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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010041Mapping with modifier is not recognized after a partial mapping. Probably
42because the typeahead was simplified when looking for a matching mapping.
43Need to somehow undo the simplification. #12002
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +000044
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +010045Windows scroll when using the autocmd window. #12085
46in restore_snapshot_rec() restore more values from the snapshot, instead of
47calling frame_new_height() and frame_new_width(), especially w_topline and
48w_skipcol.
49
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010050Check places that source "path/*.vim" to not match other extensions, e.g.
51.vim9, on MS-Windows (short file name match, gets expanded to long file name).
52E.g. for startup files, plugins, packs, etc.
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54When a help item can't be found, then open 'helpfile'. Search for the tag in
55that file and gtive E149 only when not found. Helps for a tiny Vim installed
56without all the help files.
57
58Virtual text problems:
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010059- Virtual text aligned "above": Wrong indentation when using tabs (Issue
60 #12232)
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010061- truncated Virtual text below an empty line causes display error #12493
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Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010063When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
64highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
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Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010066With 'smoothscroll' set and "lastline" in 'display', moving the cursor to a
67wrapping line that makes the display scroll up may scroll much more than
68needed, thus jump-scrolling. (part of issue 12411)
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +000069Errors when running tests with valgrind:
70- test_codestyle.vim: e.g.:
mikoto2000166f89e2024-09-26 15:52:22 +020071 command line..script /home/mool/vim/vim91/src/testdir/runtest.vim[569]..function RunTheTest[52]..Test_test_files line 6: keycode_check.vim: space before tab: Expected 0 but got 7
72 command line..script /home/mool/vim/vim91/src/testdir/runtest.vim[569]..function RunTheTest[52]..Test_test_files line 10: setup.vim: trailing white space: Expected 0 but got 23
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +000073- test_gui.vim:
74 Found errors in Test_gui_mouse_event():
75
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010076When every block in if/elseif ends in "throw" or "return" code following after
77"endif" should give an "unreachable code" error.
78
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +000079Upcoming larger works:
80- Make spell checking work with recent .dic/.aff files, e.g. French. #4916
81 Make Vim understand the format somehow? Search for "spell" below.
82 Make sure suggestions are speedy, also with composed words (German).
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010083- Make syntax highlighting faster and better.
84 Add a generic mechanism to test a syntax plugin: An input file for the
85 filetype and a screendump of expected result. With a way to specify the
86 setup (global variables) and another dump file from that.
87 Discuss alternatives for using other grammars (treesitter, TextMate).
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +000088 - Possibly conversion to Vim syntax rules.
89 - Other mechanism than group and cluster to nest syntax items, to be used
90 for grammars.
91 - Possibly keeping the parsed syntax tree and incremental updates.
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +000092 - tree-sitter doesn't handle incorrect syntax (while typing) properly.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +010093 - NeoVim uses treesitter, what can we learn from that?
94 - Vscode is asked to switch to treesitter:
95 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140
96 - Vscode uses TextMate. #9087 - Other people don't like it.
97 https://github.com/icedman/vim-textmate
98 - sublime grammar? Hugo mentions it's a moving target #9087
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +000099 - Make clear how it relates to LSP.
100 - example plugin: https://github.com/uga-rosa/dps-vsctm.vim
Bram Moolenaarf269eab2022-10-03 18:04:35 +0100101
Bram Moolenaar9b03d3e2022-08-30 20:26:34 +0100102
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700103Further Vim9 improvements:
Yegappan Lakshmanane750f8c2023-08-24 07:07:05 -0700104- Classes and Interfaces. See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100105 - Getting member of variable with "any" type should be handled at runtime.
106 Remove temporary solution from #12096 / patch 9.0.1375.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100107 - "obj.Method()" does not always work in a compiled function, assumes "obj"
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100108 is a dictionary. #12196 Issue #12024 might be the same problem.
109 Issue #11822: any.Func() can be a dict or an object call, need to handle
110 this at runtime. Also see #12198 for an example.
111 Possibly issue #11981 can be fixed at the same time (has two examples).
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700112 - Forward declaration of a class? E.g. for Clone() function.
113 Email lifepillar 2023 Mar 26
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000114 - how about lock/unlock?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000115 - For chaining, allow using the class name as type for function return
116 value.
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700117 - Implement "specifies" interface
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000118 - Implement generics
Yegappan Lakshmanane750f8c2023-08-24 07:07:05 -0700119 - Add "assignable" (class or child)?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000120 - More efficient way for interface member index than iterating over list?
121 - a variant of type() that returns a different type for each class?
122 list<number> and list<string> should also differ.
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000123- Promise class, could be used to wait on a popup close callback?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000124- class local to a function
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000125- Use Vim9 for more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200126- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking.
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +0200127- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
128 has(featureName), len(someString)
129- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Yegappan Lakshmanan563e6442023-12-05 08:19:06 -0800130- The use of the literal value "null" and the type specific "null_xxx"
Yegappan Lakshmanan912fbaf2024-10-27 20:46:42 +0100131 values is confusing (#13433, #11770).
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100132
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000133Information missing in terminfo:
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100134- Codes used for focus gained and lost termcodes are hard-coded in
135 set_termname(), not named.
136- t_fe enable focus-event tracking
137- t_fd disable focus-event tracking
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000138- Accept "hyper" and "meta" modifiers (16 and 32) from Kitty like Meta?
139 8 is actually "super".
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000140- t_RV request terminal version string; xterm: "\033[>c"
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000141 change in terminfo for "RV" uses the wrong escape sequence 7 - 14 Jan only
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100142- Codes for <PasteStart> t_PS and <PasteEnd> t_PE; with bracketed paste:
143 t_BE and t_BD.
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000144Modifiers for various keys
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000145- flag to indicate "xterm compatible modifiers" ?
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000146Underline and similar:
147- t_AU - Set underline color: like "AF" and "AB" entries.
148- t_Ce undercurl and underline end
149- t_Cs undercurl (curly underline) mode
150- t_Us double underline mode
151- t_ds dotted underline mode
152- t_Ds dashed underline mode
153- t_Te strikethrough end
154- t_Ts strikethrough mode
155Cursor codes: |termcap-cursor-shape|
156- t_RC request terminal cursor blinking
157- t_RS request terminal cursor style
158- t_VS cursor normally visible (no blink)
159- t_SI start insert mode (bar cursor shape)
160- t_SR start replace mode (underline cursor shape)
161- t_EI end insert or replace mode (block cursor shape)
162- t_SC set cursor color start
163- t_EC set cursor color end
164- t_SH set cursor shape
165State requests:
166- t_RF request terminal foreground color
167- t_RB request terminal background color
168Less important (not needed for regular editing):
169- t_IS set icon text start
170- t_IE set icon text end
171- t_ST save window title to stack
172- t_RT restore window title from stack
173- t_Si save icon text to stack
174- t_Ri restore icon text from stack
175- t_WP set window position (Y, X) in pixels
176- t_GP get window position (Y, X) in pixels
177- t_WS set window size (height, width in cells)
178Vim internal, but there should be a terminfo entry for these:
179- t_8f set foreground color (R, G, B) in printf() format
180- t_8b set background color (R, G, B) in printf() format
181- t_8u set underline color (R, G, B) in printf() format
182Probably Vim internal, not in terminfo:
183- t_TE end of "raw" mode
184- t_TI put terminal into "raw" mode
185- t_RK request terminal keyboard protocol state; sent after |t_TI|
186Already working, not properly documented:
187- t_u7 request cursor position
188
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200189Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100190- Add a function to redraw a specific popup window. Esp. to be used when
191 editing the command line, when screen updating doesn't happen. (Shougo)
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100192 #10210 Example that shows the need on the issue.
193 Probably need to update all popup windows (they may overlap)
Bram Moolenaarf269eab2022-10-03 18:04:35 +0100194 If the display is scrolled need to redraw everything later.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200195- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
196 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
197 current window.
198 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
199 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200200- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
201 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100202- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200203- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
204 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100205- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
206 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
207 the way. (#5737)
208 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100209- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200210- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
211 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100212- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
213 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
214- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200215- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200216 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100217- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
218 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100219- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200220
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100221'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200222- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
223 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
224- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200225- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200226- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
227 isn't one?
228 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
229
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200230Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100231- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200232- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100233- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200234
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200235Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100236- Add a mechanism for configuration. Instead of several global variables use
237 a dictionary. Use callbacks for some things, e.g. opening a debug window in
238 a certain position.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200239- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100240- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
241 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100242- Use the optional token on requests, match the result with it. #10300
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200243- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200244- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200245 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
246 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100247- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100248- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
249 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100250 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100251 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200252
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200253Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100254- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200255- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200256- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
257 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
258 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100259- GUI: cursor color is not updated when going to Terminal-Job mode. #12328
260- GUI: cursor color is not updated when switching between tabs with a key.
261 #12329
262- GUI: cursor color is not updated when switching between tabs with a mouse
263 click. #12330
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200264- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
265 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
266 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
267 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200268- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
269 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100270- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
271 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200272 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
273 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100274 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100275- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100276- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
277 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200278- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200279- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
280 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
281- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
282 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200283- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
284 is disabled.
285- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
286- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
287 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200288- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
289 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
290 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100291- Redrawing is slow with Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200292- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
293 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
294- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
295 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200296
Bram Moolenaar1b5f03e2023-01-09 20:12:45 +0000297Patch adds showcmd() function #11708
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000298
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100299Cursor is after the end of the line: #12137.
300
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100301Crash when a variable is removed while listing variables (Issue #11435)
302
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100303Problem with Visual highlight when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
304#11272
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100305
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100306'cindent': compound literal indented wrong. Check for " = " before "{"?
307#12491
308
309GUI Scroll test fails on FreeBSD when using Motif. See FIXME in
310Test_scrollbars in src/test_gui.vim
311
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100312Support dark mode for MS-Windows: #12282
313
314Remote command escapes single quote with backslash, should be doubling the
315single quote in vim_strsave_escaped_ext() #12202.
316
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100317Can deref_func_name() and deref_function_name() be merged?
318
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100319Using :global with a pattern containing \zs doesn't use the line where \zs
320matches but the start of the pattern. #3695 If there is a useful application
321for this, it can be made to work by changing the call to ml_setmarked():
322 ml_setmarked(lnum + regmatch.startpos[0].lnum);
323
Bram Moolenaar921bde82022-05-09 19:50:35 +0100324After patch 8.2.4915 w_botline is computed much more often. Can this be
325reduced?
Bram Moolenaarfd31be22022-01-16 14:46:06 +0000326
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100327When 'delcombine' is set a put after "x" includes the base character and all
328combining characters. (Ron Aaron, 2023 Apr 10)
329
Bram Moolenaar0daafaa2022-09-04 17:45:43 +0100330Add BufDeletePost. #11041
331
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000332Add winid arg to col() and charcol() #11466 (request #11461)
333
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100334'switchbuf' set to "newtab" does not work for ":cfirst" when in the quickfix
335window. #12436
336
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100337When :argument has a non-number argument, use it like :buffer to find the
338argument by name. #12272
339
340Fold unexpectedly closed when inserting fold marker with CTRL-V (Issue #12320)
341
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000342Can we make 'noendofline' and 'endoffile' visible? Should show by default,
343since it's an unusual situation.
344- Show 'noendofline' when it would be used for writing ('fileformat' "dos")
345 with an upside down exclamation mark? NonText highlighting.
346- Show 'endoffile' when it would be used for writing ('fileformat' "dos") with
347 "CTRL-Z", NonText highlighting.
348- Add 'fillchars' items to change this, default behavior like:
349 noeol:¡
350 eof:CTRL-Z
351
Bram Moolenaar9fbdbb82022-09-27 17:30:34 +0100352Test property disappears when using CR twice in a row. OK when some text was
353entered. (#11151)
354
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000355Add 'keywordprg' to various ftplugin files:
356https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/5566
357
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000358PR #11579 to add visualtext(), return Visually selected text.
359
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100360PR #12032: Support Python 3 stable ABI.
361
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100362PR #11860: Add more info to 'colorcolumn': display a character and highlight
363for each separate entry. Disadvantage: option value gets very complicated
364with multiple entries, e.g. every 8 columns.
365
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000366Stray characters in the shell #11719, caused by requesting a response for:
367- XT key sequences
368- Whether modifyOtherKeys is active
369- Whether kitty keyboard protocol is active
370Can we not request XT key sequences, or reduce them drastically?
371
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000372Issue #10512: Dynamic loading broken with Perl 5.36
373Damien has a patch (2022 Dec 4)
374
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100375Request #11965: Allow several "%=" items in 'statusline', makes it possible
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000376to have text in the center.
377
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000378Add some kind of ":whathappend" command and functions to make visible what the
379last few typed keys and executed commands are. To be used when the user
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000380wonders what went wrong. Could also be used for statistics #12046.
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000381- typed keys - Normal mode command - like what is recorded in a register and
382 displayed by 'showcmd'.
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000383- register used - #12063
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000384- executed command lines
385- with more verbosity: what scripts/functions/autocommands were executed
386
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100387NFA regexp does not handle composing characters well: #10286
388 [ɔ̃] matches both ɔ and ɔ̃
389 \(ɔ\|ɔ̃\) matches ɔ and not ɔ̃
390
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000391Is there a way to make 'autowriteall' make a clean exit when the xterm is
392closed? (Dennis Nazic says files are preserved, okt 28). Perhaps handle TERM
393like HUP?
394
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000395Better terminal emulator support:
396 > Somehow request the terminfo entry from the terminal itself. The $TERM
397 value then is only relevant for whether this feature is supported or not.
398 Replaces the xterm mechanism to request each entry separately. #6609
399 Multiplexers (screen, tmux) can request it to the underlying terminal, and
400 pass it on with modifications.
401 How to get all the text quickly (also over ssh)? Can we use a side channel?
402 > When xterm supports sending an Escape sequence for the Esc key, should
403 have a way to request this state. That could be an XTGETTCAP entry, e.g.
404 "k!". Add "esc_sends_sequence" flag.
405 If we know this state, then do not pretend going out of Insert mode in
406 vgetorpeek(), where kitty_protocol_state is checked.
407 > If a response ends up in a shell command, one way to avoid this is by
408 sending t_RV last and delay starting a shell command until the response
409 has been seen.
410 > Can we use the req_more_codes_from_term() mechanism with more terminals?
411 Should we repeat it after executing a shell command?
412 Can also add this to the 'keyprotocol' option: "mok2+tcap"
413 > In the table of terminal names pointing to the list of termcap entries,
414 add an optional additional one. So that "xterm-kitty" can first load
415 "xterm" and then add "kitty" entries.
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000416
Bram Moolenaar2ecbe532022-07-29 21:36:21 +0100417Using "A" and "o" in manually created fold (in empty buffer) does not behave
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000418consistently (James McCoy, #10698)
Bram Moolenaar2ecbe532022-07-29 21:36:21 +0100419
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100420In a timer callback, when using ":echo" and then input() the message is
421overwritten. Could use ":echowin" and call redraw_cmd() in get_user_input().
422#11299
423
424Syntax include problem: #11277. Related to Patch 8.2.2761
425
Bram Moolenaar05a80612022-08-01 15:09:53 +0100426To avoid flicker: add an option that when a screen clear is requested, instead
427of clearing it draws everything and uses "clear to end of line" for every line.
Bram Moolenaar48c3f4e2022-08-08 15:42:38 +0100428Resetting 't_ut' already causes this?
Bram Moolenaar05a80612022-08-01 15:09:53 +0100429
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100430Instead of prefixing "INTERNAL" to internal messages, add a message in iemsg()
431and siemsg() and translate it. Messages only given to them don't need
432translation.
433
Bram Moolenaarb529cfb2022-07-25 15:42:07 +0100434When scheme can't be found by configure there is no clear "not found" message:
435 configure:5769: checking MzScheme install prefix
Bram Moolenaarb59ae592022-11-23 23:46:31 +0000436 configure:5781: result:
Bram Moolenaarb529cfb2022-07-25 15:42:07 +0100437
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100438Can "CSI nr X" be used instead of outputting spaces? Is it faster? #8002
439
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100440Typed keys invisible after calling interrupt() from a timer. #10631
441
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100442With a window height of 6 and 'scrolloff' set to 3, using "j" does not scroll
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100443evenly. (#10545) Need to handle this in scroll_cursor_bot().
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100444
Bram Moolenaar89a9c152021-08-29 21:55:35 +0200445Idea: when typing ":e /some/dir/" and "dir" does not exist, highlight in red.
446
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100447":set shellpipe&" and ":set shellredir&" should use the logic from
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200448initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
449this.
450
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100451Add a diff() function to use the built-in diff support in a script.
452#12321 Is the returned value in the right form now?
453
454Support translations for plugins: #11637 PR: #12447
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000455- Need a tool like xgettext for Vim script, generates a .pot file.
456 Need the equivalent of _() and N_(), perhaps TR() and TRN().
457- Instructions for how to create .po files and translate.
458- Script or Makefile to generate .mo files.
459- Instructions and perhaps a script to install the .mo files in the right
460 place.
461- Add variant of gettext() that takes a package name.
462
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100463With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
464(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
465need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
466IDEA: when drawing the text, store the text byte index in ScreenLinesIdx[].
467When converting screen column to text position use this.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100468The line number can be obtained from win->w_lines[].
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100469
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100470test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200471
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100472Can we add highlighting to ":echowindow"?
473
Bram Moolenaar47003982021-12-05 21:54:04 +0000474Information for a specific terminal (e.g. gnome, tmux, konsole, alacritty) is
475spread out. Make a section with copy/paste examples of script and pointers to
476more information.
477
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200478Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
479(#8179)
480
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000481":filter set termcap" only filters terminal codes, not keys. (#9297)
482
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100483Add an option to restrict 'incsearch' to not scroll the view. (Tavis Ormandy)
484
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000485Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
486
Bram Moolenaar519cc552021-11-16 19:18:26 +0000487When 'term' starts with "foot" then default t_TI and t_TE to the values used
488for the builtin xterm termcap.
489
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100490Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100491(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100492Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
493interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000494New English spell files also have very slow suggestions.
Bram Moolenaar9fbdbb82022-09-27 17:30:34 +0100495
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100496When 'spelloptions' is "camel" then zG doesn't work on some words.
497(Gary Johnson, 17 Oct 2022)
498
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100499SpellCap doesn't show below a closed fold. #12420
500
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100501'cdpath' problems:
502- Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
503- Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME.
504 (2006 Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100505
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200506Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left.
507Also for a block selection. #8558
508
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000509When using dictionary insert completion with 'ignorecase', the leading capital
510in a word should be preserved.
511
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200512Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
513to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
514Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
515inconsistent with the documentation.
516
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100517When 'wildignore' has an entry ending in "/*" this means nothing matching the
518path before it will be added. When encountering a directory check this and if
519there is a match do not scan the directory (possibly speeds up :find a lot).
520#12482
521
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100522globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all? (related to #8350)
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200523
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100524mksession uses :buffer instead of :edit in one place but not another. #10629
525
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200526Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
527with 'termguicolors'. #1740
528
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200529Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200530
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100531Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
532
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200533Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
534changes.
535
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100536Add ??= operator, "a ??= b" works like "a = a ?? b". #10343
537
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100538When ":redir" is used while already active, the previous one is ended. But
539when redirecting to a local variable (function or script) storing the value
540won't work. At least give an error. Is there a way to make it work?
541#10616
542
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000543Completion for ":runtime" should show valid values, not what's in the current
544directory. (#11447)
545
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100546Add a "description" property to mappings. #12205
547
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200548Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
549This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
550to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
551
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200552Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
553Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
554
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200555Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
556Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
557
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000558Add a v:register_used variable, which has the name of the register used for
559the last command, e.g. put. #12003
560
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200561Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
562time bound navigation, like with undo?
563
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100564For testing, make a copy of ml_line_ptr instead of pointing it into the data
565block, so that valgrind can do out of bounds check. Set ML_LINE_DIRTY flag or
566add ML_LINE_ALLOCED.
567
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100568Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
569 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
570 aaa
571 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
572 aaa bbb
573Should also work without any group:
574 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
575 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
576
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200577Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position
578of submatches. #8355
579
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200580Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200581Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200582(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
583Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
584- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
585 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
586 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
587- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
588 covered by the above change.
589So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
590same thing.
591Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100592Perhaps also related: #5147
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200593
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200594Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
595Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200596
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200597Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
598Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
599After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
600work.
601
602Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
603autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200604
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000605Using a search pattern containing "\%V" and 'hlsearch' set keeps old matches
606when the Visual area changes. #11694. Do a redraw when starting a Visual
607selection?
608
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200609Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character.
610Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out.
611(#8288)
612
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200613Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
614 replace this:
615 let left = GetLeftFunc()
616 let right = GetRightFunc()
617 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
618 by:
619 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200620Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
621
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200622Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
623
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100624":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
625
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200626Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
627(#6539)
628
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100629File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
630
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100631A syntax plugin cannot use autocommands, it could be sourced from setting
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100632'syntax' in a modeline. Add a function that indicates whether "secure"
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100633and/or "sandbox" are set.
634
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200635Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
636character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100637Auto-formatting comments joins a following non-comment line when the comment
638ends in a space. (Adam Levy, 18 Oct 2022)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200639
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100640When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
641(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
642
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200643With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
644'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100645
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200646Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
647which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
648#6127
649
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200650Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
651
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200652When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
653":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
654Might be related to #6088.
655
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200656Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
657(#6919)
658
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200659When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
660Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
661(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
662
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100663Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
664(Paul Jolly, #5656)
665Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100666 Later more requests for what to track.
667 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
668 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
669 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100670BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100671Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100672
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200673Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
674
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200675Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
676
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100677:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
678Dec 19)
679
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200680Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
681Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
682
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100683Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
684May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200685Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
686remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100687Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200688
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100689When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
690the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
691
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200692Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100693Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
694in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200695Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
696(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200697
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200698Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
699that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
700Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100701
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100702Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100703
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200704":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
705find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
706
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200707Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
708
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100709Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
710
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100711"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
712
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200713Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
714Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
715
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100716Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
717
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200718When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
719the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
720
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200721Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
722(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
723
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200724When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
725default one. #4698
726
727When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
728with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
729
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100730Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200731Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100732
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200733Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200734fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
735
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200736Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200737
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200738Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
739- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
740- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100741- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200742
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100743Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200744Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100745
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100746When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
747when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
748gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
749input buffer. (#5302)
750
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200751Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200752
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100753Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
7542007 Feb 18)
755Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
756
757Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
758Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
759
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200760Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
761
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200762Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200763Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
764Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200765
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200766Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
767files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
768Include part of #3242?
769
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100770Patch for different behavior of text objects with quotes: #11976
771Is this actually better?
772
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200773Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
774Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
775Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
776
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200777Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
778t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000779Also make 'scrollopt' tab-local, remove "hor" only for the current tab page.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200780
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100781Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
782Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
783
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200784'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
785
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100786Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
787
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200788Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
789
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100790When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
791in a long line. #5189
792
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200793The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
794Give a few examples. (#4288)
795
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200796Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200797work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200798
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02007997 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
800 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
801 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200802Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200803
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100804Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
805read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
806be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
807
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200808Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
809
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200810Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
811
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100812Color schemes:
813NOTE: modernizing the default colorschemes _AND_ introducing new ones is now
814a project in its own right: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes. Feel free to
815reach out if you want to lend a hand.
816- Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
817 https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
818- Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
819 - 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 +0200820http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100821- Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
822 - monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
823 - seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
824 - gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
825 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
826 - janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
827 - apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
828- Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
829 - [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
830 - [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
831- Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
832 - Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200833
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100834Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
835Mar 5)
836
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200837Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
838on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
839
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200840Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
841in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
842buffer didn't change at all.
843
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100844When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
845But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
846similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
847
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200848C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
849(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
850
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100851Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
852added?
853
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200854Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
855negative. (see #4326)
856
857'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
858`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
859tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
860:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
861
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100862When opening a file, allow for specifying the initial column position:
863 vim +12:5 file.txt line 12 column 5
864 :edit +12:5 file.txt
865Should probably use the column as the character index.
866
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200867This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
868 vim: syn=nosyntax
869
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100870Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
871#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100872Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
873Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
874balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
8752018 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100876
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200877More warnings from static analysis:
878https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200879
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200880Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
881
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200882Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
883internals of the dict structure.
884
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100885nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
886
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200887Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
888change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
889them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
890
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100891When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
892case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
893For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
894
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200895Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
896(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
897expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200898
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200899Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
900 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
901 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
902
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100903Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100904punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100905
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200906Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
907drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
908
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100909When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
910scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
911using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
912
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100913When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
914kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
915when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
916
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100917Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
918(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100919
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100920Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
921highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200922And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
923'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100924
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100925Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, make them empty, keep redirect.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100926Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
927
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200928Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
929Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
930Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
931
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100932Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
933Feedback from someone who uses this?
934
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200935Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
936Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
937values.
938
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100939Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200940- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
941- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
942- omit diff.exe from distribution
943- Can we make this show differences within a line?
944- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200945
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200946Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
947
948When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
949includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
950
951Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200952Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200953
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100954Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
955
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200956Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
957window for the buffer.
958
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000959Compiler warning (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100960- undefined left shift in eval_string(), before hex2nr() (#2250)
961 Use unsigned for "nr".
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100962
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100963Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
964Oct 28)
965
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200966Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
967Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100968Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
969Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200970
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200971Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
972
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200973Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
974behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
975(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
976
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200977Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
978script or function.
979
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100980Using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200981E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
982does nothing otherwise?
983
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200984MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
985If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
986(wait a little while).
987CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100988
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200989Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
990MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
9912017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
992receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
993
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100994Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100995Jan 15, #2555)
996
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100997Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
998Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
999applying the diff, etc.
1000
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001001User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
1002word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001003
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +01001004Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001005
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001006Implement option_save() and option_restore():
1007option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
1008 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
1009 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
1010 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
1011 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
1012 be called when the same window is the current window.
1013 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
1014 the local options won't be restored.
1015
1016option_save({list}) *option_save()*
1017 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
1018 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
1019 let s:saved_options = option_save([
1020 \ 'ignorecase',
1021 \ 'iskeyword',
1022 \ ])
1023 au <buffer> BufLeave *
1024 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
1025< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
1026 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
1027 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
1028 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001029 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
1030 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
1031 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +01001032 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001033
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001034"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
1035directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
1036Also see #1689.
1037
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001038No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
10392017 Dec 26, #2501)
1040
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001041A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
1042
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001043Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
1044
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001045A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
1046Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1047
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001048ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1049
1050Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1051
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001052Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1053Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1054
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001055Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1056in #846)
1057Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1058
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001059When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1060redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001061
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001062In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1063(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1064
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001065Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1066neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001067
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001068Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1069Nov 21)
1070
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001071When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001072triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1073set_color_count().
1074
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001075When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1076CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1077Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1078always nested.
1079
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001080matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1081
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001082Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1083
Bram Moolenaar6c391a72021-09-09 21:55:11 +02001084'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
108520)
1086
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001087MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001088for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1089
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001090Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001091
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001092Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001093
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001094Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1095defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1096Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1097
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001098After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
109913, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001100
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001101When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1102line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1103
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001104Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1105
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001106Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1107behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1108
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001109'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1110
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001111The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1112
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001113Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1114#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1115
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001116X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1117pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1118clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1119Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1120Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1121clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001122Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001123
1124Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1125
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001126Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1127attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001128that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001129
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001130Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1131(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1132
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001133Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1134buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1135Also fixes #2166?
1136
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001137Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1138possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1139
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001140When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1141case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1142
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001143Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1144existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1145Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1146
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001147MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1148Jul 4)
1149
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001150Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1151Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1152This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1153Christian cannot reproduce it.
1154
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001155Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1156wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1157Or is this not an actual problem?
1158
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001159Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1160
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001161Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1162
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001163'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1164#1736)
1165
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001166Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11678, #1690)
1168
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001169Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1170
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001171assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1172it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1173
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001174Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1175for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001176
1177Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1178(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1179Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1180later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1181Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1182mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001183Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1184mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001185maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001186
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001187Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001188plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1189be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1190
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001191Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1192 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1193 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001194
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001195json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001196What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001197
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001198Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1199
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001200import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1201(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1202
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001203Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1204Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001205Another example in #1309
1206
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001207Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1208#1330)
1209
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001210Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1211
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001212Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1213highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1214
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001215Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1216Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1217
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001218Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1219key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1220 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1221 echo keytrans(xx)
1222 <C-Home>
1223
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001224Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1225(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1226Make a function to check for function-like type?
1227
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001228Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1229 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001230 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001231
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001232Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1233somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1234
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001235The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1236"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1237Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1238
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001239Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1240
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001241Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1242about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001243Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1244
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001245":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001246vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1247
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001248Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001249E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001250Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001251
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001252Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1253Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1254
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001255Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001256Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001257
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001258Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1259(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001260
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001261Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1262
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001263Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1264anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1265
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001266Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001267E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001268
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001269Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1270(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1271
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001272Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1273
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001274On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1275separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1276
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001277Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1278
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001279Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1280
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001281Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001282
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001283sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12844#1038)
1285
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001286sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1287is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1288
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001289+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001290- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001291- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1292 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1293 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001294- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1295 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001296- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1297 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001298- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1299 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1300- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1301 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1302- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001303- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1304 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001305- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1306- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1307 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1308 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1309- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1310- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1311- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1312 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1313 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1314- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1315 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1316- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1317 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1318 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1319
1320Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001321- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1322 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1323 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1324 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001325- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1326 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001327- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1328 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1329- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1330 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1331- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1332 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1333 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1334 LC_CTYPE
1335- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1336 matches everywhere.
1337- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1338 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1339- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1340- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1341 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1342- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001343- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001344 2013 Dec 11)
1345- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1346 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1347- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1348- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1349 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1350- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1351- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1352- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1353- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1354 2015 Feb 7)
1355- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1356 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1357 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1358 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1359 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1360- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1361- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1362- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1363- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1364 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1365 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1366 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1367- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1368 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1369- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1370 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1371 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1372 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1373
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001374Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1375doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1376Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001377Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001378E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1379
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001380cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1381
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001382:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1383
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001384Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1385
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001386ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1387Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001388
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001389Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1390Jul 25, #948)
1391
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001392Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1393names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1394Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1395the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1396
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001397MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1398Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001399
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001400Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1401times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1402
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001403Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1404
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001405We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1406the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1407
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001408Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1409
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001410When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1411emoji_width table has only one entry.
1412
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001413It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1414Reject the value? #710.
1415
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001416When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1417Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1418
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001419Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1420No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001421
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001422Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1423(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001424
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001425Zero-out crypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001426
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001427Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1428https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001429Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001430
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001431Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1432but the reference remains valid.
1433
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001434Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001435interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1436Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1437interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1438result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001439
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001440Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1441
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001442Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1443
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001444Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1445Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1446
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001447exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1448Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1449
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001450Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1451'iskeyword' for syntax.
1452
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001453Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1454It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1455Add configure check?
1456Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1457Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1458Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1459
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001460Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1461Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1462
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001463Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1464Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1465
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001466Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1467(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1468
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001469When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1470restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1471Do not trigger the event?
1472
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001473Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1474With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1475
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001476Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001477
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001478Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1479
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001480Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001481Only remembers one error.
1482
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001483GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001484
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001485Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1486(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001487
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001488Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1489github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001490 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001491Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001492
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001493Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001494
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001495Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001496comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001497
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001498Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1499
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001500MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1501wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1502
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001503Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1504specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1505
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001506Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1507(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1508
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001509Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001510'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1511before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001512
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001513C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1514and also line continuation after #include.
1515I can't recommend it though.
1516
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001517Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1518(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1519
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001520To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1521library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1522
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001523Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
152430)
1525
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001526MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1527(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1528
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001529The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
153024): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001531
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001532":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1533effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1534
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001535":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15369)
1537
1538The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1539wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1540
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001541Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001542Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001543
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001544When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1545the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1546
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001547Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001548slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1549inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1550
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001551ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15522014 Sep 11)
1553
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001554Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1555(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1556
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001557When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1558'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1559
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001560Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1561Work in progress.
1562
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001563Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1564when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1565
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001566Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1567Is this right?
1568
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001569Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1570(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1571Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1572
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001573Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1574Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001575
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001576Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1577Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1578
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001579Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1580
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001581Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001582Would require reading attributes from the original file with listxattr() and
1583getxattr() and adding them to the new file.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001584
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001585Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1586OK to not block marks?
1587
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001588Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1589
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001590When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1591(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1592
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001593Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001594
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001595Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1596(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1597
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001598When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1599any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1600
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001601Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1602(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1603
1604Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1605
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001606Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1607Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1608was already defined.
1609(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1610
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001611Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1612
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001613Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1614(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1615
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001616Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1617(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1618
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001619Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1620
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001621When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1622these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1623window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1624
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001625Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1626should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1627history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1628Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1629
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001630"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1631Jun 8)
1632
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001633Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1634insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1635
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001636No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1637
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001638Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1639(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1640Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1641arguments.
1642
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001643Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1644
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001645Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1646right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001647its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001648
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001649Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1650
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001651This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1652 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1653This neither: (ZyX)
1654 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1655
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001656'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1657Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1658from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001659
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001660Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1661https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001662Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001663Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1664package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001665Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02001666Also see (link seems dead):
1667http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001668User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001669- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1670 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1671 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001672- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1673- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1674 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1675 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1676 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1677 on vim.org.
1678- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1679 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1680- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1681- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1682- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1683- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1684Implementation:
1685- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1686 plugin separate.
1687- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1688 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1689 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1690- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1691 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1692- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1693 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1694 installing.
1695Out of scope:
1696- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1697- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1698 useful).
1699
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001700When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1701menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1702
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001703Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1704(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1705
1706":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1707various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001708
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001709Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001710(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1711
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001712VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1713instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1714
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001715Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001716Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001717Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001718
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001719Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1720
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001721Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001722
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001723Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1724
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017257 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1726 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1727 "lucida_console:h8").
1728Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1729
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001730:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1731
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001732Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1733
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001734Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1735
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001736When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1737(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1738
1739Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001740Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001741
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001742Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1743
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001744The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1745(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1746Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1747
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001748Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1749Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1750reliably?
1751
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001752Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1753(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1754
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001755Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1756(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001757Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1758(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1759try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1760try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001761
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001762Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17632013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001764
1765Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1766
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001767Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1768carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1769
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001770Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1771highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1772
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001773Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001774
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001775Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200177628) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001777
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001778Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1779
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001780- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1781 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1782Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001783
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001784Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001785
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001786Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1787Or use expand('<sid>')?
1788
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001789Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1790
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001791Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1792
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001793b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17947)
1795
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001796Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1797compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1798
1799Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1800Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1801vim.bindeval().
1802
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001803Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18042012 Aug 4)
1805
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001806Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1807(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1808
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001809Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1810But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1811
1812Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1813Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1814Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001815
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001816'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001817
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001818Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001819of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1820
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001821The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1822Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1823But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001824
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001825When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1826is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1827
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001828URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001829- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001830- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1831 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1832
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001833Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001834New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001835
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001836Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1837
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001838Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1839
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001840Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1841Apr 18)
1842
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001843Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1844And one for gui_x11.txt.
1845
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001846":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1847finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1848Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1849
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001850Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1851
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001852Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1853
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001854Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1855they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1856
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001857Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1858
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001859Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1860Nov 20)
1861
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001862Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001863Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001864
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001865`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001866(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1867
1868Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1869
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001870BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1871Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1872
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001873Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1874Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1875
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001876Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1877
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001878On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18792012 Jun 19)
1880
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001881'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1882'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1883Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001884Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001885
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001886Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1887New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1888
1889Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1890Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1891
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001892Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1893Jan 19)
1894
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001895Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1896discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1897meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001898
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001899"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001900Oct 26)
1901
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001902Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1903
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001904Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1905
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001906When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1907(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1908
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001909When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1910then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1911from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1912
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001913Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1914":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
191515)
1916
1917Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1918
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001919BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1920cleared. See test64.
1921
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001922On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
192364 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1924right type.
1925
1926string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1927(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1928
1929When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1930(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001931When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1932following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1933(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001934
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001935When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1936doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1937
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001938Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1939
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001940When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1941indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1942the help file.
1943
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001944After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1945Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1946
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001947"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001948
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001949Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1950
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001951Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001952
1953Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19542010 Dec 18)
1955
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001956With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1957number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1958Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1959
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001960Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1961Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1962
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019638 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1964Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1965
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001966Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1967one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1968the match scrolls into view.
1969
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019707 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1971Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1972Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1973
19749 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1975 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1976Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1977
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001978Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1979Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1980
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001981In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1982or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1983sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1984
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001985Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1986Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1987
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001988Wish for NetBeans commands:
1989 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1990
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +020019917.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1992there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1993do?
1994
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001995New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1996- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001997- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001998 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1999
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002000"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20012011 Feb 27)
2002
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002003Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2004^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2005
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002006When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2007exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20089) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2009
2010g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2011the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2012
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002013Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2014crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2015
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002016Regexp engine performance:
2017- Profiling:
2018 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2019 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2020 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2021 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2022 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2023 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2024- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2025- Performance tests:
2026 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2027 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2028 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2029 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2030 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2031 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2032 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2033 'hlsearch'.
2034 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2035 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2036 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2037 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2038
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002039Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2040Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2041
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002042'beval' option should be global-local.
2043
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002044Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002045
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002046setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002047
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002048With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
20492010 Oct 24)
2050
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002051Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2052
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002053When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2054Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2055
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002056":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2057
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002058'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2059
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002060C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2061checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2062Issue 46.
2063
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002064Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2065gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2066
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002067":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2068accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2069
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002070Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2071setwinvar().
2072
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002073Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002074
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002075When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2076instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2077
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002078Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2079Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2080Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002081
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002082Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002083Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2084
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002085CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2086the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002087FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002088
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002089Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2090Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2091
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002092Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2093Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2094
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002095Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2096
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002097Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2098non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002099
2100iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2101Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2102or replace with a character and continue?
2103
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002104Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2105Requires configure check for localtime().
2106Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2107
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002108Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2109
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002110Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2111Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2112path.
2113
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002114Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002115Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002116
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002117'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2118
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002119":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2120like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2121
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002122Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2123https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002124
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002125Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2126
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002127Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2128characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2129
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002130Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2131
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002132Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2133 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2134
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002135For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002136line argument -noregister.
2137
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002138When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2139missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2140
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002141When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2142doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002143
2144Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2145(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2146Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2147There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2148Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2149
2150":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2151highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2152to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2153
2154Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2155Probably needs a bit of work.
2156
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002157List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002158Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2159
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002160Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2161
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002162Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2163
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002164Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2165
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002166Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2167on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2168
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002169Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
21702009 Jul 18)
2171
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002172Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2173window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2174Needs more work.
2175
2176Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2177
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002178When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2179few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2180
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002181'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002182(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2183
2184Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2185J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2186
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002187When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2188for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2189
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002190":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2191because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2192ex_docmd.c.
2193
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002194Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002195Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2196
2197string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2198for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2199
2200Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2201
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002202Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22032009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2204
2205Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2206
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002207Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2208are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2209Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2210Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2211that doesn't have a window.
2212
2213When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2214doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2215
2216getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2217displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2218
2219":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2220
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002221Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2222
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002223Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2224does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2225
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002226Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2227char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2228
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002229This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2230
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002231Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2232messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2233es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
22342009 Jan 26)
2235
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002236When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002237in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2238Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2239
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002240Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2241a modeline.
2242
2243Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2244Sergey Khorev)
2245
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002246Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2247(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2248
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002249shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002250'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2251Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2252unix-like shell?
2253
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002254Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2255register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2256(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2257
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002258Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2259Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2260
2261Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2262make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2263
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002264When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2265still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2266
2267"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2268(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2269
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002270MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2271doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2272probably causes this.
2273
2274'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020022752009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002276
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002277Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2278":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2279option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2280is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002281
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002282":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2283first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002284Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002285
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002286Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2287anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2288
2289On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2290doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2291Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2292Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2293
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002294When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2295'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2296fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2297the buffer to be unmodified.
2298Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2299another look at it.
2300
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002301c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2302(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2303
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002304You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2305error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2306Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2307at the other match for 0xBF.
2308
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002309When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2310argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2311
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002312Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2313backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2314
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002315When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2316line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2317
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002318":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2319Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2320
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002321When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2322either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2323put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2324
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002325Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2326Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2327Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2328Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2329(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2330
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002331Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2332
2333ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002334
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002335Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2336(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2337escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2338an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002339This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2340July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002341Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2342work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2343
2344When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
234531)
2346
2347Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2348work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2349Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002350
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002351Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002352multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002353(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2354
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002355Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2356Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2357'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2358
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002359Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2360Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2361
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002362Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2363Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2364
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020023658 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2366 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2367 several).
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +02002368
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002369The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002370 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002371 0x2217, star
2372 0x2500, bar
2373 0x26ab, circle
2374
2375Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2376line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2377
2378GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2379Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2380
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002381C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2382with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2383Try to reproduce at work.
2384
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002385Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2386Is there a way to list all the files first?
2387
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002388Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2389(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2390
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002391Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
23921)
2393
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002394":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2395Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2396
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002397Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002398Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html (link seems dead)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002399
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002400When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2401and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2402
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002403Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2404 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2405
2406New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2407
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002408":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2409a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002411Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2412other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2413
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002414The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2415appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2416matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002418When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2419character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2420'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2421(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2422
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002423Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2424Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002425
2426More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2427
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002428Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002429(link seems dead): http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002430
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002431Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2432No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2433
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002434Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2435terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002436
2437Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2438
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002439Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2440but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2441that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002442
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002443Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2444Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2445
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002446Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2447popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2448size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2449This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2450
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002451When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2452parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2453neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2454particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2455Jun 3)
2456However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2457the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002458
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002459A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2460Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2461
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002462Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2463Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2464
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002465Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2466switch list is noticed:
2467 switch (i)
2468 {
2469 case 1:
2470 foobar:
2471 }
2472
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002473Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2474
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002475Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2476with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2477go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2478moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2479
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002480Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002481GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002482Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2483argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2484(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2485
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002486Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2487(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2488
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002489Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
24902007 Feb 8)
2491
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002492Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2493set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002494
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002495Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2496
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002497Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2498Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002499New version (link seems dead):
2500http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip
2501(also for other patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002502
2503Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2504Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2505
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002506Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002507label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2508
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002509Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2510with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2511Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002512
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002513Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2514
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002515Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2516Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2517only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2518
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002519Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2520Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002521Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002522properly?
2523
2524Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
25252007 Jun 21)
2526
2527When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2528Jun 18)
2529
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002530C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2531
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002532":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2533
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002534When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002535error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002536
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002537GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002538use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2539
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002540Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2541if_ruby.c.
2542
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002543":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2544
2545The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2546it in keep_msg?
2547
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002548Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002549error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002550name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2551
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002552Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2553longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002554
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002555Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2556Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2557Also for ":w" without a file name.
2558The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002559
2560"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2561Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2562
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002563VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2564directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2565(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2566
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002567VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2568
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002569input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2570name?
2571
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002572Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2573
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002574When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2575(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002576Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002577will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2578
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002579gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2580This also fails with --remote.
2581
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002582When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
25832008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2584all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2585
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002586aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2587
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002588When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2589(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2590
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002591Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2592the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2593
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002594GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2595
2596Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2597Jun 5)
2598
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002599Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
26002008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2601Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2602
2603In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2604but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2605Jul 22)
2606
2607There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2608
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002609Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2610moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2611that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2612
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002613The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2614
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002615When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002616cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2617the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2618
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002619These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2620 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2621 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2622 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2623
2624Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2625partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2626
2627In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2628buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2629reload it then?
2630
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002631For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2632
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002633Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2634Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2635
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002636Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2637 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2638 set background=dark
2639This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2640color is, not reset it.
2641
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002642Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2643start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2644show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2645middle?
2646
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002647Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2648
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002649When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2650current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2651the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2652
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002653When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2654Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2655
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002656Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2657Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2658
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002659A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2660Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2661
2662Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2663Dara, 2006 June 21)
2664
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002665Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2666number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2667
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002668After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2669the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2670
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002671Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002672
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002673Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010026742008 Sep 29)
2675
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002676In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2677check the result of has("patch13").
2678
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002679Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2680restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2681
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002682Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2683and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2684
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002685Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2686put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2687
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002688In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2689can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2690
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002691When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2692differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002693
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002694The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2695be only one.
2696
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002697Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002698"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2699name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2700Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002701
2702Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2703(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2704
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002705Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2706as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2707
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002708Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
270923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002710
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002711":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2712tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2713Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002714
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002715When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2716text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2717latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2718
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002719In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2720VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
27212007 Oct 16)
2722
2723TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2724Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2725
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002726Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002727
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002728When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2729typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2730Sep 3, 11)
2731
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002732":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2733this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2734
2735When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2736Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2737restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2738
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002739Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2740'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2741(Kartik Agaram)
2742
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002743
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002744Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002745- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2746 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2747- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2748 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2749 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2750- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2751 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2752 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002753- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2754- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002755
2756
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002757More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002758- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2759 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002761- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2762 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002763- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2764- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2765- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2766 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2767 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002768- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002769- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2770 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2771- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2772 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2773- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2774 21)
2775- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2776 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2777- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2778 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02002779- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002780 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002781- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2782 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2783 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2784 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2785 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002786- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002787
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002788Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000027899 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2790 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2791 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2792 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2793 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2794 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2795 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2796 (Alan Schmitt)
2797 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002798 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2799 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000028009 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002801 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028028 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028037 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2804 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2805 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028068 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002807 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020028087 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002809 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2810- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002811 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002812- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2813- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2814 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2815 been given values.
2816 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028177 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2818 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2819- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2820 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2821 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002822 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2823 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2824 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2825 (2003 May 13)
2826 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2827 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002828 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2829 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002830 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2831 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2832 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028337 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2834 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028357 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2836 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028378 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +02002838 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028397 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28408 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2841 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28427 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2843 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028447 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2845- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2846 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2847 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002848- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2849 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2850- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01002851- Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2852 Await response to question to make the register writable.
2853
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002854
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02002855Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
2856- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
2857 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
2858
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002859
2860Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaar71b6d332022-09-10 13:13:14 +01002861- List of common misspellings in English:
2862 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines
2863 German:
2864 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Liste_von_Tippfehlern/F%C3%BCr_Maschinen
2865 There are other languages.
Bram Moolenaar48c3f4e2022-08-08 15:42:38 +01002866- [s does not find missing capital at start of the line. #10838
2867 Probably because the dot at the end of the previous line isn't seen.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002868- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
2869 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
2870 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
2871 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
2872- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
2873- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
2874 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
2875 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
2876 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
2877 downloaded.
2878- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
2879 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
2880- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
2881 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2882- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
2883 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2884- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2885 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
2886 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
2887
2888
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002889Quickfix/Location List:
2890- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
2891 #2999)
2892- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
2893 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
2894 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
2895 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002896- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
2897 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
2898- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
2899 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
2900 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002901- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2902- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
2903 2007 Jan 1)
2904- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2905 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
2906- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2907 errors. How do we get the rest?
29088 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2909 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2910 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2911 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
29127 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02002913 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002914
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002915Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002916- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2917 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029188 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2919 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2920 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2921 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2922 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2923 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029248 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2925 make Vim exit.
29267 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2927 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2928 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
29298 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2930 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2931 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
29326 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2933 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2934 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
29358 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2936 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2937 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2938 names in one buffer???
2939 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2940 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2941 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
29427 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2943 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2944 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002945 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2946 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029477 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2948 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
29497 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029507 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2951 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2952 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2953 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
29547 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
29557 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
29567 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2957 to the match with the tag? Option?
29587 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
29597 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2960 (Sayre).
29617 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2962 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029637 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2964 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2965 match. Nvi can do it too.
29667 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2967 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2968 line 1\ line 2\\
2969 line 2\ line 3\\
2970 . line4/
29716 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2972 the way the shell is started?
29736 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2974 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2975
2976
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002977GTK+ GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029789 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029798 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2980 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2981 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000029828 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2983 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2984 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029859 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2986 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2987 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2988 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002989- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2990 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2991 blocked for now.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002992- Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat,
2993 #7082)
2994- Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
2995 - gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
2996- Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
2997 - Test_setbufvar_options()
2998 - Test_exit_callback_interval()
2999- When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
3000 g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when
3001 the timer expires.
3002- problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width. (Aaron
3003 Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
3004- Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013
3005 May 5)
3006- drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
3007 doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
3008- tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
3009- Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010
3010 Aug 9)
3011- When setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
3012 the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
3013- when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is maximized
3014 the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but doesn't
3015 work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. Also: the window may no longer fit
3016 on the screen, thus the command line is not visible.
3017- Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn
3018 Winckler, 2010 Jun 30)
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003019
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003020
3021Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003022- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3023 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030248 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3025 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003026 Tutorial (link seems dead): http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030276 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3028 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030298 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3030 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3031 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030327 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3033 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3034 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030357 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3036 2004 May 9)
30378 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3038 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3039 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3040 MS-Windows 98?
3041 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3042 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3043 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3044 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030458 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3046 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3047 appears in the right position. (Webb)
30489 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3049 button doesn't give popup menu.
3050 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3051 selection.
3052 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3053 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3054 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
30558 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3056 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3057 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3058 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
30598 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3060 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3061 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030627 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3063 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003064 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030657 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3066 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030676 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
30688 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3069 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3070 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
30718 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3072 know which keyboard is being used?
30737 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3074 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3075 area (Koloseike).
30768 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3077 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3078 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3079 the font name).
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003080- When running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks. Was reported:
3081 cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
3082- Last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
3083 command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003084
3085
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003086Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030876 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3088 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3089 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3090 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3091 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030929 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3093 required and it's missing?
30948 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3095 wrong.
30969 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3097 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010030989 XIM doesn't work properly for Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003099 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3100 flag.
31018 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3102 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3103 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
31048 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
31056 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3106 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3107 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3108 the tooltips work though...
31097 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3110 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
31118 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3112 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3113 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3114
3115
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003116Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003117- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031187 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3119 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031208 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3121 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3122 (Phillipps)
3123
3124
3125GUI:
31269 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3127 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
31289 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003129 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003130 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
31319 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3132 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031338 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3134 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3135 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
31368 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3137 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3138 of where it is processing the output.
3139 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
31408 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3141 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010031428 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000031438 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3144 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3145 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020031468 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031478 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3148 browse().
31498 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3150 use that code? Or use console dialog.
31518 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3152 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031537 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3154 - regexp on/off
3155 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3156 when all buffers/directory is used:
3157 - filter for file name
3158 when directory is used:
3159 - subdirectory on/off
3160 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031618 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3162 to avoid problems.
31638 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3164 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3165 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
31668 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3167 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3168 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
31698 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3170 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031718 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
31727 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3173 visible.
31747 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3175 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
31767 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3177 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
31788 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3179 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
31808 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3181 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3182 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3183 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3184- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
31854 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3186 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3187 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3188
3189
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003190Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000031918 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3192 a good fallback, thus use:
3193 $HOME
3194 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3195 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3196 $USERPROFILE
3197 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3198 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3199 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3200 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032018 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3202 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
32038 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3204 Should work like in the GUI version.
32058 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3206 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
32078 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3208 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
32098 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3210 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3211 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032128 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3213 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3214 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3215
3216
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003217Win32 console:
32189 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3219 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3220 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3221 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3222 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3223 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3224 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3225 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3226 and the file is not saved.
3227 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3228 long name.
32298 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3230 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
32317 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3232 besides the console.
32338 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
32349 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3235 <C-S-i>?
32369 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3237 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
32388 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3239 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003240
3241
3242Amiga:
32438 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3244 sequences.
32459 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3246 backslashes in result.
32478 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3248 all options, using white space separation.
3249
3250
3251Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003252- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032537 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3254 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3255 (Jack)
3256 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032578 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3258 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032598 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
32608 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
32619 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3262 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032639 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003264- Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
3265- Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
3266- Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
3267- Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
3268 try the Cocoa version.
3269- After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
3270 changed or the window is resized.
3271- Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 Mar
3272 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
3273- trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug 1)
3274 Reply by Ben Schmidt.
3275- Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003276
3277
3278"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003279- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3280 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000032819 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3282 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000032839 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003284 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3285 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032868 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3287 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3288 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003289 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032907 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3291 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
32928 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3293 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3294 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032957 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3296 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003297- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3298 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032998 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3300 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3301 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3302 using the horizontal scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033038 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3304 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
33058 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3306 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3307 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003308 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033098 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3310 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3311 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033127 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3313 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3314 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3315 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033167 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3317 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3318 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
33197 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3320 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3321 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
33227 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3323 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033247 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3325 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033269 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3327 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3328 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3329 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3330 script can be called.
33318 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3332 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3333 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033348 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3335 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033368 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003337 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3338 configurable?
33398 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033408 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3341 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020033428 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3343 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033448 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3345 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033469 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3347 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3348 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033497 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033508 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3351 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3352 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000033538 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3354 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003355 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3356 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033578 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3358 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
33599 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3360 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3361 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003362 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033637 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3364 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033657 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3366 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3367 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3368 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033698 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003370 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3371 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3372 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3373 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003374 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3375 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003376 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003377 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003378 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3379 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3380 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3381 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3382 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033838 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3384 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
33858 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3386 in lines that don't extend into the block?
33878 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3388 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3389 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
33908 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3391 'linebreak'.
33928 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3393 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3394 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033959 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3396 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3397 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3398 'magic' in history. (Margo)
33999 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3400 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034019 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
34029 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3403 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3404 cause another redraw, etc.
34058 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3406 must escape special characters in the pattern.
34078 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3408 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3409 ":w!!" for that.
3410 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3411 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003412 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034137 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3414 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3415 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3416 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3417 clipboard)
34187 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3419 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3420 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000034216 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3422 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3423 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034248 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3425 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
34268 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3427 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003428 See https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034298 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3430 (e.g., ":w").
34318 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3432 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034338 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3434 script in do_cmdline().
34358 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3436 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3437 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3438 changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034398 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3440 to skip catch_signals()?
34419 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3442 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3443 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3444 text?
34458 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3446 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
34478 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3448 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
34499 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3450 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3451 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3452 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3453 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
34547 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3455 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3456 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3457 in the list?
34588 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3459 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3460 instead of on button down.
34618 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034628 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3463 character is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034648 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3465 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
34668 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3467 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3468 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3469 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3470 cygwin bash.
34717 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3472 Remember flags for backreferences.
34737 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3474 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
34757 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3476 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
34778 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3478 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
34797 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3480 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034817 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3482 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3483 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
34847 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3485 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003486
3487
3488I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
34899 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3490 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3491 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003492
3493
3494Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003495- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3496 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3497 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003498- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3499 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3500 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3501 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3502 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3503 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003504 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003505- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3506 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003507 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003508 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3509 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3510 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003511- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3512 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3513 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3514 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3515 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3516- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3517 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3518 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3519- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3520 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003521- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003522- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3523 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3524 character gets the highlighting.
3525- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3526 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3527- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3528 (Jennings)
3529- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003530- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003531- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003532 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003533- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3534 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3535 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3536- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3537 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3538 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3539 (Benzinger).
3540- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3541 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3542 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3543- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3544 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3545- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3546 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3547- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3548 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3549 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3550 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3551 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3552 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3553- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3554 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3555 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003556- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3557 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3558 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003559- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3560 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3561 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3562- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3563 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3564- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3565 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003566- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3567 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3568 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3569 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3570 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3571- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3572 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3573 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3574- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3575 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3576 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003577- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3578 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 +00003579- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3580 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3581 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3582 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3583 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3584- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3585 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3586
3587--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3588 *extensions-improvements*
3589
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003590Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3591- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003592 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma-separated as if
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003593 calling a function.
3594 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3595 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003596- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3597 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003598 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003599- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3600 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3601 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3602 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3603 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3604 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003605 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003606- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3607 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3608 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003609- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3610 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036118 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3612 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3613 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3614 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003615- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3616 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003617
3618
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003619Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036208 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3621 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000036228 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3623 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000036248 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3625 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036268 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036279 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3628 - change to cursor position and curswant
3629 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3630 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003631 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036328 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3633 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3634 text.
36358 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
36367 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3637 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
36387 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3639 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003640 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003641- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3642
3643
3644Help:
3645- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3646 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3647- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3648 to the other matches.
3649- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003650- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3651 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003652 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003653 default contents.
3654- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3655 height for the help window (and other windows).
3656- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3657- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3658- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3659
3660
3661User Friendlier:
36628 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3663 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3664 Briscoe)
36658 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
36668 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3667 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3668 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
36698 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3670 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3671- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3672 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +00003673- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..." #9339
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036749 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3675 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3676 item?).
3677 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036788 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000036797 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3680 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3681 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000036828 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3683 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3684 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3685 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003686
3687
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003688Tab pages:
36899 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036907 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3691 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036928 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000036938 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036947 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036957 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003696 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036978 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3698 tab pages.
36997 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3700
3701
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003702Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003703- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003704 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003705- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3706 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3707 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3708- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3709 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003710- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3711 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3712 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003713- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3714 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3715 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003716- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003717 used, which is based on Malaga (link seems dead):
3718 http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/ (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000037198 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3720 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
37218 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3722 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
37238 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3724 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003725 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003726 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3727 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3728 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3729 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003730- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3731 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003732- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003733- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3734 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003735- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003736 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003737- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003738 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003739- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3740 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003741- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3742 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3743- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003744 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003745 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3746 in the affix file separately.
3747 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003748 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003749 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3750 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3751 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3752- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3753 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3754 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3755 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3756 Alternative:
3757 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3758 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3759 affix which is required.
3760- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003761 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003762- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3763 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3764 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003765- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3766 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003767- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3768 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3769- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037708 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3771 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3772 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3773 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003774- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org), (links seem dead):
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003775 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3776 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3777 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037788 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3779 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037808 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
37818 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3782 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037837 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
37848 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3785 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3786 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3787 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003788
3789
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003790Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020037919 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3792 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020037938 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003794 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003795
3796Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003797 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3798 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +01003799- Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
3800 Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
3801 Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
3802 Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
3803- Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
3804- Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
3805 (Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
3806 Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
3807- Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the
3808 line number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
3809- Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe,
3810 2011 Jan 7)
3811- 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session.
3812 (Teemu Likonen, March 19)
3813- With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't
3814 removed. (Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
3815- The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
3816- When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be
3817 folded. Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding,
3818 2010 Jun 9)
3819- When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
3820 indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous
3821 one. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
3822- Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038238 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3824 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020038258 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
3826 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038278 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3828 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3829 user aware of this?
38308 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3831 commands skip over a closed fold.
38328 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
38338 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038347 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003835- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3836 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3837 missing line goes unnoticed.
3838 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003839- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3840 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3841 smoother?
3842- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3843 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003844- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3845 file can contain:
3846 args version.c main.c
3847 edit version.c
3848 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003849- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003850- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3851 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003852- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3853 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003854- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3855 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003856- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003857
3858Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003859- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3860 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3861 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3862 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038639 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3864 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3865 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3866 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038679 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3868 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3869 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038708 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3871 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3872 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3873 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3874 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3875 item.
38768 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003877 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3878 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038798 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3880 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038818 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3882 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3883 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038847 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3885 so that the user can fix the problem.
38868 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3887 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038889 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020038898 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
38908 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038918 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038927 Searching and composing characters:
3893 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003894 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3895 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038968 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
38978 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020038988 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003899 characters.
39008 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
39018 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3902 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
39037 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3904 'display' option to specify this.
39057 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3906 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3907- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3908 fontselector somehow.
3909- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3910 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3911- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3912 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3913- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3914 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3915 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3916 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3917 if a font exists?
3918- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003919 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003920- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3921 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003922- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003923 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3924 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003925 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003926 Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
3927 Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003928- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3929 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003930 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003931- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003932 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it, this
3933 is now part of gnulib module unilbrk:
3934 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003935 But it's very complicated...
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003936- Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai
3937 Weibull, 2008 May 14).
3938 Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003939
3940
3941Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000039427 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003943- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3944- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3945 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003946- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3947 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003948- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3949- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3950 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003951- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3952 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003953- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3954 units as for the margins.
3955- Support right-to-left text?
39568 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3957 color.
3958
3959
3960Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039618 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3962 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
39638 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3964 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
39658 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3966 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000039677 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3968 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039698 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3970 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3971 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039727 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3973 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3974 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039758 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
39769 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3977 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039787 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3979 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000039807 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3981 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039828 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3983 change this for each release.
39848 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3985 pattern, but not in the body.
39868 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3987 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3988 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039898 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010039908 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003991 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3992 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039938 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3994 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
39958 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3996 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003997 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039988 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3999 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4000 used.
40018 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4002 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
40038 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4004 re-insert the [] if possible.
40058 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4006 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000040078 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4008 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4009 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4010 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4011 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040128 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4013 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
40148 Support for deleting syntax items:
4015 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4016 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4017 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
40188 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4019 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4020 a '<'. (Fleiner)
40217 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4022 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4023 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
40247 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4025 detected.
40268 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004027 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040288 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4029 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040308 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
40318 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
40327 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4033 ":mkvimrc".
40348 Improve c.vim:
4035 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4036 "c_strict_ansi".
4037 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
40388 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4039 current line while in Insert mode.
40408 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4041 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
40428 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4043 display position.
40448 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4045 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4046 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
40478 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4048 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4049 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000040507 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4051 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4052 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4053 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4054 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040557 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4056 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4057 E.g. for this html:
4058 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040597 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
40607 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4061 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040627 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4063 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4064 completion?
40658 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4066 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
40677 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4068 select one of the sets.
40698 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4070 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4071 2, etc.
40728 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4073 highlighting (for "." command).
40748 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4075 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
40768 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
40777 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4078 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
40796 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4080 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4081- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4082 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4083- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004084- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4085 (for comment blocks).
4086- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4087 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4088 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4089 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4090 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4091 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4092 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4093 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4094 (Campbell)
4095 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4096 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
40977 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4098 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
40997 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4100 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4101 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
41027 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4103 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4104 messages. And external commands?
41058 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4106 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
41077 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4108 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01004109- Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the
4110 start match is empty. #8449
4111- The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be
4112 useful to support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
4113- Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
4114- Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
4115 highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
4116- patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
4117 Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
4118 Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
4119- Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window
4120 is not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
4121- Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set
4122 to 2, only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman,
4123 2010 Aug 21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
4124- Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
4125 scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
4126 first drawn line. (#8103)
4127- Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
4128- Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb
4129 26)
4130- Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist,
4131 2007 Jul 31)
4132- Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
4133- Open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, resulting
4134 in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
4135- When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is no
4136 search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004137
4138
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004139Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041408 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4141 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004142 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000041437 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4144 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4145 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004146- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000041477 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4148 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041498 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010041508 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4151 can be the plugin name.
4152 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4153 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +010041547 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode, like :def functions.
4155 Possibilities:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004156 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +01004157 has('bytecode-1234')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4158 supports the version. Update the code with a command, can be used in
4159 an autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004160 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +01004161 .vim file. Problem: distribution, non-writable directory, etc.
4162 3. Use a cache directory for each user. Disadvantage: cache lookup may
4163 cost more time than bytecode wins.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041647 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4165 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041666 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4167 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041688 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004169 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4170 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004171 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4172 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4173 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004174 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4175 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4176 3 2002
4177 Only add this when also implemented for
4178 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4179 be used.
4180 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004181 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4182 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4183 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4184 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4185 File.Open..." argument.
4186 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4187 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4188 with properties instead.
4189 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4190 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4191 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004192 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004193 crypt() encrypt string
4194 decrypt() decrypt string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004195 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004197 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004198 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004199 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4200 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004201 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4202 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004203 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004204 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4205 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4206 to allow the library to execute a command or
4207 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042087 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4209 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
42108 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4211 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042128 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4213 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042148 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042156 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042168 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4217 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042188 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4219 option or environment variable.
42208 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042218 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004222 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042237 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4224 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042258 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4226 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
42278 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
42288 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4229 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4230 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4231 charwise({expr}).
42327 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4233 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4234 buffer for this?
4235 result = scratch(string, command)
4236 result = apply(string, command)
4237 result = execute(string, command)
4238 "command" would use <> notation.
4239 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
42407 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004241
4242
4243Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000042446 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4245 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4246 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4247 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4248 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4249 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4250 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251
4252
4253Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042547 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4255 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042567 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4257 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4258 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4259 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042608 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4261 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4262 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4263 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004264 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042658 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
42669 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
42678 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
42687 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4269 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
42708 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4271 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4272 when starting up in a color terminal.
42738 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4274 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042758 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4276 function be improved?
42778 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4278 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4279 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4280 this be improved?
42818 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4282 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000042837 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4284 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042857 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4286 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
42877 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4288 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042897 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4290 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4291 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4292 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4293 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4294 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4295 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042968 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4297 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4298 using strcmp() too often?
42997 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4300 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4301 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4302 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4303 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4304 the two blocks to the memfile block.
43057 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4306 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4307 with an argument that can be messed with.
4308 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4309 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
43107 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4311- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
43128 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4313 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4314- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4315 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4316- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4317- Do profiling on:
4318 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004319 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4320 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4321 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4322 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4323 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4324 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004325 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043267 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4327 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4328 changed).
4329 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4330 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4331- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4332- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4333 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4334- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4335 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4336 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004337- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4338- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4339 cursor is right of the screen.
43408 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4341 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4342
4343
4344Code size:
43458 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4346- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4347 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
43488 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
43498 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4350 it.
43517 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4352 left out.
43538 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4354 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004355
4356
4357Messages:
43588 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4359 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
43608 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4361 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
43628 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4363 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004364- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4365 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4366- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
43679 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4368 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4369 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4370 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4371 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043728 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4373 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
43748 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4375 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4376 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4377 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4378 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4379 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004380- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004381 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043828 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4383 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4384 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4385 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4386 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4387 error messages, printing text, etc.
43888 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4389 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4390 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4391
4392
4393Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004394- screen_line():
4395 - insert/delete character stuff.
4396 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4397- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4398 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4399- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4400 waiting for a character.
44018 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4402 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4403 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004404
4405Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020044068 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044076 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4408- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4409 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4410 windows.
44117 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4412 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4413 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4414- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4415 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4416 (Goldfarb)
4417- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4418 bound windows.
4419- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4420 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004421- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004422- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4423 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4424 of lines but not with a single line).
4425
4426
4427Autoconf:
44288 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
44298 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4430 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4431- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4432 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4433- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4434- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4435- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4436
4437
4438Perl interface:
44398 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044407 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
44417 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
44426 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4443
4444
4445Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020044468 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4447 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044486 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4449 :libload internal-name libname
4450 :libunload internal-name
4451 :liblist
4452 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4453 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4454 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
44556 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4456
4457
4458Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000044599 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4460 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4461 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4462 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4463 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044648 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4465 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4466 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004467 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004468 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000044697 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4470 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4471 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044728 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
44738 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4474 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044757 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4476 window for each tag.
44777 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
44787 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4479 bottom" search message.
44807 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4481 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4482 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004483- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4484- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004485- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4486 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4487 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044887 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4489 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4490 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4491 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
44927 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4493 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4494 :tagargs clear
4495 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4496 matching).
44977 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4498 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4499 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4500 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
45017 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4502 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
45037 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4504 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4505 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004506
4507
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004508Win32 GUI:
45098 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4510 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045118 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4512 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4513 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4514 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4515 common part of the path.
45168 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
45178 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4518 gettext and menus work.
45198 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4520 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004521 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004522 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
45238 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4524 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
45258 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4526 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
45277 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4528 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
45297 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
45307 <Esc> should close a dialog.
45317 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4532 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4533 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4534 prompts.
45357 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4536 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4537 the file added into an already running Vim.
45387 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4539 functions to find the window title.
4540
4541
4542GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045437 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
45448 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
45456 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
45468 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4547 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
45489 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
45497 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
45508 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4551 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
45528 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4553 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4554 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
45558 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4556 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
45578 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4558 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4559 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4560 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045617 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
45628 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4563 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000045647 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4565 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4566 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045678 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
45688 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004569 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045708 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
45718 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
45728 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4573 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4574 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
45757 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4576 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4577 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
45787 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4579 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
45807 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4581 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4582 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4583 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045847 Should support multi-column menus.
4585- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4586 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4587- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
45888 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
45896 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4590 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
45917 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
45927 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4593 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4594 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
45957 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
45968 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4597 name can be chosen free.
45987 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4599 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
46006 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4601 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4602 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4603 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4604 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4605 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4606 things.
46077 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4608 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046097 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004610 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004611- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4612 where it was started from?
46137 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4614
4615
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004616Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +010046179 When triggering WinNew provide the window ID somehow. #10633
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020046189 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4619 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004620- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046218 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4622 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4623 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4624 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
46258 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4626 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000046277 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4628 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4629 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4630 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046317 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046328 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4633 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046348 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4635 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4636 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046377 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4638 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4639 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046408 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4641 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4642 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046438 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4644 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046458 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046466 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4647 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046487 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046497 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004650 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4651 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4652 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046535 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4654 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4655 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
46567 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4657 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4658 file.
46598 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4660 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4661 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004662- Add events to autocommands:
4663 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004664 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4665 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004666 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004667 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004668 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004669 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004670 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4671 the char.
4672 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4673 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4674 file from CVS).
4675 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4676 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4677 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4678 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4679 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4680 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004681 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4682 changes.
Bram Moolenaarb59ae592022-11-23 23:46:31 +00004683 QuickfixList - when any entry in the current list changes or another
4684 list is selected
4685 QuickfixPosition - when selecting another entry in the current quickfix
4686 list
4687
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004688- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004689 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004690 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004691 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4692 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4693 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4694 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4695 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01004696- Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
4697 autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
4698 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
4699 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
4700 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
4701 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
4702 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
4703 The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004704
4705
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004706Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004707- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4708 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004709- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4710 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4711 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4712 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4713 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004714- Ideas from others:
4715 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4716 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4717 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4718 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4719 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4720 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4721 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4722 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4723 Uses Perl for C++.
4724 Uses ctags to find the info:
4725 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4726 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4727 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004728 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4729 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02004730 Emacs (link seems dead):
4731 http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004732 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4733- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4734
4735
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004736Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004737- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4738 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004739- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4740 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4741 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004742- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4743 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4744 to force a string value.
4745- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4746 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4747 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004748- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000047497 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4750 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047517 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4752 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4753 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047548 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4755 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
47569 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4757 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4758 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047598 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4760 - ignore/match case
4761 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047628 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4763 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4764 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4765 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4766 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4767 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047688 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047697 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4770 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047718 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4772 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4773 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4774 Should work for C++ and Java.
4775 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
47767 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
47777 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4778 instead of words.
47798 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
47808 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4781 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
47828 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4783 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004784- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4785 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004786- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4787 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4788 wildcards in the file name)?
4789- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4790- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4791- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4792 be in another file).
4793- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4794- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4795- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4796 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4797- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4798- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4799- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004800- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4801
4802
4803Command line editing:
48047 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4805 line.
48068 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4807 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4808 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4809- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4810 lines wraps to start of line).
4811- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4812 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4813 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4814 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4815 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4816 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4817 cmdwin does now already.
4818 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4819 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4820 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4821 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4822 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4823 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4824 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4825 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4826 Problems:
4827 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4828 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4829 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4830 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4831 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4832 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4833 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4834 character in first column?
4835 - Implementation ideas:
4836 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4837 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4838 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4839 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4840 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4841 Mode.
4842
4843
4844Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004845- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
4846 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
4847- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
4848 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048498 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
48508 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4851 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
48528 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4853 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048548 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4855 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048567 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4857 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004858- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4859- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4860 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048618 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4862 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
48637 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4864 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4865- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4866 identifiers (Webb).
48678 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4868 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
48697 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4870 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4871- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4872 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4873- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4874 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4875 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar47c532e2022-03-19 15:18:53 +00004876- With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
4877 entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe,
4878 2011 Feb 12)
4879- After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting
4880 E33 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'",
4881 the command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
4882- Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now
4883 and then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding
4884 include files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
4885 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
4886 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
4887 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|,
4888 like in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find
4889 very quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier
4890 fix. (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
4891- Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
4892 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
4893- Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through
4894 directory tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a
4895 directory that doesn't contain other directories.
48968 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
4897 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
48988 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
48998 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
4900- Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
4901 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) Works
4902 OK with Vim in an xterm.
4903- If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't
4904 work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004905
4906
4907Command line history:
4908- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4909 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4910 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004911 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004912- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4913 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4914
4915
4916Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000049179 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4918 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4919 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049208 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4921 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4922 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4923 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4924 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049258 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4926 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4927 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049287 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4929 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004930- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049317 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4932 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4933- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4934 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4935 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4936 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4937 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4938 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4939- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4940 Normal mode.
4941- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4942 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4943 are used.
4944- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4945- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4946- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4947
4948
4949'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010049509 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4951 char * veryLongName =
4952 "very long string"
4953 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049548 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049558 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4956 long_type foo =
4957 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049588 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4959 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004960 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049618 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4962 func(
4963 new String[] {
4964 "asdf",
4965 "asdf"
4966 }
4967 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049688 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4969 (Chow Loong Jin)
4970 namespace {
4971 int
4972 func(int arg) {
4973 }
4974 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049756 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4976 func( arg1
4977 , arg2
4978 , arg3
4979 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000049807 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004981 func(
4982 int x) // indent like "(4"
4983 {
4984 if (a
4985 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049869 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4987 if (a)
4988 {
4989 if (b)
4990 {
4991 // {
4992 }
4993 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004994 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4995 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4996 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004997- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004998 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
49997 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5000- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5001 line).
5002- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5003- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5004 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005005- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5006 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5007- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5008 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5009- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5010- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5011 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
50128 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5013 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5014 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5015- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5016- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5017 lines start with "\item".
5018- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5019 /* here is a comment that
5020 is just autoindented, and
5021 nothing else */
5022- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
50237 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5024 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5025 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005026 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005027
5028
5029Java:
50308 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5031 Odendahl?
50328 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5033 "[i" commands and friends.
5034- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5035 (Jason)
5036- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5037 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5038
5039
5040'comments':
50418 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5042 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5043 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5044 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005045 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5046 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050477 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5048 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
50497 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
50506 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5051 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5052 regexp is used.
50538 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5054 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5055
5056
5057Virtual edit:
50588 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050597 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5060
5061
5062Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050638 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050648 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000050658 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005066 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020050678 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005068 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005069 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5070 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020050718 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050728 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5073 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050748 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5075 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5076 the end of the line or before a ".".
50777 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5078 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
50797 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5080 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050816 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
50825 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5083 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5084 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5085 cursor is on.
5086
5087
5088Select mode:
50898 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5090 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
50917 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005092 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050937 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5094 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5095 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5096 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5097 normal_cmd().
5098 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5099 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5100
5101
5102Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020051038 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5104 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005105- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5106 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5107 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005108- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5109 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5110 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051118 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005112 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005113 where needed.
51147 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5115 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
51167 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5117 of each selected line.
51188 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
51198 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5120 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5121 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
51228 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5123 Ben Godfrey)
51247 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5125 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
51267 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5127 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051287 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005129 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005130 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
51318 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5132 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
51337 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5134 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5135 option!
51367 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5137 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5138 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5139 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5140 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5141 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5142 without changing the column.
51436 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051447 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5145 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051466 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5147 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
51486 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051496 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005150 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005151 or other special character.
51526 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5153
5154
5155More advanced repeating commands:
5156- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005157- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005158- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005159 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5160 "y." will repeat last yank.
5161 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5162 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5163 and/or pick an older command.
5164- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5165
5166
5167Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051688 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5169 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5170 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
51718 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
51727 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5173 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051748 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5175 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
51768 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000051777 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051788 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5179 entering search strings.
51808 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5181 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5182 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051838 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5184 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010051857 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051867 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5187 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051886 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5189 abbreviations are to be used.
5190- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5191 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5192 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005193- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5194 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5195 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5196 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5197 Or implicit:
5198 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005199- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5200 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5201 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005202- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5203 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5204- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5205 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
52066 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5207 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5208 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5209 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005210- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5211 non-replace Insert mode?
5212- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005213- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5214- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5215 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5216- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005217 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5219 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5220- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5221- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5222 ":freekeys".
5223- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5224
5225
5226Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005227- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5228 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5229- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5230 folds when going to another line.
5231 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5232- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5233 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005234- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5235 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5236 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005237- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5238 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5239 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5240 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020052419 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5242 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005243
5244
5245Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010052469 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000052478 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005248 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005249 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005250 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005251 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052529 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5253 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052548 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5255 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000052568 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5257 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5258 Perl does it this way:
5259 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5260 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5261 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5262 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052638 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5264 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5265 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000052667 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5267 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000052688 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5269 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052707 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005271 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5272 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5273 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052747 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005275 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052767 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5277 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052788 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5279 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
52808 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5281 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020052827 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005283 example.
52848 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5285 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5286- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5287 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5288 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5289 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052908 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5291 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5292 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
52937 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5294 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000052957 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5296 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052978 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5298 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052998 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5300 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053018 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5302 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5303 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5304 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005305- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5306 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005307- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5308 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5309- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5310 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5311 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5312 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053138 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5314 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005315- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5316 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053178 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5318 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5319 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005320- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5321 i ignore case
5322 I use case
5323 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5324 v use Vi regexp syntax
5325 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5326 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5327 Perl uses these too:
5328 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5329 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5330 o compile only once (Perl only)
5331 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5332 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5333 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5334 following command.
5335 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5336- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5337 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5338 for search string)?
53397 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5340 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5341- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5342 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5343- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5344 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5345- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5346- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005347 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005348 a for the next file in the argument list
5349 f for file in the buffer list
5350 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005351 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5352 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005353 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5354 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5355- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053567 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005357 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053587 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5359 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5360 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5361 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
53626 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5363 effects.
53647 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5365 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5366 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000053677 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005368 Also ":dselect".
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005369- Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual
5370 selection. Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
5371- Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
5372 /\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
5373- Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett
5374 Stahlman, 2014 Jun 8)
5375- Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega,
5376 2010 Nov 22)
5377- Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin
5378 R. Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
5379- When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it
5380 may result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen,
5381 2009 Apr 16)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005382
5383
5384Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053859 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5386 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5387 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053889 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5389 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020053908 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5391 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053928 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5393 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5394 timestamp?
5395 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5396 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005397- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5398 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005399- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5400 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5401 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
54028 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5403 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5404 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5405 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
54068 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5407 only remember the lines that really changed.
54087 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5409 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5410 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5411 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005412- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5413 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5414- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5415 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5416- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5417 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5418 [-99].
5419- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5420- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005421- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5422 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005423- MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
5424 mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925) Add a flag to
5425 only copy attributes?
5426- undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
5427- After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it
5428 causes corruption. (#6631)
5429- When the computer crashes while writing the undofile, the contents may be
5430 lost. Write to a temp file, fsync and rename. (#8879)
5431- Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
5432- Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426) ex_next()
5433 should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd(). Is there a test for
5434 this?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005435- Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
5436- Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013
5437 oct 3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
5438 Also see #1635.
5439- When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
5440 synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01005441- The undo file name can get too long. (Issue #346)
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005442 For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01005443 Check both for some time for backwards compatibility.
5444 Alternatively: create the directory structure under 'undodir'.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005445- Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
5446 possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
5447- Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian
5448 Brabandt, 2010 Nov 5)
5449- There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to
5450 what was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break
5451 inserted perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
5452- When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted.
5453 Need to handle extra bytes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005454
5455
5456Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054577 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5458 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5459 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5460 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020054618 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005462 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
54638 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5464 inode too.
54657 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005466 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5467 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054687 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5469 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5470- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5471 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5472- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5473 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
54747 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5475 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
54767 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5477 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
54788 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054797 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5480 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010054818 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5482 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5483 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005484- When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
5485 jumplist and alternate file.
5486- ":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but
5487 it goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
5488 unlisted. (#4478)
5489- :buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp
5490 error. (#5467)
5491- Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before
5492 and is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
5493- Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If
5494 there is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc.
5495 To be used for git temp files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005496
5497
5498Swap (.swp) files:
54998 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5500 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5501 there are short file name problems.
55028 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5503 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
55048 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
55058 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005506 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005507 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5508 file the same as the actual file?
5509 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055107 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5511 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
55127 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005513 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005514 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5515 enough room.
55167 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5517 or /var/preserve.
5518- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5519 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5520- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005521 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005522- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5523 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5524 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5525 cached list of which line is where.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005526- When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative,
5527 while editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355) Which one should
5528 it be?
5529- When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile.
5530 Then a command can delete it.
5531- In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of
5532 the process that is running. It might actually be some other program,
5533 e.g. after a reboot.
5534- When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to
5535 wait for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
5536 Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
5537- After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
5538 correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
5539- In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about
5540 what each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005541
5542
5543Viminfo:
55447 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5545 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5546 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000055478 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5548 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5549 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055508 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5551 name. (Schild)
55528 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
55538 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055548 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055558 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5556 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5557 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5558 this?
55597 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
55607 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5561 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
55626 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5563 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5564 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5565- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5566 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005567- Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
5568- Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows
5569 about, it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017
5570 Jun 19, #1781)
5571- Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be
5572 read back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
5573- When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and
5574 reading it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
55758 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
5576 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
55778 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
5578 check for file marks. This can be slow.
55798 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
5580 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
5581 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005582
5583
5584Modelines:
55858 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5586 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5587 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005588- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5589 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5590 'shiftwidth'.
5591- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5592 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5594 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5595 modeline setting.
5596- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5597 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5598- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5599 .cpp files.
5600- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5601 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005602- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005603 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5604
5605
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005606Sessions:
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +01005607- Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
5608 'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative
5609 path. (#4450)
5610- Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
5611 window, not other buffers. (#7532)
5612- Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows
5613 with modified buffers:
5614 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
5615 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
5616 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
5617 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
5618- When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted,
5619 the buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393) Should add
5620 the buffer in hidden state.
5621- When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are
5622 not filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle
5623 deleting the initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
5624- Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not
5625 the normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
5626- Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
5627 (Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
5628- Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a
5629 way that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
5630 ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1) Also: swap files are in
5631 ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
5632- Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until
5633 after loading all files.
5634- Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
5635 (7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056368 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5637 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56387 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5639 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056408 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5641 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056428 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5643 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5644 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056457 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5646 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005647
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005648
5649Options:
56507 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5651 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056528 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01005653 options that are a comma-separated list. The old number values should
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005654 also be supported.
56558 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5656 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5657 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
56587 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005659
5660
5661External commands:
56628 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5663 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
56644 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5665 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5666 -f).
56674 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
56684 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5669 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
56704 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5671
5672
5673Multiple Windows:
56747 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
56758 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5676 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
56777 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5678 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5679 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000056807 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5681 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000056827 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5683 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056846 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5685 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005686 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005687 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
56887 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5689 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5690 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5691 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5692- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5693 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5694 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5695 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5696
5697
5698Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056998 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057008 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5701 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057028 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 +000057038 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5704 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57058 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5706 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5707 the mark was set.
57087 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5709 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5710 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5711 ":browse marks"?
57126 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057137 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5714 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57157 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5716 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57177 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5718 command).
57197 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5720 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5721 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5722 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57235 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5724 mappings.
57256 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5726 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5727 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5728
5729
5730Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057317 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005732 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005733- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5734 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057358 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057367 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5737 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5738
5739
5740Writing files:
5741- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5742 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5743 shortname conversion.
57448 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57458 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5746 file.
57478 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5748 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5749 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057506 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5751 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
57526 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5753 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
57546 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5755 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057568 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005757 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
57587 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5759 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010057607 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005761 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5762 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5763 waiting for a character to be typed).
57648 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5765 line of the window, like "[time]".
5766 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5767 Automatic and/or with a command.
5768
5769
5770Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000057718 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5772 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057738 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005774 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5775- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5776- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
57778 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5778 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005779- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005780 :s///N substitutes N times.
5781- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5782 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5783 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
57847 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5785 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5786 last line column 5.
57875 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5788 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5789 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5790 (Stanislav Sitar)
5791
5792
5793Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057948 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
57957 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
57968 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5797 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5798 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005799- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5800- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5801 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5802- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5803- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5804
5805
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005806Argument list:
58076 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5808 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5809 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58106 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5811
5812
5813Registers:
58148 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058158 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5816 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5817 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005818- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5819 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5820- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5821 leader when line wraps?
5822- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5823 line in the range.
5824- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5825 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58268 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5827 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005828- In Select mode the deleted text always goes into the unnamed register.
5829 Use CTRL-R to specify the register to use. (#9531)
5830- When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
5831 register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
5832 (#6435)
5833- Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi,
5834 2018 Apr 26, #2849)
5835- Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
5836 registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
5837- With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for
5838 empty register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
5839- Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked
5840 text part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
58416 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5842 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5843 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5844 Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005845
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005846
5847Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058488 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058498 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058507 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58517 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005852- In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping
5853 through the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
5854
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005855
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005856Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000058577 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5858 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5859 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5860 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5861 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5862 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5863 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005864 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000058657 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5866 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000058677 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5868 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058698 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5870 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058717 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5872 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5873 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010058747 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5875 window as a buffer-tab selection.
58768 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058777 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5878 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
58798 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5880 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058816 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058828 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5883 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5884 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5885 in this Vim.
58868 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005887 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058888 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5889 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5890 have it apply to the following command.
58918 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5892 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5893 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5894 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058957 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5896 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058977 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5898 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5899 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5900 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059016 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59028 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59039 Support ACLs on more systems.
59047 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5905 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059067 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5907 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5908 (truncated to fit in the space).
59097 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59108 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59118 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5912 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059137 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005914 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59157 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5916 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059177 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059187 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59197 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059208 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59218 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5922 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5923 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5924 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59258 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059268 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059278 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5928 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5929 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5930 does something like this. (Shah)
59317 Use growarray for replace stack.
59327 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5933 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59343 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059357 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5936 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059377 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5938 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005939- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5940- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5941- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5942- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59437 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5944 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5945- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5946 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005947- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005948- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5949 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5950- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5951 call "play newbeep.au").
5952- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5953 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5954 (Bhatt).
5955- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5956 blockwise registers).
5957- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5958 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5959- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5960 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5961 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5962 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005963- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059647 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5965 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5966- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5967 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5968 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5969 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5970 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059718 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5972 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059738 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5974 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5975 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5976 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5977 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5978- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02005979- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059807 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5981 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5982- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5983 not in column 1.
59846 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5985 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
59867 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5987- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005988- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005989 :redir #> bufname
5990 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005991- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5992 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005993- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5994 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5995 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
59966 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5997 console? (Klaus Hast)
5998- Add :delcr command:
5999 *:delcr*
6000 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6001 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6002 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6003 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6004 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006005 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006006- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6007- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6008 characters from 'isprint'.
6009- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6010- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6011 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6012- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6013 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6014 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6015- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6016- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6017 Nvi).
6018- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6019 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60207 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6021- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6022 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60236 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6024- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6025 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6026 macro).
6027- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006028- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6029 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6030- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60318 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006032- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6033- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6034- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6035 if it is not the first or last window.
6036- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6037 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60387 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6039 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6040 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6041- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6042- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006043 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006044 many percent down the windows).
6045- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6046 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +00006047 line? #754 Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006048 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006049- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6050 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6051- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6052 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6053- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6054- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6055- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6056 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060578 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6058 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6059 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6060 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6061 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006062- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6063 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6064- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006065 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6066- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006067 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6068 (Webb).
6069- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006070 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006071- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6072 hex codes like 0xff).
6073- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6074 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6075 the last TYPED command.
6076- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6077- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6078- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6079 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006080- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060818 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6082 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6083 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006084- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006085 trailing '.'.
6086- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6087 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6088 find_file_in_path().
6089- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6090 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6091- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6092- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6093 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6094- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006095 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006096- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6097 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6098 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006099- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6100- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6101- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6102 to the minimal size.
6103- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6104- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6105- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6106- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6107- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006108- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6109 entered)?
6110- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6111 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006112- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006113- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6114- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6115- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6116- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6117- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6118 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006119- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061208 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6121 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6122 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6123 or in octal.
61247 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6125 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006126- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006127 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6128- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6129- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6130 insert line command).
6131- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6132- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6133- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6134- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6135- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6136 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006137- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006138 yet.
6139- Implement 'redraw' option.
6140- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6141 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061427 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6143 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006144 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6145 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061468 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6147 do it.
6148- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6149- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6150 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6151- Add text justification option.
6152- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6153- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6154 off".
6155- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6156- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6157- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006158 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006159- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006160- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006161- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6162 commands.
6163- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6164- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6165- :table command (Webb)
6166- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006167- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6168- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6169- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6170- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6171- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6172 (Demirel).
6173- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6174- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6175 for use in macro's and the like.
6176- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006177 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006178- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006179 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006180- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006181 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006182 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6183- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6184 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006185- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006186 mkopttab to make option table?
6187- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6188 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6189- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6190 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006191- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006192 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6193- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6194 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006195- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000061968 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6197 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6198 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6199 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6200 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062018 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6202 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6203 (Netherton)
62046 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6205 space after "(", for example.
62065 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6207 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6208 (Servatius Brandt)
6209
6210
6211From Elvis:
6212- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6213- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006214- Search patterns:
6215 \@ match word under cursor.
6216 but do:
6217 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6218 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62198 ":window" command:
6220 :win + next window (up)
6221 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6222 :win - previous window (down)
6223 :win -- idem, wrapping
6224 :win nr to window number "nr"
6225 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62267 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6227 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6228
6229
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230From xvi:
6231- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6232- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6233
6234
6235From vile:
6236- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6237- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6238 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6239
6240
6241Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006242- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6243 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006244 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006245 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6246 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006247- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6248 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6249- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6250 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6251 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6252 current layout mirrored.
6253- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6254- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6255 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6256- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6257- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6258 font in each top-level window.
6259- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6260- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6261- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6262- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6263 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006264- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6265 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6266- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6267 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
62684 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6269 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6270 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6271 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006272 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006273 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6274 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6275- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6276 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6277 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6278
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006279vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006280vim: set fo+=n :