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Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Mar 19
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 Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010041Add second argument to has(), return True when the feature can exist at all.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010042
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010043Patch to fix buffer menu. (Yee Cheng Chin, #5787)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010044
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010045Add $TEST_MAY_FAIL, comma separated list of test functions that won't be fatal
46when failed.
47- When matcning in AfterTheTest() then do not add to s:errors but to
48 s:warnings. in testdir/runtest.vim
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010049
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010050Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010051- Add vim9 commands to index, so that vim.vim will get them automatically.
52 See email from Charles March 11 2020.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010053- "func" inside "vim9script" doesn't work? (Ben Jackson, #5670)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010054- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010055- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010056- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
57- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
58- make "let var: string" work in a vim9script.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010059- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010060- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
61 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010062- :func inside vim9script must still use a:arg
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010063- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010064- Check that import in legacy script works and puts item in s:
65- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
66- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010067- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010068- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010069- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
70 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
71- call autoload function.
72- Type checking arguments when calling :def function
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010073- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010074- can use func as reference:
75 def SomeFunc() ...
76 map(list, SomeFunc)
77- define function and create funcref in one step:
78 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
79 Also extends lambda
80- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
81 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
82- Can we omit \ for line continuation inside (), {}, ?
83 Requires parsing while reading a function. Like fgetline in do_one_cmd()?
84- implement :type
85- implement class
86- implement interface
87- predefined class: Promise<T>
88- import statement for type declaration?
89- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
90 EVAL expr
91 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
92
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020093Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010094- With some sequence get get hidden finished terminal buffer. (#5768)
95 Cannot close popup terminal (#5744)
96 Buffer can't be wiped, gets status "aF". (#5764)
97 Is buf->nwindows incorrect?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010098- popup_clear() and popup_close() should close the terminal popup, and
99 make the buffer hidden. #5745
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100100- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100101- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
102 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
103 the way. (#5737)
104 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200105- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100106- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
107 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
108- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200109- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200110 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100111- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
112 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200113- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100114 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100115- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200116
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200117Text properties:
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100118- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100119- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100120- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
121 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100122- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100123- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200124
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100125'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200126- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
127 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100128- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
129 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200130- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200131- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200132- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
133 isn't one?
134 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
135
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200136Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100137- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200138- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100139- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200140
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200141Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200142- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100143- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
144 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200145- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100146- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200147- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
148 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
149 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100150- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100151- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
152 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100153 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100154 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200155
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200156Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100157- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
158 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
159 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100160- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100161- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
162 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200163- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
164 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200165- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200166- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200167- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
168 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200169- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
170 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
171- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
172 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200173- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
174 is disabled.
175- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
176- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
177 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200178- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
179 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
180 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
181- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
182- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
183 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
184- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
185 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200186
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200187Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100188E451, E452, E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100189E654, E856, E857, E861, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200190
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100191Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
192Causes flicker on resizing.
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100193
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100194Patch to make lambda functions faster (Ken Takata)
195https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/5727
196 LGTM remark: size derived from user input (getenv). Don't see how.
197
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100198Patch to use more FOR_ALL_ macros and use them. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #5339)
199
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100200Patch to explain use of "%" in :!. (David Briscoe, #5591)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100201
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100202Patch to improve Windows terminal support. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5546)
203Ready to include.
204
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100205Patch to add "-d" to xxd. (#5616)
206
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100207Patch to add Turkish manual. (Emir Sarı, #5641)
208
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100209File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
210
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200211Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
212manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
213Athena is OK.
214Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
215
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200216Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200217Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200218
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100219Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
220Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
221
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200222undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
223
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100224Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
225Ready to include? Review the code.
226
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100227When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
228(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
229
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100230Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
231(Paul Jolly, #5656)
232Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100233 Later more requests for what to track.
234 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
235 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
236 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100237BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100238Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100239
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100240Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
241(Yegappan, #5465)
242
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100243Patch to add readdirex() (Ken Takata, #5619)
244
245Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
246(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
247
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200248Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
249
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100250:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
251Dec 19)
252
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100253Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
254May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200255Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
256remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200257Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100258Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200259
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100260When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
261the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
262
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100263Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
264(Max Rumpf, #5468)
265
266Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
267Fujiwara, #5469)
268
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200269Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100270Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
271in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200272Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
273(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200274
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100275Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
276ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
277
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100278Patch to add "note" type to quickfix. (#5527) Missing tests.
279
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100280Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
281(#4087)
282
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100283FR: add search_status(), the current values displayed for search (current
284match, total matches). (#5631)
285Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
286statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
287
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100288Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
289(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
290
291behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
292#5771)
293
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200294":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
295goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
296unlisted. (#4478)
297
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100298Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
299
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100300Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100301
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200302Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
303
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200304Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
305Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
306
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100307Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
308
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100309Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
310
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200311The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
312support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
313
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200314Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
315It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
316Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
317Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
318
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100319"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
320
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100321Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
322
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100323Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
324
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100325Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
326
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200327Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
328(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
329
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200330When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
331default one. #4698
332
333When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
334with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
335
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100336Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100337Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100338
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200339Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200340Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200341
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200342Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
343fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
344
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200345Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
346-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
347
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200348Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
349- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
350- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100351- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200352
353Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
35413, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200355
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100356Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
357
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200358Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
359
360Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
361
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100362Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
363
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100364Patch to enable IXON, avoid that CTRL-S stops terminal output. (#5775)
365
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100366When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
367when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
368gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
369input buffer. (#5302)
370
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200371xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
372buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
373Xterm 224 supports it!
374Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
375Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
376Also see issue #609.
377We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
378
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100379:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
380(#5467)
381
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200382Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200383
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100384Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
3852007 Feb 18)
386Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
387
388Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
389Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
390
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200391Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
392
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200393Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
394Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200395
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100396Errors found with random data:
397 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100398
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200399Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
400change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
401patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
402(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
403
404Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
405Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
406
407Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
408
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200409Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
410files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
411Include part of #3242?
412
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200413When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
414it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
415
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200416Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
417Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
418Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
419
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100420":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
421window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
422#5443)
423
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200424Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
425(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
426Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
427- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
428 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
429 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
430- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
431 covered by the above change.
432So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
433same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
434Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200435
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200436Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
437t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
438
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100439v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
440(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
441
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100442Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
443Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
444
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200445'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
446
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200447"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
448(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
449
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200450Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
451
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100452Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
453
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200454Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
455
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100456When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
457in a long line. #5189
458
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200459The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
460Give a few examples. (#4288)
461
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200462Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
463work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
464
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200465Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
4667 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
467 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
468 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
469
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100470Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
471read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
472be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
473
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100474Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
475CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
476with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
477fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
478displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
479
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200480Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
481
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200482Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
483
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200484Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
485https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
486
487Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
488http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
489http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
490Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100491- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200492- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
493- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
494 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
495- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
496- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
497Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
498- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
499- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
500Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
501- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
502
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100503Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
504Mar 5)
505
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200506Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
507- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
508 line.
509- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
510 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
511- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
512 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
513
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200514Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
515on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
516
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200517Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
518in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
519buffer didn't change at all.
520
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200521Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
522register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
523(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
524
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200525Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
526(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
527
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200528Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
529":let buf = bufcreate('name')
530
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200531Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
532'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
533(#4450)
534
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100535When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
536But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
537similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
538
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200539C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
540(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
541
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100542Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
543added?
544
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200545Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
546maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
547
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200548Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
549negative. (see #4326)
550
551'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
552`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
553tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
554:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
555
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200556This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
557 vim: syn=nosyntax
558
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200559":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
560a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
561
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100562Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
563#2948. (related to #1512?)
564On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
565balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
56620, #2481)
567Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
568Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
569balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
5702018 Sep 14)
571Another request: #3811.
572
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200573More warnings from static analysis:
574https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200575
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100576Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
577
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200578Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
579
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200580Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
581internals of the dict structure.
582
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100583nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
584
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200585Missing tests for:
586- add_termcap_entry()
587
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200588Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
589change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
590them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
591
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100592Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
593Also run all tests with C locale?
594
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100595"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
596#3927
597
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200598Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200599Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200600
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100601When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
602case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
603For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
604
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200605Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
606(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
607expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200608
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200609Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
610 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
611 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
612
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100613Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100614punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100615
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200616ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
617
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200618Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
619":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
620#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
621Updated 2019 May 25.
622
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200623Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
624drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
625
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200626Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
627is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
628
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100629When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
630scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
631using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
632
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200633Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
634#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
635(Sep 8)
636
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200637Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
638unified diff (list of lines).
639
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100640When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
641kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
642when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
643
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100644Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
645(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100646
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100647Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
648
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200649Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100650Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
651memory leak in test_cmdline
652==6522== by 0x291AFF: ga_grow (misc2.c:2069)
653==6522== by 0x3D5B4B: win_size_save (window.c:5243)
654==6522== by 0x222922: open_cmdwin (ex_getln.c:4177)
655==6522== by 0x21D472: getcmdline_int (ex_getln.c:1376)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200656memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200657Memory leak in test_terminal:
658==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
659==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
660==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
661==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
662==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
663==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
664==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
665==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
666==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100667Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200668TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100669Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200670Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
671Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200672
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200673gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200674
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200675matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
67619.
677
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100678Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100679Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100680Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
681highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200682And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
683'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100684Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
685Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100686
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100687Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
688Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
689
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200690Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
691Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
692Not ready to include.
693
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200694Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
695Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
696Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
697
698Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
699
700Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
701screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
702
703Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
704 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
705 Not ready to include.
706
707Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
708Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
709
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200710home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
711
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200712When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
713terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
714How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
715
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200716Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
717
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100718Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
719Feedback from someone who uses this?
720
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200721ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
722
723Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
724Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
725values.
726
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100727Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200728- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
729- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
730- omit diff.exe from distribution
731- Can we make this show differences within a line?
732- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200733
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200734Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
735
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100736Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
737What is the practical use for this?
738
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200739When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
740includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
741
742Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200743Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200744
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200745MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
746(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
747
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100748Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
749
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200750Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
751
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200752Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
753window for the buffer.
754
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200755Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
756when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
757
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100758Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
759mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
760
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200761Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
762
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200763Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
764modified buffers
765 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
766 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
767 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
768 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
769
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100770Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
771- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
772- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
773- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100774- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
775
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200776Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
777characters. (#3246)
778
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200779'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
780
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100781Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
782Oct 28)
783
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200784ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
785Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
786Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
787Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
788
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100789Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
790- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
791
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200792Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
793- Test_setbufvar_options()
794- Test_exit_callback_interval()
795
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200796Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
797Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100798Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
799Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200800
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200801Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
802
803Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
80424)
805
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100806Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100807 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100808or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100809 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
810
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100811Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100812mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100813
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200814Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
815is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
816used for git temp files.
817
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100818Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
819
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200820Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
821behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
822(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
823
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200824Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
825pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
826
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200827Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
828script or function.
829
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200830When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
831E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
832does nothing otherwise?
833
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200834MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
835If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
836(wait a little while).
837CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100838
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200839Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
840MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8412017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
842receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
843
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200844Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
845missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
846
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200847":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
848deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
849
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200850Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200851
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100852Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200853Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
854
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200855With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
856included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
857(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
858
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200859Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200860Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200861
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100862Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100863Jan 15, #2555)
864
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200865":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
866
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100867Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
868
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100869No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
870No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
871
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200872Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
873http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
874Should be supported with a flag.
875
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100876Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
877confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
878
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100879Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
880
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100881Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
882Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
883applying the diff, etc.
884
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200885Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
886Apr 26, #2849)
887
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100888User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
889word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100890
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100891Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200892
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200893With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
894(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
895
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200896Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
897:drop (remote commands).
898
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200899Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9002018 Jun 18, #3027)
901
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200902Implement option_save() and option_restore():
903option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
904 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
905 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
906 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
907 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
908 be called when the same window is the current window.
909 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
910 the local options won't be restored.
911
912option_save({list}) *option_save()*
913 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
914 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
915 let s:saved_options = option_save([
916 \ 'ignorecase',
917 \ 'iskeyword',
918 \ ])
919 au <buffer> BufLeave *
920 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
921< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
922 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
923 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
924 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100925 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
926 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
927 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100928 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200929
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100930"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
931directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
932Also see #1689.
933
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100934When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100935highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100936
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200937":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
938
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100939No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9402017 Dec 26, #2501)
941
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200942A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
943
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200944Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
945
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200946A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
947Mention where they were defined somewhere.
948
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100949Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
950(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
951
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200952ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
953
954Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
955
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100956Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
957Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
958
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100959Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
960in #846)
961Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
962
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200963Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
964Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
965
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100966When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
967redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200968
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100969In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
970(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
971
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100972Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
973neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100974
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100975Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
976Nov 21)
977
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200978When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
979triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
980set_color_count().
981
982Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
983responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
984
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100985When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
986CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
987Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
988always nested.
989
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200990matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
991
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100992Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
993
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100994MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100995for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
996
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200997Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100998(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200999
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001000Test runtime files.
1001Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001002
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001003Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001004
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001005Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1006defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1007Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1008
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001009After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
101013, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001011
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001012When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1013line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1014
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001015The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1016
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001017Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1018set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
1019
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001020Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1021
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001022Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1023behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1024
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001025'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1026
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001027The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1028
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001029When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1030a command can delete it.
1031
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001032Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1033#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1034
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001035The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1036for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1037
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001038X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1039pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1040clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1041Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1042Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1043clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001044Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001045
1046Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1047
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001048Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1049attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1050that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1051
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001052Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1053(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1054
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001055Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1056buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1057Also fixes #2166?
1058
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001059Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1060stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1061
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001062Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1063possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1064
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001065When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1066case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1067
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001068Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1069existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1070Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1071
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001072Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001073
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001074MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1075Jul 4)
1076
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001077Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1078Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1079This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1080Christian cannot reproduce it.
1081
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001082Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1083wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1084Or is this not an actual problem?
1085
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001086Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1087
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001088Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
1089
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001090Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1091
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001092'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1093#1736)
1094
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001095Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10968, #1690)
1097
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001098Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1099(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1100
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001101Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1102it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1103
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001104Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1105Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1106How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1107
1108Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1109(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1110
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001111Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1112
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001113assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1114it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1115
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001116Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1117for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001118
1119Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1120(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1121Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1122later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1123Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1124mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001125Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1126mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001127maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001128
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001129Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001130plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1131be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1132
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001133Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1134 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1135 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001136
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001137json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001138What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001139
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001140Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1141
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001142import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1143(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1144
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001145When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1146buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1147Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001148
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001149Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1150Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001151Another example in #1309
1152
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001153When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1154when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1155
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001156Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1157#1330)
1158
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001159Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1160
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001161Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1162
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001163GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1164g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1165timer expires.
1166
1167Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1168
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001169Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1170highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1171
11728 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1173 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1174
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001175Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1176Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1177
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001178Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1179key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1180 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1181 echo keytrans(xx)
1182 <C-Home>
1183
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001184Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1185(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1186Make a function to check for function-like type?
1187
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001188Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1189(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1190
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001191Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001192 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001193 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001194
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001195Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1196somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1197
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001198Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1199(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1200
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001201Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001202Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001203Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001204
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001205The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1206"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1207Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1208
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001209Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1210
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001211Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1212about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001213Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1214
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001215Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1216#1053) With patch, does it work?
1217
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001218":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001219vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1220
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001221Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001222E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001223Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001224
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001225Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1226Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1227
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001228Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001229Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001230
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001231"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1232(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1233
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001234Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1235(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001236Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001237
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001238'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1239
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001240Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1241
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001242When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1243Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001244Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001245
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001246Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1247anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1248
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001249Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001250E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001251
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001252Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1253(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1254
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001255Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1256
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001257On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1258separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1259
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001260min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1261contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1262
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001263Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1264
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001265Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1266
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001267Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1268
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001269Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1270no longer support.
1271
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001272sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12734#1038)
1274
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001275+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001276- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001277- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1278 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1279 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001280- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1281 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001282- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1283- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1284 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1285- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1286 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1287- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001288- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1289 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001290- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1291- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1292 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1293 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1294- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1295- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1296- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1297 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1298 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1299- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1300 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1301- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1302 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1303 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1304
1305Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001306- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1307 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1308 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1309 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001310- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1311 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001312- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1313 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1314- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1315 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1316- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1317 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1318 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1319 LC_CTYPE
1320- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1321 matches everywhere.
1322- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1323 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1324- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1325- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1326 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1327- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1328- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1329 2013 Dec 11)
1330- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1331 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1332- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1333- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1334 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1335- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1336- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1337- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1338- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1339 2015 Feb 7)
1340- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1341 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1342 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1343 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1344 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1345- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1346- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1347- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1348- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1349 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1350 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1351 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1352- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1353 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1354- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1355 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1356 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1357 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1358
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001359Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1360#1350)
1361
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001362Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13633. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1364Also see #1635.
1365
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001366Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001367Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1368use the current behavior.
1369Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001370
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001371When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1372command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
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 Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001380execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001381#1141)
1382
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001383cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1384
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001385:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1386
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001387Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1388
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001389When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1390synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1391
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001392Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1393Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001394
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001395Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1396(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1397
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001398ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1399Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001400
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001401Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1402
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001403Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001404(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001405
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001406Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1407Jul 25, #948)
1408
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001409Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1410names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1411Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1412the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1413
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001414'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1415
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001416MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1417Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001418
1419Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1420Also for ":@.".
1421
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001422Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1423
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001424Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1425#1125
1426
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001427Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1428times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1429
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001430Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1431
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001432Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1433
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001434Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1435
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001436Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1437
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001438We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1439the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1440
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001441Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1442
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001443When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1444emoji_width table has only one entry.
1445
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001446It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1447Reject the value? #710.
1448
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001449When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1450Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1451
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001452Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001453
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001454Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1455No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001456
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001457Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1458(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001459
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001460Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1461
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001462Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1463https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1464Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1465
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001466Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1467but the reference remains valid.
1468
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001469Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001470interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1471Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1472interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1473result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001474
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001475Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001476work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001477
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001478Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1479
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001480Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1481
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001482Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1483Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1484
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001485When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1486Apr 17) #762
1487
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001488exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1489Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1490
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001491Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1492'iskeyword' for syntax.
1493
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001494Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1495(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1496
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001497Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1498
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001499When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1500maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001501Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001502
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001503Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1504It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1505Add configure check?
1506Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1507Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1508Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1509
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001510Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1511Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1512
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001513Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1514Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1515
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001516":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1517directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1518
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001519In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1520(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1521
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001522If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15232016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001524
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001525Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1526(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1527
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001528Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1529
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001530When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1531restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1532Do not trigger the event?
1533
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001534Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1535changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1536and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001537Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1538Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
15396, 2nd message)
1540Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001541
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001542Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1543Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1544https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1545
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001546Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1547With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1548
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001549Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001550
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001551Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1552
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001553Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001554Only remembers one error.
1555
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001556GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001557
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001558Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1559(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001560
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001561Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1562github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001563 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001564Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001565
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001566Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001567
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001568Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001569comparing individual items.
1570Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1571Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1572Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1573equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1574
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001575Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1576
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001577MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1578wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1579
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001580Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1581specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1582
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001583Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1584(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1585
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001586Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001587inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001588
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001589Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1590(Luchr, #277)
1591
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001592Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001593'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1594before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001595
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001596C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1597and also line continuation after #include.
1598I can't recommend it though.
1599
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001600Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1601(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1602
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001603To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1604library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1605
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001606When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1607is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1608
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001609Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
161030)
1611
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001612MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1613(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1614
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001615The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
161624): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001617
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001618":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1619effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1620
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001621":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16229)
1623
1624The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1625wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1626
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001627Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001628Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001629
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001630When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1631the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1632
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001633Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001634slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1635inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1636
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001637ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16382014 Sep 11)
1639
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001640Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1641(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1642
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001643When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1644'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1645
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001646Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1647Work in progress.
1648
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001649Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1650when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1651
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001652Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1653Is this right?
1654
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001655Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1656(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1657Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1658
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001659Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1660Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001661
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001662Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1663Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1664
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001665Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1666
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001667When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1668filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1669initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1670
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001671Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1672
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001673Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1674OK to not block marks?
1675
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001676Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1677
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001678Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1679
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001680When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1681(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1682
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001683Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001684
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001685Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1686(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1687
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001688When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1689any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1690
1691Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001692
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001693Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001694
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001695Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1696(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1697
1698Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1699
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001700Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1701Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1702was already defined.
1703(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1704
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001705Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1706
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001707Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001708Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001709Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001710Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001711
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001712Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1713(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1714
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001715Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1716(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1717
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001718Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1719
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001720When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1721these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1722window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1723
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001724Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1725should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1726history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1727Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1728
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001729"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1730Jun 8)
1731
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001732Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1733insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1734
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001735No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1736
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001737Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1738(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1739Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1740arguments.
1741
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001742Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1743
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001744Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001745
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001746Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17470x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1748New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1749compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1750
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001751Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1752a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1753
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001754Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1755right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001756its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001757
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001758Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1759
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001760This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1761 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1762This neither: (ZyX)
1763 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1764
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001765'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1766Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1767from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001768
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001769Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17702014 Jun 8)
1771
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001772Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001773Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001774Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1775Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1776User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001777- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1778 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1779 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001780- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1781- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1782 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1783 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1784 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1785 on vim.org.
1786- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1787 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1788- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1789- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1790- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1791- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1792Implementation:
1793- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1794 plugin separate.
1795- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1796 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1797 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1798- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1799 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1800- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1801 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1802 installing.
1803Out of scope:
1804- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1805- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1806 useful).
1807
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001808Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1809normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001810
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001811When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1812menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1813
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001814Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1815(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1816
1817":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1818various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001819
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001820Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001821(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1822
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001823VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1824instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1825
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001826Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001827Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001828
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001829Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001830command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001831
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001832Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1833
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001834Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1835highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001836
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001837The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1838For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1839
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001840Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001841possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001842
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001843Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001844
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001845Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1846
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018477 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1848 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1849 "lucida_console:h8").
1850Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1851
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001852:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1853
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001854Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1855
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001856Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1857
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001858When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1859(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1860
1861Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001862Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001863
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001864GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1865(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1866
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001867Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1868registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1869
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001870Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1871
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001872The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1873(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1874Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1875
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001876The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1877- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1878- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1879
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001880Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1881Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1882reliably?
1883
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001884Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1885(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1886
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001887Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1888(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1889
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001890Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18912013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001892
1893Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1894
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001895Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18965)
1897
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001898Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1899carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1900
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001901Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1902highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1903
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001904Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001905
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001906Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200190728) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001908
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001909Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1910
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001911Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1912
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001913- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1914 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1915Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001916
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001917Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001918
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001919In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1920process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1921a reboot.
1922
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001923patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1924
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001925Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1926not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001927
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001928Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1929Or use expand('<sid>')?
1930
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001931Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1932
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001933Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1934
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001935b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19367)
1937
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001938Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1939compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1940
1941Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1942Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1943vim.bindeval().
1944
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001945Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19462012 Aug 4)
1947
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001948Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1949(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1950
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001951Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1952But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1953
1954Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1955Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1956Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001957
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001958Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1959loading all files.
1960
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001961MS-Windows resizing problems:
1962- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1963 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1964- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1965 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1966 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001967
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001968'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001969
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001970Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001971of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1972
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001973The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1974Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1975But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001976
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001977When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1978is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1979
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001980URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001981- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001982- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1983 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1984
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001985Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1986(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1987Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1988
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001989Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001990New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001991
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001992When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1993for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1994Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001995
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001996Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1997
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001998Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1999
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002000Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
2001Apr 18)
2002
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002003Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
2004And one for gui_x11.txt.
2005
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002006":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
2007finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
2008Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
2009
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002010Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
2011
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01002012Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
2013
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002014Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
2015they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
2016
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002017Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2018
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002019Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2020Nov 20)
2021
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002022Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002023Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002024
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002025`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002026(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2027
2028Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2029
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002030BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2031Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2032
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002033Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2034Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2035
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002036Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2037
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002038On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20392012 Jun 19)
2040
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002041'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2042'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2043Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002044Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002045
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002046With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2047(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2048need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2049
2050Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2051only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
205221, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2053
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002054Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2055New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2056
2057Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2058Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2059
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002060Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2061Jan 19)
2062
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002063Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2064discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2065meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002066
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002067"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002068Oct 26)
2069
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002070Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2071
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002072With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2073register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002074
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002075Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2076
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002077When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2078(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2079
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002080When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2081then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2082from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2083
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002084Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2085":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
208615)
2087
2088Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2089
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002090BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2091cleared. See test64.
2092
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002093Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002094effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002095Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01002096https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002097
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002098On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
209964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2100right type.
2101
2102string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2103(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2104
2105When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2106(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002107When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2108following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2109(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002110
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002111When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2112doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2113
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002114Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2115
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002116maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2117mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2118
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002119Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2120(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2121
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002122When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2123indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2124the help file.
2125
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002126After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2127Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2128
2129Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2130
2131"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2132
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002133Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2134
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002135Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002136
2137Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21382010 Dec 18)
2139
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002140With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2141number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2142Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2143
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002144Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2145Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2146
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021478 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2148Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2149
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002150Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2151one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2152the match scrolls into view.
2153
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021547 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2155Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2156Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2157
21589 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2159 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2160Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2161
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002162Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2163Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2164
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002165In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2166or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2167sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2168
2169GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2170doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2171
2172GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2173
2174Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2175Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2176
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002177Wish for NetBeans commands:
2178 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2179
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002180Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2181
21827.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2183there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2184do?
2185
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002186Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
218722)
2188
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002189New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2190- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002191- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002192 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2193
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002194"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21952011 Feb 27)
2196
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002197Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2198^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2199
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002200When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2201exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
22029) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2203
2204g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2205the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2206
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002207Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2208crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2209
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002210Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2211number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2212
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002213Regexp engine performance:
2214- Profiling:
2215 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2216 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2217 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2218 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2219 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2220 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2221- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2222- Performance tests:
2223 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2224 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2225 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2226 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2227 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2228 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2229 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2230 'hlsearch'.
2231 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2232 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2233 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2234 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2235
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002236Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2237Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2238
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002239'beval' option should be global-local.
2240
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002241Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002242
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002243setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002244
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002245With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22462010 Oct 24)
2247
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002248Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2249
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002250When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2251Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2252
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002253":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2254
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002255'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2256
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002257C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2258checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2259Issue 46.
2260
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002261Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2262
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002263Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2264gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2265
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002266":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2267accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2268
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002269Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2270setwinvar().
2271
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002272Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002273
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002274When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2275instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2276
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002277Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2278Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2279Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002280
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002281Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2282back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2283
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002284Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002285Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2286
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002287CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2288the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2289FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2290
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002291Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2292Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2293
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002294Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2295Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2296
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002297Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2298
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002299Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2300non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002301
2302iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2303Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2304or replace with a character and continue?
2305
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002306Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2307Requires configure check for localtime().
2308Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2309
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002310Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2311Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2312
2313Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2314
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002315Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2316Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2317path.
2318
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002319Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002320Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002321
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002322'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2323
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002324":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2325like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2326
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002327Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2328https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002329
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002330Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23312010 Nov 5)
2332
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002333Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002334Jan 7)
2335
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002336Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2337
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002338With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2339entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2340Feb 12)
2341
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002342Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2343characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2344
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002345Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2346
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002347Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2348 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2349
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002350Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2351
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002352When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2353Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002355When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2356not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2357string value.
2358
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002359For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002360line argument -noregister.
2361
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002362When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2363missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2364
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002365When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2366doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002367
2368Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2369(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2370Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2371There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2372Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2373
2374":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2375highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2376to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2377
2378Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2379Probably needs a bit of work.
2380
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002381List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002382Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2383
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002384Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2385
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002386Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2387
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002388Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2389Sep 1)
2390
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002391Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2392
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002393Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2394on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2395
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002396Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23972009 Jul 18)
2398
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002399Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2400window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2401Needs more work.
2402
2403Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2404
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002405When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2406few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2407
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002408'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002409(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2410
2411Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2412J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2413
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002414When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2415for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2416
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002417Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2418
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002419":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2420because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2421ex_docmd.c.
2422
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002423Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002424Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2425
2426string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2427for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2428
2429Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2430
2431'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
243220)
2433
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002434Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24352009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2436
2437Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2438
2439Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2440SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2441
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002442When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2443indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2444(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2445
2446Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2447are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2448Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2449Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2450that doesn't have a window.
2451
2452When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2453doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2454
2455getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2456displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2457
2458":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2459
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002460There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2461was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2462perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2463
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002464Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2465
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002466Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2467command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002469Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2470does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2471
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002472opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2473height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002474very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002475
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002476Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2477(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2478
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002479Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002480(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2481
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002482Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2483char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2484
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002485Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2486Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2487
2488This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2489
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002490Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2491messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2492es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24932009 Jan 26)
2494
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002495When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002496in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2497Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2498
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002499Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2500a modeline.
2501
2502Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2503Sergey Khorev)
2504
2505Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2506part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002507
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002508After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2509correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2510
2511Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2512(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2513
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002514shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002515'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2516Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2517unix-like shell?
2518
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002519Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2520register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2521(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2522
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002523Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2524Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2525
2526Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2527make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2528
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002529When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2530still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2531
2532"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2533(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2534
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002535Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2536that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2537ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2538Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2539
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002540MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2541doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2542probably causes this.
2543
2544'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025452009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002546
2547Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2548 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2549 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2550(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2551
2552Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2553":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2554option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2555is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002556
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002557":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2558first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002559Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002560
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002561Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2562laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2563Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002564
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002565Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2566anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2567
2568On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2569doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2570Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2571Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2572
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002573When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2574'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2575fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2576the buffer to be unmodified.
2577Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2578another look at it.
2579
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002580c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2581(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2582
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002583You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2584error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2585Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2586at the other match for 0xBF.
2587
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002588When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2589argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2590
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002591Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2592backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2593
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002594When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2595line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2596
2597Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2598position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2599
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002600After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2601(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002602command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002603
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002604":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2605Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2606
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002607When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2608either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2609put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2610
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002611Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2612Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2613Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2614Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2615(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2616
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002617Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2618
2619ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002620
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002621Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2622(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2623escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2624an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002625This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2626July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002627Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2628work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2629
2630When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
263131)
2632
2633Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2634work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2635Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002636
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002637Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2638multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2639(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2640
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002641Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26422008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002643Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002644
2645Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2646Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2647'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2648
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002649Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2650Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2651
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002652Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2653Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2654
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026558 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2656 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2657 several).
2658 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2659 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2660 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2661Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2662
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002663The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002664 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002665 0x2217, star
2666 0x2500, bar
2667 0x26ab, circle
2668
2669Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2670line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2671
2672GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2673Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2674
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002675Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2676try the Cocoa version.
2677
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002678Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2679changed or the window is resized.
2680
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002681GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2682the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2683
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002684Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2685Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002686
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002687Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26881) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2689
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002690C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2691with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2692Try to reproduce at work.
2693
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002694Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2695Is there a way to list all the files first?
2696
2697When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2698result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
269916)
2700
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002701Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2702(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2703
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002704Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2705Await response to question to make the register writable.
2706
2707Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
27081)
2709
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002710In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2711each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2712
2713try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2714
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002715try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2716
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002717":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2718Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2719
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002720Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2721
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002722Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2723Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2724
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002725Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2726Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2727Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002728
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002729When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2730and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2731
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002732Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2733 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2734
2735New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2736
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002737":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2738a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2739
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002740'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2741Likonen, March 19)
2742
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002743Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2744other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2745
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002746The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2747appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2748matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2749
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002750When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2751character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2752'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2753(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2754
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002755Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2756Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002757
2758More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2759
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002760Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2761http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2762
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002763Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2764back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2765Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002766
2767Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2768No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2769
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002770Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2771terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002772
2773Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2774
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002775Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2776but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2777that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002778
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002779Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2780Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2781
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002782Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2783popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2784size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2785This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2786
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002787When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2788it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2789
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002790Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2791then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2792files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002793Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2794indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2795":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002796in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2797quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002798Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002799
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002800When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2801parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2802neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2803particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2804Jun 3)
2805However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2806the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002807
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002808A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2809Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2810
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002811Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2812Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2813
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002814Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2815switch list is noticed:
2816 switch (i)
2817 {
2818 case 1:
2819 foobar:
2820 }
2821
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002822Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2823
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002824Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2825with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2826go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2827moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2828
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002829Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002830GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002831Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2832argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2833(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2834
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002835Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2836(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2837
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002838Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28392007 Feb 8)
2840
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002841Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2842set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002843
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002844Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2845
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002846Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2847Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2848New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2849patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2850
2851Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2852Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2853
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002854Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002855label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2856
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002857Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2858with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2859Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002860
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002861Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2862
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002863Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2864Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2865only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2866
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002867Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2868Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002869Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002870properly?
2871
2872Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28732007 Jun 21)
2874
2875When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2876Jun 18)
2877
2878If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2879
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002880Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2881windows. (Adam George)
2882
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002883In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2884the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2885
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002886C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2887
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002888":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2889
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002890When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002891error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002892
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002893GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002894use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2895
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002896Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2897if_ruby.c.
2898
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002899":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2900
2901The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2902it in keep_msg?
2903
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002904Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002905error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002906name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2907
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002908Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2909longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002910
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002911Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2912Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2913Also for ":w" without a file name.
2914The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002915
2916"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2917Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2918
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002919VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2920directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2921(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2922
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002923VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2924
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002925input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2926name?
2927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002928Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2929
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002930When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2931(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002932Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2934
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002935gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2936This also fails with --remote.
2937
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002938When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29392008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2940all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2941
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002942aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2943
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002944When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2945(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2946
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002947Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2948the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2949
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002950GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2951
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002952Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2953superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2954
2955Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2956character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2957
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002958Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2959Jun 5)
2960
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002961Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29622008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2963Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2964
2965In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2966but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2967Jul 22)
2968
2969There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2970
2971Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2972":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2973somehow? Or use a new function.
2974
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002975Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2976
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002977Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2978moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2979that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2980
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002981The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2982
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002983When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002984cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2985the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2986
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002987These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2988 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2989 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2990 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2991
2992Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2993partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2994
2995In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2996buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2997reload it then?
2998
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002999For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
3000
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003001Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
3002only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
3003
3004Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
3005tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
3006doesn't contain other directories.
3007
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01003008Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
3009Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
3010
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01003011Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
3012 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
3013 set background=dark
3014This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
3015color is, not reset it.
3016
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003017Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
3018start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
3019show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
3020middle?
3021
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003022Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
3023
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003024When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3025current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3026the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3027
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003028When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3029Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3030
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003031Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3032Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3033
3034Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3035
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003036A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3037Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3038
3039Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3040Dara, 2006 June 21)
3041
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003042Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3043number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3044
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003045After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3046the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3047
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003048Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003049
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003050Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3051Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3052
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003053Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030542008 Sep 29)
3055
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003056In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3057check the result of has("patch13").
3058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003059Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3060restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3061
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003062Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3063and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3064
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003065Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3066put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3067
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003068Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3069resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3070
3071In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3072can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3073
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003074GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3075maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3076doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003077Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3078visible.
3079
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003080When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3081differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003082
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003083The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3084be only one.
3085
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003086Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003087"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3088name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3089Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003090
3091Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3092(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3093
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003094Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3095as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3096
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003097Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
309823)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003099
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003100":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3101tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3102Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003103
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003104When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3105text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3106latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3107
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003108Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3109no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3110
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003111In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3112VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
31132007 Oct 16)
3114
3115TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3116Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3117
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003118Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003119
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003120When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3121typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3122Sep 3, 11)
3123
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003124":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3125this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3126
3127When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3128Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3129restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3130
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003131Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31322010 Jun 30)
3133
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003134Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3135'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3136(Kartik Agaram)
3137
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003138
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003139Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003140- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3141 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3142- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3143 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3144 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3145- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3146 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3147 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003148- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3149- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003150
3151
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003152More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003153- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3154 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003155- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003156- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3157 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003158- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3159- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3160- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3161 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3162 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003163- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003164- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3165 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3166- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3167 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3168- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3169 21)
3170- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3171 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3172- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3173 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003174- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3175 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003176- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3177 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3178 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3179 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3180 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003181- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003182
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003183Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031849 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3185 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3186 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3187 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3188 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3189 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3190 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3191 (Alan Schmitt)
3192 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003193 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3194 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031959 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003196 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031978 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031987 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3199 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3200 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032018 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003202 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020032037 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003204 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3205- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3206 for multi-byte characters.
3207- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3208- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3209 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3210 been given values.
3211 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032127 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3213 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3214- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3215 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3216 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
32178 Add functions:
3218 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3219 Update 2004 Sep 10
3220 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3221 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003222 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003223 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3224 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3225 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3226 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3227 (2003 May 13)
3228 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3229 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003230 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3231 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003232 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3233 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3234 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032357 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3236 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032377 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3238 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032398 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3240 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032417 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32428 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3243 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32447 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3245 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032467 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3247- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3248 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3249 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003250- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3251 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3252- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3253
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003254Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3255- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3256 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3257
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003258Quickfix/Location List:
3259- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3260 #2999)
3261- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3262 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3263 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3264 the quickfix buffer?
3265- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3266 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3267- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3268 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3269- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3270 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3271 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3272- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3273 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3274- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3275- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3276 2007 Jan 1)
3277- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3278 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3279- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3280 errors. How do we get the rest?
32818 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3282 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3283 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3284 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32857 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3286 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003287
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003288Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003289- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3290 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032918 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3292 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3293 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3294 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3295 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3296 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032978 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3298 make Vim exit.
32997 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3300 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3301 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
33028 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3303 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3304 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
33056 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3306 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3307 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
33088 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3309 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3310 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3311 names in one buffer???
3312 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3313 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3314 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
33157 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3316 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3317 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003318 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3319 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033207 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3321 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
33227 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
33237 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033247 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3325 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3326 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3327 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33287 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33297 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33307 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3331 to the match with the tag? Option?
33327 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33337 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3334 (Sayre).
33357 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3336 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033377 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3338 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3339 match. Nvi can do it too.
33407 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3341 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3342 line 1\ line 2\\
3343 line 2\ line 3\\
3344 . line4/
33456 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3346 the way the shell is started?
33476 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3348 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3349
3350
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003351GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033529 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033538 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3354 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3355 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033568 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3357 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3358 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033599 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3360 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3361 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3362 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003363- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3364 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3365 blocked for now.
3366
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003367
3368Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003369- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3370 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033718 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3372 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3373 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033746 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3375 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033768 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3377 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3378 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033797 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3380 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3381 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033827 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3383 2004 May 9)
33848 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3385 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3386 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3387 MS-Windows 98?
3388 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3389 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3390 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3391 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033928 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3393 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3394 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3395 doesn't work properly.
33968 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3397 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3398 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33999 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3400 button doesn't give popup menu.
3401 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3402 selection.
3403 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3404 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3405 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
34068 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3407 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3408 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3409 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
34108 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3411 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3412 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034137 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3414 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003415 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034167 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3417 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034186 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
34198 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3420 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3421 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
34228 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3423 know which keyboard is being used?
34247 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3425 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3426 area (Koloseike).
34278 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3428 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3429 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3430 the font name).
3431
3432
3433Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034346 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3435 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3436 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3437 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3438 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034399 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3440 required and it's missing?
34418 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3442 wrong.
34439 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3444 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034459 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003446 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3447 flag.
34488 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3449 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3450 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34518 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34526 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3453 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3454 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3455 the tooltips work though...
34567 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3457 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34588 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3459 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3460 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3461
3462
3463Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034649 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3465 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034669 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3467 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3468 through files.
34697 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3470 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34714 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3472 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3473 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3474 problem during a refresh.
34755 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3476 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3477 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3478 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3479 colors as it should.
3480 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3481 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3482
3483
3484Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003485- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034867 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3487 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034888 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3489 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3490 (Phillipps)
3491
3492
3493GUI:
34949 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3495 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34969 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003497 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003498 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34999 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3500 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
35018 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3502 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
35038 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3504 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3505 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
35068 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3507 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3508 of where it is processing the output.
3509 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
35108 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3511 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010035128 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035138 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3514 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3515 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035168 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035178 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3518 browse().
35198 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3520 use that code? Or use console dialog.
35218 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3522 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035237 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3524 - regexp on/off
3525 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3526 when all buffers/directory is used:
3527 - filter for file name
3528 when directory is used:
3529 - subdirectory on/off
3530 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035318 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3532 to avoid problems.
35338 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3534 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3535 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35368 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3537 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3538 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35398 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3540 up. Set erase character somehow?
35418 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3542 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3543 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3544 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
35458 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35467 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3547 visible.
35487 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3549 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35507 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3551 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35528 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3553 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35548 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3555 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3556 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3557 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3558- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35594 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3560 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3561 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3562
3563
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003564Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035658 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3566 a good fallback, thus use:
3567 $HOME
3568 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3569 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3570 $USERPROFILE
3571 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3572 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3573 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3574 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035758 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3576 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35778 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3578 Should work like in the GUI version.
35798 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3580 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35818 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3582 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35838 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3584 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3585 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035868 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3587 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3588 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3589
3590
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003591Win32 console:
35929 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3593 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3594 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3595 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3596 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3597 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3598 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3599 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3600 and the file is not saved.
3601 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3602 long name.
36038 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3604 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
36057 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3606 besides the console.
36078 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
36089 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3609 <C-S-i>?
36109 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3611 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
36128 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3613 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003614
3615
3616Amiga:
36178 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3618 sequences.
36199 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3620 backslashes in result.
36218 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3622 all options, using white space separation.
3623
3624
3625Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003626- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036277 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3628 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3629 (Jack)
3630 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036318 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3632 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036338 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36348 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36359 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3636 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036379 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003638
3639
3640"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003641- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3642 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003643- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3644 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003645- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3646 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3647 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3648 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3649 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3650 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3651 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036529 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3653 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036549 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003655 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3656 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036578 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3658 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3659 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003660 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036617 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3662 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36638 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3664 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3665 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036667 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3667 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003668- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3669 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036708 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3671 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3672 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3673 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36747 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3675 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3676 invocations belong together.
36778 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3678 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36798 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3680 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3681 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003682 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036838 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3684 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3685 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036868 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3687 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036887 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3689 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3690 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3691 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036927 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3693 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3694 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36957 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3696 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3697 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36987 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3699 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037007 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3701 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037029 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3703 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3704 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3705 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3706 script can be called.
37078 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3708 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3709 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037108 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3711 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000037128 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003713 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3714 configurable?
37158 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037168 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3717 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037188 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3719 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037208 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3721 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037229 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3723 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3724 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037257 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037268 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3727 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3728 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037298 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3730 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003731 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3732 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037338 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3734 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37359 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3736 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3737 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003738 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037397 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3740 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037417 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3742 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3743 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3744 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037458 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003746 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3747 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3748 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3749 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003750 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3751 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003752 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003753 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003754 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3755 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3756 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3757 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3758 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037598 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3760 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37618 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3762 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37638 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3764 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3765 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37668 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3767 'linebreak'.
37688 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3769 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3770 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037719 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3772 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3773 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3774 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37759 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3776 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037779 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37789 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3779 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3780 cause another redraw, etc.
37818 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3782 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37838 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3784 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3785 ":w!!" for that.
3786 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3787 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003788 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037897 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3790 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3791 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3792 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3793 clipboard)
37947 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3795 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3796 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037976 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3798 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3799 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038008 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3801 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
38028 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3803 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3804 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
38058 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3806 (e.g., ":w").
38078 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3808 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038098 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3810 script in do_cmdline().
38118 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3812 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3813 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3814 changes.
38158 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3816 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
38178 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3818 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038198 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3820 to skip catch_signals()?
38219 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3822 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3823 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3824 text?
38258 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3826 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
38278 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3828 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38299 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3830 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3831 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3832 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3833 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38347 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3835 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3836 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3837 in the list?
38388 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3839 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3840 instead of on button down.
38418 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
38429 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3843 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003844 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3845 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038468 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3847 character is typed.
38488 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3849 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38508 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3851 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38528 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3853 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3854 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3855 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3856 cygwin bash.
38577 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3858 Remember flags for backreferences.
38597 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3860 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38617 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3862 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38638 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3864 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38657 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3866 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038677 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3868 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3869 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38707 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3871 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38728 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3873 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3874 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38757 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3876 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003877
3878
3879I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38809 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3881 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3882 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003883
3884
3885Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003886- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3887 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3888 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003889- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3890 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3891 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3892 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3893 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3894 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003895 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003896- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3897 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003898 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003899 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3900 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3901 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003902- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3903 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3904 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3905 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3906 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3907- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3908 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3909 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3910- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3911 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003912- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003913- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3914 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3915 character gets the highlighting.
3916- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3917 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3918- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3919 (Jennings)
3920- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003921- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003922- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003923 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003924- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3925 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3926 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3927- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3928 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3929 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3930 (Benzinger).
3931- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3932 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3933 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3934- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3935 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3936- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3937 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3938- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3939 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3940 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3941 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3942 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3943 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3944- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3945 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3946 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003947- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3948 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3949 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003950- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3951 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3952 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3953- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3954 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3955- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3956 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003957- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3958 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3959- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3960 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3961 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3962 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3963 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3964- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3965 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3966 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3967- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3968 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3969 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003970- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3971 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 +00003972- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3973 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3974 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3975 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3976 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3977- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3978 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3979
3980--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3981 *extensions-improvements*
3982
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003983Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3984- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3985 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3986 calling a function.
3987 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3988 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003989- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3990 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003991 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003992- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3993 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3994 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3995 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3996 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3997 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003998 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003999- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
4000 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
4001 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004002- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
4003 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040048 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
4005 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
4006 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
4007 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00004008- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
4009 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004010
4011
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004012Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040138 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
4014 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000040158 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
4016 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000040178 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
4018 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040198 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040209 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
4021 - change to cursor position and curswant
4022 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
4023 - how it works for folded lines
4024 - how it works with multi-byte characters
40259 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
4026 work too.
40278 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4028 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4029 text.
40308 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40317 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4032 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40337 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4034 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004035 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004036- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4037
4038
4039Help:
4040- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4041 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4042- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4043 to the other matches.
4044- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004045- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4046 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4047 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4048 default contents.
4049- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4050 height for the help window (and other windows).
4051- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4052- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4053- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4054
4055
4056User Friendlier:
40578 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4058 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4059 Briscoe)
40608 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40618 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4062 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4063 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40648 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4065 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4066- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4067 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004068- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40699 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4070 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4071 item?).
4072 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040738 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040747 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4075 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4076 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040778 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4078 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4079 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4080 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004081
4082
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004083Tab pages:
40849 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040857 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4086 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040878 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040888 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040897 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040907 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004091 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040928 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4093 tab pages.
40947 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4095
4096
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004097Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004098- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004099 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004100- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4101 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4102 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4103- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4104 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004105- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4106 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4107 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004108- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4109 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4110 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004111- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4112 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004113- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004114 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4115 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000041168 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4117 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
41188 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4119 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
41208 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4121 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004122 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004123 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4124 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4125 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4126 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004127- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4128 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004129- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004130- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4131 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004132- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004133 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004134- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004135 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004136- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4137 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004138- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4139 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4140- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004141 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004142 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4143 in the affix file separately.
4144 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004145 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004146 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4147 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4148 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4149- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4150 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4151 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4152 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4153 Alternative:
4154 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4155 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4156 affix which is required.
4157- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004158 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004159- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4160 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4161 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004162- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4163 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004164- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4165 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4166- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041678 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4168 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4169 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4170 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004171- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4172 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4173 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4174 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041758 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4176 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041778 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41788 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4179 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041807 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41818 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4182 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4183 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4184 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004185
4186
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004187Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041889 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4189 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041908 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004191 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004192
4193Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004194 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4195 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041968 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4197 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041988 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4199 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042008 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4201 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4202 user aware of this?
42038 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4204 commands skip over a closed fold.
42058 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
42068 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042077 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004208- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4209 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4210 missing line goes unnoticed.
4211 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004212- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4213 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4214 smoother?
4215- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4216 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004217- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4218 file can contain:
4219 args version.c main.c
4220 edit version.c
4221 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004222- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004223- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4224 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004225- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4226 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004227- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4228 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004229- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004230
4231Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004232- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4233 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4234 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4235 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042369 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4237 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4238 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4239 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042409 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4241 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4242 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042438 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4244 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4245 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4246 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4247 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4248 item.
42498 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004250 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4251 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042528 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4253 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042548 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4255 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4256 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042577 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4258 so that the user can fix the problem.
42598 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4260 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042619 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42628 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042638 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42648 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042657 Searching and composing characters:
4266 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004267 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4268 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042698 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42708 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42718 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4272 characters.
42738 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42748 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4275 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42767 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4277 'display' option to specify this.
42787 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4279 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4280- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4281 fontselector somehow.
4282- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4283 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4284- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4285 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4286- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4287 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4288 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4289 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4290 if a font exists?
4291- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004292 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004293- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4294 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004295- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4296 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4297 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4298 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004299- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4300 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004301 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004302- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4303 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4304 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4305 But it's very complicated...
4306
4307
4308Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000043097 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004310- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4311- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4312 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004313- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4314 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004315- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4316- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4317 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004318- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4319 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004320- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4321 units as for the margins.
4322- Support right-to-left text?
43238 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4324 color.
4325
4326
4327Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043288 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4329 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43308 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4331 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43328 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4333 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043347 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4335 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043368 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4337 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4338 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043397 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4340 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4341 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043428 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43439 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4344 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043457 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4346 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043477 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4348 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043498 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4350 change this for each release.
43518 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4352 pattern, but not in the body.
43538 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4354 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4355 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043568 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043578 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004358 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4359 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043608 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4361 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43628 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4363 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004364 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043658 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4366 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4367 used.
43688 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4369 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43708 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4371 re-insert the [] if possible.
43728 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4373 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043748 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4375 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4376 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4377 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4378 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043798 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4380 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43818 Support for deleting syntax items:
4382 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4383 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4384 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43858 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4386 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4387 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43887 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4389 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4390 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43917 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4392 detected.
43938 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004394 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043958 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4396 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043978 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43988 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43997 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4400 ":mkvimrc".
44018 Improve c.vim:
4402 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4403 "c_strict_ansi".
4404 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
44058 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4406 current line while in Insert mode.
44078 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4408 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
44098 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4410 display position.
44118 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4412 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4413 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
44148 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4415 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4416 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000044177 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4418 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4419 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4420 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4421 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044227 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4423 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4424 E.g. for this html:
4425 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044267 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
44277 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4428 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044298 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44308 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044317 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4432 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4433 completion?
44348 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4435 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44367 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4437 select one of the sets.
44388 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4439 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4440 2, etc.
44418 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4442 highlighting (for "." command).
44438 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4444 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44458 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44467 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4447 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44486 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4449 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4450- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4451 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4452- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004453- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4454 (for comment blocks).
4455- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4456 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4457 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4458 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4459 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4460 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4461 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4462 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4463 (Campbell)
4464 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4465 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44667 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4467 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44687 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4469 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4470 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44717 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4472 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4473 messages. And external commands?
44748 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4475 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44767 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4477 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4478
4479
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004480Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044818 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4482 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004483 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044847 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4485 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4486 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044878 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4488 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004489- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044908 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4491 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4492 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4493 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4494 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4495 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044967 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4497 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044988 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044998 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4500 can be the plugin name.
4501 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4502 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045037 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4504 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4505 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4506 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4507 autocommand.
4508 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4509 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4510 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4511 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045127 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4513 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045146 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4515 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045168 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004517 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4518 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004519 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4520 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4521 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004522 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4523 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4524 3 2002
4525 Only add this when also implemented for
4526 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4527 be used.
4528 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004529 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4530 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4531 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4532 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4533 File.Open..." argument.
4534 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4535 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4536 with properties instead.
4537 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4538 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4539 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004540 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004541 crypt() encrypt string
4542 decrypt() decrypt string
4543 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4544 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004545 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004546 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004547 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004548 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004549 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004550 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4551 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004552 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4553 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004554 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004555 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4556 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4557 to allow the library to execute a command or
4558 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045597 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4560 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45618 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4562 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045638 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4564 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045658 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045666 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045678 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4568 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045698 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4570 option or environment variable.
45718 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045728 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004573 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045747 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4575 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045768 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4577 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45788 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45798 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4580 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4581 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4582 charwise({expr}).
45837 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4584 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4585 buffer for this?
4586 result = scratch(string, command)
4587 result = apply(string, command)
4588 result = execute(string, command)
4589 "command" would use <> notation.
4590 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45917 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004592
4593
4594Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045956 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4596 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4597 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4598 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4599 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4600 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4601 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004602
4603
4604Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046057 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4606 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020046077 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4608 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4609 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4610 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046118 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4612 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4613 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4614 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004615 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046168 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
46179 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
46188 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
46197 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4620 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
46218 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4622 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4623 when starting up in a color terminal.
46248 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4625 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046268 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4627 function be improved?
46288 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4629 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4630 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4631 this be improved?
46328 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4633 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046347 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4635 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046367 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4637 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46387 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4639 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046407 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4641 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4642 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4643 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4644 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4645 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4646 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046478 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4648 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4649 using strcmp() too often?
46507 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4651 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4652 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4653 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4654 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4655 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46567 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4657 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4658 with an argument that can be messed with.
4659 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4660 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46617 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4662- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46638 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4664 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4665- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4666 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4667- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4668- Do profiling on:
4669 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004670 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4671 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4672 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4673 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4674 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4675 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004676 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046777 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4678 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4679 changed).
4680 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4681 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4682- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4683- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4684 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4685- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4686 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4687 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004688- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4689- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4690 cursor is right of the screen.
46918 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4692 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4693
4694
4695Code size:
46968 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4697- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4698 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46998 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
47008 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4701 it.
47027 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4703 left out.
47048 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4705 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010047068 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004707
4708
4709Messages:
47108 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4711 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
47128 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4713 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
47148 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4715 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004716- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4717 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4718- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047198 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4720 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047219 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4722 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4723 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4724 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4725 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047268 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4727 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
47288 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4729 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4730 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4731 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4732 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4733 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004734- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004735 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047368 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4737 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4738 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4739 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4740 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4741 error messages, printing text, etc.
47428 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4743 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4744 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4745
4746
4747Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004748- screen_line():
4749 - insert/delete character stuff.
4750 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4751- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4752 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4753- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4754 waiting for a character.
47558 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4756 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4757 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004758
4759Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047608 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047616 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4762- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4763 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4764 windows.
47657 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4766 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4767 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4768- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4769 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4770 (Goldfarb)
4771- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4772 bound windows.
4773- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4774 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004775- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004776- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4777 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4778 of lines but not with a single line).
4779
4780
4781Autoconf:
47828 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47838 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4784 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4785- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4786 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4787- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4788- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4789- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4790
4791
4792Perl interface:
47938 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047947 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47957 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47966 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4797
4798
4799Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020048008 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4801 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048026 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4803 :libload internal-name libname
4804 :libunload internal-name
4805 :liblist
4806 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4807 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4808 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
48096 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4810
4811
4812Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000048139 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4814 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4815 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4816 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4817 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048188 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4819 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4820 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004821 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004822 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000048237 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4824 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4825 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048268 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
48278 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4828 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048297 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4830 window for each tag.
48317 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48327 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4833 bottom" search message.
48347 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4835 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4836 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004837- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4838- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004839- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4840 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4841 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048427 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4843 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4844 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4845 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48467 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4847 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4848 :tagargs clear
4849 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4850 matching).
48517 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4852 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4853 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4854 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48557 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4856 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48577 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4858 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4859 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004860
4861
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004862Win32 GUI:
48638 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4864 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048657 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4866 (Mike McCollister)
48678 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4868 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4869 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4870 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4871 common part of the path.
48728 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48738 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4874 gettext and menus work.
48758 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4876 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004877 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004878 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48798 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4880 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48818 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4882 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48837 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4884 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48857 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48867 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48877 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4888 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4889 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4890 prompts.
48917 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4892 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4893 the file added into an already running Vim.
48947 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4895 functions to find the window title.
4896
4897
4898GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048998 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004900- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4901 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
49027 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
49038 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
49046 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
49058 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4906 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
49079 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
49087 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
49098 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4910 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
49118 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4912 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4913 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
49148 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4915 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
49168 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4917 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4918 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4919 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049207 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
49218 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4922 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049237 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4924 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4925 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049268 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
49278 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004928 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049298 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
49308 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
49318 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4932 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4933 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49347 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4935 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4936 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49377 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4938 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49397 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4940 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4941 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4942 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049437 Should support multi-column menus.
4944- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4945 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4946- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49478 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49486 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4949 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49507 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49517 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4952 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4953 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49547 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49558 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4956 name can be chosen free.
49577 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4958 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49596 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4960 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4961 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4962 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4963 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4964 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4965 things.
49667 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4967 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049687 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004969 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004970- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4971 where it was started from?
49727 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4973
4974
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004975Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049769 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4977 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004978- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049798 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4980 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4981 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4982 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49838 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4984 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049857 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4986 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4987 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4988 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049897 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049908 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4991 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049928 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4993 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4994 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049957 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4996 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4997 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049988 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4999 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
5000 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050018 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
5002 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050038 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050046 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
5005 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050067 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050077 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02005008 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
5009 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
5010 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050115 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
5012 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
5013 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
50147 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
5015 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
5016 file.
50178 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
5018 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
5019 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005020- Add events to autocommands:
5021 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02005022 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00005023 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
5024 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005025 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005026 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005027 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
5028 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
5029 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
5030 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005031 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005032 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5033 the char.
5034 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5035 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5036 file from CVS).
5037 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5038 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5039 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5040 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5041 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5042 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005043 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5044 changes.
5045 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5046 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005047- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005048 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005049 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005050 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5051 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5052 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5053 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5054 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5055
5056
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005057Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005058- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5059 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005060- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5061 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5062 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5063 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5064 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005065- Ideas from others:
5066 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5067 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5068 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5069 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5070 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5071 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5072 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5073 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5074 Uses Perl for C++.
5075 Uses ctags to find the info:
5076 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5077 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5078 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5079 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5080 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5081 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005082 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005083 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5084- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5085
5086
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005087Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005088- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050897 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5090 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050917 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5092 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5093 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050948 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5095 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50969 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5097 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5098 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050998 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5100 - ignore/match case
5101 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051028 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5103 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5104 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5105 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5106 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5107 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051088 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000051097 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5110 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051118 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5112 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5113 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5114 Should work for C++ and Java.
5115 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
51167 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
51177 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5118 instead of words.
51198 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
51208 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5121 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
51228 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5123 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005124- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5125 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005126- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5127 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5128 wildcards in the file name)?
5129- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5130- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5131- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5132 be in another file).
5133- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5134- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5135- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5136 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5137- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5138- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5139- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005140- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5141
5142
5143Command line editing:
51447 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5145 line.
51468 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5147 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5148 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5149- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5150 lines wraps to start of line).
5151- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5152 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5153 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5154 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5155 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5156 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5157 cmdwin does now already.
5158 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5159 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5160 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5161 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5162 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5163 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5164 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5165 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5166 Problems:
5167 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5168 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5169 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5170 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5171 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5172 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5173 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5174 character in first column?
5175 - Implementation ideas:
5176 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5177 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5178 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5179 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5180 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5181 Mode.
5182
5183
5184Command line completion:
51858 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51868 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5187 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51888 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5189 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051908 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5191 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051927 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5193 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005194- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5195- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5196 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051978 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5198 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51997 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5200 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5201- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5202 identifiers (Webb).
52038 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5204 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
52057 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5206 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5207- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5208 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5209- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5210 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5211 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005212
5213
5214Command line history:
5215- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5216 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5217 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005218 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005219- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5220 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5221
5222
5223Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000052249 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5225 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5226 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052278 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5228 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5229 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5230 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5231 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052328 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5233 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5234 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052357 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5236 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005237- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052387 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5239 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5240- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5241 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5242 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5243 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5244 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5245 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5246- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5247 Normal mode.
5248- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5249 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5250 are used.
5251- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5252- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5253- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5254
5255
5256'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052579 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5258 char * veryLongName =
5259 "very long string"
5260 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052618 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052628 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5263 long_type foo =
5264 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052658 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5266 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005267 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052688 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5269 func(
5270 new String[] {
5271 "asdf",
5272 "asdf"
5273 }
5274 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052758 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5276 (Chow Loong Jin)
5277 namespace {
5278 int
5279 func(int arg) {
5280 }
5281 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052826 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5283 func( arg1
5284 , arg2
5285 , arg3
5286 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052877 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005288 func(
5289 int x) // indent like "(4"
5290 {
5291 if (a
5292 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052939 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5294 if (a)
5295 {
5296 if (b)
5297 {
5298 // {
5299 }
5300 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005301 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5302 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5303 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005304- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005305 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
53067 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5307- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5308 line).
5309- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5310- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5311 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005312- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5313 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5314- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5315 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5316- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5317- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5318 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
53198 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5320 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5321 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5322- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5323- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5324 lines start with "\item".
5325- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5326 /* here is a comment that
5327 is just autoindented, and
5328 nothing else */
5329- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
53307 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5331 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5332 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005333 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005334
5335
5336Java:
53378 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5338 Odendahl?
53398 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5340 "[i" commands and friends.
5341- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5342 (Jason)
5343- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5344 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5345
5346
5347'comments':
53488 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5349 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5350 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5351 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005352 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5353 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053547 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5355 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53567 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53576 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5358 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5359 regexp is used.
53608 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5361 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5362
5363
5364Virtual edit:
53658 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053667 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5367
5368
5369Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053708 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053718 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053728 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005373 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053748 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5375 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005376 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5377 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053788 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053798 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5380 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053818 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5382 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5383 the end of the line or before a ".".
53847 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5385 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53867 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5387 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053886 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53895 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5390 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5391 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5392 cursor is on.
5393
5394
5395Select mode:
53968 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5397 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53987 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005399 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054007 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5401 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5402 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5403 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5404 normal_cmd().
5405 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5406 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5407
5408
5409Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020054108 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5411 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005412- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5413 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5414 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005415- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5416 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5417 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054188 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005419 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005420 where needed.
54217 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5422 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
54237 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5424 of each selected line.
54258 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
54268 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5427 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5428 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
54298 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5430 Ben Godfrey)
54317 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5432 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54337 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5434 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054357 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005436 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005437 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54388 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5439 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54407 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5441 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5442 option!
54437 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5444 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5445 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5446 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5447 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5448 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5449 without changing the column.
54506 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054517 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5452 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054536 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5454 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54556 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054566 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005457 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005458 or other special character.
54596 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5460
5461
5462More advanced repeating commands:
5463- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005464- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005465- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005466 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5467 "y." will repeat last yank.
5468 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5469 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5470 and/or pick an older command.
5471- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5472
5473
5474Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054758 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5476 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5477 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54788 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54797 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5480 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054818 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5482 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54838 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054847 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054858 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5486 entering search strings.
54878 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5488 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5489 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054908 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5491 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054927 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054937 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5494 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054956 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5496 abbreviations are to be used.
5497- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5498 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5499 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005500- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5501 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5502 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5503 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5504 Or implicit:
5505 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005506- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5507 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5508 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005509- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5510 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5511- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5512 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
55136 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5514 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5515 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5516 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005517- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5518 non-replace Insert mode?
5519- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005520- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5521- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5522 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5523- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005524 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005525- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5526 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5527- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5528- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5529 ":freekeys".
5530- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5531
5532
5533Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005534- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5535 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5536- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5537 folds when going to another line.
5538 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5539- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5540 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005541- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5542 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5543 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005544- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5545 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5546 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5547 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055489 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5549 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005550
5551
5552Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055539 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055548 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005555 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005556 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005557 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005558 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055599 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5560 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055618 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5562 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055638 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5564 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5565 Perl does it this way:
5566 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5567 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5568 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5569 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055708 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5571 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5572 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055737 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5574 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055758 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5576 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055777 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005578 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5579 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5580 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055817 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005582 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055837 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5584 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055858 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5586 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55878 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5588 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055897 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590 example.
55918 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5592 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5593- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5594 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5595 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5596 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055978 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5598 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5599 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
56007 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5601 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000056027 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5603 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056048 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5605 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056068 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5607 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056088 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5609 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5610 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5611 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005612- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5613 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005614- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5615 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5616- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5617 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5618 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5619 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056208 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5621 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005622- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5623 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056248 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5625 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5626 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005627- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5628 i ignore case
5629 I use case
5630 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5631 v use Vi regexp syntax
5632 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5633 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5634 Perl uses these too:
5635 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5636 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5637 o compile only once (Perl only)
5638 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5639 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5640 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5641 following command.
5642 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5643- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5644 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5645 for search string)?
56467 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5647 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5648- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5649 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5650- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5651 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5652- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5653- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005654 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005655 a for the next file in the argument list
5656 f for file in the buffer list
5657 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005658 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5659 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005660 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5661 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5662- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056637 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005664 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056657 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5666 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5667 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5668 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56696 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5670 effects.
56717 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5672 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5673 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056747 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005675 Also ":dselect".
5676
5677
5678Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056799 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5680 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5681 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056829 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5683 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056848 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5685 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056868 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5687 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5688 timestamp?
5689 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5690 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005691- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5692 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005693- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5694 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5695 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56968 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5697 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5698 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5699 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
57008 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5701 only remember the lines that really changed.
57027 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5703 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5704 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5705 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005706- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5707 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5708- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5709 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5710- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5711 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5712 [-99].
5713- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5714- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005715- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5716 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5717
5718
5719Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057207 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5721 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5722 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5723 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
57248 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5725 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
57268 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5727 inode too.
57287 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005729 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5730 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057317 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5732 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5733- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5734 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5735- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5736 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57377 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5738 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57397 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5740 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57418 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057427 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5743 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057448 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5745 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5746 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005747
5748
5749Swap (.swp) files:
57508 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5751 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5752 there are short file name problems.
57538 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5754 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57558 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57568 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005757 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005758 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5759 file the same as the actual file?
5760 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057617 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5762 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57637 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005764 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005765 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5766 enough room.
57677 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5768 or /var/preserve.
5769- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5770 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5771- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005772 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005773- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5774 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5775 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5776 cached list of which line is where.
5777
5778
5779Viminfo:
57807 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5781 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5782 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057838 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5784 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5785 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057868 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5787 name. (Schild)
57888 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57898 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057908 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057918 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5792 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5793 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5794 this?
57957 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57967 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5797 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57986 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5799 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5800 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5801- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5802 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5803
5804
5805Modelines:
58068 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5807 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5808 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005809- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5810 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5811 'shiftwidth'.
5812- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5813 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005814- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5815 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5816 modeline setting.
5817- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5818 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5819- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5820 .cpp files.
5821- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5822 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5823- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5824 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5825
5826
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005827Sessions:
58288 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5829 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
58307 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5831 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058328 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5833 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058348 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5835 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5836 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058377 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5838 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058397 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005840
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005841
5842Options:
58437 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5844 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058458 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5846 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5847 also be supported.
58488 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5849 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5850 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58517 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005852
5853
5854External commands:
58558 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5856 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58574 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5858 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5859 -f).
58604 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58614 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5862 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58634 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5864
5865
5866Multiple Windows:
58677 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58688 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5869 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58707 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5871 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5872 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058737 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5874 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058757 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5876 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058776 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5878 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005879 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005880 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58817 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5882 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5883 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5884 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5885- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5886 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5887 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5888 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5889
5890
5891Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058928 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058938 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5894 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058958 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 +000058968 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5897 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58988 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5899 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5900 the mark was set.
59017 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5902 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5903 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5904 ":browse marks"?
59056 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059067 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5907 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
59087 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5909 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
59107 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5911 command).
59127 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5913 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5914 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5915 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
59165 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5917 mappings.
59186 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5919 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5920 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5921
5922
5923Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020059247 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005925 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005926- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5927 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000059288 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059297 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5930 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5931
5932
5933Writing files:
5934- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5935 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5936 shortname conversion.
59378 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59388 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5939 file.
59408 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5941 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5942 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059436 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5944 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59456 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5946 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59476 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5948 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059498 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005950 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59517 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5952 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59537 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5954 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5955 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5956 waiting for a character to be typed).
59578 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5958 line of the window, like "[time]".
5959 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5960 Automatic and/or with a command.
5961
5962
5963Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059648 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5965 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059668 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005967 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5968- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5969- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59708 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5971 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005972- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005973 :s///N substitutes N times.
5974- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5975 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5976 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59777 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5978 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5979 last line column 5.
59805 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5981 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5982 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5983 (Stanislav Sitar)
5984
5985
5986Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059878 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59887 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59898 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5990 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5991 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005992- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5993- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5994 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5995- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5996- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5997
5998
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005999Argument list:
60006 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
6001 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
6002 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
60036 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
6004
6005
6006Registers:
60078 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060088 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
6009 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
6010 for every line.
60116 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
6012 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
6013 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
6014- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
6015 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
6016- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
6017 leader when line wraps?
6018- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
6019 line in the range.
6020- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
6021 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
60228 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
6023 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00006024
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006025
6026Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060278 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060288 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060297 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
60307 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
6031
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006032Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000060337 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6034 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6035 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6036 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6037 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6038 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6039 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006040 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060417 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6042 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060437 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6044 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060458 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6046 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060477 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6048 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6049 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006050- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006051 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060527 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6053 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60548 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060557 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6056 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60578 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6058 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060596 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060608 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6061 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6062 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6063 in this Vim.
60648 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006065 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060668 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6067 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6068 have it apply to the following command.
60698 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6070 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6071 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6072 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060737 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6074 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060757 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6076 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6077 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6078 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060796 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60808 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60819 Support ACLs on more systems.
60827 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6083 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060847 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6085 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6086 (truncated to fit in the space).
60877 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60888 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60898 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6090 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060917 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006092 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60937 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6094 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060957 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060967 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60977 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060988 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60998 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6100 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6101 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6102 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
61038 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061048 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061058 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6106 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6107 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6108 does something like this. (Shah)
61097 Use growarray for replace stack.
61107 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6111 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
61123 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061137 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6114 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010061157 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6116 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006117- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6118- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6119- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6120- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
61217 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6122 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6123- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6124 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006125- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006126- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6127 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6128- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6129 call "play newbeep.au").
6130- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6131 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6132 (Bhatt).
6133- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6134 blockwise registers).
6135- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6136 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6137- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6138 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6139 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6140 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006141- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061427 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6143 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6144- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6145 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6146 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6147 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6148 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061498 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6150 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061518 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6152 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6153 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6154 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6155 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6156- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006157- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061587 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6159 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6160- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6161 not in column 1.
61626 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6163 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61647 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6165- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006166- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006167 :redir #> bufname
6168 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006169- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6170 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006171- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6172 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6173 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61746 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6175 console? (Klaus Hast)
6176- Add :delcr command:
6177 *:delcr*
6178 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6179 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6180 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6181 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6182 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006183 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006184- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6185- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6186 characters from 'isprint'.
6187- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6188- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6189 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6190- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6191 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6192 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6193- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6194- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6195 Nvi).
6196- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6197 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61987 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6199- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6200 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
62016 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6202- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6203 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6204 macro).
6205- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006206- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6207 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6208- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
62098 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006210- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6211- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6212- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6213 if it is not the first or last window.
6214- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6215 there is one) instead of the file itself.
62167 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6217 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6218 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6219- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6220- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006221 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006222 many percent down the windows).
6223- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6224 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6225 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006226 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006227- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6228 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6229- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6230 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6231- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6232- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6233- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6234 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062358 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6236 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6237 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6238 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6239 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006240- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6241 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6242- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006243 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6244- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006245 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6246 (Webb).
6247- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006248 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006249- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6250 hex codes like 0xff).
6251- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6252 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6253 the last TYPED command.
6254- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6255- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6256- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6257 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006258- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062598 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6260 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6261 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006262- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006263 trailing '.'.
6264- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6265 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6266 find_file_in_path().
6267- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6268 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6269- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6270- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6271 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6272- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006273 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006274- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6275 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6276 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006277- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6278- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6279- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6280 to the minimal size.
6281- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6282- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6283- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6284- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6285- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006286- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6287 entered)?
6288- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6289 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006290- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006291- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6292- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6293- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6294- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6295- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6296 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006297- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062988 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6299 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6300 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6301 or in octal.
63027 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6303 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006304- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006305 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6306- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6307- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6308 insert line command).
6309- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6310- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6311- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6312- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6313- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6314 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006315- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006316 yet.
6317- Implement 'redraw' option.
6318- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6319 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063207 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6321 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006322 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6323 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063248 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6325 do it.
6326- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6327- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6328 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6329- Add text justification option.
6330- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6331- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6332 off".
6333- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6334- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6335- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006336 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006337- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006338- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006339- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6340 commands.
6341- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6342- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6343- :table command (Webb)
6344- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006345- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6346- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6347- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6348- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6349- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6350 (Demirel).
6351- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6352- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6353 for use in macro's and the like.
6354- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006355 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006356- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006357 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006358- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006359 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006360 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6361- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6362 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006363- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006364 mkopttab to make option table?
6365- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6366 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6367- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6368 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006369- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006370 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6371- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6372 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006373- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063748 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6375 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6376 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6377 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6378 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063798 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6380 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6381 (Netherton)
63826 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6383 space after "(", for example.
63845 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6385 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6386 (Servatius Brandt)
6387
6388
6389From Elvis:
6390- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6391- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006392- Search patterns:
6393 \@ match word under cursor.
6394 but do:
6395 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6396 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63978 ":window" command:
6398 :win + next window (up)
6399 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6400 :win - previous window (down)
6401 :win -- idem, wrapping
6402 :win nr to window number "nr"
6403 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
64047 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6405 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6406
6407
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006408From xvi:
6409- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6410- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6411
6412
6413From vile:
6414- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6415- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6416 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6417
6418
6419Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006420- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6421 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006422 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006423 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6424 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006425- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6426 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6427- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6428 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6429 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6430 current layout mirrored.
6431- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6432- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6433 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6434- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6435- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6436 font in each top-level window.
6437- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6438- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6439- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6440- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6441 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006442- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6443 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6444- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6445 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64464 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6447 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6448 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6449 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006450 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006451 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6452 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6453- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6454 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6455 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6456
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006457vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006458vim: set fo+=n :