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Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2018 May 17
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
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020041'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
42- :/foo/s//<Esc> changes last search pattern. Also E486.
43- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
44 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
45- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
46- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
47 isn't one?
48 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
49
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020050Prompt buffer:
51- Add a command line history.
52- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
53
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020054Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020055- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020056- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020057- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
58 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
59 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020060
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020061Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020062- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
63 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +020064- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
65 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
66 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020067- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020068- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
69 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020070- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
71 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020072- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
73 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
74- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
75 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +020076- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
77 is disabled.
78- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
79- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
80 redirection.
81- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
82- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
83 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
84 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
85- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
86- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
87 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
88- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
89 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +020090
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020091Not possible to have a comment in between line continuation. Use |\":
92 let array = [
93 \ item,
94 |\" comment
95 \ item,
96 \ ]
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020097
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +020098Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
99- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
100- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200101
102Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
10313, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200104
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100105Errors found with random data:
106 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100107
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200108Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
109files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
110Include part of #3242?
111
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200112Using ":file" in quickfix window during an autocommand doesn't work.
113(Jason Franklin, 2018 May 23) Allow for using it when there is no argument.
114Patch should now work. (Jason Franklin, 2018 Aug 12)
115
116Include Chinese-Taiwan translations. (bystar, #3261)
117
118Screendump test fails even though characters are the same.
119Some attribute difference that isn't included in the screenshot?
120(Elimar Riesebieter, 2018 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200121
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200122Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
123Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
124terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
125Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
126(Also #1890)
127
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200128Patch to support VTP better. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2018 Aug 19, #3347)
129
130Patch with improvement for ccomplete: #3350
131Try it out. Perhaps write a test?
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +0200132
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200133More warnings from static analysis:
134https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200135
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200136Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200137Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200138
Bram Moolenaarfd358112018-07-07 23:21:31 +0200139Patch in pull request #2967: Allow white space in sign text. (Ben Jackson)
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200140Test fails in AppVeyor.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200141
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200142Patch to add script line number to script ID. (ichizok, Ozaki Kiichi, 2018 Aug
14324, #3362)
144
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200145Removing flags from 'cpoptions' breaks the Winbar buttons in termdebug.
146(Dominique Pelle, 2018 Jul 16)
147
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200148Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
149is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
150
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200151Memory leak in test_assert:
152==19127== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
153==19127== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
154==19127== by 0x1B68D2: f_getcwd (evalfunc.c:4950)
155And:
156==19127== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
157==19127== by 0x1A9477: set_var (eval.c:7601)
158==19127== by 0x19F96F: set_var_lval (eval.c:2233)
159==19127== by 0x19EA3A: ex_let_one (eval.c:1810)
160==19127== by 0x19D737: ex_let_vars (eval.c:1294)
161==19127== by 0x19D6B4: ex_let (eval.c:1259)
162Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
163Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
164Memory leaks in test_escaped_glob
165==20651== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
166==20651== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
167==20651== by 0x3741EA: get_function_args (userfunc.c:131)
168==20651== by 0x378779: ex_function (userfunc.c:2036)
169Memory leak in test_terminal:
170==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
171==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
172==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
173==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
174==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
175==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
176==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
177==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
178==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200179
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200180gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200181
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200182Delete the src/main.aap file?
183
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200184matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
18519.
186
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200187Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
188Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
189Not ready to include.
190
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200191home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
192
193Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
194
195Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
196(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
197
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200198Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
199
200When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
201includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
202
203Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
204
205Patch to add getregpoint() and setreg() with an option to set "".
206(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
207Better name?
208
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200209Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
210modified buffers
211 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
212 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
213 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
214 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
215
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100216Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
217- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
218- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
219- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100220- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
221
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200222Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
223characters. (#3246)
224
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200225Height of quickfix window is not retained with vertical splits. (Lifepillar,
2262018 Aug 24, #2998)
227
228Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
229#2999)
230
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200231Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
232- Test_setbufvar_options()
233- Test_exit_callback_interval()
234
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200235When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened window
236is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would have two
237windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for the quickfix
238buffer?
239
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200240Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
241#2948. (related to #1512?)
242On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
243balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
24420, #2481)
245Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200246Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200247
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100248Try out background make plugin:
249 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
250or asyncmake:
251 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
252
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100253Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
254mode. Also used for switching Terminal mode.
255
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200256Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
257is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
258used for git temp files.
259
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100260Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
261
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200262Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
263#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
264
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200265Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
266pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
267
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200268The 'scrolloff' option is global, make it global-local. #3195
269
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200270Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
271script or function.
272
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200273Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
274Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
275
276When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
277E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
278does nothing otherwise?
279
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200280MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
281If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
282(wait a little while).
283CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100284
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200285Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
286missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
287
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200288":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
289deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
290
291Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar, 2018
292Jun 10, #2998)
293
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200294Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
295- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
296- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
297- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
298 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
299- make it possible to do a silent install, see
300 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
301 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
302- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
303- The one on Issue 279.
304Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
305How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
306
307Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200308
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200309Delete all the speficic stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
310Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
311
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100312Does setting 'cursorline' cause syntax highlighting to slow down? Perhaps is
313mess up the cache? (Mike Lee Williams, 2018 Jan 27, #2539)
Bram Moolenaar51ad4ea2018-04-06 11:14:11 +0200314Also: 'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100315
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200316With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
317included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
318(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
319
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200320When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
321with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200322
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200323Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200324Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200325
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100326Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100327Jan 15, #2555)
328
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200329":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
330
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100331Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
332
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100333No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
334No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
335
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200336Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
337http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
338Should be supported with a flag.
339
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100340Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
341confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
342
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100343Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
344
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100345Avoid that "sign unplace id" does a redraw right away, esp. when there is a
346sequence of these commands. (Andy Stewart, 2018 Mar 16)
347
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200348ch_sendraw() with long string does not try to read in between, which may cause
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100349a deadlock if the reading side is waiting for the write to finish. (Nate
350Bosch, 2018 Jan 13, #2548)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200351Perhaps just make chunks of 1024 bytes?
352Probably better: Make the write non-blocking
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200353Also a problem on MS-Windows: #2828.
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200354
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100355Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
356Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
357applying the diff, etc.
358
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200359Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
360Apr 26, #2849)
361
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100362User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
363word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100364
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100365Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200366
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200367With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
368(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
369
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200370Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
371:drop (remote commands).
372
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200373Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
3742018 Jun 18, #3027)
375
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200376Implement option_save() and option_restore():
377option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
378 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
379 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
380 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
381 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
382 be called when the same window is the current window.
383 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
384 the local options won't be restored.
385
386option_save({list}) *option_save()*
387 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
388 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
389 let s:saved_options = option_save([
390 \ 'ignorecase',
391 \ 'iskeyword',
392 \ ])
393 au <buffer> BufLeave *
394 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
395< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
396 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
397 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
398 not where it was restored.
399
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100400"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
401directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
402Also see #1689.
403
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200404ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
Bram Moolenaar3ec574f2017-06-13 18:12:01 +0200405Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200406
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100407crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
40817, #2652)
409
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100410When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100411highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100412
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200413":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
414
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100415No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
4162017 Dec 26, #2501)
417
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200418A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
419
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200420Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
421
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200422A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
423Mention where they were defined somewhere.
424
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100425Get a "No Name" buffer when 'hidden' is set and opening a new window from the
426quickfix list. (bfrg, 2018 Jan 22, #2574)
427
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200428CTRL-X on zero gets stuck on 0xfffffffffffffffe. (Hengyang Zhao, #2746)
429
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100430Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
431(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
432
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200433Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
434program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
435implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
436Olaf Dabrunz is working on this. (10 Jan 2016)
4379 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
438 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
439 It's complicated and badly documented.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200440Alternative: use the xdiff library. Unfinished Patch from Christian Brabandt,
4412018 Mar 20, #2732)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200442
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200443ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
444
445Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
446
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100447Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
448Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
449
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100450Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
451in #846)
452Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
453
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200454Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
455Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
456
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100457When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
458redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200459
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100460In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
461(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
462
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100463Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
464neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100465
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200466Default install on MS-Windows should source defaults.vim.
467Ask whether to use Windows or Vim key behavior?
468
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100469Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
470Nov 21)
471
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200472When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
473triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
474set_color_count().
475
476Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
477responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
478
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100479When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
480CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
481Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
482always nested.
483
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200484matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
485
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100486Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
487
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100488MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100489for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
490
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200491Test runtime files.
492Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200493
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200494Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200495
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200496Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
497defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
498Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
499
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200500After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
50113, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200502
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200503When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
504line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
505
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100506The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
507
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200508Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
509set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
510
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200511Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
512
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100513Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
514
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200515Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200516It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100517Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200518Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200519
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200520Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
521behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
522
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100523'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
524
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200525All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
526For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
527 mylist~get(idx)
528 mydict~get(idx)
529 mystring~len()
530Alternatives for ~:
531 ^ list^get() could also be used
532 . list.get() already means concatenate
533 $ list$get() harder to read
534 @ list@get() harder to read
535 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
536
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200537The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
538
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100539When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
540a command can delete it.
541
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200542When a swap file exists, is not for a running process, is from the same
543machine and recovering results in the same text, we could silently delete it.
544#1237
545
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200546Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
547#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
548
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100549The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
550for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
551
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200552X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
553pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
554clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
555Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
556Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
557clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200558Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200559
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100560Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
561http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
562http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
563Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
564- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
565- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
566- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
567 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
568- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
569- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
570Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
571- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
572- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
573Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
574- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
575
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200576Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
577
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200578Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
579attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
580that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
581
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200582Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
583(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
584
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100585Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
586buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
587Also fixes #2166?
588
589Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
590
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200591Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
592stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
593
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100594Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
595possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
596
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100597Add `:filter` support for various commands (Marcin Szamotulski, 2017 Nov 12
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200598#2322) Patch now in #2856.
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100599
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200600When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
601case of :bwipe followed by :new.
602
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200603Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
604existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
605Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
606
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200607Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200608
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200609MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
610Jul 4)
611
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200612Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
613Drucker, 2017 May 8).
614This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
615Christian cannot reproduce it.
616
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200617Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
618wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
619Or is this not an actual problem?
620
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200621Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
622
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200623Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
624
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200625Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
626
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200627'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
628#1736)
629
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200630Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
6318, #1690)
632
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100633Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
634manager. Problem with Motif?
635
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200636Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
637(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
638
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200639Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
640it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
641
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200642Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
643Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
644How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
645
646Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
647(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
648
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100649Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
650
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200651Patch to add configure flags to skip rtl, farsi and arabic support.
652(Diego Carrión, #1867)
653
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200654assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
655it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
656
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200657New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
658
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100659Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
660for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200661
662Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
663(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
664Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
665later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
666Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
667mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200668Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
669mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200670maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200671
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100672Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200673plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
674be defined when the plugin is loaded.
675
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100676Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
677 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
678 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100679
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200680json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200681What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100682
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200683Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
684
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200685import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
686(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
687
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100688When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
689buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
690Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100691
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100692When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
693like the item was not a match for :cnext.
694
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200695Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
696Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100697Another example in #1309
698
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100699When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
700when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
701
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100702Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
703#1330)
704
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200705Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
706
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100707Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
708
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100709GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
710g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
711timer expires.
712
713Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
714
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100715Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
716highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
717
7188 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
719 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
720
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100721Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
722Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
723
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200724Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
725key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
726 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
727 echo keytrans(xx)
728 <C-Home>
729
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100730Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
731(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
732Make a function to check for function-like type?
733
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200734Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
735(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
736
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100737Implement optional arguments for functions.
738 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
739 call Foo(12)
740 call Foo(12, all = 0)
741 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100742
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200743Change the Farsi code to work with UTF-8. Possibly combined with the Arabic
744support, or similar.
745Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
746
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100747Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
748somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
749
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100750Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
751(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
752
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200753Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
754Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
755New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
756
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200757Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200758Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200759Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200760
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100761The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
762"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
763Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
764
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200765Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
766
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200767Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
768about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200769Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
770
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200771Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
772#1053) With patch, does it work?
773
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100774Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
775MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
7762017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
777receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
778
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200779":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100780vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
781
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200782Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200783E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200784Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100785
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100786Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
787Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
788
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200789Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100790Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200791
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100792"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
793(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
794
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100795Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
796(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100797Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100798
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200799'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
800
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100801Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
802
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200803Patch to be able to separately map CTRL-H and BS on Windows.
804(Linwei, 2017 Jul 11, #1833)
805
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200806When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
807Apr 23, #1653)
808
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100809Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
810anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
811
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100812When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
813Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
814(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
815
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200816Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200817E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200818
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200819Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
820(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
821
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200822Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
823
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100824Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
825
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100826Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
827
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100828On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
829separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
830
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200831min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
832contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
833
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200834Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
835
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200836Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
837
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200838Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
839
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200840Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
841no longer support.
842
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200843sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
8444#1038)
845
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100846+channel:
847- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
848 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100849- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
850- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
851 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
852- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
853 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
854- Implement |job-term| ?
855- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
856- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
857 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
858 minute. Option to set the droptime.
859- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
860- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
861- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
862 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
863 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
864- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
865 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
866- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
867 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
868 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
869
870Regexp problems:
871- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
872 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
873- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
874 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
875- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
876 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
877 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
878 LC_CTYPE
879- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
880 matches everywhere.
881- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
882 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
883- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
884- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
885 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
886- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
887- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
888 2013 Dec 11)
889- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
890 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
891- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
892- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
893 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
894- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
895- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
896- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
897- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
898 2015 Feb 7)
899- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
900 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
901 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
902 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
903 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
904- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
905- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
906- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
907- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
908 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
909 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
910 col and vcol when moving to another line.
911- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
912 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
913- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
914 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
915 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
916 (2017 May 15, #1252)
917
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200918Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
919
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100920Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
921#1350)
922
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200923Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
9243. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
925Also see #1635.
926
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200927Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200928Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
929use the current behavior.
930Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200931
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200932Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
933New update 2017 Apr 10, #1628
934
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200935When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
936command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
937
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100938Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
939change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200940patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
941(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100942
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200943Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
944doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
945Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100946Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200947E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
948
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100949execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200950#1141)
951
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200952cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
953
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200954:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
955
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200956Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
957
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200958When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
959synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
960
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200961Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
962Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200963
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200964Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
965(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
966
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200967ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
968Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200969
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100970Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
971
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200972Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100973(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200974
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200975Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
976Jul 25, #948)
977
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100978Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
979names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
980Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
981the system encoding (usually utf-8).
982
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200983Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
984(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
985Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
986
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200987'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
988
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200989MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
990Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200991
992Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
993Also for ":@.".
994
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200995Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
996
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200997Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
998#1125
999
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001000Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1001times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1002
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001003This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
1004(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
1005
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001006Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1007
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001008Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1009
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001010Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1011
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001012Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1013
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001014We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1015the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1016
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001017Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1018
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001019When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1020emoji_width table has only one entry.
1021
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001022It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1023Reject the value? #710.
1024
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001025When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1026Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1027
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001028Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +02001029Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001030
1031Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001032
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001033Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1034No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001035
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001036Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1037(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001038
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001039Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1040
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001041Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1042https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1043Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1044
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001045Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1046but the reference remains valid.
1047
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001048Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001049interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1050Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1051interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1052result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001053
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001054Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001055work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001056
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001057Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1058
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001059Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1060
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001061Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1062Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1063
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001064When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1065Apr 17) #762
1066
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001067exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1068Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1069
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001070Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1071'iskeyword' for syntax.
1072
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001073Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1074(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1075
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001076Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1077
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001078When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1079maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001080Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001081
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001082Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1083It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1084Add configure check?
1085Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1086Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1087Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1088
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001089Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1090Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1091
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001092Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1093Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1094Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1095
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001096Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1097Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1098
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001099":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1100directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1101
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001102In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1103(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1104
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001105If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
11062016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001107
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001108Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1109(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1110
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001111Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001112Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001113
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001114Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
1115Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
1116
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001117Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1118
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001119When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1120restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1121Do not trigger the event?
1122
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001123Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1124changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1125and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001126Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1127Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
11286, 2nd message)
1129Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001130
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +01001131Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
1132(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
1133
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001134Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1135Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1136https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1137
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001138Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1139With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1140
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001141Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001142
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001143Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1144
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001145Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001146Only remembers one error.
1147
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001148GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001149
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001150Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1151(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001152
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001153Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1154github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001155 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001156Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001157
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001158Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001159
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001160Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001161comparing individual items.
1162Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1163Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1164Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1165equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1166
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001167Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1168
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001169MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1170wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1171
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001172Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1173specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1174
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001175Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1176(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1177
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001178Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001179inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001180
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001181Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1182(Luchr, #277)
1183
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001184Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001185'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1186before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001187
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001188C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1189and also line continuation after #include.
1190I can't recommend it though.
1191
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001192Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1193(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1194
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001195Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
119624) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001197Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001198
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001199To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1200library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1201
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001202When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1203is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1204
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001205Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
120630)
1207
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001208MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1209(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1210
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001211The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
121224): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001213
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001214":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1215effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1216
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001217":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
12189)
1219
1220The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1221wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1222
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001223Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001224Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001225
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001226When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1227the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1228
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001229Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001230slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1231inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1232
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001233ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
12342014 Sep 11)
1235
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001236Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1237(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1238
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001239When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1240'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1241
1242Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001243(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001244Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1245- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1246 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1247 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1248- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1249 covered by the above change.
1250So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001251same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001252Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001253
1254Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1255Work in progress.
1256
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001257Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1258when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1259
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001260Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1261Is this right?
1262
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001263Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1264(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1265Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1266
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001267Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1268Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001269
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001270Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1271Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1272
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001273Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1274
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001275When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1276filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1277initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1278
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001279Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1280
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001281Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1282OK to not block marks?
1283
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001284Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1285
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001286Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1287
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001288When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1289(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1290
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001291Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001292
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001293Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1294(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1295
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001296When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1297any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1298
1299Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001300
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001301Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001302
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001303Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1304(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1305
1306Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1307
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001308Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1309Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1310was already defined.
1311(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1312
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001313Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1314
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001315Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001316Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001317Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001318Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001319
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001320Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1321(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1322
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001323Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1324(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1325
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001326Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1327change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1328them: ":repeats".
1329
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001330Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1331
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001332When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1333these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1334window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1335
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001336Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1337should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1338history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1339Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1340
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001341"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1342Jun 8)
1343
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001344Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1345insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1346
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001347No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1348
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001349Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1350(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1351Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1352arguments.
1353
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001354Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1355
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001356Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001357
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001358Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
13590x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1360New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1361compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1362
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001363Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1364a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1365
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001366xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1367buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1368Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001369Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001370Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001371Also see issue #609.
1372We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001373
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001374Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1375right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001376its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001377
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001378Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1379
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001380This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1381 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1382This neither: (ZyX)
1383 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1384
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001385'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1386Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1387from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001388
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001389Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
13902014 Jun 8)
1391
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001392Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001393Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001394Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1395Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1396User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001397- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1398 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1399 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001400- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1401- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1402 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1403 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1404 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1405 on vim.org.
1406- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1407 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1408- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1409- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1410- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1411- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1412Implementation:
1413- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1414 plugin separate.
1415- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1416 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1417 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1418- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1419 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1420- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1421 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1422 installing.
1423Out of scope:
1424- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1425- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1426 useful).
1427
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001428Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1429normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001430
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001431When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1432menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1433
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001434Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1435(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1436
1437":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1438various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001439
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001440Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001441(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1442
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001443VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1444instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1445
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001446Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001447Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001448
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001449Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001450command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001451
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001452Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1453
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001454Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1455highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001456
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001457The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1458For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1459
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001460Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001461possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001462
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001463Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001464
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001465Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
1466
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001467Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1468
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001469Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001470Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001471
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010014727 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1473 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1474 "lucida_console:h8").
1475Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1476
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001477:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1478
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001479Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1480
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001481Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1482
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001483When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1484(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1485
1486Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001487Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001488
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001489GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1490(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1491
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001492Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1493registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1494
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001495Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1496
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001497The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1498(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1499Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1500
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001501The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1502- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1503- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1504
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001505Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1506Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1507reliably?
1508
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001509Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1510(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1511
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001512Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1513(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1514
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001515Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
15162013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001517
1518Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1519
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001520Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
15215)
1522
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001523Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1524carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1525
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001526Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1527highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1528
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001529Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001530
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001531Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200153228) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001533
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001534Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
1535optional. (2013 Jul 12)
1536
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001537Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1538
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001539Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1540
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001541- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1542 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1543Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001544
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001545Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001546
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001547In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1548process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1549a reboot.
1550
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001551patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1552
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001553Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1554not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001555
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001556Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1557Or use expand('<sid>')?
1558
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001559Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1560
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001561Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001562
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001563Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
1564
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001565Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1566
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001567b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
15687)
1569
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001570Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1571compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1572
1573Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1574Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1575vim.bindeval().
1576
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001577Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
15782012 Aug 4)
1579
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001580Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1581(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1582
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001583Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
1584(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
1585
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001586Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1587But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1588
1589Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1590Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1591Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001592
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001593Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1594loading all files.
1595
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001596MS-Windows resizing problems:
1597- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1598 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1599- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1600 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1601 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001602
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001603'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001604
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001605Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001606of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1607
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001608The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1609Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1610But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001611
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001612When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1613is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1614
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001615URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001616- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001617- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1618 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1619
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001620Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1621(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1622Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1623
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001624Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001625New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001626
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001627When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1628for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1629Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001630
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001631Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1632
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001633Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
163424)
1635
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001636Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1637
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001638Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1639
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001640Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1641Apr 18)
1642
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001643Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1644And one for gui_x11.txt.
1645
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001646":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1647finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1648Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1649
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001650Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1651
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001652Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1653
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001654Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1655they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1656
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001657Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1658
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001659Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1660Nov 20)
1661
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001662Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001663Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001664
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001665`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001666(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1667
1668Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1669
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001670BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1671Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1672
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001673Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1674Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1675
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001676Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1677
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001678On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
16792012 Jun 19)
1680
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001681'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1682'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1683Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001684Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001685
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001686With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1687(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1688need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1689
1690Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1691only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
169221, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1693
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001694The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1695support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1696
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001697'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1698highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1699
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001700Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1701New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1702
1703Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1704Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1705
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001706Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1707Jan 19)
1708
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001709Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1710discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1711meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001712
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001713"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001714Oct 26)
1715
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001716Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1717
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001718With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1719register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001720
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001721Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1722
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001723When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1724(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1725
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001726When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1727then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1728from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1729
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001730Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1731":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
173215)
1733
1734Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1735
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001736BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1737cleared. See test64.
1738
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001739Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001740effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001741Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1742
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001743On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
174464 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1745right type.
1746
1747string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1748(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1749
1750When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1751(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001752When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1753following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1754(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001755
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001756When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1757doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1758
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001759Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1760
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001761maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1762mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1763
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001764Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1765(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1766
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001767When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1768indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1769the help file.
1770
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001771After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1772Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1773
1774Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1775
1776"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1777
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001778Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1779
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001780Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001781
1782Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
17832010 Dec 18)
1784
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001785With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1786number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1787Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1788
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001789Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1790Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1791
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020017928 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1793Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1794
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001795Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1796one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1797the match scrolls into view.
1798
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020017997 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1800Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1801Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1802
18039 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1804 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1805Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1806
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001807Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1808Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1809
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001810In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1811or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1812sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1813
1814GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1815doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1816
1817GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1818
1819Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1820Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1821
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001822Wish for NetBeans commands:
1823 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1824
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001825Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1826
18277.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1828there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1829do?
1830
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001831Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
183222)
1833
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001834New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1835- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001836- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001837 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1838
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001839"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
18402011 Feb 27)
1841
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001842Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1843^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1844
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001845When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1846exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
18479) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1848
1849g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1850the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1851
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001852Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1853crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1854
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001855Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1856number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1857
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001858Regexp engine performance:
1859- Profiling:
1860 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1861 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1862 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1863 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1864 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1865 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1866- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1867- Performance tests:
1868 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1869 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1870 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1871 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1872 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1873 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1874 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1875 'hlsearch'.
1876 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1877 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1878 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1879 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1880
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001881Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1882Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1883
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001884'beval' option should be global-local.
1885
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001886Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001887
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001888setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001889
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001890With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
18912010 Oct 24)
1892
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001893Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1894
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001895When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1896Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1897
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001898":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1899
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001900'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1901
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001902C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1903checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1904Issue 46.
1905
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001906Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1907
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001908Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1909gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1910
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001911":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1912accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1913
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001914Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1915setwinvar().
1916
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001917Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001918
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001919When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1920instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1921
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001922Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1923Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1924Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001925
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001926Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1927back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1928
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001929Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001930Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1931
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001932CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1933the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1934FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1935
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001936Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1937Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1938
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001939Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1940Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1941
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001942I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1943Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1944an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001945
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001946Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1947
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001948Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1949non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001950
1951iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1952Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1953or replace with a character and continue?
1954
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001955Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1956Requires configure check for localtime().
1957Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1958
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001959Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1960Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1961
1962Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1963
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001964Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1965Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1966path.
1967
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001968Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001969Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001970
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001971'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1972
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001973":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1974like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1975
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001976Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1977https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001978
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001979Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
19802010 Nov 5)
1981
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001982Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001983Jan 7)
1984
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001985Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1986
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001987With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1988entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1989Feb 12)
1990
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001991Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1992characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1993
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001994Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1995
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001996Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1997 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1998
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001999Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2000
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002001When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2002Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2003
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002004When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2005not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2006string value.
2007
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002008For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002009line argument -noregister.
2010
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002011When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2012missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2013
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002014When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2015doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002016
2017Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2018(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2019Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2020There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2021Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2022
2023":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2024highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2025to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2026
2027Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2028Probably needs a bit of work.
2029
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002030Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
2031Added test, updates, June 23.
2032Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
2033With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
2034Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
2035
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002036List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002037Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2038
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002039Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2040
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002041Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2042
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002043Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2044Sep 1)
2045
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002046Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2047
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002048Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2049on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2050
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002051Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
20522009 Jul 18)
2053
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002054Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2055window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2056Needs more work.
2057
2058Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2059
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002060When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2061few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2062
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002063'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002064(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2065
2066Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2067J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2068
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002069When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2070for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2071
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002072Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2073
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002074Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
2075
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002076":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2077because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2078ex_docmd.c.
2079
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002080Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002081Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2082
2083string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2084for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2085
2086Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2087
2088'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
208920)
2090
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002091Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
20922009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2093
2094Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2095
2096Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2097SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2098
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002099When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2100indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2101(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2102
2103Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2104are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2105Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2106Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2107that doesn't have a window.
2108
2109When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2110doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2111
2112getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2113displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2114
2115":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2116
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002117There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2118was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2119perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2120
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002121Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2122
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002123Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2124command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2125
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002126Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2127does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2128
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002129opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2130height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002131very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002132
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002133Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2134(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2135
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002136Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002137(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2138
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002139Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2140char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2141
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002142Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2143Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2144
2145This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2146
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002147Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2148messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2149es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
21502009 Jan 26)
2151
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002152When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002153in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2154Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2155
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002156Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2157a modeline.
2158
2159Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2160Sergey Khorev)
2161
2162Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2163part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002164
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002165After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2166correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2167
2168Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2169(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2170
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002171shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002172'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2173Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2174unix-like shell?
2175
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002176Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2177register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2178(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2179
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002180Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2181Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2182
2183Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2184make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2185
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002186When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2187still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2188
2189"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2190(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2191
2192Update src/testdir/main.aap.
2193
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002194Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2195that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2196ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2197Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2198
2199Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002200Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002201
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002202MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2203doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2204probably causes this.
2205
2206'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020022072009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002208
2209Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2210 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2211 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2212(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2213
2214Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2215":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2216option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2217is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002218
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002219":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2220first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002221Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002222
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002223Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2224laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2225Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002226
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002227Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2228anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2229
2230On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2231doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2232Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2233Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2234
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002235When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2236'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2237fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2238the buffer to be unmodified.
2239Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2240another look at it.
2241
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002242c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2243(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2244
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002245You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2246error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2247Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2248at the other match for 0xBF.
2249
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002250When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2251argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2252
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002253Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2254backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2255
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002256When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2257line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2258
2259Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2260position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2261
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002262After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2263(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002264command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002265
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002266":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2267Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2268
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002269When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2270either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2271put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2272
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002273Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2274Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2275Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2276Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2277(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2278
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002279Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2280
2281ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002282
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002283Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2284(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2285escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2286an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002287This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2288July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002289Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2290work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2291
2292When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
229331)
2294
2295Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2296work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2297Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002298
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002299Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2300multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2301(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2302
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002303Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
23042008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002305Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002306
2307Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2308Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2309'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2310
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002311Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2312Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2313
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002314Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2315Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2316
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020023178 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2318 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2319 several).
2320 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2321 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2322 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2323Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2324
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002325The utf class table is missing some entries:
2326 0x2212, minus sign
2327 0x2217, star
2328 0x2500, bar
2329 0x26ab, circle
2330
2331Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2332line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2333
2334GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2335Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2336
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002337Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2338try the Cocoa version.
2339
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002340Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2341changed or the window is resized.
2342
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002343GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2344the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2345
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002346Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2347Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002348
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002349Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
23501) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2351
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002352C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2353with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2354Try to reproduce at work.
2355
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002356Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2357Is there a way to list all the files first?
2358
2359When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2360result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
236116)
2362
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002363Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2364(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2365
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002366Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2367Await response to question to make the register writable.
2368
2369Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
23701)
2371
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002372In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2373each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2374
2375try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2376
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002377try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2378
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002379":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2380Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2381
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002382Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2383
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002384Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2385Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2386
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002387Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2388Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2389Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002390
2391C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
2392(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
2393
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002394When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2395and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2396
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002397Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2398 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2399
2400New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2401
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002402":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2403a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2404
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002405'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2406Likonen, March 19)
2407
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002408Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2409other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2410
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002411The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2412appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2413matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2414
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002415When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2416character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2417'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2418(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2419
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002420Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2421Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002422
2423More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2424
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002425Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2426http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2427
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002428Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2429back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2430Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002431
2432Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2433No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2434
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002435Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2436terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002437
2438Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2439
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002440Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2441but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2442that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002443
2444When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2445
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002446Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2447Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2448
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002449Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2450popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2451size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2452This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2453
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002454When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2455it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2456
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002457Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2458then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2459files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002460Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2461indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2462":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002463in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2464quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002465Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002466
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002467When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2468parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2469neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2470particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2471Jun 3)
2472However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2473the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002474
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002475A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2476Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2477
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002478Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2479Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2480
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002481Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2482switch list is noticed:
2483 switch (i)
2484 {
2485 case 1:
2486 foobar:
2487 }
2488
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002489Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2490
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002491Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2492with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2493go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2494moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2495
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002496Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002497GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002498Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2499argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2500(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2501
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002502Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2503(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2504
2505Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2506makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2507.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
2508 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2509
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002510Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
25112007 Feb 8)
2512
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002513Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2514set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002515
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002516Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2517
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002518Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2519Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2520New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2521patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2522
2523Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2524Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2525
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002526Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
25272007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002528Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002529
2530Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002531label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2532
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002533Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2534with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2535Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002536
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002537Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2538
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002539Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2540Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2541only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2542
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002543Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2544Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002545Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002546properly?
2547
2548Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
25492007 Jun 21)
2550
2551When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2552Jun 18)
2553
2554If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2555
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002556Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2557windows. (Adam George)
2558
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002559F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2560modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2561K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002562
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002563In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2564the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2565
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002566C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2567
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002568":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2569
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002570When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002571error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002572
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002573GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002574use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2575
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002576Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2577if_ruby.c.
2578
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002579":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2580
2581The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2582it in keep_msg?
2583
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002584Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002585error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002586name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2587
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002588Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2589longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002590
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002591Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2592Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2593Also for ":w" without a file name.
2594The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002595
2596"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2597Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2598
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002599VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2600directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2601(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2602
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002603VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2604
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002605input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2606name?
2607
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002608Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2609
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002610When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2611(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2612Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2613will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2614
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002615gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2616This also fails with --remote.
2617
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002618When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
26192008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2620all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2621
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002622aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2623
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002624When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2625(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2626
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002627Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2628the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2629
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002630GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2631
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002632Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2633superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2634
2635Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2636character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2637
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002638Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2639Jun 5)
2640
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002641Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
26422008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2643Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2644
2645In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2646but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2647Jul 22)
2648
2649There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2650
2651Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2652":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2653somehow? Or use a new function.
2654
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002655Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2656
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002657Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2658moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2659that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2660
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002661The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2662
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002663When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002664cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2665the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2666
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002667These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2668 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2669 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2670 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2671
2672Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2673partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2674
2675In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2676buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2677reload it then?
2678
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002679For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2680
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002681Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2682only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2683
2684Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2685tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2686doesn't contain other directories.
2687
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002688Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2689Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2690
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002691Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2692 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2693 set background=dark
2694This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2695color is, not reset it.
2696
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002697Linux distributions:
2698- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2699 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2700 xfree-xterm".
2701- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2702
2703Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2704start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2705show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2706middle?
2707
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002708Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2709
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002710When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2711current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2712the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2713
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002714When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2715Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2716
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2718 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2719 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2720 - getting colors in xterm
2721 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2722
2723Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2724Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2725
2726Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2727
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002728A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2729Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2730
2731Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2732Dara, 2006 June 21)
2733
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002734Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2735number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2736
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002737After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2738the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2739
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002740Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002741
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002742Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2743Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2744
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002745Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010027462008 Sep 29)
2747
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002748In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2749check the result of has("patch13").
2750
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002751Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2752restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2753
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002754Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2755and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2756
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002757Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2758put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2759
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002760Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2761resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2762
2763In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2764can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2765
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002766GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2767maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2768doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002769Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2770visible.
2771
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002772When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2773differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002774
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002775The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2776be only one.
2777
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002778Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002779"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2780name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2781Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002782
2783Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2784(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2785
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002786Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2787as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2788
2789Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2790Jan 1)
2791
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002792Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
279323)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002794
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002795":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2796tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2797Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002798
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002799When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2800text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2801latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2802
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002803Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2804no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2805
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002806In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2807VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
28082007 Oct 16)
2809
2810TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2811Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2812
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002813Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002814
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002815When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2816typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2817Sep 3, 11)
2818
2819When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2820respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2821the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2822what happens for the GUI.
2823
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002824":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2825this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2826
2827When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2828Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2829restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2830
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002831Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
28322010 Jun 30)
2833
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002834Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2835'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2836(Kartik Agaram)
2837
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002838
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002839Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002840- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2841 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2842- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2843 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2844 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2845- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2846 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2847 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002848- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2849- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002850
2851
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002852More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002853- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2854 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002855- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002856- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2857 patch May 10)
2858- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2859 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2860- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2861 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2862- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2863- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2864- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2865 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2866 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002867- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002868- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2869 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2870- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2871 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2872- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2873 21)
2874- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2875 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2876- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2877 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002878- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2879 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002880- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2881 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2882 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2883 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2884 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002885- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002886
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002887Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000028889 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2889 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2890 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2891 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2892 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2893 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2894 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2895 (Alan Schmitt)
2896 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002897 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2898 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000028999 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002900 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029018 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029027 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2903 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2904 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029058 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002906 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020029077 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002908 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2909- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2910 for multi-byte characters.
2911- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2912- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2913 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2914 been given values.
2915 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
29168 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002917 with an ESC sequence.
2918 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2919 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2920 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029217 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2922 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2923- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2924 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2925 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
29268 Add functions:
2927 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2928 Update 2004 Sep 10
2929 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2930 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002931 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002932 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2933 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2934 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2935 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2936 (2003 May 13)
2937 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2938 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002939 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2940 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002941 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2942 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2943 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029447 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2945 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2946- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2947 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
29487 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2949 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000029508 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2951 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029527 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
29538 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2954 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
29557 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2956 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029577 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2958- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2959 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2960 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002961- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2962 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2963- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2964
2965
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002966Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002967- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2968 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029698 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2970 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2971 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2972 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2973 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2974 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029758 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2976 make Vim exit.
29777 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2978 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2979 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
29808 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2981 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2982 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
29836 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2984 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2985 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
29868 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2987 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2988 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2989 names in one buffer???
2990 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2991 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2992 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
29937 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2994 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2995 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002996 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2997 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029987 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2999 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
30007 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
30017 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030027 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3003 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3004 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3005 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
30067 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
30077 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
30087 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3009 to the match with the tag? Option?
30107 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
30117 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3012 (Sayre).
30137 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3014 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030157 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3016 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3017 match. Nvi can do it too.
30187 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3019 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3020 line 1\ line 2\\
3021 line 2\ line 3\\
3022 . line4/
30236 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3024 the way the shell is started?
30256 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3026 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3027
3028
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003029GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030309 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030318 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3032 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3033 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000030348 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3035 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3036 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030379 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3038 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3039 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3040 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003041- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3042 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3043 blocked for now.
3044
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003045
3046Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003047- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3048 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030498 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3050 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3051 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
30528 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
3053 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030546 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3055 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030568 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3057 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3058 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030597 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3060 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3061 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030627 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3063 2004 May 9)
30648 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3065 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3066 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3067 MS-Windows 98?
3068 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3069 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3070 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3071 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030728 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3073 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3074 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3075 doesn't work properly.
30768 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3077 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3078 appears in the right position. (Webb)
30799 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3080 button doesn't give popup menu.
3081 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3082 selection.
3083 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3084 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3085 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
30868 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3087 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3088 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3089 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
30908 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3091 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3092 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030937 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3094 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3095 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
30967 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3097 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003098 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030997 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3100 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031016 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
31028 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3103 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3104 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
31058 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3106 know which keyboard is being used?
31077 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3108 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3109 area (Koloseike).
31108 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3111 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3112 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3113 the font name).
3114
3115
3116Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031176 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3118 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3119 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3120 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3121 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031229 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3123 required and it's missing?
31248 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3125 wrong.
31269 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3127 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000031289 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003129 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3130 flag.
31318 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3132 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3133 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
31348 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
31356 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3136 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3137 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3138 the tooltips work though...
31397 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3140 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
31418 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3142 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3143 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3144
3145
3146Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010031479 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3148 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031499 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3150 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3151 through files.
31527 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3153 read long file names. (Schroeder)
31544 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3155 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3156 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3157 problem during a refresh.
31585 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3159 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3160 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3161 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3162 colors as it should.
3163 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3164 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3165
3166
3167Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003168- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031697 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3170 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031718 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3172 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3173 (Phillipps)
3174
3175
3176GUI:
31779 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3178 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
31799 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003180 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003181 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
31829 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3183 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
31848 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3185 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
31868 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3187 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3188 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
31898 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3190 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3191 of where it is processing the output.
3192 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
31938 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3194 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010031958 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000031968 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3197 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3198 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020031998 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032008 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3201 browse().
32028 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3203 use that code? Or use console dialog.
32048 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3205 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000032067 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3207 - regexp on/off
3208 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3209 when all buffers/directory is used:
3210 - filter for file name
3211 when directory is used:
3212 - subdirectory on/off
3213 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032148 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3215 to avoid problems.
32168 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3217 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3218 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
32198 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3220 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3221 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
32228 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3223 up. Set erase character somehow?
32248 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3225 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3226 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3227 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
32288 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
32297 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3230 visible.
32317 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3232 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
32337 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3234 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
32358 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3236 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
32378 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3238 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3239 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3240 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3241- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
32424 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3243 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3244 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3245
3246
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003247Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000032488 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3249 a good fallback, thus use:
3250 $HOME
3251 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3252 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3253 $USERPROFILE
3254 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3255 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3256 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3257 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032588 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3259 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
32608 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3261 Should work like in the GUI version.
32628 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3263 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
32648 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3265 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
32668 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3267 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3268 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032698 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3270 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3271 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3272
3273
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003274Win32 console:
32759 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3276 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3277 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3278 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3279 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3280 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3281 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3282 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3283 and the file is not saved.
3284 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3285 long name.
32868 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3287 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
32887 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3289 besides the console.
32908 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
32919 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3292 <C-S-i>?
32939 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3294 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
32958 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3296 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003297
3298
3299Amiga:
33008 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3301 sequences.
33029 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3303 backslashes in result.
33048 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3305 all options, using white space separation.
3306
3307
3308Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003309- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033107 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3311 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3312 (Jack)
3313 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033148 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3315 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033168 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
33178 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
33189 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3319 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033209 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003321
3322
3323"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003324- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3325 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003326- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3327 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003328- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3329 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3330 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3331 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3332 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3333 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3334 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000033359 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3336 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000033379 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003338 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3339 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033408 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3341 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3342 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003343 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033447 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3345 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
33468 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3347 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3348 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033497 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3350 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003351- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3352 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033538 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3354 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3355 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3356 using the horizontal scrollbar.
33577 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3358 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3359 invocations belong together.
33608 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3361 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
33628 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3363 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3364 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003365 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033668 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3367 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3368 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033698 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3370 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033717 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3372 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3373 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3374 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033757 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3376 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3377 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
33787 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3379 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3380 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
33817 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3382 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033837 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3384 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033859 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3386 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3387 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3388 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3389 script can be called.
33908 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3391 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3392 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033938 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3394 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033958 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003396 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3397 configurable?
33988 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033998 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3400 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034018 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3402 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034038 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3404 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034059 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3406 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3407 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034087 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034098 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3410 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3411 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000034128 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3413 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003414 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3415 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034168 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3417 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
34189 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3419 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3420 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003421 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034227 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3423 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034247 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3425 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3426 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3427 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034288 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003429 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3430 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3431 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3432 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003433 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3434 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003435 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003436 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003437 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3438 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3439 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3440 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3441 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034428 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3443 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
34448 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3445 in lines that don't extend into the block?
34468 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3447 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3448 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
34498 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3450 'linebreak'.
34518 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3452 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3453 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034549 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3455 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3456 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3457 'magic' in history. (Margo)
34589 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3459 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034609 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
34619 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3462 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3463 cause another redraw, etc.
34648 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3465 must escape special characters in the pattern.
34668 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3467 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3468 ":w!!" for that.
3469 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3470 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003471 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034727 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3473 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3474 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3475 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3476 clipboard)
34777 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3478 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3479 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000034806 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3481 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3482 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034838 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3484 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
34858 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3486 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3487 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000034888 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034898 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3490 (e.g., ":w").
34918 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3492 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034938 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3494 script in do_cmdline().
34958 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3496 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3497 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3498 changes.
34998 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3500 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
35018 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3502 check for file marks. This can be slow.
35037 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3504 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3505 needed.
3506 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
35078 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3508 to skip catch_signals()?
35099 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3510 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3511 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3512 text?
35138 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3514 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
35158 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3516 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
35179 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3518 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3519 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3520 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3521 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
35227 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3523 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3524 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3525 in the list?
35268 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3527 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3528 instead of on button down.
35298 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
35309 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3531 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003532 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3533 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035348 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3535 character is typed.
35368 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3537 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
35388 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3539 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
35408 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3541 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3542 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3543 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3544 cygwin bash.
35457 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3546 Remember flags for backreferences.
35477 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3548 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
35497 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3550 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
35518 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3552 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
35537 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3554 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035557 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3556 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3557 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
35587 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3559 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
35608 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3561 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3562 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
35637 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3564 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003565
3566
3567I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
35689 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3569 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3570 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003571
3572
3573Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003574- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3575 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3576 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003577- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3578 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3579 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3580 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3581 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3582 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003583 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003584- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3585 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003586 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003587 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3588 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3589 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003590- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3591 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3592 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3593 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3594 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3595- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3596 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3597 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3598- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3599 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003600- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003601- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3602 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3603 character gets the highlighting.
3604- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3605 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3606- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3607 (Jennings)
3608- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3609- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3610 errors. How do we get the rest?
3611- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003612- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003613 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003614- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3615 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3616 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3617- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3618 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3619 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3620 (Benzinger).
3621- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3622 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3623 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3624- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3625 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3626- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3627 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3628- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3629 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3630 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3631 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3632 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3633 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3634- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3635 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3636 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003637- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3638 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3639 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003640- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3641 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3642 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3643- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3644 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3645- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3646 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003647- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3648 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3649- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3650 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3651 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3652 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3653 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3654- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3655 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3656 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3657- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3658 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3659 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003660- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3661 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 +00003662- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3663 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3664 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3665 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3666 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3667- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3668 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3669
3670--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3671 *extensions-improvements*
3672
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003673Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3674- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3675 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3676 calling a function.
3677 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3678 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003679- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3680 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003681- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3682 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3683 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3684 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3685 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3686 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003687 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003688- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3689 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3690 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003691- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3692 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036938 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3694 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3695 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3696 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003697- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3698 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003699
3700
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003701Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037028 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3703 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000037048 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3705 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000037068 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3707 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037088 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037099 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3710 - change to cursor position and curswant
3711 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3712 - how it works for folded lines
3713 - how it works with multi-byte characters
37149 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3715 work too.
37168 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3717 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3718 text.
37198 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
37207 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3721 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
37227 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3723 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003724 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003725- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3726
3727
3728Help:
3729- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3730 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3731- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3732 to the other matches.
3733- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003734- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3735 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3736 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3737 default contents.
3738- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3739 height for the help window (and other windows).
3740- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3741- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3742- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3743
3744
3745User Friendlier:
37468 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3747 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3748 Briscoe)
37498 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
37508 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3751 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3752 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
37538 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3754 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3755- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3756 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003757- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
37589 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3759 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3760 item?).
3761 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037628 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000037637 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3764 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3765 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000037668 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3767 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3768 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3769 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003770
3771
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003772Tab pages:
37739 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037747 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3775 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037768 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000037778 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037787 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037797 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003780 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037818 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3782 tab pages.
37837 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037847 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3785 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003786
3787
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003788Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003789- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3790 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3791- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3792 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3793 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3794- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3795 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003796- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3797 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3798 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003799- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3800 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3801 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003802- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3803 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003804- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003805 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3806 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000038078 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3808 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
38098 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3810 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
38118 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3812 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003813 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003814 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3815 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3816 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3817 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003818- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3819 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003820- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003821- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3822 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003823- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003824 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003825- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003826 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003827- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3828 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003829- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3830 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3831- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003832 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003833 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3834 in the affix file separately.
3835 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003836 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003837 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3838 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3839 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3840- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3841 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3842 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3843 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3844 Alternative:
3845 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3846 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3847 affix which is required.
3848- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003849 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003850- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3851 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3852 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003853- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3854 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003855- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3856 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3857- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038588 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3859 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3860 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3861 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003862- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3863 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3864 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3865 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038668 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3867 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038688 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
38698 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3870 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038717 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
38728 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3873 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3874 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3875 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003876
3877
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003878Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020038799 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3880 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020038818 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003882 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003883
3884Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003885 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3886 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038878 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3888 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000038898 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038908 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3891 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3892 user aware of this?
38938 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3894 commands skip over a closed fold.
38958 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
38968 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038977 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003898- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3899 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3900 missing line goes unnoticed.
3901 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003902- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3903 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3904 smoother?
3905- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3906 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003907- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3908 file can contain:
3909 args version.c main.c
3910 edit version.c
3911 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003912- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003913- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3914 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003915- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3916 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003917- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3918 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003919- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003920
3921Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003922- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3923 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3924 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3925 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039269 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3927 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3928 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3929 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020039309 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3931 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3932 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039338 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3934 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3935 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3936 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3937 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3938 item.
39398 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003940 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3941 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039428 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3943 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003944 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003945 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039468 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3947 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039488 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3949 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3950 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039517 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3952 so that the user can fix the problem.
39538 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3954 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039559 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
39568 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039578 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
39588 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039597 Searching and composing characters:
3960 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003961 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3962 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039638 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
39648 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
39658 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3966 characters.
39678 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
39688 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3969 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
39707 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3971 'display' option to specify this.
39727 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3973 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3974- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3975 fontselector somehow.
3976- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3977 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3978- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3979 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3980- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3981 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3982 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3983 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3984 if a font exists?
3985- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003986 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003987- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3988 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003989- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3990 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3991 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3992 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3994 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003995 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003996- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3997 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3998 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3999 But it's very complicated...
4000
4001
4002Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000040037 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004004- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4005- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4006 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004007- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4008 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004009- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4010- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4011 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004012- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4013 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004014- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4015 units as for the margins.
4016- Support right-to-left text?
40178 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4018 color.
4019
4020
4021Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040228 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4023 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
40248 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4025 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
40268 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4027 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000040287 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4029 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040308 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4031 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4032 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040337 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4034 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4035 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040368 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
40379 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4038 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040397 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4040 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000040417 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4042 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040438 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4044 change this for each release.
40458 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4046 pattern, but not in the body.
40478 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4048 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4049 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040508 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010040518 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004052 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4053 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040548 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4055 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
40568 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4057 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004058 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040598 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4060 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4061 used.
40628 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4063 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
40648 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4065 re-insert the [] if possible.
40668 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4067 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000040688 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4069 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4070 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4071 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4072 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040738 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4074 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
40758 Support for deleting syntax items:
4076 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4077 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4078 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
40798 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4080 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4081 a '<'. (Fleiner)
40827 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4083 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4084 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
40857 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4086 detected.
40878 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004088 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040898 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4090 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040918 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
40928 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
40937 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4094 ":mkvimrc".
40958 Improve c.vim:
4096 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4097 "c_strict_ansi".
4098 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
40998 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4100 current line while in Insert mode.
41018 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4102 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
41038 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4104 display position.
41058 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4106 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4107 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
41088 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4109 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4110 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000041117 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4112 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4113 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4114 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4115 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041167 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4117 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4118 E.g. for this html:
4119 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041207 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
41217 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4122 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041238 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
41248 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041257 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4126 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4127 completion?
41288 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4129 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
41307 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4131 select one of the sets.
41328 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4133 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4134 2, etc.
41358 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4136 highlighting (for "." command).
41378 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4138 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
41398 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
41407 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4141 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
41426 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4143 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4144- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4145 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4146- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004147- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4148 (for comment blocks).
4149- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4150 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4151 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4152 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4153 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4154 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4155 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4156 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4157 (Campbell)
4158 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4159 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
41607 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4161 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
41627 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4163 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4164 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
41657 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4166 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4167 messages. And external commands?
41688 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4169 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
41707 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4171 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4172
4173
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004174Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041758 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4176 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004177 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000041787 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4179 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4180 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041818 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4182 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004183- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
4184 2006 Dec 11.
4185- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020041868 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4187 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4188 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4189 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4190 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4191 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000041927 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4193 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041948 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010041958 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4196 can be the plugin name.
4197 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4198 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041997 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4200 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4201 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4202 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4203 autocommand.
4204 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4205 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4206 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4207 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042087 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4209 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042106 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4211 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042128 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004213 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4214 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004215 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4216 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4217 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004218 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4219 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4220 3 2002
4221 Only add this when also implemented for
4222 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4223 be used.
4224 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004225 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4226 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4227 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4228 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4229 File.Open..." argument.
4230 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4231 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4232 with properties instead.
4233 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4234 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4235 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004236 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004237 crypt() encrypt string
4238 decrypt() decrypt string
4239 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4240 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004241 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004242 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004243 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004244 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004245 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004246 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4247 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004248 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4249 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004250 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4252 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4253 to allow the library to execute a command or
4254 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042557 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4256 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
42578 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4258 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042598 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4260 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042618 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020042629 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004263 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
42646 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042658 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4266 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042678 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4268 option or environment variable.
42698 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042708 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004271 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042727 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4273 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042748 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4275 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
42768 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
42778 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4278 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4279 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4280 charwise({expr}).
42817 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4282 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4283 buffer for this?
4284 result = scratch(string, command)
4285 result = apply(string, command)
4286 result = execute(string, command)
4287 "command" would use <> notation.
4288 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
42897 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004290
4291
4292Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000042936 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4294 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4295 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4296 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4297 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4298 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4299 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004300
4301
4302Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043037 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4304 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020043057 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4306 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4307 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4308 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043098 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4310 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4311 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4312 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004313 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043148 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
43159 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
43168 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
43177 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4318 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
43198 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4320 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4321 when starting up in a color terminal.
43228 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4323 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043248 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4325 function be improved?
43268 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4327 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4328 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4329 this be improved?
43308 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4331 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000043327 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4333 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043347 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4335 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
43367 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4337 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043387 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4339 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4340 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4341 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4342 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4343 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4344 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043458 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4346 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4347 using strcmp() too often?
43487 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4349 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4350 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4351 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4352 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4353 the two blocks to the memfile block.
43547 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4355 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4356 with an argument that can be messed with.
4357 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4358 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
43597 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4360- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
43618 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4362 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4363- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4364 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4365- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4366- Do profiling on:
4367 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004368 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4369 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4370 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4371 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4372 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4373 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004374 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043757 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4376 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4377 changed).
4378 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4379 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4380- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4381- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4382 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4383- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4384 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4385 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004386- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4387- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4388 cursor is right of the screen.
43898 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4390 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4391
4392
4393Code size:
43948 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4395- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4396 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
43978 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
43988 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4399 it.
44007 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4401 left out.
44028 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4403 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010044048 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004405
4406
4407Messages:
44088 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4409 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
44108 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4411 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
44128 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4413 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004414- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4415 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4416- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044178 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4418 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044199 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4420 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4421 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4422 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4423 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044248 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4425 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
44268 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4427 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4428 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4429 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4430 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4431 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004432- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004433 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044348 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4435 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4436 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4437 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4438 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4439 error messages, printing text, etc.
44408 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4441 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4442 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4443
4444
4445Screen updating:
44467 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4447 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4448 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4449- screen_line():
4450 - insert/delete character stuff.
4451 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4452- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4453 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4454- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4455 waiting for a character.
44568 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4457 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4458 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004459
4460Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020044618 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044626 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4463- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4464 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4465 windows.
44667 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4467 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4468 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4469- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4470 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4471 (Goldfarb)
4472- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4473 bound windows.
4474- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4475 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004476- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004477- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4478 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4479 of lines but not with a single line).
4480
4481
4482Autoconf:
44838 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
44848 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4485 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4486- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4487 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4488- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4489- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4490- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4491
4492
4493Perl interface:
44948 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044957 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
44967 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
44976 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4498
4499
4500Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020045018 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4502 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045036 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4504 :libload internal-name libname
4505 :libunload internal-name
4506 :liblist
4507 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4508 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4509 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
45106 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4511
4512
4513Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000045149 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4515 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4516 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4517 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4518 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045198 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4520 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4521 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004522 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004523 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000045247 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4525 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4526 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045278 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
45288 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4529 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045307 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4531 window for each tag.
45327 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
45337 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4534 bottom" search message.
45357 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4536 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4537 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004538- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4539- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004540- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4541 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4542 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045437 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4544 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4545 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4546 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
45477 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4548 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4549 :tagargs clear
4550 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4551 matching).
45527 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4553 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4554 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4555 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
45567 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4557 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
45587 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4559 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4560 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004561
4562
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004563Win32 GUI:
45648 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4565 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045667 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4567 (Mike McCollister)
45688 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4569 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4570 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4571 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4572 common part of the path.
45738 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
45748 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4575 gettext and menus work.
45768 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4577 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004578 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004579 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
45808 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4581 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
45828 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4583 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
45847 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4585 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
45867 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
45877 <Esc> should close a dialog.
45887 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4589 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4590 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4591 prompts.
45927 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4593 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4594 the file added into an already running Vim.
45957 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4596 functions to find the window title.
4597
4598
4599GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020046008 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004601- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4602 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
46037 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
46048 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
46056 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
46068 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4607 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
46089 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
46097 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
46108 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4611 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
46128 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4613 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4614 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
46158 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4616 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
46178 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4618 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4619 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4620 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046217 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
46228 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4623 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000046247 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4625 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4626 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046278 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
46288 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004629 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046308 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
46318 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
46328 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4633 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4634 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
46357 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4636 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4637 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
46387 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4639 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
46407 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4641 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4642 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4643 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046447 Should support multi-column menus.
4645- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4646 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4647- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
46488 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
46496 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4650 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
46517 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
46527 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4653 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4654 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
46557 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
46568 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4657 name can be chosen free.
46587 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4659 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
46606 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4661 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4662 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4663 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4664 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4665 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4666 things.
46677 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4668 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046697 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004670 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004671- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4672 where it was started from?
46737 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4674
4675
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004676Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020046779 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4678 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004679- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046808 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4681 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4682 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4683 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
46848 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4685 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000046867 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4687 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4688 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4689 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046907 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046918 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4692 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046938 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4694 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4695 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046967 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4697 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4698 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046998 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4700 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4701 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000047028 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4703 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047048 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047056 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4706 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000047077 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047087 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004709 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4710 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4711 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047125 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4713 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4714 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
47157 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4716 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4717 file.
47188 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4719 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4720 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004721- Add events to autocommands:
4722 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004723 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004724 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4725 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004726 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004727 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004728 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4729 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4730 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4731 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004732 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004733 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4734 the char.
4735 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4736 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4737 file from CVS).
4738 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4739 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4740 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4741 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4742 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4743 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004744 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4745 changes.
4746 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4747 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004748- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004749 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004750 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004751 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4752 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4753 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4754 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4755 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4756
4757
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004758Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004759- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4760 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004761- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4762 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4763 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4764 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4765 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004766- Ideas from others:
4767 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4768 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4769 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4770 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4771 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4772 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4773 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4774 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4775 Uses Perl for C++.
4776 Uses ctags to find the info:
4777 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4778 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4779 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4780 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4781 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4782 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004783 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004784 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4785- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4786
4787
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004788Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004789- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000047907 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4791 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047927 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4793 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4794 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047958 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4796 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
47979 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4798 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4799 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048008 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4801 - ignore/match case
4802 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048038 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4804 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4805 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4806 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4807 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4808 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048098 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048107 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4811 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048128 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4813 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4814 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4815 Should work for C++ and Java.
4816 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
48177 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
48187 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4819 instead of words.
48208 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
48218 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4822 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
48238 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4824 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004825- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4826 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004827- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4828 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4829 wildcards in the file name)?
4830- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4831- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4832- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4833 be in another file).
4834- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4835- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4836- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4837 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4838- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4839- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4840- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004841- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4842
4843
4844Command line editing:
48457 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4846 line.
48478 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4848 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4849 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4850- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4851 lines wraps to start of line).
4852- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4853 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4854 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4855 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4856 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4857 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4858 cmdwin does now already.
4859 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4860 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4861 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4862 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4863 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4864 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4865 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4866 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4867 Problems:
4868 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4869 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4870 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4871 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4872 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4873 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4874 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4875 character in first column?
4876 - Implementation ideas:
4877 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4878 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4879 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4880 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4881 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4882 Mode.
4883
4884
4885Command line completion:
48868 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
48878 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4888 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
48898 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4890 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048918 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4892 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048937 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4894 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004895- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4896- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4897 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048988 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4899 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
49007 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4901 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4902- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4903 identifiers (Webb).
49048 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4905 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
49067 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4907 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4908- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4909 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4910- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4911 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4912 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004913
4914
4915Command line history:
4916- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4917 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4918 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004919 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004920- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4921 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4922
4923
4924Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000049259 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4926 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4927 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049288 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4929 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4930 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4931 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4932 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049338 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4934 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4935 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049367 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4937 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004938- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049397 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4940 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4941- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4942 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4943 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4944 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4945 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4946 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4947- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4948 Normal mode.
4949- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4950 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4951 are used.
4952- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4953- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4954- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4955
4956
4957'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010049589 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4959 char * veryLongName =
4960 "very long string"
4961 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049628 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049638 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4964 long_type foo =
4965 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049668 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4967 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004968 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049698 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4970 func(
4971 new String[] {
4972 "asdf",
4973 "asdf"
4974 }
4975 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049768 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4977 (Chow Loong Jin)
4978 namespace {
4979 int
4980 func(int arg) {
4981 }
4982 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049836 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4984 func( arg1
4985 , arg2
4986 , arg3
4987 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000049887 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004989 func(
4990 int x) // indent like "(4"
4991 {
4992 if (a
4993 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049949 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4995 if (a)
4996 {
4997 if (b)
4998 {
4999 // {
5000 }
5001 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005002 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5003 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5004 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005005- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005006 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
50077 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5008- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5009 line).
5010- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5011- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5012 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005013- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5014 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5015- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5016 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5017- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5018- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5019 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
50208 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5021 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5022 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5023- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5024- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5025 lines start with "\item".
5026- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5027 /* here is a comment that
5028 is just autoindented, and
5029 nothing else */
5030- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
50317 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5032 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5033 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005034 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005035
5036
5037Java:
50388 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5039 Odendahl?
50408 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5041 "[i" commands and friends.
5042- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5043 (Jason)
5044- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5045 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5046
5047
5048'comments':
50498 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5050 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5051 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5052 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005053 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5054 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050557 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5056 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
50577 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
50586 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5059 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5060 regexp is used.
50618 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5062 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5063
5064
5065Virtual edit:
50668 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050677 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5068
5069
5070Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050718 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050728 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000050738 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005074 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000050758 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5076 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005077 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5078 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000050798 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050808 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5081 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050828 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5083 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5084 the end of the line or before a ".".
50857 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5086 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
50877 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5088 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050896 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
50905 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5091 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5092 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5093 cursor is on.
5094
5095
5096Select mode:
50978 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5098 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
50997 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005100 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051017 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5102 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5103 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5104 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5105 normal_cmd().
5106 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5107 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5108
5109
5110Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020051118 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5112 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005113- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5114 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5115 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005116- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5117 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5118 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051198 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005120 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005121 where needed.
51227 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5123 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
51247 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5125 of each selected line.
51268 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
51278 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5128 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5129 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
51308 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5131 Ben Godfrey)
51327 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5133 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
51347 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5135 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051367 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005137 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005138 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
51398 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5140 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
51417 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5142 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5143 option!
51447 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5145 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5146 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5147 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5148 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5149 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5150 without changing the column.
51516 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051527 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5153 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051546 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5155 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
51566 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051576 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005158 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005159 or other special character.
51606 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5161
5162
5163More advanced repeating commands:
5164- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005165- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005166- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005167 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5168 "y." will repeat last yank.
5169 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5170 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5171 and/or pick an older command.
5172- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5173
5174
5175Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051768 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5177 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5178 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
51798 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
51807 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5181 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051828 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5183 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
51848 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000051857 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051868 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5187 entering search strings.
51888 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5189 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5190 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051918 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5192 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051937 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051947 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5195 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051966 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5197 abbreviations are to be used.
5198- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5199 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5200 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005201- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5202 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5203 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5204 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5205 Or implicit:
5206 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005207- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5208 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5209 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005210- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5211 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5212- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5213 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
52146 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5215 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5216 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5217 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5219 non-replace Insert mode?
5220- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005221- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5222- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5223 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5224- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005225 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005226- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5227 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5228- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5229- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5230 ":freekeys".
5231- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5232
5233
5234Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005235- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5236 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5237- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5238 folds when going to another line.
5239 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5240- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5241 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005242- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5243 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5244 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005245- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5246 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5247 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5248 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020052499 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5250 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005251
5252
5253Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010052549 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000052558 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005256 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005257 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005258 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005259 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052609 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5261 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052628 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5263 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000052648 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5265 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5266 Perl does it this way:
5267 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5268 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5269 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5270 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052718 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5272 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5273 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000052747 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5275 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000052768 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5277 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052787 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005279 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5280 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5281 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052827 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005283 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052847 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5285 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052868 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5287 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
52888 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5289 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020052907 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005291 example.
52928 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5293 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5294- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5295 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5296 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5297 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052988 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5299 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5300 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
53017 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5302 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000053037 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5304 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053058 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5306 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053078 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5308 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053098 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5310 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5311 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5312 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005313- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5314 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005315- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5316 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5317- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5318 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5319 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5320 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053218 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5322 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005323- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5324 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053258 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5326 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5327 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005328- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5329 i ignore case
5330 I use case
5331 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5332 v use Vi regexp syntax
5333 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5334 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5335 Perl uses these too:
5336 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5337 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5338 o compile only once (Perl only)
5339 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5340 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5341 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5342 following command.
5343 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5344- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5345 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5346 for search string)?
53477 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5348 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5349- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5350 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5351- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5352 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5353- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5354- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005355 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005356 a for the next file in the argument list
5357 f for file in the buffer list
5358 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005359 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5360 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005361 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5362 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5363- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053647 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005365 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053667 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5367 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5368 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5369 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
53706 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5371 effects.
53727 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5373 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5374 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000053757 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005376 Also ":dselect".
5377
5378
5379Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053809 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5381 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5382 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053839 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5384 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020053858 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5386 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053878 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5388 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5389 timestamp?
5390 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5391 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005392- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5393 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005394- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5395 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5396 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
53978 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5398 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5399 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5400 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
54018 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5402 only remember the lines that really changed.
54037 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5404 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5405 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5406 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005407- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5408 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5409- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5410 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5411- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5412 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5413 [-99].
5414- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5415- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005416- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5417 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5418
5419
5420Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054217 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5422 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5423 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5424 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
54258 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5426 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
54278 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5428 inode too.
54297 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005430 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5431 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054327 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5433 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5434- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5435 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5436- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5437 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
54387 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5439 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
54407 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5441 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
54428 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054437 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5444 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010054458 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5446 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5447 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005448
5449
5450Swap (.swp) files:
54518 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5452 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5453 there are short file name problems.
54548 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5455 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
54568 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
54578 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005458 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005459 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5460 file the same as the actual file?
5461 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054627 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5463 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
54647 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005465 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005466 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5467 enough room.
54687 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5469 or /var/preserve.
5470- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5471 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5472- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005473 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005474- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5475 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5476 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5477 cached list of which line is where.
5478
5479
5480Viminfo:
54817 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5482 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5483 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000054848 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5485 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5486 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054878 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5488 name. (Schild)
54898 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
54908 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054918 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054928 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5493 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5494 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5495 this?
54967 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
54977 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5498 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
54996 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5500 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5501 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5502- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5503 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5504
5505
5506Modelines:
55078 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5508 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5509 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005510- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5511 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5512 'shiftwidth'.
5513- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5514 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005515- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5516 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5517 modeline setting.
5518- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5519 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5520- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5521 .cpp files.
5522- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5523 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5524- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5525 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5526
5527
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005528Sessions:
55298 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5530 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
55317 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5532 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055338 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5534 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055358 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5536 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5537 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000055387 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5539 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000055407 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005541
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005542
5543Options:
55447 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5545 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055468 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5547 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5548 also be supported.
55498 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5550 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5551 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
55527 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
55537 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5554 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005555 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005556
5557
5558External commands:
55598 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5560 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
55614 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5562 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5563 -f).
55644 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
55654 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5566 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
55674 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5568
5569
5570Multiple Windows:
55717 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
55728 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5573 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
55747 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5575 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5576 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000055777 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5578 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000055797 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5580 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055816 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5582 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005583 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005584 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
55857 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5586 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5587 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5588 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5589- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5590 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5591 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5592 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5593
5594
5595Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055968 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055978 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5598 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055998 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 +000056008 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5601 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
56028 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5603 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5604 the mark was set.
56057 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5606 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5607 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5608 ":browse marks"?
56096 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056107 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5611 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
56127 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5613 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
56147 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5615 command).
56167 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5617 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5618 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5619 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
56205 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5621 mappings.
56226 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5623 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5624 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5625
5626
5627Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020056287 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005629 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005630- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5631 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000056328 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056337 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5634 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5635
5636
5637Writing files:
5638- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5639 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5640 shortname conversion.
56418 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
56428 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5643 file.
56448 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5645 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5646 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056476 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5648 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
56496 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5650 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
56516 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5652 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056538 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005654 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
56557 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5656 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
56577 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5658 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5659 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5660 waiting for a character to be typed).
56618 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5662 line of the window, like "[time]".
5663 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5664 Automatic and/or with a command.
5665
5666
5667Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000056688 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5669 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056708 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005671 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5672- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5673- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
56748 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5675 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005676- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005677 :s///N substitutes N times.
5678- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5679 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5680 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
56817 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5682 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5683 last line column 5.
56845 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5685 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5686 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5687 (Stanislav Sitar)
5688
5689
5690Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056918 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
56927 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
56938 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5694 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5695 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005696- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5697- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5698 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5699- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5700- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5701
5702
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005703Argument list:
57046 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5705 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5706 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
57076 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5708
5709
5710Registers:
57118 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057128 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5713 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5714 for every line.
57156 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5716 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5717 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5718- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5719 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5720- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5721 leader when line wraps?
5722- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5723 line in the range.
5724- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5725 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
57268 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5727 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005728
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005729
5730Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057318 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000057328 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057337 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
57347 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5735
5736
5737Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000057387 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5739 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5740 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5741 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5742 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5743 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5744 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005745 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000057467 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5747 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000057487 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5749 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057508 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5751 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057527 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5753 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5754 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005755- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005756 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057577 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5758 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010057597 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5760 window as a buffer-tab selection.
57618 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057627 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5763 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
57648 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5765 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057666 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057678 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5768 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5769 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5770 in this Vim.
57718 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005772 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057738 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5774 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5775 have it apply to the following command.
57768 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5777 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5778 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5779 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057807 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5781 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057827 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5783 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5784 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5785 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057866 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
57878 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
57889 Support ACLs on more systems.
57897 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5790 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057917 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5792 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5793 (truncated to fit in the space).
57947 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
57958 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
57968 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5797 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000057987 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005799 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
58007 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5801 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058027 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058037 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
58047 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058058 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
58068 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5807 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5808 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5809 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
58108 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058118 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058128 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5813 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5814 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5815 does something like this. (Shah)
58167 Use growarray for replace stack.
58177 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5818 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
58193 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058207 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5821 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010058227 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5823 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005824- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5825- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5826- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5827- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
58287 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5829 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5830- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5831 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005832- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005833- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5834 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5835- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5836 call "play newbeep.au").
5837- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5838 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5839 (Bhatt).
5840- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5841 blockwise registers).
5842- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5843 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5844- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5845 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5846 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5847 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005848- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058497 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5850 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5851- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5852 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5853 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5854 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5855 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058568 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5857 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058588 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5859 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5860 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5861 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5862 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5863- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005864- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058657 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5866 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5867- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5868 not in column 1.
58696 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5870 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
58717 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5872- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005873- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005874 :redir #> bufname
5875 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005876- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5877 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005878- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5879 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5880 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
58816 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5882 console? (Klaus Hast)
5883- Add :delcr command:
5884 *:delcr*
5885 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5886 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5887 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5888 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5889 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5890 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5891- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5892- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5893 characters from 'isprint'.
5894- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5895- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5896 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5897- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5898 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5899 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5900- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5901- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5902 Nvi).
5903- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5904 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
59057 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5906- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5907 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
59086 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5909- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5910 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5911 macro).
5912- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005913- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5914 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5915- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
59168 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005917- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5918- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5919- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5920 if it is not the first or last window.
5921- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5922 there is one) instead of the file itself.
59237 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5924 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5925 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5926- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5927- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005928 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005929 many percent down the windows).
5930- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5931 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5932 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005933 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005934- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5935 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5936- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5937 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5938- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5939- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5940- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5941 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059428 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5943 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5944 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5945 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5946 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005947- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5948 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5949- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005950 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5951- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005952 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5953 (Webb).
5954- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005955 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005956- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5957 hex codes like 0xff).
5958- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5959 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5960 the last TYPED command.
5961- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5962- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5963- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5964 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005965- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059668 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5967 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5968 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005969- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005970 trailing '.'.
5971- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5972 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5973 find_file_in_path().
5974- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5975 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5976- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5977- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5978 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5979- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005980 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005981- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5982 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5983 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005984- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5985- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5986- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5987 to the minimal size.
5988- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5989- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5990- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5991- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5992- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005993- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5994 entered)?
5995- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5996 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005997- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005998- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5999- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6000- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6001- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6002- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6003 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006004- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060058 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6006 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6007 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6008 or in octal.
60097 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6010 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006011- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006012 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6013- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6014- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6015 insert line command).
6016- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6017- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6018- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6019- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6020- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6021 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006022- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006023 yet.
6024- Implement 'redraw' option.
6025- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6026 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060277 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6028 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006029 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6030 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060318 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6032 do it.
6033- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6034- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6035 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6036- Add text justification option.
6037- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6038- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6039 off".
6040- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6041- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6042- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006043 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006044- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006045- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006046- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6047 commands.
6048- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6049- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6050- :table command (Webb)
6051- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006052- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6053- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6054- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6055- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6056- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6057 (Demirel).
6058- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6059- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6060 for use in macro's and the like.
6061- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006062 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006063- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006064 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006065- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006066 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006067 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6068- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6069 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006070- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006071 mkopttab to make option table?
6072- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6073 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6074- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6075 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006076- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006077 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6078- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6079 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006080- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060818 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6082 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6083 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6084 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6085 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060868 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6087 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6088 (Netherton)
60896 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6090 space after "(", for example.
60915 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6092 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6093 (Servatius Brandt)
6094
6095
6096From Elvis:
6097- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6098- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006099- Search patterns:
6100 \@ match word under cursor.
6101 but do:
6102 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6103 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
61048 ":window" command:
6105 :win + next window (up)
6106 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6107 :win - previous window (down)
6108 :win -- idem, wrapping
6109 :win nr to window number "nr"
6110 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
61117 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6112 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6113
6114
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006115From xvi:
6116- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6117- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6118
6119
6120From vile:
6121- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6122- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6123 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6124
6125
6126Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006127- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6128 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006129 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006130 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6131 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006132- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6133 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6134- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6135 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6136 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6137 current layout mirrored.
6138- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6139- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6140 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6141- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6142- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6143 font in each top-level window.
6144- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6145- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6146- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6147- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6148 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006149- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6150 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6151- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6152 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
61534 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6154 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6155 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6156 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006157 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006158 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6159 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6160- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6161 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6162 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6163
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006164vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006165vim: set fo+=n :