blob: e0ebe7eedb5ac6626529f4019a6f841d695fe28d [file] [log] [blame]
LemonBoya20bf692024-07-11 22:35:53 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 Jul 11
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
3
4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
5
6
7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
8
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
25
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|.
29
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010041FILETYPE_FILE is defined to the same value in multiple places.
42Only use the one in feature.h. Others too.
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +000043
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010044Mapping with modifier is not recognized after a partial mapping. Probably
45because the typeahead was simplified when looking for a matching mapping.
46Need to somehow undo the simplification. #12002
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +000047
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +010048Windows scroll when using the autocmd window. #12085
49in restore_snapshot_rec() restore more values from the snapshot, instead of
50calling frame_new_height() and frame_new_width(), especially w_topline and
51w_skipcol.
52
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010053Check places that source "path/*.vim" to not match other extensions, e.g.
54.vim9, on MS-Windows (short file name match, gets expanded to long file name).
55E.g. for startup files, plugins, packs, etc.
56
57When a help item can't be found, then open 'helpfile'. Search for the tag in
58that file and gtive E149 only when not found. Helps for a tiny Vim installed
59without all the help files.
60
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010061SpellCap highlight not updated - PR #12428
62
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010063Virtual text problems:
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010064- If 'list' is on, 'below' virtual text which includes 1 or 2 characters are
65 gone (Issue #12028)
66- Virtual text aligned "above": Wrong indentation when using tabs (Issue
67 #12232)
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010068- Virtual text to the right of the line that isn't visible doesn't cause the
69 'extends' character to show in 'list' mode. #12478
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010070- Virtual text to the right of the line that fits exactly on screen causes
71 that line and all lines below it not to be displayed (Issue #12213)
72- Window screen gets wrong when a virtual text is placed on 'above' or
73 'below' on an empty line (Issue #11959)
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010074- truncated Virtual text below an empty line causes display error #12493
75
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010076When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
77highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
78
79Improve profiling by caching matching functions: PR #12192
80
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010081With 'smoothscroll' set and "lastline" in 'display', moving the cursor to a
82wrapping line that makes the display scroll up may scroll much more than
83needed, thus jump-scrolling. (part of issue 12411)
84
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010085Implement foreach() PR #12166
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +000086
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +000087Errors when running tests with valgrind:
88- test_codestyle.vim: e.g.:
89 command line..script /home/mool/vim/vim90/src/testdir/runtest.vim[569]..function RunTheTest[52]..Test_test_files line 6: keycode_check.vim: space before tab: Expected 0 but got 7
90 command line..script /home/mool/vim/vim90/src/testdir/runtest.vim[569]..function RunTheTest[52]..Test_test_files line 10: setup.vim: trailing white space: Expected 0 but got 23
91- test_gui.vim:
92 Found errors in Test_gui_mouse_event():
93
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010094When every block in if/elseif ends in "throw" or "return" code following after
95"endif" should give an "unreachable code" error.
96
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +000097Upcoming larger works:
98- Make spell checking work with recent .dic/.aff files, e.g. French. #4916
99 Make Vim understand the format somehow? Search for "spell" below.
100 Make sure suggestions are speedy, also with composed words (German).
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100101- Make syntax highlighting faster and better.
102 Add a generic mechanism to test a syntax plugin: An input file for the
103 filetype and a screendump of expected result. With a way to specify the
104 setup (global variables) and another dump file from that.
105 Discuss alternatives for using other grammars (treesitter, TextMate).
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000106 - Possibly conversion to Vim syntax rules.
107 - Other mechanism than group and cluster to nest syntax items, to be used
108 for grammars.
109 - Possibly keeping the parsed syntax tree and incremental updates.
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000110 - tree-sitter doesn't handle incorrect syntax (while typing) properly.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100111 - NeoVim uses treesitter, what can we learn from that?
112 - Vscode is asked to switch to treesitter:
113 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140
114 - Vscode uses TextMate. #9087 - Other people don't like it.
115 https://github.com/icedman/vim-textmate
116 - sublime grammar? Hugo mentions it's a moving target #9087
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000117 - Make clear how it relates to LSP.
118 - example plugin: https://github.com/uga-rosa/dps-vsctm.vim
Bram Moolenaarf269eab2022-10-03 18:04:35 +0100119
Bram Moolenaar9b03d3e2022-08-30 20:26:34 +0100120
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700121Further Vim9 improvements:
Yegappan Lakshmanane750f8c2023-08-24 07:07:05 -0700122- Classes and Interfaces. See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100123 - Cannot use class type of itself in the method (Issue #12369)
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100124 - Getting member of variable with "any" type should be handled at runtime.
125 Remove temporary solution from #12096 / patch 9.0.1375.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100126 - "obj.Method()" does not always work in a compiled function, assumes "obj"
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100127 is a dictionary. #12196 Issue #12024 might be the same problem.
128 Issue #11822: any.Func() can be a dict or an object call, need to handle
129 this at runtime. Also see #12198 for an example.
130 Possibly issue #11981 can be fixed at the same time (has two examples).
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700131 - Forward declaration of a class? E.g. for Clone() function.
132 Email lifepillar 2023 Mar 26
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100133 - When "Meta" is a class, is "const MetaAlias = Meta" allowed? It should
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700134 either work or given an error. Possibly give an error now and implement it
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100135 later (using a typedef). #12006
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000136 - how about lock/unlock?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000137 - For chaining, allow using the class name as type for function return
138 value.
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700139 - Implement "specifies" interface
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000140 - Implement generics
Yegappan Lakshmanane750f8c2023-08-24 07:07:05 -0700141 - Add "assignable" (class or child)?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000142 - More efficient way for interface member index than iterating over list?
143 - a variant of type() that returns a different type for each class?
144 list<number> and list<string> should also differ.
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000145- Promise class, could be used to wait on a popup close callback?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000146- class local to a function
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000147- Use Vim9 for more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200148- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking.
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +0200149- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
150 has(featureName), len(someString)
151- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Yegappan Lakshmanan563e6442023-12-05 08:19:06 -0800152- The use of the literal value "null" and the type specific "null_xxx"
153 values is confusing (#13458, #11770).
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100154
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000155Information missing in terminfo:
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100156- Codes used for focus gained and lost termcodes are hard-coded in
157 set_termname(), not named.
158- t_fe enable focus-event tracking
159- t_fd disable focus-event tracking
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000160- Accept "hyper" and "meta" modifiers (16 and 32) from Kitty like Meta?
161 8 is actually "super".
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000162- t_RV request terminal version string; xterm: "\033[>c"
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000163 change in terminfo for "RV" uses the wrong escape sequence 7 - 14 Jan only
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100164- Codes for <PasteStart> t_PS and <PasteEnd> t_PE; with bracketed paste:
165 t_BE and t_BD.
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000166Modifiers for various keys
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000167- flag to indicate "xterm compatible modifiers" ?
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000168Underline and similar:
169- t_AU - Set underline color: like "AF" and "AB" entries.
170- t_Ce undercurl and underline end
171- t_Cs undercurl (curly underline) mode
172- t_Us double underline mode
173- t_ds dotted underline mode
174- t_Ds dashed underline mode
175- t_Te strikethrough end
176- t_Ts strikethrough mode
177Cursor codes: |termcap-cursor-shape|
178- t_RC request terminal cursor blinking
179- t_RS request terminal cursor style
180- t_VS cursor normally visible (no blink)
181- t_SI start insert mode (bar cursor shape)
182- t_SR start replace mode (underline cursor shape)
183- t_EI end insert or replace mode (block cursor shape)
184- t_SC set cursor color start
185- t_EC set cursor color end
186- t_SH set cursor shape
187State requests:
188- t_RF request terminal foreground color
189- t_RB request terminal background color
190Less important (not needed for regular editing):
191- t_IS set icon text start
192- t_IE set icon text end
193- t_ST save window title to stack
194- t_RT restore window title from stack
195- t_Si save icon text to stack
196- t_Ri restore icon text from stack
197- t_WP set window position (Y, X) in pixels
198- t_GP get window position (Y, X) in pixels
199- t_WS set window size (height, width in cells)
200Vim internal, but there should be a terminfo entry for these:
201- t_8f set foreground color (R, G, B) in printf() format
202- t_8b set background color (R, G, B) in printf() format
203- t_8u set underline color (R, G, B) in printf() format
204Probably Vim internal, not in terminfo:
205- t_TE end of "raw" mode
206- t_TI put terminal into "raw" mode
207- t_RK request terminal keyboard protocol state; sent after |t_TI|
208Already working, not properly documented:
209- t_u7 request cursor position
210
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200211Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100212- Add a function to redraw a specific popup window. Esp. to be used when
213 editing the command line, when screen updating doesn't happen. (Shougo)
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100214 #10210 Example that shows the need on the issue.
215 Probably need to update all popup windows (they may overlap)
Bram Moolenaarf269eab2022-10-03 18:04:35 +0100216 If the display is scrolled need to redraw everything later.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200217- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
218 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
219 current window.
220 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
221 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200222- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
223 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100224- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200225- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
226 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100227- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
228 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
229 the way. (#5737)
230 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200231- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
232 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100233- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200234- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
235 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100236- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
237 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
238- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200239- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200240 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100241- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
242 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100243- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200244
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100245'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200246- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
247 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
248- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200249- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200250- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
251 isn't one?
252 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
253
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200254Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100255- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200256- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100257- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200258
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200259Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100260- Add a mechanism for configuration. Instead of several global variables use
261 a dictionary. Use callbacks for some things, e.g. opening a debug window in
262 a certain position.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200263- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100264- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
265 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100266- Use the optional token on requests, match the result with it. #10300
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200267- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200268- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200269 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
270 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100271- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100272- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
273 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100274 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100275 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200276
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200277Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100278- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200279- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200280- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
281 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
282 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100283- GUI: cursor color is not updated when going to Terminal-Job mode. #12328
284- GUI: cursor color is not updated when switching between tabs with a key.
285 #12329
286- GUI: cursor color is not updated when switching between tabs with a mouse
287 click. #12330
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200288- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
289 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
290 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
291 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200292- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
293 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100294- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
295 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200296 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
297 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100298 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100299- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100300- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
301 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200302- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
303 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200304- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200305- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
306 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
307- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
308 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200309- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
310 is disabled.
311- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
312- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
313 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200314- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
315 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
316 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100317- Redrawing is slow with Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200318- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
319 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
320- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
321 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200322
Bram Moolenaar1b5f03e2023-01-09 20:12:45 +0000323Patch adds showcmd() function #11708
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000324
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100325Cursor is after the end of the line: #12137.
326
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100327Crash when a variable is removed while listing variables (Issue #11435)
328
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100329Autoconf: must use autoconf 2.69, later version generates lots of warnings
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100330- try using autoconf 2.71 and fix all "obsolete" warnings #11322
331
332Problem with Visual highlight when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
333#11272
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100334
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100335'cindent': compound literal indented wrong. Check for " = " before "{"?
336#12491
337
338GUI Scroll test fails on FreeBSD when using Motif. See FIXME in
339Test_scrollbars in src/test_gui.vim
340
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100341Selected index returned by complete_info() does not match the index in the
342list of items. #12230
343
344Support dark mode for MS-Windows: #12282
345
346Remote command escapes single quote with backslash, should be doubling the
347single quote in vim_strsave_escaped_ext() #12202.
348
349PR to add custom and customlist completion types. #12228
350
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100351Can deref_func_name() and deref_function_name() be merged?
352
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100353Using :global with a pattern containing \zs doesn't use the line where \zs
354matches but the start of the pattern. #3695 If there is a useful application
355for this, it can be made to work by changing the call to ml_setmarked():
356 ml_setmarked(lnum + regmatch.startpos[0].lnum);
357
Bram Moolenaar921bde82022-05-09 19:50:35 +0100358After patch 8.2.4915 w_botline is computed much more often. Can this be
359reduced?
Bram Moolenaarfd31be22022-01-16 14:46:06 +0000360
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100361When 'delcombine' is set a put after "x" includes the base character and all
362combining characters. (Ron Aaron, 2023 Apr 10)
363
Bram Moolenaar0daafaa2022-09-04 17:45:43 +0100364Add BufDeletePost. #11041
365
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000366Add winid arg to col() and charcol() #11466 (request #11461)
367
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100368'switchbuf' set to "newtab" does not work for ":cfirst" when in the quickfix
369window. #12436
370
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100371When :argument has a non-number argument, use it like :buffer to find the
372argument by name. #12272
373
374Fold unexpectedly closed when inserting fold marker with CTRL-V (Issue #12320)
375
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000376Can we make 'noendofline' and 'endoffile' visible? Should show by default,
377since it's an unusual situation.
378- Show 'noendofline' when it would be used for writing ('fileformat' "dos")
379 with an upside down exclamation mark? NonText highlighting.
380- Show 'endoffile' when it would be used for writing ('fileformat' "dos") with
381 "CTRL-Z", NonText highlighting.
382- Add 'fillchars' items to change this, default behavior like:
383 noeol:¡
384 eof:CTRL-Z
385
Bram Moolenaar9fbdbb82022-09-27 17:30:34 +0100386Test property disappears when using CR twice in a row. OK when some text was
387entered. (#11151)
388
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000389Add 'keywordprg' to various ftplugin files:
390https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/5566
391
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000392PR #11579 to add visualtext(), return Visually selected text.
393
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100394PR #12032: Support Python 3 stable ABI.
395
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100396PR #11860: Add more info to 'colorcolumn': display a character and highlight
397for each separate entry. Disadvantage: option value gets very complicated
398with multiple entries, e.g. every 8 columns.
399
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000400Stray characters in the shell #11719, caused by requesting a response for:
401- XT key sequences
402- Whether modifyOtherKeys is active
403- Whether kitty keyboard protocol is active
404Can we not request XT key sequences, or reduce them drastically?
405
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000406Issue #10512: Dynamic loading broken with Perl 5.36
407Damien has a patch (2022 Dec 4)
408
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100409Request #11965: Allow several "%=" items in 'statusline', makes it possible
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000410to have text in the center.
411
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000412Add some kind of ":whathappend" command and functions to make visible what the
413last few typed keys and executed commands are. To be used when the user
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000414wonders what went wrong. Could also be used for statistics #12046.
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000415- typed keys - Normal mode command - like what is recorded in a register and
416 displayed by 'showcmd'.
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000417- register used - #12063
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000418- executed command lines
419- with more verbosity: what scripts/functions/autocommands were executed
420
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100421NFA regexp does not handle composing characters well: #10286
422 [ɔ̃] matches both ɔ and ɔ̃
423 \(ɔ\|ɔ̃\) matches ɔ and not ɔ̃
424
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000425Is there a way to make 'autowriteall' make a clean exit when the xterm is
426closed? (Dennis Nazic says files are preserved, okt 28). Perhaps handle TERM
427like HUP?
428
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000429Better terminal emulator support:
430 > Somehow request the terminfo entry from the terminal itself. The $TERM
431 value then is only relevant for whether this feature is supported or not.
432 Replaces the xterm mechanism to request each entry separately. #6609
433 Multiplexers (screen, tmux) can request it to the underlying terminal, and
434 pass it on with modifications.
435 How to get all the text quickly (also over ssh)? Can we use a side channel?
436 > When xterm supports sending an Escape sequence for the Esc key, should
437 have a way to request this state. That could be an XTGETTCAP entry, e.g.
438 "k!". Add "esc_sends_sequence" flag.
439 If we know this state, then do not pretend going out of Insert mode in
440 vgetorpeek(), where kitty_protocol_state is checked.
441 > If a response ends up in a shell command, one way to avoid this is by
442 sending t_RV last and delay starting a shell command until the response
443 has been seen.
444 > Can we use the req_more_codes_from_term() mechanism with more terminals?
445 Should we repeat it after executing a shell command?
446 Can also add this to the 'keyprotocol' option: "mok2+tcap"
447 > In the table of terminal names pointing to the list of termcap entries,
448 add an optional additional one. So that "xterm-kitty" can first load
449 "xterm" and then add "kitty" entries.
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000450
Bram Moolenaar2ecbe532022-07-29 21:36:21 +0100451Using "A" and "o" in manually created fold (in empty buffer) does not behave
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000452consistently (James McCoy, #10698)
Bram Moolenaar2ecbe532022-07-29 21:36:21 +0100453
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100454In a timer callback, when using ":echo" and then input() the message is
455overwritten. Could use ":echowin" and call redraw_cmd() in get_user_input().
456#11299
457
458Syntax include problem: #11277. Related to Patch 8.2.2761
459
Bram Moolenaar05a80612022-08-01 15:09:53 +0100460To avoid flicker: add an option that when a screen clear is requested, instead
461of clearing it draws everything and uses "clear to end of line" for every line.
Bram Moolenaar48c3f4e2022-08-08 15:42:38 +0100462Resetting 't_ut' already causes this?
Bram Moolenaar05a80612022-08-01 15:09:53 +0100463
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100464Instead of prefixing "INTERNAL" to internal messages, add a message in iemsg()
465and siemsg() and translate it. Messages only given to them don't need
466translation.
467
Bram Moolenaarb529cfb2022-07-25 15:42:07 +0100468When scheme can't be found by configure there is no clear "not found" message:
469 configure:5769: checking MzScheme install prefix
Bram Moolenaarb59ae592022-11-23 23:46:31 +0000470 configure:5781: result:
Bram Moolenaarb529cfb2022-07-25 15:42:07 +0100471
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100472Can "CSI nr X" be used instead of outputting spaces? Is it faster? #8002
473
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100474Typed keys invisible after calling interrupt() from a timer. #10631
475
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100476With a window height of 6 and 'scrolloff' set to 3, using "j" does not scroll
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100477evenly. (#10545) Need to handle this in scroll_cursor_bot().
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100478
Bram Moolenaar89a9c152021-08-29 21:55:35 +0200479Idea: when typing ":e /some/dir/" and "dir" does not exist, highlight in red.
480
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100481":set shellpipe&" and ":set shellredir&" should use the logic from
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200482initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
483this.
484
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100485Add a diff() function to use the built-in diff support in a script.
486#12321 Is the returned value in the right form now?
487
488Support translations for plugins: #11637 PR: #12447
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000489- Need a tool like xgettext for Vim script, generates a .pot file.
490 Need the equivalent of _() and N_(), perhaps TR() and TRN().
491- Instructions for how to create .po files and translate.
492- Script or Makefile to generate .mo files.
493- Instructions and perhaps a script to install the .mo files in the right
494 place.
495- Add variant of gettext() that takes a package name.
496
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100497With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
498(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
499need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
500IDEA: when drawing the text, store the text byte index in ScreenLinesIdx[].
501When converting screen column to text position use this.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100502The line number can be obtained from win->w_lines[].
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100503
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100504Version of getchar() that does not move the cursor - #10603 Use a separate
505argument for the new flag.
506
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100507test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200508
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100509Can we add highlighting to ":echowindow"?
510
Bram Moolenaar47003982021-12-05 21:54:04 +0000511Information for a specific terminal (e.g. gnome, tmux, konsole, alacritty) is
512spread out. Make a section with copy/paste examples of script and pointers to
513more information.
514
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200515Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
516(#8179)
517
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000518":filter set termcap" only filters terminal codes, not keys. (#9297)
519
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100520Add an option to restrict 'incsearch' to not scroll the view. (Tavis Ormandy)
521
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000522Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
523
Bram Moolenaar519cc552021-11-16 19:18:26 +0000524When 'term' starts with "foot" then default t_TI and t_TE to the values used
525for the builtin xterm termcap.
526
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100527Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100528(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100529Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
530interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000531New English spell files also have very slow suggestions.
Bram Moolenaar9fbdbb82022-09-27 17:30:34 +0100532
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100533When 'spelloptions' is "camel" then zG doesn't work on some words.
534(Gary Johnson, 17 Oct 2022)
535
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100536SpellCap doesn't show below a closed fold. #12420
537
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100538'cdpath' problems:
539- Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
540- Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME.
541 (2006 Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100542
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200543Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left.
544Also for a block selection. #8558
545
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000546When using dictionary insert completion with 'ignorecase', the leading capital
547in a word should be preserved.
548
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200549Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
550to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
551Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
552inconsistent with the documentation.
553
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100554When 'wildignore' has an entry ending in "/*" this means nothing matching the
555path before it will be added. When encountering a directory check this and if
556there is a match do not scan the directory (possibly speeds up :find a lot).
557#12482
558
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100559globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all? (related to #8350)
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200560
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100561mksession uses :buffer instead of :edit in one place but not another. #10629
562
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200563Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
564with 'termguicolors'. #1740
565
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200566Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200567
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100568Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
569
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200570Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
571changes.
572
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100573Add ??= operator, "a ??= b" works like "a = a ?? b". #10343
574
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100575When ":redir" is used while already active, the previous one is ended. But
576when redirecting to a local variable (function or script) storing the value
577won't work. At least give an error. Is there a way to make it work?
578#10616
579
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000580Completion for ":runtime" should show valid values, not what's in the current
581directory. (#11447)
582
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100583Add a "description" property to mappings. #12205
584
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200585Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
586This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
587to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
588
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200589Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
590Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
591
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200592Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
593Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
594
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000595Add a v:register_used variable, which has the name of the register used for
596the last command, e.g. put. #12003
597
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200598Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
599time bound navigation, like with undo?
600
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100601For testing, make a copy of ml_line_ptr instead of pointing it into the data
602block, so that valgrind can do out of bounds check. Set ML_LINE_DIRTY flag or
603add ML_LINE_ALLOCED.
604
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100605Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
606 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
607 aaa
608 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
609 aaa bbb
610Should also work without any group:
611 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
612 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
613
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200614Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position
615of submatches. #8355
616
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200617Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200618Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200619(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
620Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
621- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
622 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
623 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
624- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
625 covered by the above change.
626So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
627same thing.
628Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100629Perhaps also related: #5147
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200630
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200631Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
632Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200633
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200634Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
635Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
636After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
637work.
638
639Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
640autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200641
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000642Using a search pattern containing "\%V" and 'hlsearch' set keeps old matches
643when the Visual area changes. #11694. Do a redraw when starting a Visual
644selection?
645
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200646Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character.
647Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out.
648(#8288)
649
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200650Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
651 replace this:
652 let left = GetLeftFunc()
653 let right = GetRightFunc()
654 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
655 by:
656 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200657Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
658
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200659Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
660
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100661":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
662
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200663Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
664(#6539)
665
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100666File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
667
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100668A syntax plugin cannot use autocommands, it could be sourced from setting
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100669'syntax' in a modeline. Add a function that indicates whether "secure"
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100670and/or "sandbox" are set.
671
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200672Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
673character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100674Auto-formatting comments joins a following non-comment line when the comment
675ends in a space. (Adam Levy, 18 Oct 2022)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200676
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100677When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
678(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
679
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200680With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
681'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100682
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200683Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
684which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
685#6127
686
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200687Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
688
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200689When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
690":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
691Might be related to #6088.
692
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200693Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
694(#6919)
695
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200696When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
697Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
698(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
699
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100700Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
701(Paul Jolly, #5656)
702Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100703 Later more requests for what to track.
704 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
705 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
706 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100707BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100708Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100709
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200710Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
711
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200712Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
713
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100714:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
715Dec 19)
716
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200717Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
718Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
719
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100720Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
721May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200722Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
723remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100724Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200725
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100726When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
727the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
728
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200729Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100730Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
731in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200732Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
733(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200734
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200735Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
736that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
737Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100738
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100739Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100740
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200741":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
742find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
743
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200744Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
745
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100746Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
747
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100748"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
749
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200750Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
751Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
752
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100753Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
754
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200755When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
756the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
757
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200758Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
759(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
760
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200761When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
762default one. #4698
763
764When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
765with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
766
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100767Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200768Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100769
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200770Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200771fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
772
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200773Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200774
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200775Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
776- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
777- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100778- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200779
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100780Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200781Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100782
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100783When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
784when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
785gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
786input buffer. (#5302)
787
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200788Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200789
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100790Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
7912007 Feb 18)
792Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
793
794Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
795Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
796
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200797Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
798
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200799Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200800Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
801Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200802
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200803Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
804files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
805Include part of #3242?
806
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100807Patch for different behavior of text objects with quotes: #11976
808Is this actually better?
809
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200810Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
811Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
812Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
813
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200814Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
815t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000816Also make 'scrollopt' tab-local, remove "hor" only for the current tab page.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200817
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100818Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
819Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
820
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200821'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
822
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100823Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
824
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200825Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
826
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100827When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
828in a long line. #5189
829
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200830The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
831Give a few examples. (#4288)
832
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200833Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200834work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200835
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02008367 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
837 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
838 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200839Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200840
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100841Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
842read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
843be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
844
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200845Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
846
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200847Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
848
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100849Color schemes:
850NOTE: modernizing the default colorschemes _AND_ introducing new ones is now
851a project in its own right: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes. Feel free to
852reach out if you want to lend a hand.
853- Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
854 https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
855- Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
856 - 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 +0200857http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100858- Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
859 - monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
860 - seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
861 - gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
862 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
863 - janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
864 - apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
865- Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
866 - [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
867 - [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
868- Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
869 - Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200870
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100871Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
872Mar 5)
873
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200874Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
875on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
876
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200877Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
878in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
879buffer didn't change at all.
880
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100881When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
882But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
883similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
884
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200885C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
886(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
887
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100888Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
889added?
890
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200891Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
892negative. (see #4326)
893
894'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
895`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
896tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
897:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
898
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100899When opening a file, allow for specifying the initial column position:
900 vim +12:5 file.txt line 12 column 5
901 :edit +12:5 file.txt
902Should probably use the column as the character index.
903
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200904This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
905 vim: syn=nosyntax
906
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100907Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
908#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100909Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
910Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
911balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
9122018 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100913
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200914More warnings from static analysis:
915https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200916
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200917Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
918
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200919Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
920internals of the dict structure.
921
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100922nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
923
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200924Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
925change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
926them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
927
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100928When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
929case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
930For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
931
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200932Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
933(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
934expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200935
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200936Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
937 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
938 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
939
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100940Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100941punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100942
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200943Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
944drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
945
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100946When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
947scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
948using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
949
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100950When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
951kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
952when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
953
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100954Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
955(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100956
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100957Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
958highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200959And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
960'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100961
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100962Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, make them empty, keep redirect.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100963Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
964
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200965Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
966Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
967Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
968
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100969Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
970Feedback from someone who uses this?
971
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200972Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
973Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
974values.
975
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100976Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200977- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
978- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
979- omit diff.exe from distribution
980- Can we make this show differences within a line?
981- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200982
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200983Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
984
985When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
986includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
987
988Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200989Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200990
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100991Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
992
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200993Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
994window for the buffer.
995
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000996Compiler warning (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100997- undefined left shift in eval_string(), before hex2nr() (#2250)
998 Use unsigned for "nr".
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100999
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001000Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
1001Oct 28)
1002
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001003Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
1004Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +01001005Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
1006Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001007
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001008Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1009
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001010Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
1011behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
1012(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
1013
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +02001014Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
1015script or function.
1016
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +01001017Using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02001018E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
1019does nothing otherwise?
1020
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +02001021MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
1022If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
1023(wait a little while).
1024CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001025
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001026Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
1027MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
10282017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
1029receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
1030
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +01001031Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001032Jan 15, #2555)
1033
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001034Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
1035Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
1036applying the diff, etc.
1037
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001038User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
1039word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001040
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +01001041Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001042
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001043Implement option_save() and option_restore():
1044option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
1045 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
1046 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
1047 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
1048 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
1049 be called when the same window is the current window.
1050 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
1051 the local options won't be restored.
1052
1053option_save({list}) *option_save()*
1054 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
1055 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
1056 let s:saved_options = option_save([
1057 \ 'ignorecase',
1058 \ 'iskeyword',
1059 \ ])
1060 au <buffer> BufLeave *
1061 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
1062< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
1063 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
1064 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
1065 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001066 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
1067 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
1068 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +01001069 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001070
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001071"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
1072directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
1073Also see #1689.
1074
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001075No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
10762017 Dec 26, #2501)
1077
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001078A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
1079
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001080Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
1081
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001082A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
1083Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1084
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001085ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1086
1087Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1088
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001089Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1090Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1091
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001092Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1093in #846)
1094Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1095
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001096When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1097redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001098
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001099In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1100(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1101
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001102Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1103neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001104
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001105Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1106Nov 21)
1107
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001108When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001109triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1110set_color_count().
1111
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001112When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1113CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1114Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1115always nested.
1116
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001117matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1118
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001119Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1120
Bram Moolenaar6c391a72021-09-09 21:55:11 +02001121'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
112220)
1123
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001124MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001125for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1126
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001127Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001128(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001129
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001130Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001131
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001132Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001133
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001134Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1135defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1136Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1137
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001138After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
113913, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001140
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001141When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1142line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1143
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001144Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1145
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001146Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1147behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1148
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001149'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1150
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001151The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1152
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001153Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1154#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1155
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001156X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1157pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1158clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1159Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1160Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1161clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001162Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001163
1164Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1165
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001166Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1167attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001168that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001169
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001170Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1171(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1172
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001173Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1174buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1175Also fixes #2166?
1176
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001177Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1178possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1179
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001180When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1181case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1182
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001183Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1184existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1185Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1186
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001187MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1188Jul 4)
1189
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001190Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1191Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1192This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1193Christian cannot reproduce it.
1194
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001195Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1196wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1197Or is this not an actual problem?
1198
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001199Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1200
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001201Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1202
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001203'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1204#1736)
1205
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001206Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
12078, #1690)
1208
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001209Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1210
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001211assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1212it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1213
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001214Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1215for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001216
1217Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1218(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1219Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1220later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1221Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1222mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001223Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1224mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001225maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001226
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001227Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001228plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1229be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1230
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001231Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1232 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1233 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001234
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001235json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001236What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001237
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001238Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1239
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001240import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1241(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1242
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001243Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1244Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001245Another example in #1309
1246
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001247Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1248#1330)
1249
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001250Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1251
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001252Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1253highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1254
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001255Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1256Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1257
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001258Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1259key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1260 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1261 echo keytrans(xx)
1262 <C-Home>
1263
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001264Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1265(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1266Make a function to check for function-like type?
1267
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001268Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1269 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001270 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001271
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001272Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1273somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1274
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001275The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1276"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1277Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1278
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001279Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1280
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001281Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1282about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001283Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1284
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001285":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001286vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1287
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001288Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001289E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001290Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001291
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001292Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1293Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1294
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001295Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001296Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001297
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001298Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1299(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001300
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001301Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1302
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001303Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1304anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1305
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001306Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001307E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001308
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001309Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1310(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1311
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001312Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1313
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001314On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1315separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1316
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001317Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1318
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001319Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1320
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001321Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001322
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001323sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
13244#1038)
1325
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001326sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1327is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1328
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001329+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001330- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001331- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1332 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1333 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001334- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1335 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001336- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1337 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001338- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1339 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1340- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1341 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1342- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001343- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1344 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001345- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1346- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1347 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1348 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1349- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1350- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1351- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1352 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1353 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1354- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1355 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1356- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1357 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1358 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1359
1360Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001361- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1362 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1363 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1364 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001365- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1366 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001367- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1368 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1369- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1370 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1371- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1372 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1373 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1374 LC_CTYPE
1375- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1376 matches everywhere.
1377- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1378 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1379- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1380- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1381 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1382- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001383- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001384 2013 Dec 11)
1385- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1386 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1387- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1388- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1389 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1390- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1391- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1392- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1393- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1394 2015 Feb 7)
1395- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1396 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1397 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1398 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1399 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1400- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1401- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1402- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1403- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1404 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1405 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1406 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1407- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1408 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1409- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1410 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1411 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1412 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1413
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001414Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1415doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1416Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001417Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001418E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1419
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001420cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1421
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001422:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1423
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001424Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1425
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001426ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1427Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001428
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001429Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1430Jul 25, #948)
1431
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001432Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1433names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1434Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1435the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1436
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001437MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1438Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001439
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001440Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1441times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1442
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001443Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1444
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001445We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1446the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1447
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001448Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1449
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001450When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1451emoji_width table has only one entry.
1452
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001453It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1454Reject the value? #710.
1455
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001456When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1457Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1458
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001459Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1460No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001461
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001462Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1463(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001464
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001465Zero-out crypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001466
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001467Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1468https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001469Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001470
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001471Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1472but the reference remains valid.
1473
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001474Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001475interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1476Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1477interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1478result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001479
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001480Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1481
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001482Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1483
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001484Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1485Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1486
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001487exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1488Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1489
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001490Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1491'iskeyword' for syntax.
1492
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001493Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1494It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1495Add configure check?
1496Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1497Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1498Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1499
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001500Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1501Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1502
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001503Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1504Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1505
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001506Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1507(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1508
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001509When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1510restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1511Do not trigger the event?
1512
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001513Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1514With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1515
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001516Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001517
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001518Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1519
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001520Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001521Only remembers one error.
1522
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001523GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001524
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001525Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1526(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001527
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001528Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1529github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001530 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001531Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001532
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001533Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001534
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001535Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001536comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001537
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001538Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1539
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001540MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1541wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1542
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001543Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1544specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1545
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001546Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1547(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1548
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001549Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001550'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1551before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001552
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001553C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1554and also line continuation after #include.
1555I can't recommend it though.
1556
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001557Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1558(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1559
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001560To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1561library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1562
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001563Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
156430)
1565
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001566MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1567(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1568
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001569The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
157024): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001571
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001572":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1573effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1574
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001575":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15769)
1577
1578The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1579wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1580
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001581Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001582Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001583
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001584When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1585the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1586
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001587Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001588slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1589inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1590
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001591ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15922014 Sep 11)
1593
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001594Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1595(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1596
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001597When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1598'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1599
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001600Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1601Work in progress.
1602
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001603Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1604when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1605
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001606Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1607Is this right?
1608
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001609Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1610(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1611Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1612
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001613Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1614Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001615
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001616Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1617Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1618
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001619Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1620
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001621Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001622Would require reading attributes from the original file with listxattr() and
1623getxattr() and adding them to the new file.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001624
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001625Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1626OK to not block marks?
1627
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001628Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1629
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001630When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1631(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1632
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001633Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001634
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001635Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1636(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1637
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001638When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1639any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1640
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001641Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1642(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1643
1644Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1645
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001646Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1647Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1648was already defined.
1649(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1650
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001651Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1652
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001653Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1654(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1655
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001656Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1657(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1658
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001659Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1660
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001661When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1662these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1663window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1664
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001665Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1666should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1667history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1668Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1669
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001670"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1671Jun 8)
1672
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001673Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1674insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1675
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001676No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1677
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001678Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1679(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1680Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1681arguments.
1682
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001683Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1684
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001685Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1686right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001687its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001688
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001689Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1690
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001691This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1692 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1693This neither: (ZyX)
1694 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1695
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001696'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1697Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1698from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001699
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001700Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1701https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001702Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001703Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1704package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001705Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02001706Also see (link seems dead):
1707http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001708User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001709- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1710 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1711 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001712- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1713- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1714 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1715 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1716 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1717 on vim.org.
1718- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1719 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1720- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1721- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1722- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1723- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1724Implementation:
1725- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1726 plugin separate.
1727- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1728 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1729 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1730- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1731 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1732- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1733 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1734 installing.
1735Out of scope:
1736- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1737- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1738 useful).
1739
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001740When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1741menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1742
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001743Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1744(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1745
1746":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1747various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001748
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001749Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001750(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1751
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001752VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1753instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1754
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001755Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001756Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001757Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001758
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001759Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1760
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001761Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001762
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001763Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1764
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017657 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1766 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1767 "lucida_console:h8").
1768Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1769
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001770:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1771
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001772Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1773
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001774Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1775
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001776When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1777(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1778
1779Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001780Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001781
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001782Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1783
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001784The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1785(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1786Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1787
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001788Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1789Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1790reliably?
1791
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001792Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1793(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1794
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001795Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1796(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001797Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1798(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1799try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1800try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001801
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001802Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18032013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001804
1805Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1806
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001807Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1808carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1809
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001810Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1811highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1812
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001813Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001814
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001815Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200181628) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001817
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001818Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1819
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001820- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1821 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1822Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001823
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001824Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001825
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001826Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1827Or use expand('<sid>')?
1828
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001829Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1830
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001831Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1832
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001833b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18347)
1835
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001836Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1837compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1838
1839Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1840Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1841vim.bindeval().
1842
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001843Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18442012 Aug 4)
1845
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001846Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1847(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1848
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001849Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1850But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1851
1852Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1853Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1854Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001855
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001856'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001857
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001858Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001859of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1860
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001861The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1862Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1863But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001864
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001865When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1866is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1867
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001868URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001869- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001870- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1871 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1872
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001873Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001874New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001875
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001876Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1877
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001878Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1879
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001880Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1881Apr 18)
1882
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001883Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1884And one for gui_x11.txt.
1885
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001886":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1887finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1888Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1889
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001890Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1891
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001892Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1893
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001894Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1895they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1896
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001897Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1898
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001899Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1900Nov 20)
1901
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001902Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001903Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001904
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001905`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001906(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1907
1908Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1909
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001910BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1911Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1912
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001913Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1914Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1915
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001916Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1917
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001918On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19192012 Jun 19)
1920
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001921'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1922'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1923Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001924Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001925
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001926Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1927New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1928
1929Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1930Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1931
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001932Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1933Jan 19)
1934
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001935Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1936discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1937meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001938
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001939"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001940Oct 26)
1941
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001942Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1943
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001944Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1945
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001946When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1947(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1948
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001949When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1950then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1951from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1952
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001953Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1954":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
195515)
1956
1957Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1958
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001959BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1960cleared. See test64.
1961
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001962On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
196364 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1964right type.
1965
1966string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1967(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1968
1969When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1970(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001971When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1972following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1973(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001974
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001975When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1976doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1977
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001978Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1979
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001980When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1981indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1982the help file.
1983
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001984After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1985Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1986
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001987"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001988
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001989Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1990
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001991Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001992
1993Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19942010 Dec 18)
1995
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001996With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1997number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1998Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1999
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002000Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2001Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2002
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020038 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2004Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2005
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002006Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2007one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2008the match scrolls into view.
2009
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020107 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2011Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2012Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2013
20149 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2015 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2016Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2017
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002018Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2019Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2020
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002021In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2022or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2023sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2024
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002025Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2026Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2027
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002028Wish for NetBeans commands:
2029 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2030
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +020020317.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2032there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2033do?
2034
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002035New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2036- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002037- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002038 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2039
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002040"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20412011 Feb 27)
2042
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002043Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2044^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2045
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002046When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2047exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20489) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2049
2050g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2051the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2052
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002053Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2054crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2055
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002056Regexp engine performance:
2057- Profiling:
2058 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2059 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2060 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2061 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2062 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2063 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2064- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2065- Performance tests:
2066 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2067 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2068 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2069 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2070 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2071 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2072 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2073 'hlsearch'.
2074 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2075 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2076 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2077 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2078
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002079Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2080Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2081
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002082'beval' option should be global-local.
2083
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002084Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002085
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002086setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002087
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002088With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
20892010 Oct 24)
2090
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002091Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2092
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002093When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2094Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2095
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002096":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2097
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002098'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2099
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002100C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2101checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2102Issue 46.
2103
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002104Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2105gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2106
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002107":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2108accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2109
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002110Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2111setwinvar().
2112
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002113Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002114
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002115When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2116instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2117
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002118Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2119Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2120Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002121
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002122Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002123Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2124
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002125CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2126the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002127FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002128
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002129Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2130Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2131
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002132Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2133Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2134
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002135Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2136
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002137Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2138non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002139
2140iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2141Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2142or replace with a character and continue?
2143
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002144Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2145Requires configure check for localtime().
2146Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2147
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002148Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2149
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002150Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2151Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2152path.
2153
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002154Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002155Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002156
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002157'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2158
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002159":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2160like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2161
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002162Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2163https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002164
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002165Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2166
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002167Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2168characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002170Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2171
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002172Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2173 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2174
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002175For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002176line argument -noregister.
2177
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002178When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2179missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2180
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002181When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2182doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002183
2184Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2185(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2186Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2187There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2188Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2189
2190":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2191highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2192to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2193
2194Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2195Probably needs a bit of work.
2196
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002197List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002198Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2199
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002200Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2201
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002202Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2203
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002204Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2205
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002206Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2207on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2208
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002209Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22102009 Jul 18)
2211
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002212Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2213window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2214Needs more work.
2215
2216Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2217
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002218When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2219few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2220
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002221'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002222(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2223
2224Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2225J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2226
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002227When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2228for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2229
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002230":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2231because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2232ex_docmd.c.
2233
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002234Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002235Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2236
2237string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2238for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2239
2240Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2241
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002242Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22432009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2244
2245Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002247Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2248are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2249Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2250Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2251that doesn't have a window.
2252
2253When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2254doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2255
2256getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2257displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2258
2259":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2260
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002261Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2262
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002263Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2264does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2265
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002266Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2267char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2268
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002269This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2270
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002271Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2272messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2273es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
22742009 Jan 26)
2275
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002276When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002277in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2278Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2279
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002280Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2281a modeline.
2282
2283Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2284Sergey Khorev)
2285
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002286Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2287(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2288
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002289shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002290'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2291Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2292unix-like shell?
2293
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002294Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2295register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2296(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2297
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002298Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2299Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2300
2301Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2302make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2303
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002304When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2305still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2306
2307"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2308(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2309
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002310MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2311doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2312probably causes this.
2313
2314'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020023152009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002317Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2318":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2319option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2320is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002321
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002322":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2323first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002324Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002325
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002326Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2327anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2328
2329On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2330doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2331Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2332Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2333
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002334When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2335'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2336fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2337the buffer to be unmodified.
2338Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2339another look at it.
2340
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002341c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2342(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2343
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002344You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2345error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2346Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2347at the other match for 0xBF.
2348
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002349When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2350argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2351
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002352Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2353backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2354
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002355When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2356line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2357
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002358":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2359Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2360
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002361When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2362either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2363put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2364
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002365Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2366Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2367Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2368Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2369(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2370
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002371Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2372
2373ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002374
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002375Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2376(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2377escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2378an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002379This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2380July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002381Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2382work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2383
2384When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
238531)
2386
2387Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2388work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2389Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002390
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002391Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002392multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002393(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2394
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002395Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2396Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2397'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2398
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002399Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2400Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2401
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002402Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2403Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2404
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020024058 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2406 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2407 several).
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +02002408
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002409The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002410 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002411 0x2217, star
2412 0x2500, bar
2413 0x26ab, circle
2414
2415Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2416line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2417
2418GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2419Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2420
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002421C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2422with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2423Try to reproduce at work.
2424
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002425Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2426Is there a way to list all the files first?
2427
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002428Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2429(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2430
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002431Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
24321)
2433
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002434":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2435Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2436
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002437Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002438Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html (link seems dead)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002439
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002440When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2441and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2442
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002443Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2444 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2445
2446New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2447
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002448":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2449a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2450
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002451Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2452other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2453
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002454The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2455appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2456matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2457
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002458When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2459character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2460'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2461(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2462
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002463Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2464Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002465
2466More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2467
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002468Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002469(link seems dead): http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002470
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002471Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2472No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2473
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002474Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2475terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002476
2477Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2478
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002479Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2480but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2481that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002482
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002483Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2484Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002486Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2487popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2488size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2489This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2490
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002491When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2492parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2493neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2494particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2495Jun 3)
2496However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2497the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002498
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002499A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2500Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2501
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002502Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2503Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2504
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002505Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2506switch list is noticed:
2507 switch (i)
2508 {
2509 case 1:
2510 foobar:
2511 }
2512
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002513Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2514
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002515Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2516with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2517go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2518moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2519
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002520Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002521GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002522Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2523argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2524(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2525
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002526Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2527(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2528
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002529Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
25302007 Feb 8)
2531
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002532Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2533set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002534
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002535Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2536
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002537Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2538Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002539New version (link seems dead):
2540http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip
2541(also for other patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002542
2543Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2544Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2545
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002546Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002547label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2548
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002549Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2550with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2551Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002552
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002553Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2554
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002555Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2556Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2557only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2558
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002559Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2560Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002561Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002562properly?
2563
2564Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
25652007 Jun 21)
2566
2567When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2568Jun 18)
2569
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002570C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2571
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002572":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2573
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002574When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002575error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002576
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002577GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002578use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2579
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002580Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2581if_ruby.c.
2582
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002583":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2584
2585The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2586it in keep_msg?
2587
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002588Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002589error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002590name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2591
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002592Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2593longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002594
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002595Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2596Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2597Also for ":w" without a file name.
2598The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002599
2600"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2601Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2602
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002603VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2604directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2605(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2606
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002607VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2608
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002609input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2610name?
2611
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002612Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2613
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002614When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2615(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002616Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002617will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2618
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002619gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2620This also fails with --remote.
2621
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002622When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
26232008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2624all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2625
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002626aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2627
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002628When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2629(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2630
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002631Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2632the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2633
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002634GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2635
2636Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2637Jun 5)
2638
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002639Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
26402008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2641Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2642
2643In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2644but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2645Jul 22)
2646
2647There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2648
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002649Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2650moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2651that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2652
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002653The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2654
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002655When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002656cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2657the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2658
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002659These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2660 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2661 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2662 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2663
2664Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2665partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2666
2667In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2668buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2669reload it then?
2670
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002671For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2672
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002673Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2674Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2675
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002676Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2677 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2678 set background=dark
2679This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2680color is, not reset it.
2681
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002682Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2683start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2684show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2685middle?
2686
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002687Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2688
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002689When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2690current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2691the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2692
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002693When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2694Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2695
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002696Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2697Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2698
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002699A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2700Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2701
2702Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2703Dara, 2006 June 21)
2704
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002705Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2706number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2707
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002708After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2709the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2710
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002711Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002712
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002713Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010027142008 Sep 29)
2715
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002716In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2717check the result of has("patch13").
2718
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002719Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2720restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2721
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002722Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2723and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2724
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002725Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2726put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2727
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002728In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2729can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2730
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002731When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2732differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002733
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002734The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2735be only one.
2736
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002737Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002738"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2739name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2740Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002741
2742Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2743(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2744
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002745Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2746as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2747
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002748Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
274923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002750
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002751":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2752tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2753Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002754
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002755When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2756text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2757latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2758
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002759In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2760VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
27612007 Oct 16)
2762
2763TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2764Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2765
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002766Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002767
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002768When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2769typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2770Sep 3, 11)
2771
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002772":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2773this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2774
2775When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2776Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2777restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2778
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002779Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2780'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2781(Kartik Agaram)
2782
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002783
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002784Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002785- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2786 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2787- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2788 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2789 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2790- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2791 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2792 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002793- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2794- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002795
2796
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002797More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002798- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2799 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002800- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002801- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2802 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002803- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2804- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2805- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2806 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2807 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002808- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002809- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2810 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2811- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2812 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2813- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2814 21)
2815- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2816 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2817- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2818 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02002819- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002820 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002821- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2822 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2823 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2824 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2825 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002826- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002827
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002828Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000028299 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2830 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2831 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2832 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2833 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2834 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2835 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2836 (Alan Schmitt)
2837 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002838 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2839 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000028409 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002841 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028428 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028437 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2844 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2845 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028468 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002847 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020028487 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002849 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2850- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002851 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002852- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2853- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2854 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2855 been given values.
2856 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028577 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2858 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2859- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2860 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2861 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002862 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2863 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2864 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2865 (2003 May 13)
2866 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2867 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002868 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2869 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002870 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2871 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2872 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028737 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2874 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028757 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2876 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028778 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +02002878 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028797 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28808 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2881 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28827 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2883 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028847 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2885- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2886 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2887 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002888- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2889 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2890- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01002891- Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2892 Await response to question to make the register writable.
2893
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002894
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02002895Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
2896- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
2897 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
2898
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002899
2900Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaar71b6d332022-09-10 13:13:14 +01002901- List of common misspellings in English:
2902 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines
2903 German:
2904 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Liste_von_Tippfehlern/F%C3%BCr_Maschinen
2905 There are other languages.
Bram Moolenaar48c3f4e2022-08-08 15:42:38 +01002906- [s does not find missing capital at start of the line. #10838
2907 Probably because the dot at the end of the previous line isn't seen.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002908- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
2909 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
2910 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
2911 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
2912- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
2913- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
2914 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
2915 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
2916 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
2917 downloaded.
2918- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
2919 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
2920- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
2921 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2922- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
2923 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2924- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2925 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
2926 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
2927
2928
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002929Quickfix/Location List:
2930- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
2931 #2999)
2932- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
2933 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
2934 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
2935 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002936- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
2937 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
2938- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
2939 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
2940 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002941- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2942- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
2943 2007 Jan 1)
2944- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2945 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
2946- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2947 errors. How do we get the rest?
29488 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2949 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2950 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2951 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
29527 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02002953 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002954
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002955Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002956- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2957 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029588 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2959 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2960 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2961 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2962 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2963 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029648 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2965 make Vim exit.
29667 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2967 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2968 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
29698 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2970 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2971 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
29726 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2973 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2974 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
29758 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2976 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2977 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2978 names in one buffer???
2979 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2980 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2981 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
29827 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2983 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2984 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002985 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2986 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029877 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2988 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
29897 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029907 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2991 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2992 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2993 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
29947 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
29957 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
29967 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2997 to the match with the tag? Option?
29987 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
29997 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3000 (Sayre).
30017 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3002 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030037 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3004 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3005 match. Nvi can do it too.
30067 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3007 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3008 line 1\ line 2\\
3009 line 2\ line 3\\
3010 . line4/
30116 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3012 the way the shell is started?
30136 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3014 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3015
3016
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003017GTK+ GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030189 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030198 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3020 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3021 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000030228 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3023 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3024 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030259 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3026 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3027 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3028 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003029- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3030 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3031 blocked for now.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003032- Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat,
3033 #7082)
3034- Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
3035 - gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
3036- Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
3037 - Test_setbufvar_options()
3038 - Test_exit_callback_interval()
3039- When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
3040 g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when
3041 the timer expires.
3042- problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width. (Aaron
3043 Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
3044- Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013
3045 May 5)
3046- drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
3047 doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
3048- tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
3049- Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010
3050 Aug 9)
3051- When setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
3052 the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
3053- when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is maximized
3054 the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but doesn't
3055 work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. Also: the window may no longer fit
3056 on the screen, thus the command line is not visible.
3057- Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn
3058 Winckler, 2010 Jun 30)
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003059
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003060
3061Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003062- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3063 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030648 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3065 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003066 Tutorial (link seems dead): http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030676 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3068 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030698 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3070 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3071 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030727 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3073 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3074 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030757 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3076 2004 May 9)
30778 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3078 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3079 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3080 MS-Windows 98?
3081 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3082 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3083 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3084 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030858 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3086 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3087 appears in the right position. (Webb)
30889 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3089 button doesn't give popup menu.
3090 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3091 selection.
3092 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3093 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3094 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
30958 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3096 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3097 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3098 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
30998 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3100 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3101 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031027 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3103 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003104 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031057 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3106 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031076 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
31088 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3109 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3110 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
31118 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3112 know which keyboard is being used?
31137 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3114 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3115 area (Koloseike).
31168 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3117 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3118 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3119 the font name).
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003120- When running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks. Was reported:
3121 cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
3122- Last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
3123 command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003124
3125
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003126Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031276 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3128 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3129 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3130 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3131 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031329 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3133 required and it's missing?
31348 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3135 wrong.
31369 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3137 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010031389 XIM doesn't work properly for Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003139 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3140 flag.
31418 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3142 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3143 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
31448 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
31456 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3146 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3147 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3148 the tooltips work though...
31497 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3150 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
31518 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3152 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3153 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3154
3155
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003156Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003157- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031587 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3159 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031608 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3161 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3162 (Phillipps)
3163
3164
3165GUI:
31669 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3167 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
31689 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003169 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003170 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
31719 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3172 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031738 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3174 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3175 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
31768 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3177 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3178 of where it is processing the output.
3179 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
31808 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3181 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010031828 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000031838 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3184 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3185 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020031868 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031878 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3188 browse().
31898 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3190 use that code? Or use console dialog.
31918 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3192 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031937 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3194 - regexp on/off
3195 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3196 when all buffers/directory is used:
3197 - filter for file name
3198 when directory is used:
3199 - subdirectory on/off
3200 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032018 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3202 to avoid problems.
32038 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3204 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3205 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
32068 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3207 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3208 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
32098 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3210 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032118 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
32127 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3213 visible.
32147 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3215 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
32167 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3217 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
32188 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3219 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
32208 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3221 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3222 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3223 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3224- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
32254 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3226 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3227 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3228
3229
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003230Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000032318 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3232 a good fallback, thus use:
3233 $HOME
3234 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3235 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3236 $USERPROFILE
3237 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3238 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3239 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3240 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032418 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3242 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
32438 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3244 Should work like in the GUI version.
32458 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3246 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
32478 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3248 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
32498 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3250 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3251 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032528 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3253 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3254 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3255
3256
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003257Win32 console:
32589 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3259 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3260 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3261 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3262 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3263 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3264 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3265 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3266 and the file is not saved.
3267 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3268 long name.
32698 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3270 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
32717 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3272 besides the console.
32738 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
32749 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3275 <C-S-i>?
32769 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3277 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
32788 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3279 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003280
3281
3282Amiga:
32838 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3284 sequences.
32859 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3286 backslashes in result.
32878 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3288 all options, using white space separation.
3289
3290
3291Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003292- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032937 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3294 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3295 (Jack)
3296 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032978 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3298 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032998 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
33008 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
33019 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3302 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033039 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003304- Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
3305- Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
3306- Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
3307- Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
3308 try the Cocoa version.
3309- After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
3310 changed or the window is resized.
3311- Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 Mar
3312 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
3313- trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug 1)
3314 Reply by Ben Schmidt.
3315- Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003316
3317
3318"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003319- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3320 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000033219 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3322 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000033239 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003324 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3325 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033268 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3327 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3328 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003329 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033307 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3331 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
33328 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3333 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3334 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033357 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3336 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003337- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3338 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033398 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3340 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3341 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3342 using the horizontal scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033438 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3344 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
33458 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3346 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3347 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003348 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033498 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3350 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3351 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033527 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3353 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3354 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3355 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033567 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3357 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3358 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
33597 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3360 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3361 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
33627 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3363 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033647 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3365 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033669 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3367 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3368 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3369 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3370 script can be called.
33718 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3372 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3373 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033748 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3375 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033768 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003377 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3378 configurable?
33798 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033808 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3381 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020033828 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3383 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033848 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3385 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033869 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3387 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3388 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033897 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033908 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3391 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3392 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000033938 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3394 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003395 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3396 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033978 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3398 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
33999 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3400 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3401 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003402 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034037 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3404 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034057 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3406 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3407 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3408 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034098 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003410 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3411 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3412 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3413 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003414 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3415 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003416 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003417 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003418 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3419 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3420 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3421 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3422 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034238 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3424 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
34258 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3426 in lines that don't extend into the block?
34278 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3428 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3429 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
34308 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3431 'linebreak'.
34328 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3433 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3434 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034359 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3436 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3437 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3438 'magic' in history. (Margo)
34399 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3440 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034419 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
34429 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3443 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3444 cause another redraw, etc.
34458 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3446 must escape special characters in the pattern.
34478 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3448 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3449 ":w!!" for that.
3450 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3451 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003452 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034537 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3454 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3455 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3456 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3457 clipboard)
34587 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3459 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3460 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000034616 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3462 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3463 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034648 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3465 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
34668 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3467 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003468 See https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034698 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3470 (e.g., ":w").
34718 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3472 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034738 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3474 script in do_cmdline().
34758 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3476 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3477 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3478 changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034798 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3480 to skip catch_signals()?
34819 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3482 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3483 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3484 text?
34858 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3486 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
34878 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3488 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
34899 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3490 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3491 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3492 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3493 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
34947 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3495 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3496 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3497 in the list?
34988 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3499 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3500 instead of on button down.
35018 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035028 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3503 character is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035048 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3505 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
35068 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3507 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3508 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3509 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3510 cygwin bash.
35117 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3512 Remember flags for backreferences.
35137 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3514 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
35157 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3516 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
35178 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3518 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
35197 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3520 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035217 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3522 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3523 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
35247 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3525 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003526
3527
3528I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
35299 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3530 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3531 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003532
3533
3534Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003535- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3536 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3537 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003538- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3539 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3540 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3541 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3542 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3543 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003544 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003545- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3546 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003547 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003548 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3549 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3550 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003551- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3552 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3553 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3554 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3555 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3556- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3557 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3558 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3559- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3560 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003561- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003562- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3563 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3564 character gets the highlighting.
3565- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3566 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3567- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3568 (Jennings)
3569- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003570- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003571- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003572 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003573- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3574 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3575 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3576- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3577 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3578 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3579 (Benzinger).
3580- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3581 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3582 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3583- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3584 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3585- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3586 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3587- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3588 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3589 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3590 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3591 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3592 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3593- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3594 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3595 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003596- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3597 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3598 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003599- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3600 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3601 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3602- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3603 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3604- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3605 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003606- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3607 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3608 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3609 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3610 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3611- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3612 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3613 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3614- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3615 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3616 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003617- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3618 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 +00003619- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3620 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3621 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3622 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3623 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3624- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3625 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3626
3627--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3628 *extensions-improvements*
3629
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003630Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3631- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003632 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma-separated as if
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003633 calling a function.
3634 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3635 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003636- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3637 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003638 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003639- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3640 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3641 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3642 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3643 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3644 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003645 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003646- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3647 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3648 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003649- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3650 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036518 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3652 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3653 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3654 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003655- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3656 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003657
3658
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003659Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036608 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3661 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000036628 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3663 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000036648 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3665 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036668 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036679 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3668 - change to cursor position and curswant
3669 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3670 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003671 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036728 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3673 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3674 text.
36758 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
36767 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3677 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
36787 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3679 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003680 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003681- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3682
3683
3684Help:
3685- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3686 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3687- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3688 to the other matches.
3689- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003690- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3691 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003692 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003693 default contents.
3694- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3695 height for the help window (and other windows).
3696- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3697- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3698- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3699
3700
3701User Friendlier:
37028 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3703 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3704 Briscoe)
37058 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
37068 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3707 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3708 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
37098 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3710 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3711- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3712 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +00003713- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..." #9339
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037149 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3715 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3716 item?).
3717 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037188 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000037197 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3720 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3721 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000037228 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3723 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3724 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3725 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003726
3727
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003728Tab pages:
37299 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037307 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3731 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037328 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000037338 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037347 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037357 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003736 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037378 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3738 tab pages.
37397 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3740
3741
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003742Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003743- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003744 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003745- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3746 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3747 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3748- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3749 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003750- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3751 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3752 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003753- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3754 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3755 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003756- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003757 used, which is based on Malaga (link seems dead):
3758 http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/ (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000037598 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3760 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
37618 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3762 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
37638 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3764 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003765 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003766 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3767 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3768 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3769 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003770- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3771 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003772- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003773- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3774 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003775- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003776 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003777- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003778 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003779- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3780 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003781- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3782 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3783- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003784 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003785 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3786 in the affix file separately.
3787 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003788 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003789 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3790 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3791 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3792- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3793 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3794 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3795 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3796 Alternative:
3797 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3798 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3799 affix which is required.
3800- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003801 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003802- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3803 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3804 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003805- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3806 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003807- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3808 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3809- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038108 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3811 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3812 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3813 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003814- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org), (links seem dead):
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003815 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3816 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3817 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038188 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3819 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038208 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
38218 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3822 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038237 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
38248 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3825 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3826 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3827 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003828
3829
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003830Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020038319 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3832 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020038338 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003834 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003835
3836Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003837 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3838 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +01003839- Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
3840 Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
3841 Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
3842 Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
3843- Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
3844- Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
3845 (Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
3846 Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
3847- Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the
3848 line number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
3849- Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe,
3850 2011 Jan 7)
3851- 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session.
3852 (Teemu Likonen, March 19)
3853- With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't
3854 removed. (Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
3855- The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
3856- When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be
3857 folded. Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding,
3858 2010 Jun 9)
3859- When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
3860 indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous
3861 one. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
3862- Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038638 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3864 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020038658 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
3866 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038678 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3868 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3869 user aware of this?
38708 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3871 commands skip over a closed fold.
38728 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
38738 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038747 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003875- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3876 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3877 missing line goes unnoticed.
3878 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003879- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3880 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3881 smoother?
3882- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3883 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003884- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3885 file can contain:
3886 args version.c main.c
3887 edit version.c
3888 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003889- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003890- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3891 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003892- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3893 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003894- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3895 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003896- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003897
3898Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003899- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3900 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3901 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3902 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039039 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3904 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3905 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3906 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020039079 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3908 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3909 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039108 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3911 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3912 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3913 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3914 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3915 item.
39168 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003917 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3918 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039198 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3920 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039218 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3922 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3923 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039247 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3925 so that the user can fix the problem.
39268 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3927 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039289 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020039298 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
39308 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039318 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039327 Searching and composing characters:
3933 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003934 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3935 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039368 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
39378 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020039388 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003939 characters.
39408 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
39418 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3942 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
39437 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3944 'display' option to specify this.
39457 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3946 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3947- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3948 fontselector somehow.
3949- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3950 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3951- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3952 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3953- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3954 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3955 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3956 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3957 if a font exists?
3958- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003959 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003960- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3961 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003962- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003963 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3964 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003965 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003966 Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
3967 Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003968- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3969 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003970 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003971- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003972 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it, this
3973 is now part of gnulib module unilbrk:
3974 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003975 But it's very complicated...
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003976- Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai
3977 Weibull, 2008 May 14).
3978 Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003979
3980
3981Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000039827 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003983- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3984- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3985 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003986- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3987 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003988- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3989- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3990 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003991- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3992 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3994 units as for the margins.
3995- Support right-to-left text?
39968 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3997 color.
3998
3999
4000Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040018 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4002 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
40038 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4004 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
40058 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4006 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000040077 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4008 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040098 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4010 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4011 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040127 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4013 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4014 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040158 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
40169 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4017 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040187 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4019 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000040207 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4021 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040228 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4023 change this for each release.
40248 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4025 pattern, but not in the body.
40268 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4027 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4028 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040298 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010040308 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004031 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4032 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040338 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4034 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
40358 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4036 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004037 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040388 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4039 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4040 used.
40418 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4042 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
40438 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4044 re-insert the [] if possible.
40458 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4046 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000040478 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4048 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4049 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4050 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4051 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040528 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4053 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
40548 Support for deleting syntax items:
4055 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4056 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4057 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
40588 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4059 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4060 a '<'. (Fleiner)
40617 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4062 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4063 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
40647 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4065 detected.
40668 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004067 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040688 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4069 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040708 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
40718 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
40727 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4073 ":mkvimrc".
40748 Improve c.vim:
4075 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4076 "c_strict_ansi".
4077 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
40788 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4079 current line while in Insert mode.
40808 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4081 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
40828 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4083 display position.
40848 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4085 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4086 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
40878 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4088 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4089 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000040907 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4091 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4092 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4093 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4094 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040957 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4096 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4097 E.g. for this html:
4098 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040997 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
41007 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4101 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041027 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4103 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4104 completion?
41058 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4106 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
41077 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4108 select one of the sets.
41098 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4110 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4111 2, etc.
41128 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4113 highlighting (for "." command).
41148 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4115 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
41168 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
41177 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4118 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
41196 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4120 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4121- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4122 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4123- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004124- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4125 (for comment blocks).
4126- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4127 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4128 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4129 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4130 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4131 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4132 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4133 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4134 (Campbell)
4135 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4136 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
41377 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4138 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
41397 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4140 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4141 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
41427 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4143 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4144 messages. And external commands?
41458 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4146 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
41477 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4148 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01004149- Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the
4150 start match is empty. #8449
4151- The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be
4152 useful to support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
4153- Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
4154- Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
4155 highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
4156- patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
4157 Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
4158 Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
4159- Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window
4160 is not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
4161- Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set
4162 to 2, only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman,
4163 2010 Aug 21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
4164- Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
4165 scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
4166 first drawn line. (#8103)
4167- Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
4168- Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb
4169 26)
4170- Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist,
4171 2007 Jul 31)
4172- Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
4173- Open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, resulting
4174 in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
4175- When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is no
4176 search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004177
4178
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004179Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041808 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4181 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004182 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000041837 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4184 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4185 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004186- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000041877 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4188 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041898 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010041908 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4191 can be the plugin name.
4192 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4193 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +010041947 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode, like :def functions.
4195 Possibilities:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +01004197 has('bytecode-1234')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4198 supports the version. Update the code with a command, can be used in
4199 an autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004200 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +01004201 .vim file. Problem: distribution, non-writable directory, etc.
4202 3. Use a cache directory for each user. Disadvantage: cache lookup may
4203 cost more time than bytecode wins.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042047 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4205 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042066 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4207 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042088 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004209 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4210 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004211 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4212 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4213 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004214 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4215 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4216 3 2002
4217 Only add this when also implemented for
4218 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4219 be used.
4220 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004221 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4222 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4223 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4224 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4225 File.Open..." argument.
4226 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4227 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4228 with properties instead.
4229 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4230 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4231 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004232 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004233 crypt() encrypt string
4234 decrypt() decrypt string
4235 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4236 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004237 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004238 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004239 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004240 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004241 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4242 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004243 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4244 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004245 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004246 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4247 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4248 to allow the library to execute a command or
4249 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042507 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4251 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
42528 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4253 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042548 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4255 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042568 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042576 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042588 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4259 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042608 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4261 option or environment variable.
42628 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042638 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004264 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042657 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4266 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042678 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4268 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
42698 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
42708 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4271 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4272 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4273 charwise({expr}).
42747 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4275 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4276 buffer for this?
4277 result = scratch(string, command)
4278 result = apply(string, command)
4279 result = execute(string, command)
4280 "command" would use <> notation.
4281 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
42827 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004283
4284
4285Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000042866 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4287 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4288 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4289 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4290 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4291 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4292 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004293
4294
4295Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042967 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4297 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042987 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4299 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4300 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4301 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043028 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4303 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4304 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4305 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004306 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043078 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
43089 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
43098 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
43107 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4311 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
43128 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4313 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4314 when starting up in a color terminal.
43158 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4316 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043178 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4318 function be improved?
43198 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4320 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4321 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4322 this be improved?
43238 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4324 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000043257 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4326 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043277 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4328 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
43297 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4330 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043317 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4332 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4333 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4334 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4335 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4336 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4337 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043388 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4339 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4340 using strcmp() too often?
43417 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4342 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4343 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4344 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4345 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4346 the two blocks to the memfile block.
43477 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4348 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4349 with an argument that can be messed with.
4350 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4351 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
43527 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4353- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
43548 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4355 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4356- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4357 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4358- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4359- Do profiling on:
4360 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004361 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4362 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4363 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4364 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4365 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4366 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004367 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043687 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4369 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4370 changed).
4371 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4372 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4373- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4374- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4375 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4376- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4377 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4378 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004379- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4380- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4381 cursor is right of the screen.
43828 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4383 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4384
4385
4386Code size:
43878 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4388- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4389 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
43908 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
43918 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4392 it.
43937 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4394 left out.
43958 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4396 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004397
4398
4399Messages:
44008 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4401 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
44028 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4403 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
44048 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4405 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004406- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4407 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4408- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
44099 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4410 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4411 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4412 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4413 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044148 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4415 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
44168 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4417 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4418 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4419 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4420 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4421 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004422- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004423 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044248 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4425 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4426 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4427 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4428 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4429 error messages, printing text, etc.
44308 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4431 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4432 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4433
4434
4435Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004436- screen_line():
4437 - insert/delete character stuff.
4438 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4439- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4440 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4441- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4442 waiting for a character.
44438 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4444 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4445 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004446
4447Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020044488 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044496 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4450- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4451 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4452 windows.
44537 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4454 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4455 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4456- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4457 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4458 (Goldfarb)
4459- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4460 bound windows.
4461- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4462 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004463- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004464- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4465 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4466 of lines but not with a single line).
4467
4468
4469Autoconf:
44708 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
44718 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4472 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4473- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4474 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4475- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4476- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4477- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4478
4479
4480Perl interface:
44818 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044827 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
44837 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
44846 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4485
4486
4487Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020044888 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4489 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044906 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4491 :libload internal-name libname
4492 :libunload internal-name
4493 :liblist
4494 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4495 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4496 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
44976 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4498
4499
4500Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000045019 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4502 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4503 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4504 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4505 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045068 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4507 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4508 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004509 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004510 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000045117 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4512 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4513 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045148 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
45158 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4516 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045177 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4518 window for each tag.
45197 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
45207 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4521 bottom" search message.
45227 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4523 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4524 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004525- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4526- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004527- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4528 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4529 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045307 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4531 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4532 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4533 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
45347 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4535 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4536 :tagargs clear
4537 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4538 matching).
45397 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4540 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4541 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4542 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
45437 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4544 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
45457 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4546 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4547 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004548
4549
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004550Win32 GUI:
45518 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4552 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045538 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4554 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4555 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4556 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4557 common part of the path.
45588 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
45598 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4560 gettext and menus work.
45618 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4562 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004563 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004564 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
45658 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4566 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
45678 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4568 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
45697 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4570 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
45717 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
45727 <Esc> should close a dialog.
45737 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4574 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4575 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4576 prompts.
45777 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4578 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4579 the file added into an already running Vim.
45807 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4581 functions to find the window title.
4582
4583
4584GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045857 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
45868 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
45876 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
45888 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4589 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
45909 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
45917 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
45928 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4593 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
45948 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4595 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4596 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
45978 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4598 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
45998 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4600 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4601 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4602 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046037 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
46048 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4605 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000046067 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4607 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4608 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046098 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
46108 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004611 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046128 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
46138 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
46148 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4615 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4616 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
46177 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4618 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4619 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
46207 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4621 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
46227 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4623 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4624 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4625 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046267 Should support multi-column menus.
4627- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4628 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4629- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
46308 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
46316 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4632 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
46337 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
46347 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4635 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4636 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
46377 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
46388 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4639 name can be chosen free.
46407 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4641 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
46426 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4643 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4644 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4645 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4646 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4647 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4648 things.
46497 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4650 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046517 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004652 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004653- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4654 where it was started from?
46557 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4656
4657
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004658Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +010046599 When triggering WinNew provide the window ID somehow. #10633
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020046609 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4661 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004662- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046638 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4664 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4665 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4666 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
46678 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4668 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000046697 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4670 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4671 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4672 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046737 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046748 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4675 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046768 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4677 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4678 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046797 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4680 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4681 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046828 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4683 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4684 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046858 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4686 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046878 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046886 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4689 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046907 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046917 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004692 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4693 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4694 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046955 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4696 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4697 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
46987 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4699 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4700 file.
47018 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4702 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4703 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004704- Add events to autocommands:
4705 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004706 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4707 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004708 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004709 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004710 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004711 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004712 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4713 the char.
4714 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4715 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4716 file from CVS).
4717 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4718 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4719 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4720 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4721 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4722 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004723 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4724 changes.
Bram Moolenaarb59ae592022-11-23 23:46:31 +00004725 QuickfixList - when any entry in the current list changes or another
4726 list is selected
4727 QuickfixPosition - when selecting another entry in the current quickfix
4728 list
4729
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004730- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004731 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004732 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004733 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4734 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4735 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4736 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4737 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01004738- Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
4739 autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
4740 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
4741 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
4742 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
4743 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
4744 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
4745 The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004746
4747
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004748Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004749- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4750 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004751- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4752 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4753 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4754 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4755 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004756- Ideas from others:
4757 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4758 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4759 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4760 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4761 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4762 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4763 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4764 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4765 Uses Perl for C++.
4766 Uses ctags to find the info:
4767 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4768 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4769 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004770 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4771 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02004772 Emacs (link seems dead):
4773 http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004774 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4775- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4776
4777
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004778Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004779- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4780 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4781- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4782 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4783- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4784- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4785 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4786 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4787- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4788 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4789 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4790- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4791 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4792 to force a string value.
4793- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4794 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4795 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004796- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000047977 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4798 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047997 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4800 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4801 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048028 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4803 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
48049 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4805 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4806 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048078 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4808 - ignore/match case
4809 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048108 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4811 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4812 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4813 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4814 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4815 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048168 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048177 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4818 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048198 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4820 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4821 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4822 Should work for C++ and Java.
4823 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
48247 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
48257 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4826 instead of words.
48278 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
48288 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4829 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
48308 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4831 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004832- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4833 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004834- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4835 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4836 wildcards in the file name)?
4837- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4838- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4839- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4840 be in another file).
4841- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4842- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4843- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4844 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4845- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4846- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4847- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004848- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4849
4850
4851Command line editing:
48527 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4853 line.
48548 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4855 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4856 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4857- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4858 lines wraps to start of line).
4859- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4860 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4861 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4862 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4863 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4864 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4865 cmdwin does now already.
4866 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4867 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4868 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4869 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4870 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4871 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4872 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4873 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4874 Problems:
4875 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4876 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4877 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4878 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4879 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4880 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4881 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4882 character in first column?
4883 - Implementation ideas:
4884 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4885 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4886 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4887 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4888 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4889 Mode.
4890
4891
4892Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004893- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
4894 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
4895- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
4896 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048978 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
48988 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4899 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
49008 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4901 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049028 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4903 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049047 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4905 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004906- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4907- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4908 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049098 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4910 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
49117 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4912 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4913- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4914 identifiers (Webb).
49158 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4916 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
49177 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4918 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4919- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4920 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4921- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4922 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4923 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar47c532e2022-03-19 15:18:53 +00004924- With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
4925 entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe,
4926 2011 Feb 12)
4927- After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting
4928 E33 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'",
4929 the command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
4930- Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now
4931 and then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding
4932 include files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
4933 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
4934 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
4935 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|,
4936 like in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find
4937 very quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier
4938 fix. (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
4939- Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
4940 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
4941- Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through
4942 directory tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a
4943 directory that doesn't contain other directories.
49448 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
4945 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
49468 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
49478 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
4948- Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
4949 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) Works
4950 OK with Vim in an xterm.
4951- If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't
4952 work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004953
4954
4955Command line history:
4956- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4957 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4958 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004959 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004960- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4961 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4962
4963
4964Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000049659 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4966 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4967 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049688 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4969 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4970 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4971 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4972 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049738 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4974 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4975 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049767 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4977 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004978- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049797 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4980 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4981- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4982 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4983 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4984 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4985 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4986 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4987- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4988 Normal mode.
4989- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4990 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4991 are used.
4992- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4993- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4994- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4995
4996
4997'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010049989 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4999 char * veryLongName =
5000 "very long string"
5001 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050028 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050038 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5004 long_type foo =
5005 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050068 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5007 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005008 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050098 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5010 func(
5011 new String[] {
5012 "asdf",
5013 "asdf"
5014 }
5015 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050168 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5017 (Chow Loong Jin)
5018 namespace {
5019 int
5020 func(int arg) {
5021 }
5022 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050236 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5024 func( arg1
5025 , arg2
5026 , arg3
5027 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000050287 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005029 func(
5030 int x) // indent like "(4"
5031 {
5032 if (a
5033 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050349 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5035 if (a)
5036 {
5037 if (b)
5038 {
5039 // {
5040 }
5041 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005042 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5043 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5044 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005045- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005046 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
50477 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5048- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5049 line).
5050- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5051- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5052 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005053- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5054 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5055- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5056 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5057- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5058- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5059 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
50608 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5061 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5062 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5063- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5064- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5065 lines start with "\item".
5066- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5067 /* here is a comment that
5068 is just autoindented, and
5069 nothing else */
5070- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
50717 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5072 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5073 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005074 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005075
5076
5077Java:
50788 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5079 Odendahl?
50808 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5081 "[i" commands and friends.
5082- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5083 (Jason)
5084- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5085 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5086
5087
5088'comments':
50898 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5090 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5091 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5092 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005093 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5094 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050957 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5096 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
50977 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
50986 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5099 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5100 regexp is used.
51018 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5102 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5103
5104
5105Virtual edit:
51068 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051077 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5108
5109
5110Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051118 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051128 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000051138 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005114 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020051158 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005116 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005117 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5118 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020051198 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051208 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5121 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051228 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5123 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5124 the end of the line or before a ".".
51257 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5126 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
51277 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5128 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051296 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
51305 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5131 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5132 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5133 cursor is on.
5134
5135
5136Select mode:
51378 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5138 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
51397 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005140 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051417 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5142 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5143 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5144 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5145 normal_cmd().
5146 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5147 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5148
5149
5150Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020051518 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5152 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005153- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5154 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5155 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005156- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5157 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5158 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051598 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005160 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005161 where needed.
51627 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5163 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
51647 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5165 of each selected line.
51668 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
51678 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5168 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5169 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
51708 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5171 Ben Godfrey)
51727 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5173 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
51747 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5175 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051767 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005177 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005178 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
51798 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5180 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
51817 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5182 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5183 option!
51847 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5185 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5186 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5187 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5188 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5189 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5190 without changing the column.
51916 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051927 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5193 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051946 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5195 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
51966 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051976 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005198 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005199 or other special character.
52006 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5201
5202
5203More advanced repeating commands:
5204- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005205- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005206- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005207 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5208 "y." will repeat last yank.
5209 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5210 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5211 and/or pick an older command.
5212- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5213
5214
5215Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052168 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5217 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5218 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
52198 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
52207 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5221 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052228 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5223 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
52248 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000052257 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052268 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5227 entering search strings.
52288 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5229 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5230 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052318 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5232 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010052337 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052347 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5235 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052366 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5237 abbreviations are to be used.
5238- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5239 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5240 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005241- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5242 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5243 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5244 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5245 Or implicit:
5246 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005247- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5248 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5249 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005250- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5251 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5252- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5253 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
52546 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5255 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5256 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5257 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005258- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5259 non-replace Insert mode?
5260- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005261- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5262- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5263 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5264- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005265 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005266- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5267 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5268- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5269- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5270 ":freekeys".
5271- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5272
5273
5274Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005275- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5276 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5277- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5278 folds when going to another line.
5279 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5280- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5281 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005282- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5283 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5284 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005285- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5286 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5287 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5288 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020052899 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5290 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005291
5292
5293Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010052949 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000052958 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005296 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005297 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005298 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005299 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053009 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5301 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010053028 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5303 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000053048 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5305 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5306 Perl does it this way:
5307 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5308 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5309 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5310 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053118 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5312 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5313 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000053147 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5315 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000053168 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5317 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000053187 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005319 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5320 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5321 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000053227 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005323 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053247 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5325 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053268 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5327 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
53288 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5329 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020053307 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005331 example.
53328 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5333 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5334- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5335 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5336 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5337 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053388 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5339 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5340 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
53417 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5342 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000053437 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5344 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053458 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5346 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053478 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5348 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053498 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5350 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5351 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5352 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005353- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5354 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005355- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5356 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5357- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5358 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5359 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5360 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053618 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5362 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005363- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5364 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053658 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5366 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5367 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005368- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5369 i ignore case
5370 I use case
5371 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5372 v use Vi regexp syntax
5373 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5374 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5375 Perl uses these too:
5376 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5377 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5378 o compile only once (Perl only)
5379 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5380 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5381 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5382 following command.
5383 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5384- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5385 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5386 for search string)?
53877 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5388 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5389- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5390 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5391- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5392 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5393- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5394- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005395 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005396 a for the next file in the argument list
5397 f for file in the buffer list
5398 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005399 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5400 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005401 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5402 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5403- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054047 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005405 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054067 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5407 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5408 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5409 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
54106 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5411 effects.
54127 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5413 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5414 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000054157 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005416 Also ":dselect".
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005417- Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual
5418 selection. Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
5419- Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
5420 /\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
5421- Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett
5422 Stahlman, 2014 Jun 8)
5423- Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega,
5424 2010 Nov 22)
5425- Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin
5426 R. Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
5427- When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it
5428 may result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen,
5429 2009 Apr 16)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005430
5431
5432Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054339 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5434 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5435 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054369 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5437 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020054388 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5439 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054408 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5441 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5442 timestamp?
5443 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5444 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005445- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5446 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005447- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5448 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5449 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
54508 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5451 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5452 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5453 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
54548 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5455 only remember the lines that really changed.
54567 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5457 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5458 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5459 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005460- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5461 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5462- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5463 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5464- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5465 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5466 [-99].
5467- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5468- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005469- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5470 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005471- MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
5472 mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925) Add a flag to
5473 only copy attributes?
5474- undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
5475- After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it
5476 causes corruption. (#6631)
5477- When the computer crashes while writing the undofile, the contents may be
5478 lost. Write to a temp file, fsync and rename. (#8879)
5479- Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
5480- Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426) ex_next()
5481 should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd(). Is there a test for
5482 this?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005483- Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
5484- Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013
5485 oct 3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
5486 Also see #1635.
5487- When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
5488 synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01005489- The undo file name can get too long. (Issue #346)
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005490 For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01005491 Check both for some time for backwards compatibility.
5492 Alternatively: create the directory structure under 'undodir'.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005493- Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
5494 possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
5495- Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian
5496 Brabandt, 2010 Nov 5)
5497- There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to
5498 what was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break
5499 inserted perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
5500- When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted.
5501 Need to handle extra bytes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005502
5503
5504Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055057 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5506 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5507 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5508 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020055098 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005510 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
55118 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5512 inode too.
55137 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005514 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5515 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055167 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5517 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5518- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5519 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5520- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5521 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
55227 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5523 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
55247 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5525 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
55268 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055277 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5528 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055298 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5530 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5531 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005532- When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
5533 jumplist and alternate file.
5534- ":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but
5535 it goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
5536 unlisted. (#4478)
5537- :buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp
5538 error. (#5467)
5539- Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before
5540 and is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
5541- Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If
5542 there is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc.
5543 To be used for git temp files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005544
5545
5546Swap (.swp) files:
55478 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5548 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5549 there are short file name problems.
55508 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5551 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
55528 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
55538 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005554 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005555 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5556 file the same as the actual file?
5557 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055587 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5559 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
55607 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005561 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005562 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5563 enough room.
55647 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5565 or /var/preserve.
5566- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5567 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5568- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005569 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005570- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5571 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5572 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5573 cached list of which line is where.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005574- When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative,
5575 while editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355) Which one should
5576 it be?
5577- When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile.
5578 Then a command can delete it.
5579- In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of
5580 the process that is running. It might actually be some other program,
5581 e.g. after a reboot.
5582- When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to
5583 wait for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
5584 Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
5585- After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
5586 correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
5587- In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about
5588 what each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005589
5590
5591Viminfo:
55927 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5593 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5594 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000055958 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5596 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5597 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055988 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5599 name. (Schild)
56008 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56018 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056028 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056038 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5604 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5605 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5606 this?
56077 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56087 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5609 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56106 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5611 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5612 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5613- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5614 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005615- Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
5616- Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows
5617 about, it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017
5618 Jun 19, #1781)
5619- Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be
5620 read back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
5621- When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and
5622 reading it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
56238 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
5624 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
56258 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
5626 check for file marks. This can be slow.
56278 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
5628 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
5629 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005630
5631
5632Modelines:
56338 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5634 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5635 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005636- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5637 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5638 'shiftwidth'.
5639- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5640 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005641- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5642 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5643 modeline setting.
5644- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5645 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5646- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5647 .cpp files.
5648- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5649 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005650- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005651 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5652
5653
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005654Sessions:
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +01005655- Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
5656 'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative
5657 path. (#4450)
5658- Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
5659 window, not other buffers. (#7532)
5660- Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows
5661 with modified buffers:
5662 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
5663 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
5664 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
5665 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
5666- When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted,
5667 the buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393) Should add
5668 the buffer in hidden state.
5669- When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are
5670 not filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle
5671 deleting the initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
5672- Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not
5673 the normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
5674- Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
5675 (Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
5676- Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a
5677 way that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
5678 ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1) Also: swap files are in
5679 ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
5680- Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until
5681 after loading all files.
5682- Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
5683 (7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056848 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5685 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56867 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5687 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056888 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5689 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056908 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5691 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5692 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056937 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5694 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005695
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005696
5697Options:
56987 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5699 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057008 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01005701 options that are a comma-separated list. The old number values should
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005702 also be supported.
57038 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5704 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5705 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57067 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005707
5708
5709External commands:
57108 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5711 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57124 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5713 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5714 -f).
57154 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57164 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5717 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57184 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5719
5720
5721Multiple Windows:
57227 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57238 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5724 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57257 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5726 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5727 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057287 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5729 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057307 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5731 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057326 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5733 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005734 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005735 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57367 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5737 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5738 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5739 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5740- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5741 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5742 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5743 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5744
5745
5746Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057478 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057488 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5749 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057508 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 +000057518 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5752 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57538 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5754 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5755 the mark was set.
57567 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5757 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5758 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5759 ":browse marks"?
57606 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057617 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5762 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57637 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5764 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57657 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5766 command).
57677 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5768 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5769 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5770 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57715 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5772 mappings.
57736 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5774 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5775 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5776
5777
5778Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057797 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005780 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005781- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5782 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057838 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057847 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5785 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5786
5787
5788Writing files:
5789- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5790 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5791 shortname conversion.
57928 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57938 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5794 file.
57958 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5796 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5797 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057986 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5799 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58006 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5801 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58026 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5803 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058048 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005805 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58067 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5807 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010058087 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005809 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5810 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5811 waiting for a character to be typed).
58128 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5813 line of the window, like "[time]".
5814 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5815 Automatic and/or with a command.
5816
5817
5818Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058198 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5820 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058218 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005822 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5823- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5824- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58258 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5826 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005827- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005828 :s///N substitutes N times.
5829- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5830 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5831 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58327 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5833 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5834 last line column 5.
58355 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5836 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5837 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5838 (Stanislav Sitar)
5839
5840
5841Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058428 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58437 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58448 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5845 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5846 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005847- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5848- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5849 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5850- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5851- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5852
5853
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005854Argument list:
58556 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5856 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5857 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58586 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5859
5860
5861Registers:
58628 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058638 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5864 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5865 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005866- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5867 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5868- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5869 leader when line wraps?
5870- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5871 line in the range.
5872- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5873 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58748 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5875 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005876- In Select mode the deleted text always goes into the unnamed register.
5877 Use CTRL-R to specify the register to use. (#9531)
5878- When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
5879 register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
5880 (#6435)
5881- Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi,
5882 2018 Apr 26, #2849)
5883- Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
5884 registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
5885- With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for
5886 empty register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
5887- Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked
5888 text part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
58896 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5890 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5891 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5892 Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005893
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005894
5895Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058968 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058978 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058987 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58997 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005900- In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping
5901 through the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
5902
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005903
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005904Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059057 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5906 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5907 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5908 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5909 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5910 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5911 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005912 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059137 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5914 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059157 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5916 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059178 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5918 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059197 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5920 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5921 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059227 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5923 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59248 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059257 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5926 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59278 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5928 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059296 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059308 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5931 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5932 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5933 in this Vim.
59348 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005935 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059368 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5937 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5938 have it apply to the following command.
59398 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5940 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5941 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5942 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059437 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5944 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059457 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5946 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5947 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5948 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059496 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59508 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59519 Support ACLs on more systems.
59527 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5953 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059547 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5955 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5956 (truncated to fit in the space).
59577 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59588 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59598 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5960 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059617 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005962 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59637 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5964 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059657 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059667 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59677 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059688 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59698 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5970 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5971 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5972 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59738 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059748 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059758 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5976 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5977 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5978 does something like this. (Shah)
59797 Use growarray for replace stack.
59807 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5981 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59823 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059837 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5984 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059857 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5986 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005987- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5988- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5989- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5990- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59917 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5992 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5993- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5994 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005995- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005996- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5997 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5998- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5999 call "play newbeep.au").
6000- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6001 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6002 (Bhatt).
6003- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6004 blockwise registers).
6005- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6006 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6007- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6008 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6009 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6010 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006011- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060127 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6013 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6014- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6015 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6016 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6017 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6018 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060198 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6020 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060218 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6022 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6023 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6024 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6025 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6026- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02006027- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060287 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6029 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6030- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6031 not in column 1.
60326 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6033 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60347 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6035- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006036- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006037 :redir #> bufname
6038 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006039- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6040 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006041- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6042 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6043 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60446 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6045 console? (Klaus Hast)
6046- Add :delcr command:
6047 *:delcr*
6048 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6049 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6050 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6051 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6052 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006053 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006054- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6055- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6056 characters from 'isprint'.
6057- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6058- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6059 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6060- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6061 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6062 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6063- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6064- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6065 Nvi).
6066- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6067 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60687 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6069- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6070 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60716 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6072- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6073 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6074 macro).
6075- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006076- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6077 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6078- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60798 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006080- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6081- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6082- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6083 if it is not the first or last window.
6084- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6085 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60867 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6087 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6088 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6089- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6090- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006091 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006092 many percent down the windows).
6093- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6094 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +00006095 line? #754 Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006096 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6098 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6099- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6100 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6101- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6102- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6103- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6104 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061058 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6106 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6107 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6108 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6109 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006110- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6111 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6112- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006113 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6114- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006115 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6116 (Webb).
6117- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006118 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006119- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6120 hex codes like 0xff).
6121- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6122 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6123 the last TYPED command.
6124- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6125- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6126- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6127 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006128- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061298 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6130 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6131 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006132- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006133 trailing '.'.
6134- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6135 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6136 find_file_in_path().
6137- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6138 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6139- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6140- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6141 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6142- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006143 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006144- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6145 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6146 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006147- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6148- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6149- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6150 to the minimal size.
6151- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6152- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6153- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6154- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6155- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006156- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6157 entered)?
6158- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6159 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006160- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006161- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6162- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6163- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6164- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6165- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6166 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006167- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061688 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6169 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6170 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6171 or in octal.
61727 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6173 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006174- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006175 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6176- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6177- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6178 insert line command).
6179- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6180- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6181- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6182- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6183- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6184 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006185- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006186 yet.
6187- Implement 'redraw' option.
6188- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6189 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061907 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6191 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006192 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6193 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061948 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6195 do it.
6196- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6197- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6198 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6199- Add text justification option.
6200- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6201- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6202 off".
6203- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6204- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6205- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006206 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006207- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006208- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006209- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6210 commands.
6211- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6212- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6213- :table command (Webb)
6214- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006215- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6216- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6217- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6218- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6219- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6220 (Demirel).
6221- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6222- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6223 for use in macro's and the like.
6224- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006225 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006226- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006227 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006228- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006229 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6231- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6232 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006233- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006234 mkopttab to make option table?
6235- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6236 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6237- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6238 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006239- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006240 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6241- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6242 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006243- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062448 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6245 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6246 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6247 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6248 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062498 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6250 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6251 (Netherton)
62526 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6253 space after "(", for example.
62545 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6255 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6256 (Servatius Brandt)
6257
6258
6259From Elvis:
6260- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6261- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006262- Search patterns:
6263 \@ match word under cursor.
6264 but do:
6265 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6266 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62678 ":window" command:
6268 :win + next window (up)
6269 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6270 :win - previous window (down)
6271 :win -- idem, wrapping
6272 :win nr to window number "nr"
6273 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62747 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6275 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6276
6277
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006278From xvi:
6279- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6280- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6281
6282
6283From vile:
6284- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6285- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6286 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6287
6288
6289Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006290- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6291 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006292 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006293 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6294 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006295- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6296 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6297- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6298 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6299 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6300 current layout mirrored.
6301- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6302- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6303 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6304- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6305- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6306 font in each top-level window.
6307- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6308- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6309- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6310- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6311 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006312- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6313 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6314- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6315 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63164 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6317 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6318 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6319 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006320 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006321 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6322 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6323- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6324 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6325 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6326
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006327vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006328vim: set fo+=n :