agaram)
2533
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002534
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002535Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002536- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2537 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2538- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2539 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2540 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2541- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2542 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2543 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002544- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2545- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002546
2547
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002548More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002549- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2550 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002551- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002552- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2553 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002554- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2555- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2556- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2557 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2558 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002559- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002560- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2561 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2562- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2563 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2564- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2565 21)
2566- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2567 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2568- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2569 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02002570- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002571 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002572- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2573 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2574 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2575 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2576 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002577- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002578
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002579Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000025809 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2581 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2582 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2583 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2584 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2585 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2586 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2587 (Alan Schmitt)
2588 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002589 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2590 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000025919 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002592 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000025938 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025947 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2595 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2596 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025978 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002598 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020025997 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002600 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2601- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002602 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002603- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2604- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2605 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2606 been given values.
2607 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026087 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2609 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2610- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2611 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2612 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
26138 Add functions:
2614 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2615 Update 2004 Sep 10
2616 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2617 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002618 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002619 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2620 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2621 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2622 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2623 (2003 May 13)
2624 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2625 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002626 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2627 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002628 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2629 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2630 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026317 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2632 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026337 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2634 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000026358 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +02002636 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026377 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
26388 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2639 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
26407 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2641 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026427 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2643- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2644 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2645 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002646- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2647 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2648- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01002649- Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2650 Await response to question to make the register writable.
2651
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002652
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02002653Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
2654- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
2655 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
2656
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002657
2658Spell checking:
2659- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
2660 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
2661 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
2662 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
2663- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
2664- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
2665 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
2666 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
2667 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
2668 downloaded.
2669- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
2670 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
2671- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
2672 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2673- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
2674 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2675- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2676 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
2677 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
2678
2679
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002680Quickfix/Location List:
2681- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
2682 #2999)
2683- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
2684 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
2685 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
2686 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002687- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
2688 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
2689- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
2690 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
2691 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002692- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2693- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
2694 2007 Jan 1)
2695- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2696 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
2697- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2698 errors. How do we get the rest?
26998 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2700 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2701 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2702 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
27037 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02002704 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002705
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002706Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002707- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2708 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027098 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2710 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2711 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2712 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2713 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2714 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027158 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2716 make Vim exit.
27177 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2718 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2719 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
27208 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2721 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2722 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
27236 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2724 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2725 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
27268 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2727 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2728 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2729 names in one buffer???
2730 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2731 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2732 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
27337 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2734 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2735 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002736 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2737 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027387 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2739 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
27407 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027417 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2742 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2743 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2744 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
27457 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
27467 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
27477 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2748 to the match with the tag? Option?
27497 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
27507 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2751 (Sayre).
27527 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2753 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027547 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2755 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2756 match. Nvi can do it too.
27577 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2758 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2759 line 1\ line 2\\
2760 line 2\ line 3\\
2761 . line4/
27626 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2763 the way the shell is started?
27646 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2765 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2766
2767
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002768GTK+ GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027699 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027708 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2771 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2772 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000027738 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2774 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2775 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027769 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2777 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2778 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2779 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002780- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2781 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2782 blocked for now.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002783- Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat,
2784 #7082)
2785- Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
2786 - gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
2787- Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
2788 - Test_setbufvar_options()
2789 - Test_exit_callback_interval()
2790- When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
2791 g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when
2792 the timer expires.
2793- problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width. (Aaron
2794 Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
2795- Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013
2796 May 5)
2797- drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2798 doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2799- tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2800- Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010
2801 Aug 9)
2802- When setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2803 the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2804- when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is maximized
2805 the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but doesn't
2806 work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. Also: the window may no longer fit
2807 on the screen, thus the command line is not visible.
2808- Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn
2809 Winckler, 2010 Jun 30)
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002810
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002811
2812Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002813- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2814 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028158 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2816 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2817 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028186 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2819 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000028208 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2821 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2822 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028237 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2824 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2825 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028267 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2827 2004 May 9)
28288 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2829 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2830 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2831 MS-Windows 98?
2832 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2833 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2834 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2835 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028368 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2837 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2838 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2839 doesn't work properly.
28408 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2841 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2842 appears in the right position. (Webb)
28439 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2844 button doesn't give popup menu.
2845 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2846 selection.
2847 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2848 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2849 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
28508 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2851 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2852 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2853 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
28548 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2855 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2856 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028577 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2858 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002859 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028607 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2861 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028626 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
28638 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2864 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2865 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
28668 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2867 know which keyboard is being used?
28687 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2869 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2870 area (Koloseike).
28718 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2872 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2873 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2874 the font name).
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002875- When running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks. Was reported:
2876 cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
2877- Last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2878 command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002879
2880
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01002881Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000028826 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2883 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2884 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2885 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2886 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028879 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2888 required and it's missing?
28898 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2890 wrong.
28919 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2892 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010028939 XIM doesn't work properly for Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002894 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2895 flag.
28968 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2897 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2898 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
28998 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
29006 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2901 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2902 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2903 the tooltips work though...
29047 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2905 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
29068 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2907 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2908 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2909
2910
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002911Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002912- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029137 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2914 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029158 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2916 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2917 (Phillipps)
2918
2919
2920GUI:
29219 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2922 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
29239 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002924 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002925 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
29269 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2927 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029288 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2929 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2930 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
29318 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2932 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2933 of where it is processing the output.
2934 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
29358 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2936 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010029378 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000029388 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2939 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2940 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020029418 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029428 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2943 browse().
29448 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2945 use that code? Or use console dialog.
29468 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2947 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000029487 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2949 - regexp on/off
2950 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2951 when all buffers/directory is used:
2952 - filter for file name
2953 when directory is used:
2954 - subdirectory on/off
2955 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029568 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2957 to avoid problems.
29588 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2959 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2960 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
29618 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2962 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2963 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
29648 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2965 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029668 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
29677 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2968 visible.
29697 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2970 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
29717 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2972 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
29738 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2974 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
29758 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2976 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2977 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2978 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2979- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
29804 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2981 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2982 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2983
2984
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01002985Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000029868 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2987 a good fallback, thus use:
2988 $HOME
2989 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2990 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2991 $USERPROFILE
2992 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2993 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2994 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2995 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029968 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2997 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
29988 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2999 Should work like in the GUI version.
30008 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3001 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
30028 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3003 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
30048 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3005 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3006 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030078 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3008 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3009 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3010
3011
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003012Win32 console:
30139 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3014 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3015 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3016 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3017 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3018 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3019 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3020 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3021 and the file is not saved.
3022 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3023 long name.
30248 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3025 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
30267 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3027 besides the console.
30288 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
30299 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3030 <C-S-i>?
30319 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3032 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
30338 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3034 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003035
3036
3037Amiga:
30388 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3039 sequences.
30409 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3041 backslashes in result.
30428 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3043 all options, using white space separation.
3044
3045
3046Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003047- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030487 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3049 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3050 (Jack)
3051 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030528 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3053 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030548 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
30558 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
30569 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3057 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030589 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003059- Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
3060- Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
3061- Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
3062- Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
3063 try the Cocoa version.
3064- After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
3065 changed or the window is resized.
3066- Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 Mar
3067 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
3068- trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug 1)
3069 Reply by Ben Schmidt.
3070- Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003071
3072
3073"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003074- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3075 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000030769 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3077 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000030789 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003079 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3080 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030818 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3082 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3083 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003084 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030857 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3086 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
30878 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3088 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3089 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030907 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3091 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003092- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3093 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030948 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3095 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3096 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3097 using the horizontal scrollbar.
30987 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3099 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3100 invocations belong together.
31018 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3102 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
31038 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3104 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3105 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003106 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031078 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3108 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3109 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031107 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3111 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3112 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3113 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031147 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3115 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3116 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
31177 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3118 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3119 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
31207 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3121 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031227 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3123 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031249 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3125 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3126 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3127 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3128 script can be called.
31298 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3130 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3131 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031328 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3133 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000031348 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003135 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3136 configurable?
31378 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031388 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3139 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020031408 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3141 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031428 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3143 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031449 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3145 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3146 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031477 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031488 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3149 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3150 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000031518 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3152 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003153 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3154 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031558 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3156 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
31579 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3158 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3159 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003160 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031617 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3162 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031637 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3164 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3165 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3166 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031678 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003168 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3169 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3170 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3171 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003172 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3173 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003174 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003175 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003176 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3177 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3178 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3179 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3180 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031818 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3182 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
31838 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3184 in lines that don't extend into the block?
31858 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3186 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3187 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
31888 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3189 'linebreak'.
31908 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3191 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3192 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031939 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3194 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3195 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3196 'magic' in history. (Margo)
31979 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3198 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031999 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
32009 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3201 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3202 cause another redraw, etc.
32038 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3204 must escape special characters in the pattern.
32058 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3206 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3207 ":w!!" for that.
3208 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3209 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003210 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032117 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3212 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3213 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3214 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3215 clipboard)
32167 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3217 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3218 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000032196 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3220 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3221 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032228 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3223 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
32248 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3225 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3226 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
32278 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3228 (e.g., ":w").
32298 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3230 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032318 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3232 script in do_cmdline().
32338 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3234 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3235 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3236 changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032378 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3238 to skip catch_signals()?
32399 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3240 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3241 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3242 text?
32438 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3244 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
32458 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3246 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
32479 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3248 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3249 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3250 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3251 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
32527 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3253 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3254 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3255 in the list?
32568 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3257 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3258 instead of on button down.
32598 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032608 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3261 character is typed.
32628 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3263 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
32648 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3265 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
32668 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3267 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3268 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3269 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3270 cygwin bash.
32717 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3272 Remember flags for backreferences.
32737 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3274 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
32757 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3276 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
32778 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3278 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
32797 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3280 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032817 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3282 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3283 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
32847 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3285 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003286
3287
3288I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
32899 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3290 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3291 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003292
3293
3294Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003295- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3296 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3297 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003298- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3299 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3300 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3301 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3302 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3303 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003304 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003305- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3306 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003307 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003308 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3309 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3310 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003311- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3312 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3313 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3314 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3315 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3316- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3317 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3318 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3319- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3320 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003321- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003322- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3323 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3324 character gets the highlighting.
3325- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3326 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3327- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3328 (Jennings)
3329- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003330- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003331- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003332 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003333- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3334 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3335 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3336- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3337 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3338 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3339 (Benzinger).
3340- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3341 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3342 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3343- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3344 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3345- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3346 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3347- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3348 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3349 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3350 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3351 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3352 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3353- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3354 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3355 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003356- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3357 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3358 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003359- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3360 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3361 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3362- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3363 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3364- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3365 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003366- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3367 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3368- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3369 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3370 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3371 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3372 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3373- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3374 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3375 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3376- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3377 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3378 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003379- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3380 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 +00003381- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3382 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3383 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3384 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3385 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3386- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3387 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3388
3389--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3390 *extensions-improvements*
3391
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003392Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3393- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003394 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma-separated as if
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003395 calling a function.
3396 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3397 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003398- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3399 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003400 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003401- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3402 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3403 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3404 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3405 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3406 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003407 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003408- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3409 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3410 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003411- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3412 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000034138 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3414 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3415 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3416 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003417- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3418 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003419
3420
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003421Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034228 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3423 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000034248 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3425 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000034268 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3427 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034288 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034299 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3430 - change to cursor position and curswant
3431 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3432 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003433 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034348 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3435 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3436 text.
34378 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
34387 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3439 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
34407 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3441 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003442 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003443- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3444
3445
3446Help:
3447- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3448 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3449- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3450 to the other matches.
3451- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003452- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3453 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003454 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003455 default contents.
3456- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3457 height for the help window (and other windows).
3458- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3459- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3460- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3461
3462
3463User Friendlier:
34648 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3465 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3466 Briscoe)
34678 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
34688 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3469 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3470 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
34718 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3472 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3473- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3474 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +00003475- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..." #9339
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034769 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3477 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3478 item?).
3479 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034808 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000034817 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3482 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3483 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000034848 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3485 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3486 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3487 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003488
3489
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003490Tab pages:
34919 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034927 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3493 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000034948 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000034958 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000034967 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000034977 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003498 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000034998 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3500 tab pages.
35017 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3502
3503
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003504Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003505- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003506 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003507- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3508 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3509 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3510- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3511 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003512- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3513 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3514 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003515- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3516 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3517 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003518- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003519 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3520 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000035218 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3522 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
35238 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3524 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
35258 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3526 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003527 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003528 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3529 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3530 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3531 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003532- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3533 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003534- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003535- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3536 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003537- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003538 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003539- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003540 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003541- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3542 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003543- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3544 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3545- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003546 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003547 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3548 in the affix file separately.
3549 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003550 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003551 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3552 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3553 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3554- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3555 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3556 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3557 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3558 Alternative:
3559 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3560 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3561 affix which is required.
3562- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003563 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003564- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3565 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3566 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003567- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3568 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003569- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3570 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3571- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000035728 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3573 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3574 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3575 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003576- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3577 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3578 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3579 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035808 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3581 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000035828 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
35838 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3584 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000035857 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
35868 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3587 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3588 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3589 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003590
3591
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003592Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020035939 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3594 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020035958 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003596 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003597
3598Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003599 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3600 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +01003601- Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
3602 Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
3603 Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
3604 Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
3605- Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
3606- Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
3607 (Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
3608 Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
3609- Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the
3610 line number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
3611- Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe,
3612 2011 Jan 7)
3613- 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session.
3614 (Teemu Likonen, March 19)
3615- With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't
3616 removed. (Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
3617- The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
3618- When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be
3619 folded. Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding,
3620 2010 Jun 9)
3621- When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
3622 indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous
3623 one. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
3624- Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036258 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3626 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020036278 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
3628 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036298 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3630 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3631 user aware of this?
36328 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3633 commands skip over a closed fold.
36348 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
36358 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036367 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003637- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3638 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3639 missing line goes unnoticed.
3640 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003641- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3642 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3643 smoother?
3644- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3645 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003646- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3647 file can contain:
3648 args version.c main.c
3649 edit version.c
3650 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003651- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003652- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3653 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003654- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3655 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003656- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3657 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003658- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003659
3660Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003661- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3662 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3663 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3664 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036659 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3666 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3667 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3668 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020036699 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3670 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3671 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036728 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3673 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3674 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3675 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3676 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3677 item.
36788 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003679 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3680 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036818 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3682 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036838 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3684 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3685 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036867 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3687 so that the user can fix the problem.
36888 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3689 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036909 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020036918 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
36928 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036938 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036947 Searching and composing characters:
3695 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003696 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3697 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036988 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
36998 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020037008 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003701 characters.
37028 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
37038 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3704 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
37057 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3706 'display' option to specify this.
37077 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3708 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3709- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3710 fontselector somehow.
3711- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3712 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3713- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3714 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3715- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3716 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3717 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3718 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3719 if a font exists?
3720- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003721 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003722- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3723 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003724- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003725 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3726 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003727 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003728 Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
3729 Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003730- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3731 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003732 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003733- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003734 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3735 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3736 But it's very complicated...
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003737- Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai
3738 Weibull, 2008 May 14).
3739 Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003740
3741
3742Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000037437 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003744- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3745- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3746 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003747- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3748 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003749- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3750- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3751 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003752- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3753 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003754- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3755 units as for the margins.
3756- Support right-to-left text?
37578 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3758 color.
3759
3760
3761Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +00003762 Long term goal: faster, better, etc. Options:
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003763 - use treesitter, NeoVim uses it - Many people don't like it.
3764 - use TextMate, vscode uses it. #9087 - possibly a long term solution
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037658 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3766 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
37678 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3768 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
37698 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3770 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000037717 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3772 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037738 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3774 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3775 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037767 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3777 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3778 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037798 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
37809 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3781 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037827 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3783 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000037847 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3785 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037868 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3787 change this for each release.
37888 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3789 pattern, but not in the body.
37908 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3791 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3792 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037938 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010037948 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003795 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3796 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037978 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3798 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
37998 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3800 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003801 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038028 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3803 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3804 used.
38058 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3806 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
38078 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3808 re-insert the [] if possible.
38098 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3810 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000038118 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3812 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3813 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3814 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3815 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038168 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3817 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
38188 Support for deleting syntax items:
3819 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3820 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3821 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
38228 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3823 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3824 a '<'. (Fleiner)
38257 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3826 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3827 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
38287 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3829 detected.
38308 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003831 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038328 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3833 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038348 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
38358 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
38367 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3837 ":mkvimrc".
38388 Improve c.vim:
3839 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3840 "c_strict_ansi".
3841 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
38428 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3843 current line while in Insert mode.
38448 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3845 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
38468 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3847 display position.
38488 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3849 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3850 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
38518 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3852 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3853 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000038547 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3855 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3856 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3857 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3858 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038597 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3860 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3861 E.g. for this html:
3862 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038637 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
38647 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3865 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038667 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3867 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3868 completion?
38698 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3870 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
38717 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3872 select one of the sets.
38738 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3874 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3875 2, etc.
38768 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3877 highlighting (for "." command).
38788 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3879 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
38808 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
38817 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3882 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
38836 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3884 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3885- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3886 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3887- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003888- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3889 (for comment blocks).
3890- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3891 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3892 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3893 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3894 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3895 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3896 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3897 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3898 (Campbell)
3899 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3900 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
39017 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3902 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
39037 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3904 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3905 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
39067 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3907 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3908 messages. And external commands?
39098 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3910 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
39117 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3912 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003913- Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the
3914 start match is empty. #8449
3915- The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be
3916 useful to support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
3917- Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
3918- Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
3919 highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
3920- patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
3921 Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
3922 Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
3923- Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window
3924 is not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
3925- Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set
3926 to 2, only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman,
3927 2010 Aug 21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
3928- Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
3929 scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
3930 first drawn line. (#8103)
3931- Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
3932- Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb
3933 26)
3934- Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist,
3935 2007 Jul 31)
3936- Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3937- Open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, resulting
3938 in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3939- When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is no
3940 search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003941
3942
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01003943Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039448 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3945 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003946 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039477 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3948 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3949 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003950- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000039517 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3952 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039538 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010039548 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
3955 can be the plugin name.
3956 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
3957 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039587 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3959 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3960 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3961 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3962 autocommand.
3963 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3964 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3965 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3966 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039677 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3968 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039696 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3970 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039718 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003972 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3973 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003974 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3975 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3976 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003977 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3978 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3979 3 2002
3980 Only add this when also implemented for
3981 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3982 be used.
3983 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003984 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3985 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3986 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3987 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3988 File.Open..." argument.
3989 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3990 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3991 with properties instead.
3992 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3993 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3994 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003995 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003996 crypt() encrypt string
3997 decrypt() decrypt string
3998 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3999 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004000 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004001 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004002 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004003 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004004 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004005 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4006 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004007 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4008 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004009 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004010 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4011 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4012 to allow the library to execute a command or
4013 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040147 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4015 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
40168 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4017 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040188 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4019 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040208 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040216 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000040228 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4023 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040248 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4025 option or environment variable.
40268 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040278 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004028 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000040297 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4030 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040318 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4032 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
40338 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
40348 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4035 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4036 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4037 charwise({expr}).
40387 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4039 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4040 buffer for this?
4041 result = scratch(string, command)
4042 result = apply(string, command)
4043 result = execute(string, command)
4044 "command" would use <> notation.
4045 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
40467 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004047
4048
4049Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000040506 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4051 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4052 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4053 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4054 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4055 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4056 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004057
4058
4059Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040607 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4061 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020040627 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4063 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4064 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4065 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040668 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4067 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4068 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4069 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004070 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040718 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
40729 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
40738 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
40747 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4075 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
40768 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4077 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4078 when starting up in a color terminal.
40798 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4080 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040818 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4082 function be improved?
40838 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4084 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4085 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4086 this be improved?
40878 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4088 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000040897 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4090 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040917 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4092 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
40937 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4094 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040957 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4096 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4097 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4098 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4099 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4100 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4101 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041028 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4103 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4104 using strcmp() too often?
41057 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4106 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4107 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4108 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4109 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4110 the two blocks to the memfile block.
41117 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4112 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4113 with an argument that can be messed with.
4114 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4115 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
41167 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4117- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
41188 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4119 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4120- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4121 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4122- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4123- Do profiling on:
4124 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004125 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4126 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4127 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4128 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4129 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4130 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004131 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041327 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4133 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4134 changed).
4135 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4136 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4137- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4138- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4139 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4140- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4141 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4142 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4144- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4145 cursor is right of the screen.
41468 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4147 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4148
4149
4150Code size:
41518 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4152- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4153 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
41548 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
41558 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4156 it.
41577 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4158 left out.
41598 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4160 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010041618 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004162
4163
4164Messages:
41658 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4166 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
41678 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4168 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
41698 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4170 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004171- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4172 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4173- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
41749 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4175 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4176 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4177 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4178 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041798 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4180 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
41818 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4182 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4183 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4184 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4185 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4186 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004187- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004188 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041898 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4190 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4191 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4192 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4193 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4194 error messages, printing text, etc.
41958 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4196 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4197 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4198
4199
4200Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004201- screen_line():
4202 - insert/delete character stuff.
4203 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4204- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4205 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4206- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4207 waiting for a character.
42088 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4209 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4210 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004211
4212Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020042138 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042146 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4215- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4216 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4217 windows.
42187 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4219 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4220 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4221- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4222 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4223 (Goldfarb)
4224- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4225 bound windows.
4226- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4227 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004228- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004229- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4230 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4231 of lines but not with a single line).
4232
4233
4234Autoconf:
42358 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
42368 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4237 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4238- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4239 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4240- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4241- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4242- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4243
4244
4245Perl interface:
42468 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042477 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
42487 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
42496 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4250
4251
4252Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020042538 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4254 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042556 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4256 :libload internal-name libname
4257 :libunload internal-name
4258 :liblist
4259 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4260 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4261 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
42626 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4263
4264
4265Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000042669 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4267 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4268 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4269 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4270 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042718 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4272 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4273 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004274 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004275 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000042767 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4277 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4278 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042798 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
42808 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4281 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042827 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4283 window for each tag.
42847 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
42857 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4286 bottom" search message.
42877 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4288 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4289 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004290- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4291- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004292- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4293 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4294 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042957 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4296 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4297 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4298 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
42997 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4300 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4301 :tagargs clear
4302 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4303 matching).
43047 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4305 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4306 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4307 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
43087 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4309 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
43107 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4311 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4312 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004313
4314
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004315Win32 GUI:
43168 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4317 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043187 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4319 (Mike McCollister)
43208 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4321 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4322 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4323 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4324 common part of the path.
43258 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
43268 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4327 gettext and menus work.
43288 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4329 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004330 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004331 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
43328 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4333 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
43348 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4335 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
43367 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4337 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
43387 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
43397 <Esc> should close a dialog.
43407 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4341 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4342 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4343 prompts.
43447 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4345 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4346 the file added into an already running Vim.
43477 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4348 functions to find the window title.
4349
4350
4351GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043527 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
43538 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
43546 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
43558 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4356 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
43579 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
43587 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
43598 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4360 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
43618 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4362 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4363 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
43648 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4365 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
43668 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4367 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4368 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4369 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043707 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
43718 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4372 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000043737 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4374 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4375 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043768 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
43778 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004378 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043798 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
43808 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
43818 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4382 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4383 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
43847 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4385 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4386 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
43877 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4388 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
43897 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4390 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4391 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4392 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043937 Should support multi-column menus.
4394- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4395 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4396- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
43978 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
43986 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4399 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
44007 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
44017 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4402 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4403 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
44047 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
44058 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4406 name can be chosen free.
44077 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4408 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
44096 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4410 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4411 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4412 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4413 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4414 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4415 things.
44167 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4417 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044187 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004419 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004420- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4421 where it was started from?
44227 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4423
4424
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004425Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020044269 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4427 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004428- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044298 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4430 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4431 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4432 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
44338 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4434 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000044357 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4436 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4437 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4438 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000044397 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000044408 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4441 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044428 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4443 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4444 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000044457 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4446 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4447 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044488 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4449 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4450 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000044518 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4452 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044538 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044546 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4455 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000044567 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044577 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004458 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4459 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4460 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044615 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4462 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4463 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
44647 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4465 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4466 file.
44678 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4468 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4469 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004470- Add events to autocommands:
4471 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004472 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4473 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004474 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004475 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004476 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004477 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004478 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4479 the char.
4480 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4481 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4482 file from CVS).
4483 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4484 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4485 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4486 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4487 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4488 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004489 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4490 changes.
4491 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4492 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004493- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004494 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004495 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004496 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4497 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4498 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4499 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4500 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01004501- Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
4502 autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
4503 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
4504 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
4505 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
4506 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
4507 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
4508 The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004509
4510
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004511Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004512- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4513 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004514- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4515 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4516 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4517 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4518 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004519- Ideas from others:
4520 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4521 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4522 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4523 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4524 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4525 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4526 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4527 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4528 Uses Perl for C++.
4529 Uses ctags to find the info:
4530 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4531 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4532 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4533 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4534 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4535 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004536 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004537 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4538- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4539
4540
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004541Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004542- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4543 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4544- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4545 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4546- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4547- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4548 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4549 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4550- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4551 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4552 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4553- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4554 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4555 to force a string value.
4556- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4557 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4558 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004559- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000045607 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4561 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045627 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4563 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4564 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045658 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4566 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
45679 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4568 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4569 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045708 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4571 - ignore/match case
4572 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045738 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4574 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4575 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4576 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4577 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4578 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045798 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000045807 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4581 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045828 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4583 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4584 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4585 Should work for C++ and Java.
4586 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
45877 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
45887 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4589 instead of words.
45908 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
45918 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4592 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
45938 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4594 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004595- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4596 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004597- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4598 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4599 wildcards in the file name)?
4600- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4601- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4602- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4603 be in another file).
4604- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4605- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4606- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4607 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4608- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4609- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4610- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004611- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4612
4613
4614Command line editing:
46157 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4616 line.
46178 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4618 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4619 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4620- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4621 lines wraps to start of line).
4622- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4623 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4624 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4625 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4626 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4627 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4628 cmdwin does now already.
4629 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4630 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4631 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4632 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4633 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4634 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4635 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4636 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4637 Problems:
4638 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4639 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4640 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4641 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4642 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4643 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4644 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4645 character in first column?
4646 - Implementation ideas:
4647 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4648 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4649 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4650 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4651 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4652 Mode.
4653
4654
4655Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004656- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
4657 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
4658- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
4659 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046608 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
46618 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4662 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
46638 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4664 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046658 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4666 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046677 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4668 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004669- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4670- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4671 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046728 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4673 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
46747 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4675 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4676- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4677 identifiers (Webb).
46788 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4679 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
46807 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4681 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4682- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4683 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4684- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4685 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4686 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar47c532e2022-03-19 15:18:53 +00004687- With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
4688 entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe,
4689 2011 Feb 12)
4690- After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting
4691 E33 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'",
4692 the command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
4693- Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now
4694 and then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding
4695 include files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
4696 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
4697 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
4698 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|,
4699 like in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find
4700 very quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier
4701 fix. (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
4702- Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
4703 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
4704- Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through
4705 directory tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a
4706 directory that doesn't contain other directories.
47078 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
4708 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
47098 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
47108 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
4711- Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
4712 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) Works
4713 OK with Vim in an xterm.
4714- If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't
4715 work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004716
4717
4718Command line history:
4719- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4720 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4721 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004722 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004723- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4724 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4725
4726
4727Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000047289 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4729 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4730 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047318 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4732 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4733 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4734 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4735 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047368 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4737 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4738 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047397 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4740 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004741- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047427 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4743 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4744- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4745 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4746 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4747 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4748 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4749 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4750- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4751 Normal mode.
4752- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4753 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4754 are used.
4755- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4756- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4757- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4758
4759
4760'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010047619 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4762 char * veryLongName =
4763 "very long string"
4764 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047658 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047668 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4767 long_type foo =
4768 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047698 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4770 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004771 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047728 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4773 func(
4774 new String[] {
4775 "asdf",
4776 "asdf"
4777 }
4778 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047798 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4780 (Chow Loong Jin)
4781 namespace {
4782 int
4783 func(int arg) {
4784 }
4785 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047866 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4787 func( arg1
4788 , arg2
4789 , arg3
4790 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000047917 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004792 func(
4793 int x) // indent like "(4"
4794 {
4795 if (a
4796 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047979 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4798 if (a)
4799 {
4800 if (b)
4801 {
4802 // {
4803 }
4804 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004805 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4806 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4807 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004808- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004809 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
48107 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4811- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4812 line).
4813- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4814- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4815 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004816- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4817 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4818- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4819 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4820- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4821- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4822 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
48238 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4824 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4825 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4826- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4827- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4828 lines start with "\item".
4829- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4830 /* here is a comment that
4831 is just autoindented, and
4832 nothing else */
4833- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
48347 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4835 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4836 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004837 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004838
4839
4840Java:
48418 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4842 Odendahl?
48438 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4844 "[i" commands and friends.
4845- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4846 (Jason)
4847- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4848 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4849
4850
4851'comments':
48528 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4853 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4854 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4855 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004856 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4857 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048587 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4859 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
48607 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
48616 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4862 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4863 regexp is used.
48648 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4865 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4866
4867
4868Virtual edit:
48698 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048707 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4871
4872
4873Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048748 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048758 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000048768 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004877 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020048788 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004879 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004880 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4881 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020048828 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048838 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4884 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048858 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4886 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4887 the end of the line or before a ".".
48887 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4889 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
48907 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4891 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048926 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
48935 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4894 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4895 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4896 cursor is on.
4897
4898
4899Select mode:
49008 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4901 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
49027 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004903 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049047 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4905 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4906 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4907 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4908 normal_cmd().
4909 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4910 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4911
4912
4913Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020049148 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4915 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004916- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4917 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4918 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004919- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4920 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4921 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049228 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004923 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004924 where needed.
49257 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4926 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
49277 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4928 of each selected line.
49298 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
49308 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4931 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4932 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
49338 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4934 Ben Godfrey)
49357 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4936 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
49377 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4938 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049397 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004940 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004941 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
49428 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4943 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
49447 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4945 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4946 option!
49477 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4948 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4949 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4950 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4951 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4952 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4953 without changing the column.
49546 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049557 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4956 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049576 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4958 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
49596 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049606 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004961 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004962 or other special character.
49636 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4964
4965
4966More advanced repeating commands:
4967- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004968- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004969- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004970 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4971 "y." will repeat last yank.
4972 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4973 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4974 and/or pick an older command.
4975- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4976
4977
4978Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049798 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4980 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4981 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
49828 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
49837 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4984 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049858 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4986 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
49878 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000049887 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049898 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4990 entering search strings.
49918 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4992 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4993 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049948 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4995 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010049967 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049977 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4998 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049996 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5000 abbreviations are to be used.
5001- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5002 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5003 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005004- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5005 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5006 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5007 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5008 Or implicit:
5009 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005010- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5011 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5012 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005013- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5014 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5015- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5016 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
50176 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5018 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5019 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5020 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005021- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5022 non-replace Insert mode?
5023- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005024- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5025- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5026 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5027- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005028 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005029- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5030 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5031- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5032- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5033 ":freekeys".
5034- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5035
5036
5037Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005038- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5039 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5040- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5041 folds when going to another line.
5042 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5043- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5044 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005045- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5046 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5047 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005048- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5049 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5050 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5051 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020050529 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5053 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005054
5055
5056Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010050579 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000050588 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005059 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005060 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005061 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005062 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050639 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5064 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010050658 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5066 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000050678 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5068 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5069 Perl does it this way:
5070 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5071 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5072 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5073 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050748 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5075 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5076 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000050777 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5078 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000050798 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5080 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000050817 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005082 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5083 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5084 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000050857 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005086 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050877 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5088 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050898 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5090 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
50918 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5092 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020050937 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005094 example.
50958 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5096 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5097- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5098 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5099 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5100 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051018 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5102 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5103 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
51047 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5105 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000051067 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5107 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051088 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5109 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051108 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5111 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051128 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5113 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5114 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5115 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005116- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5117 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005118- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5119 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5120- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5121 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5122 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5123 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051248 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5125 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005126- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5127 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051288 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5129 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5130 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005131- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5132 i ignore case
5133 I use case
5134 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5135 v use Vi regexp syntax
5136 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5137 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5138 Perl uses these too:
5139 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5140 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5141 o compile only once (Perl only)
5142 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5143 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5144 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5145 following command.
5146 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5147- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5148 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5149 for search string)?
51507 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5151 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5152- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5153 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5154- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5155 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5156- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5157- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005158 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005159 a for the next file in the argument list
5160 f for file in the buffer list
5161 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005162 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5163 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005164 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5165 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5166- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051677 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005168 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051697 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5170 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5171 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5172 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
51736 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5174 effects.
51757 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5176 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5177 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000051787 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005179 Also ":dselect".
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005180- Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual
5181 selection. Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
5182- Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
5183 /\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
5184- Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett
5185 Stahlman, 2014 Jun 8)
5186- Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega,
5187 2010 Nov 22)
5188- Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin
5189 R. Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
5190- When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it
5191 may result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen,
5192 2009 Apr 16)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005193
5194
5195Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051969 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5197 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5198 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051999 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5200 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020052018 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5202 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052038 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5204 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5205 timestamp?
5206 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5207 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005208- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5209 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005210- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5211 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5212 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
52138 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5214 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5215 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5216 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
52178 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5218 only remember the lines that really changed.
52197 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5220 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5221 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5222 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005223- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5224 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5225- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5226 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5227- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5228 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5229 [-99].
5230- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5231- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005232- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5233 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005234- MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
5235 mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925) Add a flag to
5236 only copy attributes?
5237- undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
5238- After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it
5239 causes corruption. (#6631)
5240- When the computer crashes while writing the undofile, the contents may be
5241 lost. Write to a temp file, fsync and rename. (#8879)
5242- Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
5243- Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426) ex_next()
5244 should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd(). Is there a test for
5245 this?
5246- Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
5247- Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
5248- Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013
5249 oct 3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
5250 Also see #1635.
5251- When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
5252 synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
5253- The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
5254 For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
5255- Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
5256 possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
5257- Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian
5258 Brabandt, 2010 Nov 5)
5259- There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to
5260 what was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break
5261 inserted perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
5262- When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted.
5263 Need to handle extra bytes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005264
5265
5266Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052677 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5268 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5269 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5270 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020052718 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005272 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
52738 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5274 inode too.
52757 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005276 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5277 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052787 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5279 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5280- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5281 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5282- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5283 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
52847 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5285 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
52867 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5287 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
52888 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052897 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5290 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010052918 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5292 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5293 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005294- When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
5295 jumplist and alternate file.
5296- ":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but
5297 it goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
5298 unlisted. (#4478)
5299- :buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp
5300 error. (#5467)
5301- Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before
5302 and is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
5303- Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If
5304 there is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc.
5305 To be used for git temp files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005306
5307
5308Swap (.swp) files:
53098 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5310 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5311 there are short file name problems.
53128 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5313 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
53148 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
53158 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005316 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005317 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5318 file the same as the actual file?
5319 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053207 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5321 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
53227 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005323 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005324 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5325 enough room.
53267 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5327 or /var/preserve.
5328- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5329 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5330- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005331 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005332- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5333 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5334 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5335 cached list of which line is where.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005336- When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative,
5337 while editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355) Which one should
5338 it be?
5339- When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile.
5340 Then a command can delete it.
5341- In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of
5342 the process that is running. It might actually be some other program,
5343 e.g. after a reboot.
5344- When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to
5345 wait for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
5346 Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
5347- After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
5348 correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
5349- In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about
5350 what each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005351
5352
5353Viminfo:
53547 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5355 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5356 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053578 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5358 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5359 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053608 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5361 name. (Schild)
53628 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
53638 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053648 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053658 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5366 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5367 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5368 this?
53697 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
53707 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5371 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
53726 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5373 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5374 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5375- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5376 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005377- Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
5378- Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows
5379 about, it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017
5380 Jun 19, #1781)
5381- Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be
5382 read back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
5383- When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and
5384 reading it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
53858 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
5386 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
53878 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
5388 check for file marks. This can be slow.
53898 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
5390 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
5391 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005392
5393
5394Modelines:
53958 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5396 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5397 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005398- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5399 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5400 'shiftwidth'.
5401- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5402 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005403- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5404 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5405 modeline setting.
5406- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5407 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5408- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5409 .cpp files.
5410- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5411 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005412- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005413 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5414
5415
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005416Sessions:
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +01005417- Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
5418 'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative
5419 path. (#4450)
5420- Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
5421 window, not other buffers. (#7532)
5422- Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows
5423 with modified buffers:
5424 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
5425 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
5426 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
5427 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
5428- When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted,
5429 the buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393) Should add
5430 the buffer in hidden state.
5431- When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are
5432 not filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle
5433 deleting the initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
5434- Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not
5435 the normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
5436- Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
5437 (Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
5438- Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a
5439 way that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
5440 ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1) Also: swap files are in
5441 ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
5442- Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until
5443 after loading all files.
5444- Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
5445 (7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000054468 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5447 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
54487 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5449 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054508 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5451 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054528 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5453 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5454 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000054557 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5456 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005457
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005458
5459Options:
54607 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5461 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054628 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01005463 options that are a comma-separated list. The old number values should
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005464 also be supported.
54658 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5466 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5467 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
54687 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005469
5470
5471External commands:
54728 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5473 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
54744 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5475 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5476 -f).
54774 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
54784 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5479 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
54804 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5481
5482
5483Multiple Windows:
54847 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
54858 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5486 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
54877 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5488 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5489 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000054907 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5491 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000054927 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5493 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054946 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5495 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005496 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005497 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
54987 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5499 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5500 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5501 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5502- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5503 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5504 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5505 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5506
5507
5508Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055098 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055108 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5511 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055128 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 +000055138 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5514 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
55158 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5516 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5517 the mark was set.
55187 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5519 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5520 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5521 ":browse marks"?
55226 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055237 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5524 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
55257 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5526 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
55277 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5528 command).
55297 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5530 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5531 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5532 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
55335 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5534 mappings.
55356 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5536 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5537 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5538
5539
5540Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020055417 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005542 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005543- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5544 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000055458 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055467 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5547 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5548
5549
5550Writing files:
5551- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5552 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5553 shortname conversion.
55548 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
55558 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5556 file.
55578 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5558 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5559 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055606 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5561 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
55626 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5563 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
55646 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5565 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055668 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005567 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
55687 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5569 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010055707 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005571 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5572 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5573 waiting for a character to be typed).
55748 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5575 line of the window, like "[time]".
5576 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5577 Automatic and/or with a command.
5578
5579
5580Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000055818 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5582 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055838 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005584 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5585- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5586- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
55878 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5588 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005589- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590 :s///N substitutes N times.
5591- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5592 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5593 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
55947 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5595 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5596 last line column 5.
55975 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5598 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5599 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5600 (Stanislav Sitar)
5601
5602
5603Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056048 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
56057 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
56068 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5607 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5608 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005609- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5610- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5611 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5612- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5613- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5614
5615
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005616Argument list:
56176 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5618 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5619 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
56206 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5621
5622
5623Registers:
56248 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056258 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5626 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5627 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005628- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5629 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5630- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5631 leader when line wraps?
5632- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5633 line in the range.
5634- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5635 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
56368 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5637 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005638- In Select mode the deleted text always goes into the unnamed register.
5639 Use CTRL-R to specify the register to use. (#9531)
5640- When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
5641 register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
5642 (#6435)
5643- Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi,
5644 2018 Apr 26, #2849)
5645- Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
5646 registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
5647- With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for
5648 empty register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
5649- Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked
5650 text part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
56516 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5652 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5653 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5654 Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005655
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005656
5657Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056588 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000056598 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056607 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
56617 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005662- In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping
5663 through the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
5664
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005665
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005666Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000056677 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5668 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5669 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5670 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5671 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5672 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5673 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005674 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000056757 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5676 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000056777 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5678 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056798 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5680 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056817 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5682 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5683 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005684- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005685 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010056867 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5687 window as a buffer-tab selection.
56888 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056897 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5690 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
56918 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5692 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056936 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056948 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5695 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5696 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5697 in this Vim.
56988 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005699 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057008 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5701 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5702 have it apply to the following command.
57038 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5704 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5705 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5706 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057077 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5708 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057097 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5710 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5711 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5712 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057136 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
57148 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
57159 Support ACLs on more systems.
57167 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5717 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057187 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5719 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5720 (truncated to fit in the space).
57217 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
57228 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
57238 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5724 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000057257 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005726 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
57277 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5728 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057297 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057307 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
57317 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057328 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
57338 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5734 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5735 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5736 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
57378 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057388 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057398 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5740 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5741 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5742 does something like this. (Shah)
57437 Use growarray for replace stack.
57447 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5745 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
57463 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057477 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5748 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057497 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5750 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005751- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5752- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5753- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5754- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
57557 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5756 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5757- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5758 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005759- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005760- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5761 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5762- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5763 call "play newbeep.au").
5764- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5765 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5766 (Bhatt).
5767- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5768 blockwise registers).
5769- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5770 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5771- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5772 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5773 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5774 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005775- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057767 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5777 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5778- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5779 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5780 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5781 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5782 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057838 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5784 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057858 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5786 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5787 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5788 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5789 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5790- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02005791- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057927 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5793 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5794- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5795 not in column 1.
57966 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5797 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
57987 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5799- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005800- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005801 :redir #> bufname
5802 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005803- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5804 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005805- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5806 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5807 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
58086 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5809 console? (Klaus Hast)
5810- Add :delcr command:
5811 *:delcr*
5812 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5813 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5814 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5815 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5816 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02005817 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005818- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5819- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5820 characters from 'isprint'.
5821- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5822- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5823 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5824- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5825 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5826 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5827- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5828- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5829 Nvi).
5830- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5831 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
58327 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5833- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5834 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
58356 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5836- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5837 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5838 macro).
5839- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005840- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5841 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5842- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
58438 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005844- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5845- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5846- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5847 if it is not the first or last window.
5848- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5849 there is one) instead of the file itself.
58507 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5851 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5852 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5853- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5854- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005855 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005856 many percent down the windows).
5857- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5858 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5859 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005860 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005861- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5862 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5863- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5864 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5865- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5866- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5867- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5868 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058698 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5870 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5871 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5872 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5873 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005874- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5875 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5876- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005877 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5878- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005879 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5880 (Webb).
5881- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005882 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005883- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5884 hex codes like 0xff).
5885- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5886 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5887 the last TYPED command.
5888- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5889- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5890- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5891 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005892- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058938 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5894 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5895 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005896- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005897 trailing '.'.
5898- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5899 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5900 find_file_in_path().
5901- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5902 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5903- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5904- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5905 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5906- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005907 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005908- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5909 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5910 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005911- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5912- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5913- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5914 to the minimal size.
5915- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5916- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5917- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5918- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5919- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005920- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5921 entered)?
5922- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5923 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005924- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005925- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5926- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5927- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5928- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5929- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5930 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005931- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059328 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5933 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5934 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5935 or in octal.
59367 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5937 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005938- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005939 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5940- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5941- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5942 insert line command).
5943- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5944- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5945- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5946- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5947- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5948 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005949- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005950 yet.
5951- Implement 'redraw' option.
5952- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5953 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059547 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5955 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005956 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5957 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059588 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5959 do it.
5960- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5961- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5962 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5963- Add text justification option.
5964- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5965- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5966 off".
5967- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5968- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5969- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005970 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005971- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005972- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005973- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5974 commands.
5975- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5976- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5977- :table command (Webb)
5978- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005979- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5980- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5981- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5982- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5983- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5984 (Demirel).
5985- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5986- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5987 for use in macro's and the like.
5988- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005989 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005990- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005991 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005992- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005993 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005994 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5995- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5996 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005997- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005998 mkopttab to make option table?
5999- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6000 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6001- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6002 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006003- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006004 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6005- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6006 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006007- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060088 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6009 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6010 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6011 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6012 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060138 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6014 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6015 (Netherton)
60166 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6017 space after "(", for example.
60185 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6019 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6020 (Servatius Brandt)
6021
6022
6023From Elvis:
6024- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6025- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006026- Search patterns:
6027 \@ match word under cursor.
6028 but do:
6029 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6030 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
60318 ":window" command:
6032 :win + next window (up)
6033 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6034 :win - previous window (down)
6035 :win -- idem, wrapping
6036 :win nr to window number "nr"
6037 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
60387 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6039 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6040
6041
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006042From xvi:
6043- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6044- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6045
6046
6047From vile:
6048- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6049- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6050 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6051
6052
6053Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006054- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6055 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006056 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006057 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6058 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006059- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6060 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6061- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6062 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6063 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6064 current layout mirrored.
6065- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6066- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6067 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6068- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6069- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6070 font in each top-level window.
6071- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6072- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6073- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6074- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6075 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006076- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6077 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6078- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6079 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
60804 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6081 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6082 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6083 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006084 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006085 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6086 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6087- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6088 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6089 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6090
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006091vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006092vim: set fo+=n :