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Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2021 May 28
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +020041Geen memory leak?
42
43Crash using outer var from nested lambda:
44 vim9script
45 def F(text: string): func(string): func(string): string
46 return (arg: string): func(string): string => ((sep: string): string => {
47 return text .. ' ' .. arg
48 })
49 enddef
50
51 echo F('hello')(' ')('there')
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Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010055Vim9 - Make everything work:
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +020056- function returning nothing should return void instead of zero
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010057- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +020058- Need some solution for dict function. Can we implement part of classes?
59- A lambda without {} does not require a return type, using { return x } does.
60 That's unexpected, since the arguments are not required to have a type.
61 alt 1: not require a return type, figure it out from the common type of all
62 the return statements found
63 alt 2: also require argument types
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +010064- Using "windo echo expr" does not accept a line break inside "expr" (in a
65 :def function and at script level in a not executed block). #7681
Bram Moolenaar11e3c5b2021-04-21 18:09:37 +020066- use CheckLegacyAndVim9Success(lines) in many more places
67- For builtin functions using tv_get_string*() use check_for_string() to be
68 more strict about the argument type (not a bool).
69 done: balloon_()
70- Check many more builtin function arguments at compile time.
71 map() could check that the return type of the function argument matches
72 the type of the list or dict member. (#8092)
73- Allow for using an autoload function name without quotes. It is then loaded
74 (and compiled) right away. #8124
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020075- Test more expressions in legacy and Vim9 script, using
76 CheckLegacyAndVim9Success()
77- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
78 Test that return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
79- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
80 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
81 defined.
82- Make debugging work - at least per function. Need to recompile a function
83 to step through it line-by-line? Evaluate the stack and variables on the
84 stack?
85- Reserve command for future use: :type, :class, :enum
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010086
87Once Vim9 is stable:
88- Change the help to prefer Vim9 syntax where appropriate
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010089- Add all the error numbers in a good place in documentation.
90- In the generic eval docs, point out the Vim9 syntax where it differs.
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +010091- Add the "vim9script" feature, can use has('vim9script')
92- Use Vim9 for runtime files.
93 PR #7497 for autoload/ccomplete.vim
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010094
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020095Further Vim9 improvements, possibly after launch:
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010096- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020097- Compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010098 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
99 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
100 Give an error if compilation fails. (#7625)
101 Use the location where the option was set for deciding whether it's to be
102 evaluated in Vim9 script context.
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +0200103- implement :type, import type declaration.
104- implement enum, import enum.
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200105- Future work: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100106- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
107 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200108- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200109- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100110- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
111 EVAL expr
112 LOADVARARG (varargs idx)
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +0200113- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
114 has(featureName), len(someString)
115- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100116
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100117
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200118Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200119- Preview popup not properly updated when it overlaps with completion menu.
120 (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2021 May 22
121- In some cases prop_remove() does not work correctly. (#8261)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200122- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
123 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
124 current window.
125 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
126 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200127- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
128 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100129- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200130- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
131 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100132- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
133 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
134 the way. (#5737)
135 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200136- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
137 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100138- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200139- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
140 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200141- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100142- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
143 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
144- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200145- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200146 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100147- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
148 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200149- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100150 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100151- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200152
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200153Text properties:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200154- property is overruled by cursorline. (#8225).
155 Add better control over priority? Make list of all highlighting, specify
156 where property fits in.
157 Or Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight
158 if the priority is above a certain value? (#7392)
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100159- Popup attached to text property stays visible when text is no longer
160 visible. (#7736)
161- Popup attached to text property stays visible when text is deleted with
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100162 "cc". (#7737) "C" works OK. "dd" also files in a buffer with a single
163 line.
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100164- Auto-indenting may cause highlighting to shift. (#7719)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100165- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100166- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
167 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100168- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200169
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100170'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200171- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
172 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
173- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200174- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200175- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
176 isn't one?
177 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
178
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200179Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100180- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200181- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100182- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200183
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200184Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200185- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100186- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
187 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200188- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100189- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200190- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200191 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
192 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100193- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100194- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
195 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100196 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100197 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200198
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200199Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100200- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200201- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200202- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
203 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
204 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200205- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
206 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
207 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
208 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200209- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
210 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100211- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
212 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200213 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
214 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100215 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100216- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100217- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
218 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200219- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
220 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200221- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200222- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
223 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200224- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
225 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
226- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
227 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200228- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
229 is disabled.
230- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
231- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
232 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200233- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
234 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
235 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
236- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
237- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
238 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
239- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
240 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200241
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100242Include patch #6290: recognize shell directory change.
243
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200244MS-Windows GUI: default 'encoding' to "utf-8" ? (#8221)
245 Add #ifdef MSWIN before enc_locale() in set_init_1().
246 Or just always for MS-Windows? Conversion to 'termencoding' should always
247 work?
248
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100249Valgrind reports memory leaks in test_options.
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200250Valgrind reports overlapping memcpy in
251 test_conceal.3
252 test_edit.1
253 test_functions.4
254 test_ins_complete.3
255 test_method
256 test_normal
257 test_popupwin.35 et al.
258 test_search_stat
259Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
260Memory leak in test_debugger
261Memory leak in test_paste, using XtOpenDisplay several times
262OLD:
263TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
264Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
265Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
266Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100267
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200268":set &shellpipe" and ":set &shellredir" should use the logic from
269initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
270this.
271
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100272test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200273
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200274Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat, #7082)
275
276Patch for Template string: #4634
277Have another look at the implementation.
278
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200279Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200280Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200281
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200282Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
283(#8179)
284
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100285Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100286(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100287Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
288interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100289
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200290Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
291
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200292Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual selection.
293Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
294
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200295Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
296to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
297Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
298inconsistent with the documentation.
299
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100300Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
301Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
302
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200303Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
304with 'termguicolors'. #1740
305
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200306Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660.
307
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100308Patch to make fillchars global-local. (#5206)
309
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100310Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
311
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200312Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
313changes.
314
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200315When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
316jumplist and alternate file.
317
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200318Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
319This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
320to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
321
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200322Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
323Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
324
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200325Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
326Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
327
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100328Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
329/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
330
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100331MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
332mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925)
333Add a flag to only copy attributes?
334
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200335Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
336time bound navigation, like with undo?
337
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100338Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
339 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
340 aaa
341 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
342 aaa bbb
343Should also work without any group:
344 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
345 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
346
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200347Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200348Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200349(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
350Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
351- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
352 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
353 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
354- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
355 covered by the above change.
356So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
357same thing.
358Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200359
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200360Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
361autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
362 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
363 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
364 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
365 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
366 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
367The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
368
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100369Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
370mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
371
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200372Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
373Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200374
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200375Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
376Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
377After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
378work.
379
380Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
381autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200382
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200383Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
384 replace this:
385 let left = GetLeftFunc()
386 let right = GetRightFunc()
387 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
388 by:
389 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200390Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
391
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200392Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
393
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100394":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
395
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200396Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
397(#6539)
398
399When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
400register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
401(#6435)
402
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100403File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
404
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200405"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
406add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200407Athena is OK.
408Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200409Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
410manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200411
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200412Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
413
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100414When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative, while
415editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355)
416Which one should it be?
417
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200418:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
419(#5623, also see #5962)
420
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200421Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
422character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200423
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200424undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
425
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200426After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it causes
427corruption. (#6631)
428
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100429When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
430(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
431
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200432With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
433'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100434
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200435Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
436which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
437#6127
438
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200439Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
440
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200441When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
442":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
443Might be related to #6088.
444
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200445Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
446(#6919)
447
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200448When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
449Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
450(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
451
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100452Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
453(Paul Jolly, #5656)
454Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100455 Later more requests for what to track.
456 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
457 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
458 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100459BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100460Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100461
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200462Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
463
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200464Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
465
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200466Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
467
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200468Implement completion for "breakadd". Should expand the second argument, e.g.
469"func", and then function names after ":breakadd func". Including
470script-local functions.
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200471Also for ":profile".
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200472
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100473:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
474Dec 19)
475
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200476Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
477Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
478
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100479Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
480May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200481Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
482remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100483Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200484
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100485When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
486the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
487
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200488Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100489Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
490in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200491Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
492(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200493
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100494Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
495ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200496Is there a test for this?
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100497
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200498Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
499that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
500Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100501
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200502":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
503goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
504unlisted. (#4478)
505
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100506Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100507
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200508":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
509find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
510
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200511Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
512
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100513Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
514
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100515Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
516
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200517The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
518support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
519
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100520"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
521
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200522Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
523Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
524
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100525Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
526
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200527When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
528the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
529
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200530Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
531(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
532
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200533When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
534default one. #4698
535
536When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
537with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
538
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100539Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200540Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100541
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200542Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200543fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
544
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200545Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200546
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200547Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
548- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
549- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100550- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200551
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100552Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200553Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100554
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100555When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
556when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
557gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
558input buffer. (#5302)
559
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100560:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
561(#5467)
562
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200563Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200564
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100565Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5662007 Feb 18)
567Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
568
569Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
570Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
571
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200572Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
573
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200574Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200575Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
576Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200577
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200578Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
579files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
580Include part of #3242?
581
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200582Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
583Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
584Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
585
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200586Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
587t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
588
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100589Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
590Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
591
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200592'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
593
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100594Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
595
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200596Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
597
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100598When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
599in a long line. #5189
600
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200601The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
602Give a few examples. (#4288)
603
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200604Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200605work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200606
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02006077 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
608 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
609 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200610Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200611
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100612Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
613read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
614be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
615
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100616Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
617CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
618with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
619fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
620displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
621
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200622Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
623
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200624Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
625
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200626Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
627https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
628
629Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
630http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
631http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
632Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100633- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200634- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
635- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
636 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
637- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
638- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
639Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
640- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
641- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
642Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
643- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
644
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100645Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
646Mar 5)
647
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200648Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
649- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
650 line.
651- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
652 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
653- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
654 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
655
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200656Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
657on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
658
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200659Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
660in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
661buffer didn't change at all.
662
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200663Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
664'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
665(#4450)
666
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100667Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
668window, not other buffers. (#7532)
669
670Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
671modified buffers
672 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
673 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
674 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
675 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
676
677When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
678buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
679Should add the buffer in hidden state.
680
681When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
682filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
683initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
684
685Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
686normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
687
688Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
689(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
690
691Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
692that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
693ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
694Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
695
696'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
697Likonen, March 19)
698
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100699When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
700But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
701similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
702
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200703C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
704(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
705
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100706Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
707added?
708
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200709Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
710negative. (see #4326)
711
712'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
713`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
714tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
715:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
716
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200717This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
718 vim: syn=nosyntax
719
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200720":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
721a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
722
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100723Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
724#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100725Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
726Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
727balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
7282018 Sep 14)
729Another request: #3811.
730
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200731More warnings from static analysis:
732https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200733
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100734Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
735
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200736Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
737
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200738Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
739internals of the dict structure.
740
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100741nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
742
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200743Missing tests for:
744- add_termcap_entry()
745
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200746Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
747change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
748them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
749
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200750Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200751Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200752
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100753When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
754case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
755For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
756
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200757Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
758(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
759expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200760
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200761Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
762 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
763 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
764
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100765Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100766punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100767
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200768Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
769drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
770
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200771Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
772is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
773
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100774When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
775scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
776using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
777
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200778Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
779#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
780(Sep 8)
781
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200782Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
783unified diff (list of lines).
784
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100785When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
786kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
787when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
788
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100789Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
790(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100791
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100792Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
793
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200794matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
79519.
796
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100797Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
798highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200799And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
800'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100801
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100802Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
803Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
804
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200805Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
806Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
807Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
808
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200809home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
810
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200811When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
812terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
813How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
814
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100815Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
816Feedback from someone who uses this?
817
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200818Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
819Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
820values.
821
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100822Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200823- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
824- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
825- omit diff.exe from distribution
826- Can we make this show differences within a line?
827- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200828
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200829Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
830
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100831Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200832What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100833
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200834When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
835includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
836
837Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200838Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200839
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100840Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
841
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200842Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
843window for the buffer.
844
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100845Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
846mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
847
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100848Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
849- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
850- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100851- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
852
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100853Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
854Oct 28)
855
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100856Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
857- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
858
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200859Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
860- Test_setbufvar_options()
861- Test_exit_callback_interval()
862
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200863Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
864Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100865Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
866Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200867
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200868Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
869
870Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
87124)
872
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100873Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100874 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100875or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100876 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
877
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200878Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
879is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
880used for git temp files.
881
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100882Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
883
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200884Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
885behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
886(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
887
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200888Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
889pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
890
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200891Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
892script or function.
893
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200894When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
895E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
896does nothing otherwise?
897
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200898MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
899If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
900(wait a little while).
901CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100902
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200903Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
904MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
9052017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
906receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
907
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200908Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
909missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
910
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200911":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
912deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
913
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200914With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
915included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
916(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
917
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200918Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200919Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200920
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100921Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100922Jan 15, #2555)
923
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200924":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
925
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100926Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
927
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100928No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
929No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
930
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200931Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
932http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
933Should be supported with a flag.
934
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100935Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
936
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100937Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
938Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
939applying the diff, etc.
940
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200941Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
942Apr 26, #2849)
943
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100944User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
945word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100946
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100947Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200948
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200949With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
950(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
951
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200952Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
953:drop (remote commands).
954
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200955Implement option_save() and option_restore():
956option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
957 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
958 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
959 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
960 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
961 be called when the same window is the current window.
962 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
963 the local options won't be restored.
964
965option_save({list}) *option_save()*
966 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
967 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
968 let s:saved_options = option_save([
969 \ 'ignorecase',
970 \ 'iskeyword',
971 \ ])
972 au <buffer> BufLeave *
973 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
974< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
975 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
976 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
977 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100978 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
979 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
980 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100981 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200982
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100983"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
984directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
985Also see #1689.
986
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100987When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100988highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100989
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100990No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9912017 Dec 26, #2501)
992
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200993A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
994
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200995Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
996
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200997A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
998Mention where they were defined somewhere.
999
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001000ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1001
1002Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1003
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001004Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1005Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1006
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001007Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1008in #846)
1009Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1010
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001011Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
1012Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
1013
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001014When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1015redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001016
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001017In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1018(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1019
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001020Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1021neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001022
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001023Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1024Nov 21)
1025
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001026When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001027triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1028set_color_count().
1029
1030Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1031responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1032
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001033When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1034CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1035Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1036always nested.
1037
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001038matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1039
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001040Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1041
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001042MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001043for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1044
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001045Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001046(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001047
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001048Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001049
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001050Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001051
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001052Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1053defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1054Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1055
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001056After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
105713, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001058
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001059When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1060line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1061
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001062The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1063
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001064Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1065
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001066Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1067behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1068
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001069'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1070
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001071The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1072
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001073When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1074a command can delete it.
1075
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001076Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1077#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1078
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001079The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +01001080for another buffer. (lacygoill) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001081
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001082X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1083pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1084clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1085Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1086Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1087clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001088Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001089
1090Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1091
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001092Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1093attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001094that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001095
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001096Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1097(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1098
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001099Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1100buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1101Also fixes #2166?
1102
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001103Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1104possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1105
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001106When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1107case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1108
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001109Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1110existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1111Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1112
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001113MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1114Jul 4)
1115
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001116Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1117Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1118This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1119Christian cannot reproduce it.
1120
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001121Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1122wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1123Or is this not an actual problem?
1124
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001125Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1126
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001127Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1128
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001129'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1130#1736)
1131
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001132Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11338, #1690)
1134
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001135Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1136it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1137
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001138Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1139
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001140assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1141it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1142
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001143Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1144for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001145
1146Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1147(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1148Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1149later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1150Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1151mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001152Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1153mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001154maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001155
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001156Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001157plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1158be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1159
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001160Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1161 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1162 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001163
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001164json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001165What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001166
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001167Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1168
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001169import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1170(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1171
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001172Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1173Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001174Another example in #1309
1175
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001176Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1177#1330)
1178
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001179Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1180
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001181GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1182g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1183timer expires.
1184
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001185Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1186highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1187
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001188Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1189Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1190
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001191Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1192key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1193 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1194 echo keytrans(xx)
1195 <C-Home>
1196
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001197Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1198(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1199Make a function to check for function-like type?
1200
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001201Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1202 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001203 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001204
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001205Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1206somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1207
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001208The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1209"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1210Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1211
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001212Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1213
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001214Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1215about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001216Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1217
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001218":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001219vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1220
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001221Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001222E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001223Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001224
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001225Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1226Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1227
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001228Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001229Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001230
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001231"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1232(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1233
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001234Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1235(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001236
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001237Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1238
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001239Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1240anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1241
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001242Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001243E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001244
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001245Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1246(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1247
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001248Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1249
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001250On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1251separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1252
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001253Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1254
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001255Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1256
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001257Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1258
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001259Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1260no longer support.
1261
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001262Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001263
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001264sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12654#1038)
1266
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001267sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1268is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1269
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001270+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001271- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001272- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1273 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1274 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001275- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1276 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001277- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1278 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001279- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1280 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1281- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1282 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1283- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001284- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1285 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001286- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1287- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1288 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1289 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1290- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1291- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1292- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1293 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1294 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1295- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1296 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1297- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1298 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1299 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1300
1301Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001302- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1303 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1304 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1305 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001306- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1307 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001308- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1309 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1310- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1311 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1312- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1313 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1314 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1315 LC_CTYPE
1316- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1317 matches everywhere.
1318- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1319 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1320- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1321- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1322 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1323- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001324- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001325 2013 Dec 11)
1326- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1327 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1328- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1329- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1330 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1331- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1332- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1333- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1334- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1335 2015 Feb 7)
1336- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1337 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1338 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1339 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1340 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1341- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1342- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1343- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1344- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1345 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1346 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1347 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1348- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1349 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1350- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1351 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1352 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1353 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1354
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001355Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13563. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1357Also see #1635.
1358
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001359Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1360doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1361Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001362Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001363E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1364
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001365cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1366
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001367:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1368
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001369Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1370
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001371When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1372synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1373
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001374Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1375Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001376
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001377ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1378Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001379
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001380Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1381Jul 25, #948)
1382
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001383Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1384names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1385Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1386the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1387
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001388MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1389Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001390
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001391Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1392times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1393
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001394Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1395
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001396We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1397the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1398
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001399Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1400
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001401When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1402emoji_width table has only one entry.
1403
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001404It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1405Reject the value? #710.
1406
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001407When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1408Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1409
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001410Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1411No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001412
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001413Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1414(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001415
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001416Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1417
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001418Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1419https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001420Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001421
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001422Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1423but the reference remains valid.
1424
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001425Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001426interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1427Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1428interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1429result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001430
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001431Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001432work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001433
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001434Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1435
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001436Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1437
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001438Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1439Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1440
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001441exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1442Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1443
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001444Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1445'iskeyword' for syntax.
1446
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001447Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1448It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1449Add configure check?
1450Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1451Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1452Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1453
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001454Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1455Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1456
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001457Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1458Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1459
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001460":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1461directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1462
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001463Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1464(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1465
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001466When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1467restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1468Do not trigger the event?
1469
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001470Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1471Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1472https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1473
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001474Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1475With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1476
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001477Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001478
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001479Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1480
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001481Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001482Only remembers one error.
1483
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001484GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001485
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001486Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1487(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001488
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001489Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1490github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001491 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001492Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001493
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001494Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001495
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001496Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001497comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001498
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001499Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1500
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001501MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1502wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1503
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001504Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1505specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1506
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001507Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1508(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1509
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001510Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001511'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1512before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001513
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001514C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1515and also line continuation after #include.
1516I can't recommend it though.
1517
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001518Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1519(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1520
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001521To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1522library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1523
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001524Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
152530)
1526
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001527MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1528(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1529
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001530The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
153124): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001532
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001533":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1534effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1535
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001536":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15379)
1538
1539The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1540wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1541
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001542Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001543Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001544
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001545When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1546the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1547
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001548Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001549slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1550inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1551
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001552ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15532014 Sep 11)
1554
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001555Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1556(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1557
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001558When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1559'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1560
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001561Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1562Work in progress.
1563
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001564Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1565when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1566
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001567Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1568Is this right?
1569
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001570Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1571(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1572Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1573
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001574Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1575Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001576
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001577Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1578Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1579
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001580Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1581
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001582Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1583
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001584Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1585OK to not block marks?
1586
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001587Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1588
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001589When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1590(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1591
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001592Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001593
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001594Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1595(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1596
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001597When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1598any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1599
1600Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001601
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001602Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001603
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001604Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1605(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1606
1607Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1608
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001609Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1610Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1611was already defined.
1612(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1613
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001614Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1615
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001616Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001617Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001618Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001619Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001620
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001621Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1622(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1623
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001624Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1625(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1626
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001627Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1628
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001629When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1630these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1631window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1632
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001633Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1634should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1635history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1636Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1637
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001638"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1639Jun 8)
1640
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001641Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1642insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1643
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001644No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1645
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001646Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1647(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1648Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1649arguments.
1650
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001651Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1652
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001653Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1654right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001655its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001656
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001657Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1658
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001659This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1660 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1661This neither: (ZyX)
1662 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1663
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001664'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1665Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1666from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001667
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001668Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16692014 Jun 8)
1670
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001671Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1672https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001673Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001674Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1675package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001676Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1677Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1678User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001679- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1680 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1681 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001682- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1683- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1684 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1685 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1686 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1687 on vim.org.
1688- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1689 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1690- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1691- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1692- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1693- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1694Implementation:
1695- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1696 plugin separate.
1697- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1698 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1699 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1700- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1701 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1702- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1703 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1704 installing.
1705Out of scope:
1706- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1707- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1708 useful).
1709
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001710When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1711menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1712
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001713Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1714(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1715
1716":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1717various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001718
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001719Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001720(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1721
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001722VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1723instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1724
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001725Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001726Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001727Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001728
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001729Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1730
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001731Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1732highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001733
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001734The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1735For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1736
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001737Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001738possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001739
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001740Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001741
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001742Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1743
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017447 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1745 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1746 "lucida_console:h8").
1747Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1748
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001749:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1750
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001751Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1752
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001753Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1754
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001755When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1756(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1757
1758Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001759Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001760
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001761GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1762(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1763
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001764Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1765registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1766
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001767Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1768
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001769The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1770(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1771Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1772
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001773Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1774Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1775reliably?
1776
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001777Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1778(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1779
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001780Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1781(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001782Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1783(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1784try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1785try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001786
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001787Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17882013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001789
1790Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1791
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001792Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17935)
1794
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001795Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1796carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1797
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001798Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1799highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1800
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001801Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001802
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001803Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200180428) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001805
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001806Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1807
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001808Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1809
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001810- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1811 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1812Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001813
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001814Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001815
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001816In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1817process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1818a reboot.
1819
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001820patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001821Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1822Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001823
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001824Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1825not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001826
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001827Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1828Or use expand('<sid>')?
1829
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001830Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1831
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001832Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1833
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001834b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18357)
1836
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001837Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1838compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1839
1840Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1841Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1842vim.bindeval().
1843
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001844Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18452012 Aug 4)
1846
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001847Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1848(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1849
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001850Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1851But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1852
1853Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1854Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1855Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001856
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001857Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1858loading all files.
1859
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001860'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001861
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001862Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001863of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1864
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001865The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1866Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1867But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001868
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001869When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1870is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1871
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001872URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001873- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001874- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1875 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1876
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001877Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1878(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1879Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1880
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001881Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001882New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001883
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001884When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1885for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1886Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001887
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001888Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1889
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001890Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1891
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001892Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1893Apr 18)
1894
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001895Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1896And one for gui_x11.txt.
1897
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001898":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1899finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1900Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1901
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001902Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1903
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001904Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1905
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001906Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1907they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1908
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001909Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1910
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001911Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1912Nov 20)
1913
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001914Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001915Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001916
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001917`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001918(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1919
1920Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1921
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001922BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1923Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1924
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001925Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1926Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1927
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001928Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1929
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001930On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19312012 Jun 19)
1932
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001933'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1934'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1935Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001936Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001937
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001938With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1939(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1940need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1941
1942Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1943only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
194421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1945
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001946Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1947New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1948
1949Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1950Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1951
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001952Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1953Jan 19)
1954
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001955Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1956discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1957meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001958
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001959"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001960Oct 26)
1961
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001962Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1963
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001964With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1965register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001966
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001967Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1968
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001969When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1970(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1971
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001972When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1973then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1974from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1975
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001976Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1977":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
197815)
1979
1980Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1981
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001982BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1983cleared. See test64.
1984
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001985On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
198664 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1987right type.
1988
1989string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1990(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1991
1992When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1993(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001994When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1995following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1996(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001997
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001998When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1999doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2000
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002001Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2002
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002003When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2004indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2005the help file.
2006
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002007After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2008Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2009
2010Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2011
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002012"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002013
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002014Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2015
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002016Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002017
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02002018Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
2019scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
2020first drawn line. (#8103)
2021
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002022Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
20232010 Dec 18)
2024
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002025With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2026number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2027Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2028
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002029Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2030Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2031
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020328 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2033Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2034
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002035Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2036one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2037the match scrolls into view.
2038
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020397 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2040Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2041Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2042
20439 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2044 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2045Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2046
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002047Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2048Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2049
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002050In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2051or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2052sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2053
2054GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2055doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2056
2057GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2058
2059Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2060Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2061
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002062Wish for NetBeans commands:
2063 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2064
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002065Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2066
20677.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2068there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2069do?
2070
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002071Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
207222)
2073
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002074New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2075- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002076- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002077 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2078
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002079"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20802011 Feb 27)
2081
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002082Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2083^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2084
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002085When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2086exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20879) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2088
2089g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2090the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2091
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002092Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2093crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2094
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002095Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2096number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2097
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002098Regexp engine performance:
2099- Profiling:
2100 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2101 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2102 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2103 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2104 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2105 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2106- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2107- Performance tests:
2108 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2109 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2110 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2111 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2112 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2113 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2114 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2115 'hlsearch'.
2116 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2117 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2118 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2119 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2120
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002121Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2122Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2123
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002124'beval' option should be global-local.
2125
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002126Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002127
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002128setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002129
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002130With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21312010 Oct 24)
2132
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002133Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2134
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002135When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2136Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2137
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002138":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2139
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002140'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2141
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002142C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2143checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2144Issue 46.
2145
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002146Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2147
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002148Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2149gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2150
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002151":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2152accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2153
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002154Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2155setwinvar().
2156
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002157Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002158
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002159When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2160instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2161
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002162Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2163Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2164Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002165
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002166Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2167back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2168
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002169Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002170Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2171
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002172CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2173the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002174FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002175
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002176Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2177Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2178
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002179Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2180Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2181
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002182Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2183
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002184Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2185non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002186
2187iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2188Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2189or replace with a character and continue?
2190
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002191Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2192Requires configure check for localtime().
2193Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2194
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002195Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2196
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002197Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2198Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2199path.
2200
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002201Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002202Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002203
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002204'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2205
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002206":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2207like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2208
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002209Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2210https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002211
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002212Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22132010 Nov 5)
2214
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002215Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002216Jan 7)
2217
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002218Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2219
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002220With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2221entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2222Feb 12)
2223
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002224Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2225characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2226
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002227Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2228
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002229Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2230 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2231
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002232Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2233
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002234When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2235Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2236
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002237For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002238line argument -noregister.
2239
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002240When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2241missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2242
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002243When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2244doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002245
2246Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2247(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2248Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2249There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2250Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2251
2252":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2253highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2254to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2255
2256Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2257Probably needs a bit of work.
2258
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002259List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002260Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2261
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002262Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2263
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002264Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2265
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002266Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2267Sep 1)
2268
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002269Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2270
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002271Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2272on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2273
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002274Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22752009 Jul 18)
2276
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002277Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2278window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2279Needs more work.
2280
2281Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2282
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002283When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2284few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2285
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002286'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002287(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2288
2289Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2290J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2291
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002292When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2293for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2294
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002295Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2296
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002297":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2298because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2299ex_docmd.c.
2300
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002301Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002302Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2303
2304string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2305for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2306
2307Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2308
2309'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
231020)
2311
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002312Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
23132009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2314
2315Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002317When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2318indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2319(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2320
2321Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2322are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2323Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2324Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2325that doesn't have a window.
2326
2327When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2328doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2329
2330getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2331displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2332
2333":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2334
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002335There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2336was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2337perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2338
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002339Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2340
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002341Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2342command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2343
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002344Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2345does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2346
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002347opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2348height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002349very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002350
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002351Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002352(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2353
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002354Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2355char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2356
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002357Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2358Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2359
2360This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002362Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2363messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2364es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23652009 Jan 26)
2366
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002367When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2369Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2370
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002371Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2372a modeline.
2373
2374Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2375Sergey Khorev)
2376
2377Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2378part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020023796 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2380 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2381 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +01002382Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002383
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002384After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2385correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2386
2387Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2388(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2389
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002390shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002391'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2392Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2393unix-like shell?
2394
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002395Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2396register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2397(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2398
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002399Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2400Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2401
2402Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2403make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2404
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002405When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2406still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2407
2408"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2409(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002411MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2412doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2413probably causes this.
2414
2415'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024162009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002417
2418Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2419 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2420 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2421(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2422
2423Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2424":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2425option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2426is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002427
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002428":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2429first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002430Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002431
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002432Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2433laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2434Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002435
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002436Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2437anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2438
2439On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2440doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2441Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2442Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2443
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002444When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2445'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2446fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2447the buffer to be unmodified.
2448Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2449another look at it.
2450
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002451c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2452(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2453
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002454You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2455error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2456Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2457at the other match for 0xBF.
2458
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002459When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2460argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2461
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002462Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2463backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2464
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002465When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2466line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2467
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002468After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2469(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002470command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002471
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002472":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2473Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2474
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002475When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2476either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2477put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2478
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002479Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2480Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2481Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2482Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2483(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2484
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002485Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2486
2487ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002488
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002489Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2490(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2491escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2492an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002493This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2494July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002495Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2496work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2497
2498When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
249931)
2500
2501Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2502work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2503Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002504
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002505Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002506multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002507(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2508
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002509Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25102008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002511Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002512
2513Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2514Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2515'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2516
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002517Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2518Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2519
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002520Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2521Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2522
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025238 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2524 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2525 several).
2526 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2527 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2528 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2529Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2530
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002531The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002532 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002533 0x2217, star
2534 0x2500, bar
2535 0x26ab, circle
2536
2537Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2538line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2539
2540GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2541Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2542
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002543Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2544try the Cocoa version.
2545
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002546Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2547changed or the window is resized.
2548
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002549GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2550the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2551
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002552Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2553Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002554
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002555Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25561) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2557
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002558C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2559with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2560Try to reproduce at work.
2561
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002562Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2563Is there a way to list all the files first?
2564
2565When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2566result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
256716)
2568
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002569Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2570(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2571
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002572Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2573Await response to question to make the register writable.
2574
2575Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25761)
2577
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002578In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2579each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2580
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002581":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2582Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2583
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002584Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2585
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002586Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2587Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2588
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002589Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2590Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2591Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002592
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002593When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2594and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2595
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002596Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2597 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2598
2599New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2600
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002601":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2602a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2603
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002604Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2605other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2606
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002607The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2608appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2609matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2610
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002611When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2612character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2613'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2614(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2615
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002616Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2617Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002618
2619More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2620
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002621Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2622http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2623
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002624Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2625No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2626
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002627Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2628terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002629
2630Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2631
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002632Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2633but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2634that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002635
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002636Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2637Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2638
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002639Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2640popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2641size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2642This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2643
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002644When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2645it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2646
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002647Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2648then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2649files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002650Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2651indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2652":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002653in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2654quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002655Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002656
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002657When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2658parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2659neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2660particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2661Jun 3)
2662However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2663the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002664
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002665A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2666Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2667
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002668Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2669Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2670
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002671Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2672switch list is noticed:
2673 switch (i)
2674 {
2675 case 1:
2676 foobar:
2677 }
2678
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002679Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2680
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002681Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2682with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2683go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2684moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2685
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002686Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002687GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002688Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2689argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2690(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2691
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002692Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2693(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2694
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002695Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
26962007 Feb 8)
2697
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002698Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2699set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002700
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002701Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2702
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002703Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2704Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2705New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2706patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2707
2708Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2709Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2710
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002711Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002712label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2713
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002714Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2715with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2716Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002718Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2719
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002720Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2721Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2722only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2723
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002724Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2725Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002726Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002727properly?
2728
2729Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27302007 Jun 21)
2731
2732When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2733Jun 18)
2734
2735If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2736
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002737In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2738the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2739
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002740C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2741
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002742":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2743
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002744When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002745error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002746
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002747GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002748use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2749
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002750Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2751if_ruby.c.
2752
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002753":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2754
2755The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2756it in keep_msg?
2757
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002758Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002759error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2761
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002762Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2763longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002764
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002765Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2766Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2767Also for ":w" without a file name.
2768The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002769
2770"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2771Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2772
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002773VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2774directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2775(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2776
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002777VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2778
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002779input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2780name?
2781
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002782Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2783
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002784When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2785(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002786Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002787will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2788
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002789gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2790This also fails with --remote.
2791
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002792When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
27932008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2794all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2795
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002796aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2797
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002798When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2799(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2800
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002801Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2802the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2803
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002804GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2805
2806Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2807Jun 5)
2808
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002809Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28102008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2811Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2812
2813In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2814but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2815Jul 22)
2816
2817There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2818
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002819Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2820
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002821Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2822moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2823that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2824
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002825The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2826
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002827When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002828cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2829the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2830
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002831These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2832 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2833 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2834 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2835
2836Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2837partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2838
2839In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2840buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2841reload it then?
2842
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002843For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2844
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002845Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2846only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2847
2848Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2849tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2850doesn't contain other directories.
2851
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002852Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2853Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2854
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002855Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2856 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2857 set background=dark
2858This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2859color is, not reset it.
2860
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002861Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2862start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2863show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2864middle?
2865
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002866Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2867
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002868When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2869current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2870the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2871
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002872When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2873Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2876Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2877
2878Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2879
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002880A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2881Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2882
2883Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2884Dara, 2006 June 21)
2885
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002886Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2887number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2888
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002889After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2890the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2891
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002892Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002893
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002894Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2895Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2896
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002897Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010028982008 Sep 29)
2899
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002900In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2901check the result of has("patch13").
2902
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002903Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2904restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2905
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002906Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2907and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2910put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2911
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002912Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2913resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2914
2915In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2916can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2917
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002918GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2919maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2920doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002921Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2922visible.
2923
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002924When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2925differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002926
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002927The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2928be only one.
2929
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002930Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002931"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2932name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2933Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002934
2935Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2936(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2937
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002938Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2939as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2940
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002941Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
294223)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002943
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002944":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2945tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2946Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002947
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002948When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2949text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2950latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2951
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002952Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2953no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2954
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002955In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2956VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29572007 Oct 16)
2958
2959TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2960Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2961
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002962Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002963
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002964When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2965typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2966Sep 3, 11)
2967
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002968":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2969this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2970
2971When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2972Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2973restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2974
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002975Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
29762010 Jun 30)
2977
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002978Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2979'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2980(Kartik Agaram)
2981
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002982
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002983Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002984- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2985 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2986- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2987 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2988 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2989- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2990 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2991 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002992- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2993- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002994
2995
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002996More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002997- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2998 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002999- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003000- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3001 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003002- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3003- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3004- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3005 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3006 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003007- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003008- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3009 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3010- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3011 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3012- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3013 21)
3014- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3015 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3016- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3017 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02003018- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003019 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003020- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3021 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3022 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3023 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3024 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003025- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003026
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003027Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030289 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3029 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3030 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3031 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3032 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3033 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3034 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3035 (Alan Schmitt)
3036 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003037 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3038 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030399 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003040 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030418 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030427 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3043 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3044 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030458 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003046 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030477 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003048 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3049- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003050 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003051- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3052- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3053 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3054 been given values.
3055 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030567 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3057 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3058- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3059 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3060 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30618 Add functions:
3062 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3063 Update 2004 Sep 10
3064 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3065 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003066 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003067 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3068 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3069 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3070 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3071 (2003 May 13)
3072 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3073 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003074 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3075 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003076 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3077 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3078 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030797 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3080 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030817 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3082 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000030838 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3084 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030857 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
30868 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3087 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
30887 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3089 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030907 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3091- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3092 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3093 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003094- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3095 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3096- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3097
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003098Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3099- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3100 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3101
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02003102
3103Spell checking:
3104- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
3105 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
3106 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
3107 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
3108- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
3109- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
3110 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
3111 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
3112 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
3113 downloaded.
3114- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
3115 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
3116- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
3117 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
3118- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
3119 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
3120- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
3121 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
3122 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
3123
3124
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003125Quickfix/Location List:
3126- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3127 #2999)
3128- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3129 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3130 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3131 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003132- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3133 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3134- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3135 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3136 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003137- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3138- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3139 2007 Jan 1)
3140- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3141 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3142- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3143 errors. How do we get the rest?
31448 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3145 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3146 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3147 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31487 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02003149 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003150
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003151Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003152- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3153 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031548 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3155 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3156 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3157 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3158 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3159 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031608 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3161 make Vim exit.
31627 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3163 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3164 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31658 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3166 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3167 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31686 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3169 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3170 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31718 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3172 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3173 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3174 names in one buffer???
3175 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3176 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3177 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
31787 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3179 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3180 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003181 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3182 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031837 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3184 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
31857 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031867 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3187 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3188 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3189 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
31907 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
31917 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
31927 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3193 to the match with the tag? Option?
31947 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
31957 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3196 (Sayre).
31977 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3198 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031997 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3200 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3201 match. Nvi can do it too.
32027 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3203 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3204 line 1\ line 2\\
3205 line 2\ line 3\\
3206 . line4/
32076 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3208 the way the shell is started?
32096 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3210 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3211
3212
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003213GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032149 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032158 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3216 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3217 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032188 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3219 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3220 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032219 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3222 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3223 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3224 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003225- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3226 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3227 blocked for now.
3228
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003229
3230Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003231- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3232 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032338 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3234 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3235 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032366 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3237 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032388 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3239 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3240 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032417 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3242 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3243 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032447 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3245 2004 May 9)
32468 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3247 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3248 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3249 MS-Windows 98?
3250 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3251 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3252 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3253 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032548 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3255 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3256 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3257 doesn't work properly.
32588 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3259 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3260 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32619 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3262 button doesn't give popup menu.
3263 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3264 selection.
3265 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3266 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3267 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32688 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3269 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3270 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3271 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
32728 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3273 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3274 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032757 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3276 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003277 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032787 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3279 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032806 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
32818 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3282 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3283 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
32848 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3285 know which keyboard is being used?
32867 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3287 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3288 area (Koloseike).
32898 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3290 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3291 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3292 the font name).
3293
3294
3295Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000032966 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3297 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3298 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3299 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3300 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033019 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3302 required and it's missing?
33038 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3304 wrong.
33059 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3306 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033079 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003308 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3309 flag.
33108 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3311 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3312 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33138 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33146 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3315 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3316 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3317 the tooltips work though...
33187 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3319 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33208 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3321 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3322 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3323
3324
3325Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033269 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3327 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033289 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3329 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3330 through files.
33317 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3332 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33334 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3334 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3335 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3336 problem during a refresh.
33375 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3338 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3339 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3340 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3341 colors as it should.
3342 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3343 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3344
3345
3346Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003347- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033487 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3349 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033508 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3351 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3352 (Phillipps)
3353
3354
3355GUI:
33569 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3357 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33589 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003359 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003360 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33619 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3362 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033638 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3364 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3365 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33668 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3367 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3368 of where it is processing the output.
3369 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
33708 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3371 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010033728 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033738 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3374 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3375 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020033768 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033778 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3378 browse().
33798 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3380 use that code? Or use console dialog.
33818 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3382 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033837 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3384 - regexp on/off
3385 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3386 when all buffers/directory is used:
3387 - filter for file name
3388 when directory is used:
3389 - subdirectory on/off
3390 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033918 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3392 to avoid problems.
33938 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3394 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3395 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
33968 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3397 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3398 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
33998 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3400 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034018 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34027 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3403 visible.
34047 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3405 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34067 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3407 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34088 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3409 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34108 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3411 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3412 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3413 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3414- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34154 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3416 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3417 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3418
3419
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003420Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034218 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3422 a good fallback, thus use:
3423 $HOME
3424 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3425 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3426 $USERPROFILE
3427 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3428 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3429 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3430 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034318 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3432 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34338 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3434 Should work like in the GUI version.
34358 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3436 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34378 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3438 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34398 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3440 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3441 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034428 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3443 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3444 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3445
3446
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003447Win32 console:
34489 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3449 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3450 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3451 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3452 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3453 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3454 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3455 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3456 and the file is not saved.
3457 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3458 long name.
34598 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3460 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34617 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3462 besides the console.
34638 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34649 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3465 <C-S-i>?
34669 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3467 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
34688 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3469 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003470
3471
3472Amiga:
34738 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3474 sequences.
34759 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3476 backslashes in result.
34778 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3478 all options, using white space separation.
3479
3480
3481Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003482- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034837 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3484 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3485 (Jack)
3486 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034878 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3488 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034898 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
34908 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
34919 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3492 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034939 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003494
3495
3496"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003497- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3498 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034999 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3500 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035019 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003502 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3503 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035048 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3505 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3506 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003507 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035087 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3509 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35108 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3511 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3512 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035137 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3514 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003515- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3516 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035178 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3518 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3519 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3520 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35217 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3522 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3523 invocations belong together.
35248 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3525 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35268 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3527 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3528 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003529 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035308 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3531 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3532 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035338 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3534 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035357 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3536 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3537 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3538 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035397 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3540 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3541 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35427 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3543 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3544 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35457 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3546 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035477 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3548 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035499 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3550 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3551 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3552 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3553 script can be called.
35548 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3555 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3556 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035578 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3558 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035598 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003560 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3561 configurable?
35628 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035638 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3564 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020035658 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3566 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035678 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3568 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035699 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3570 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3571 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035727 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035738 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3574 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3575 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000035768 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3577 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003578 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3579 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035808 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3581 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
35829 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3583 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3584 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003585 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035867 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3587 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035887 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3589 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3590 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3591 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035928 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003593 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3594 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3595 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3596 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003597 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3598 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003599 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003600 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003601 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3602 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3603 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3604 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3605 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036068 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3607 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36088 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3609 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36108 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3611 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3612 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36138 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3614 'linebreak'.
36158 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3616 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3617 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036189 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3619 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3620 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3621 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36229 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3623 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036249 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36259 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3626 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3627 cause another redraw, etc.
36288 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3629 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36308 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3631 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3632 ":w!!" for that.
3633 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3634 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003635 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036367 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3637 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3638 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3639 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3640 clipboard)
36417 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3642 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3643 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036446 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3645 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3646 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036478 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3648 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36498 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3650 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3651 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
36528 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3653 (e.g., ":w").
36548 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3655 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036568 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3657 script in do_cmdline().
36588 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3659 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3660 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3661 changes.
36628 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3663 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
36648 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3665 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036668 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3667 to skip catch_signals()?
36689 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3669 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3670 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3671 text?
36728 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3673 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
36748 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3675 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
36769 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3677 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3678 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3679 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3680 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
36817 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3682 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3683 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3684 in the list?
36858 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3686 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3687 instead of on button down.
36888 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036898 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3690 character is typed.
36918 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3692 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
36938 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3694 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
36958 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3696 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3697 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3698 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3699 cygwin bash.
37007 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3701 Remember flags for backreferences.
37027 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3703 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37047 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3705 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37068 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3707 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37087 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3709 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037107 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3711 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3712 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37137 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3714 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37158 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3716 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003717 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003718
3719
3720I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37219 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3722 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3723 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003724
3725
3726Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003727- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3728 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3729 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003730- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3731 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3732 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3733 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3734 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3735 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003736 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003737- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3738 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003739 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003740 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3741 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3742 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003743- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3744 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3745 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3746 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3747 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3748- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3749 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3750 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3751- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3752 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003753- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003754- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3755 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3756 character gets the highlighting.
3757- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3758 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3759- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3760 (Jennings)
3761- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003762- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003763- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003764 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003765- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3766 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3767 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3768- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3769 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3770 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3771 (Benzinger).
3772- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3773 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3774 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3775- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3776 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3777- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3778 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3779- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3780 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3781 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3782 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3783 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3784 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3785- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3786 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3787 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003788- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3789 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3790 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003791- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3792 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3793 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3794- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3795 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3796- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3797 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003798- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3799 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3800- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3801 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3802 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3803 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3804 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3805- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3806 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3807 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3808- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3809 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3810 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003811- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3812 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 +00003813- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3814 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3815 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3816 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3817 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3818- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3819 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3820
3821--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3822 *extensions-improvements*
3823
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003824Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3825- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3826 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3827 calling a function.
3828 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3829 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003830- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3831 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003832 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003833- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3834 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3835 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3836 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3837 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3838 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003839 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003840- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3841 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3842 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003843- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3844 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038458 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3846 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3847 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3848 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003849- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3850 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003851
3852
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003853Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038548 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3855 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038568 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3857 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000038588 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3859 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038608 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038619 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3862 - change to cursor position and curswant
3863 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3864 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003865 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038668 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3867 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3868 text.
38698 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
38707 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3871 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
38727 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3873 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003874 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003875- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3876
3877
3878Help:
3879- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3880 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3881- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3882 to the other matches.
3883- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003884- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3885 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003886 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003887 default contents.
3888- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3889 height for the help window (and other windows).
3890- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3891- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3892- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3893
3894
3895User Friendlier:
38968 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3897 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3898 Briscoe)
38998 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39008 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3901 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3902 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39038 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3904 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3905- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3906 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003907- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39089 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3909 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3910 item?).
3911 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039128 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039137 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3914 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3915 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039168 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3917 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3918 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3919 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003920
3921
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003922Tab pages:
39239 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039247 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3925 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039268 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039278 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039287 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039297 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003930 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039318 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3932 tab pages.
39337 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3934
3935
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003936Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003937- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003938 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003939- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3940 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3941 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3942- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3943 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003944- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3945 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3946 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003947- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3948 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3949 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003950- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003951 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3952 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000039538 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3954 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
39558 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3956 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
39578 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3958 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003959 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003960 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3961 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3962 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3963 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003964- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3965 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003966- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003967- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3968 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003969- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003970 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003971- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003972 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003973- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3974 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003975- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3976 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3977- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003978 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003979 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3980 in the affix file separately.
3981 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003982 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003983 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3984 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3985 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3986- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3987 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3988 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3989 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3990 Alternative:
3991 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3992 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3993 affix which is required.
3994- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003995 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003996- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3997 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3998 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003999- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4000 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004001- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4002 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4003- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040048 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4005 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4006 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4007 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004008- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4009 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4010 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4011 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040128 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4013 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040148 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40158 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4016 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040177 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40188 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4019 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4020 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4021 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004022
4023
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004024Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040259 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4026 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040278 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004028 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004029
4030Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004031 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4032 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040338 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4034 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040358 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4036 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040378 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4038 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4039 user aware of this?
40408 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4041 commands skip over a closed fold.
40428 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40438 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040447 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004045- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4046 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4047 missing line goes unnoticed.
4048 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004049- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4050 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4051 smoother?
4052- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4053 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004054- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4055 file can contain:
4056 args version.c main.c
4057 edit version.c
4058 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004059- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004060- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4061 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004062- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4063 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004064- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4065 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004066- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004067
4068Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004069- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4070 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4071 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4072 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040739 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4074 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4075 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4076 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020040779 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4078 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4079 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040808 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4081 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4082 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4083 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4084 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4085 item.
40868 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004087 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4088 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040898 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4090 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040918 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4092 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4093 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040947 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4095 so that the user can fix the problem.
40968 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4097 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040989 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020040998 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
41008 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041018 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041027 Searching and composing characters:
4103 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004104 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4105 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041068 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41078 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020041088 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004109 characters.
41108 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41118 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4112 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41137 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4114 'display' option to specify this.
41157 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4116 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4117- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4118 fontselector somehow.
4119- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4120 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4121- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4122 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4123- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4124 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4125 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4126 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4127 if a font exists?
4128- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004129 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004130- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4131 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004132- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004133 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4134 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004135 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004136- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4137 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004138 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004139- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004140 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4141 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4142 But it's very complicated...
4143
4144
4145Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041467 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004147- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4148- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4149 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004150- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4151 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004152- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4153- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4154 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004155- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4156 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004157- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4158 units as for the margins.
4159- Support right-to-left text?
41608 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4161 color.
4162
4163
4164Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041658 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4166 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
41678 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4168 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
41698 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4170 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000041717 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4172 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041738 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4174 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4175 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041767 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4177 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4178 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041798 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
41809 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4181 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041827 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4183 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000041847 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4185 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041868 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4187 change this for each release.
41888 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4189 pattern, but not in the body.
41908 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4191 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4192 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041938 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010041948 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004195 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4196 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041978 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4198 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
41998 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4200 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004201 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042028 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4203 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4204 used.
42058 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4206 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42078 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4208 re-insert the [] if possible.
42098 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4210 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042118 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4212 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4213 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4214 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4215 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042168 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4217 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42188 Support for deleting syntax items:
4219 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4220 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4221 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42228 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4223 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4224 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42257 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4226 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4227 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42287 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4229 detected.
42308 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004231 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042328 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4233 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042348 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42358 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42367 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4237 ":mkvimrc".
42388 Improve c.vim:
4239 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4240 "c_strict_ansi".
4241 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42428 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4243 current line while in Insert mode.
42448 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4245 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
42468 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4247 display position.
42488 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4249 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4250 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
42518 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4252 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4253 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000042547 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4255 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4256 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4257 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4258 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042597 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4260 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4261 E.g. for this html:
4262 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042637 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
42647 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4265 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042668 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
42678 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042687 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4269 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4270 completion?
42718 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4272 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
42737 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4274 select one of the sets.
42758 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4276 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4277 2, etc.
42788 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4279 highlighting (for "." command).
42808 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4281 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
42828 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
42837 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4284 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
42856 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4286 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4287- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4288 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4289- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004290- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4291 (for comment blocks).
4292- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4293 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4294 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4295 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4296 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4297 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4298 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4299 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4300 (Campbell)
4301 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4302 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43037 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4304 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43057 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4306 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4307 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43087 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4309 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4310 messages. And external commands?
43118 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4312 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43137 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4314 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4315
4316
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004317Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043188 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4319 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004320 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043217 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4322 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4323 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004324- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043258 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4326 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4327 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4328 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4329 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4330 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043317 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4332 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043338 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043348 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4335 can be the plugin name.
4336 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4337 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043387 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4339 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4340 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4341 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4342 autocommand.
4343 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4344 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4345 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4346 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043477 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4348 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043496 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4350 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043518 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004352 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4353 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004354 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4355 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4356 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004357 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4358 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4359 3 2002
4360 Only add this when also implemented for
4361 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4362 be used.
4363 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004364 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4365 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4366 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4367 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4368 File.Open..." argument.
4369 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4370 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4371 with properties instead.
4372 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4373 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4374 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004375 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004376 crypt() encrypt string
4377 decrypt() decrypt string
4378 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4379 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004380 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004381 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004382 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004383 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004384 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004385 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4386 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004387 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4388 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004389 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004390 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4391 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4392 to allow the library to execute a command or
4393 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043947 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4395 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
43968 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4397 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043988 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4399 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044008 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044016 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044028 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4403 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044048 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4405 option or environment variable.
44068 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044078 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004408 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044097 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4410 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044118 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4412 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44138 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44148 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4415 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4416 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4417 charwise({expr}).
44187 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4419 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4420 buffer for this?
4421 result = scratch(string, command)
4422 result = apply(string, command)
4423 result = execute(string, command)
4424 "command" would use <> notation.
4425 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44267 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427
4428
4429Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044306 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4431 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4432 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4433 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4434 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4435 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4436 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004437
4438
4439Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044407 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4441 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020044427 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4443 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4444 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4445 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044468 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4447 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4448 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4449 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004450 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044518 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
44529 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
44538 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
44547 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4455 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
44568 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4457 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4458 when starting up in a color terminal.
44598 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4460 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044618 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4462 function be improved?
44638 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4464 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4465 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4466 this be improved?
44678 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4468 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000044697 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4470 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044717 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4472 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
44737 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4474 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044757 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4476 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4477 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4478 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4479 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4480 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4481 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044828 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4483 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4484 using strcmp() too often?
44857 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4486 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4487 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4488 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4489 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4490 the two blocks to the memfile block.
44917 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4492 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4493 with an argument that can be messed with.
4494 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4495 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
44967 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4497- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
44988 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4499 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4500- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4501 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4502- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4503- Do profiling on:
4504 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004505 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4506 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4507 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4508 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4509 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4510 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004511 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045127 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4513 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4514 changed).
4515 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4516 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4517- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4518- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4519 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4520- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4521 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4522 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004523- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4524- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4525 cursor is right of the screen.
45268 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4527 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4528
4529
4530Code size:
45318 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4532- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4533 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45348 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45358 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4536 it.
45377 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4538 left out.
45398 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4540 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045418 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004542
4543
4544Messages:
45458 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4546 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
45478 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4548 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
45498 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4550 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004551- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4552 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4553- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
45549 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4555 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4556 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4557 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4558 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045598 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4560 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
45618 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4562 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4563 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4564 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4565 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4566 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004567- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004568 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045698 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4570 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4571 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4572 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4573 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4574 error messages, printing text, etc.
45758 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4576 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4577 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4578
4579
4580Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004581- screen_line():
4582 - insert/delete character stuff.
4583 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4584- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4585 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4586- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4587 waiting for a character.
45888 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4589 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4590 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004591
4592Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020045938 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045946 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4595- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4596 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4597 windows.
45987 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4599 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4600 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4601- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4602 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4603 (Goldfarb)
4604- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4605 bound windows.
4606- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4607 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004608- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004609- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4610 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4611 of lines but not with a single line).
4612
4613
4614Autoconf:
46158 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46168 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4617 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4618- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4619 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4620- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4621- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4622- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4623
4624
4625Perl interface:
46268 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046277 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
46287 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
46296 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4630
4631
4632Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046338 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4634 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046356 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4636 :libload internal-name libname
4637 :libunload internal-name
4638 :liblist
4639 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4640 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4641 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
46426 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4643
4644
4645Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000046469 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4647 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4648 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4649 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4650 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046518 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4652 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4653 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004654 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004655 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046567 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4657 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4658 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046598 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
46608 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4661 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046627 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4663 window for each tag.
46647 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
46657 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4666 bottom" search message.
46677 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4668 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4669 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004670- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4671- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004672- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4673 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4674 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046757 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4676 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4677 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4678 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
46797 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4680 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4681 :tagargs clear
4682 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4683 matching).
46847 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4685 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4686 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4687 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
46887 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4689 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
46907 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4691 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4692 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004693
4694
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004695Win32 GUI:
46968 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4697 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046987 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4699 (Mike McCollister)
47008 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4701 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4702 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4703 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4704 common part of the path.
47058 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47068 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4707 gettext and menus work.
47088 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4709 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004710 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004711 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47128 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4713 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47148 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4715 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47167 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4717 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47187 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47197 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47207 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4721 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4722 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4723 prompts.
47247 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4725 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4726 the file added into an already running Vim.
47277 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4728 functions to find the window title.
4729
4730
4731GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047327 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47338 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47346 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47358 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4736 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
47379 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
47387 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
47398 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4740 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
47418 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4742 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4743 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
47448 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4745 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
47468 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4747 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4748 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4749 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047507 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
47518 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4752 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047537 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4754 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4755 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047568 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
47578 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004758 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047598 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
47608 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
47618 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4762 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4763 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
47647 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4765 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4766 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
47677 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4768 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
47697 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4770 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4771 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4772 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047737 Should support multi-column menus.
4774- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4775 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4776- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
47778 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
47786 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4779 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
47807 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
47817 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4782 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4783 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
47847 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
47858 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4786 name can be chosen free.
47877 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4788 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
47896 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4790 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4791 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4792 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4793 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4794 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4795 things.
47967 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4797 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047987 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004799 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004800- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4801 where it was started from?
48027 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4803
4804
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004805Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048069 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4807 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004808- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048098 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4810 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4811 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4812 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48138 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4814 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048157 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4816 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4817 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4818 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048197 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048208 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4821 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048228 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4823 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4824 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048257 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4826 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4827 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048288 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4829 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4830 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048318 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4832 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048338 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048346 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4835 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048367 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048377 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004838 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4839 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4840 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048415 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4842 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4843 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
48447 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4845 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4846 file.
48478 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4848 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4849 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004850- Add events to autocommands:
4851 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004852 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004853 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4854 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004855 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004856 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004857 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4858 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4859 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4860 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004861 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004862 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4863 the char.
4864 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4865 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4866 file from CVS).
4867 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4868 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4869 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4870 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4871 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4872 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004873 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4874 changes.
4875 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4876 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004877- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004878 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004879 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004880 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4881 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4882 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4883 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4884 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4885
4886
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004887Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004888- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4889 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004890- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4891 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4892 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4893 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4894 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004895- Ideas from others:
4896 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4897 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4898 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4899 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4900 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4901 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4902 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4903 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4904 Uses Perl for C++.
4905 Uses ctags to find the info:
4906 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4907 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4908 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4909 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4910 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4911 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004912 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004913 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4914- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4915
4916
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004917Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004918- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4919 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4920- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4921 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4922- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4923- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4924 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4925 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4926- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4927 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4928 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4929- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4930 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4931 to force a string value.
4932- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4933 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4934 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004935- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049367 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4937 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049387 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4939 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4940 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049418 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4942 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49439 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4944 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4945 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049468 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4947 - ignore/match case
4948 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049498 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4950 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4951 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4952 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4953 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4954 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049558 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049567 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4957 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049588 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4959 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4960 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4961 Should work for C++ and Java.
4962 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
49637 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
49647 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4965 instead of words.
49668 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
49678 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4968 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
49698 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4970 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004971- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4972 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004973- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4974 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4975 wildcards in the file name)?
4976- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4977- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4978- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4979 be in another file).
4980- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4981- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4982- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4983 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4984- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4985- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4986- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004987- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4988
4989
4990Command line editing:
49917 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4992 line.
49938 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4994 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4995 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4996- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4997 lines wraps to start of line).
4998- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4999 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5000 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5001 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5002 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5003 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5004 cmdwin does now already.
5005 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5006 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5007 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5008 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5009 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5010 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5011 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5012 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5013 Problems:
5014 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5015 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5016 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5017 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5018 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5019 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5020 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5021 character in first column?
5022 - Implementation ideas:
5023 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5024 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5025 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5026 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5027 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5028 Mode.
5029
5030
5031Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01005032- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
5033 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
5034- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
5035 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050368 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50378 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5038 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50398 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5040 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050418 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5042 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050437 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5044 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005045- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5046- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5047 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050488 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5049 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50507 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5051 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5052- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5053 identifiers (Webb).
50548 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5055 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50567 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5057 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5058- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5059 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5060- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5061 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5062 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005063
5064
5065Command line history:
5066- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5067 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5068 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005069 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005070- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5071 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5072
5073
5074Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000050759 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5076 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5077 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050788 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5079 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5080 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5081 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5082 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050838 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5084 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5085 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050867 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5087 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005088- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050897 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5090 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5091- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5092 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5093 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5094 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5095 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5096 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5097- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5098 Normal mode.
5099- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5100 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5101 are used.
5102- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5103- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5104- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5105
5106
5107'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051089 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5109 char * veryLongName =
5110 "very long string"
5111 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051128 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051138 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5114 long_type foo =
5115 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051168 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5117 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005118 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051198 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5120 func(
5121 new String[] {
5122 "asdf",
5123 "asdf"
5124 }
5125 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051268 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5127 (Chow Loong Jin)
5128 namespace {
5129 int
5130 func(int arg) {
5131 }
5132 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051336 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5134 func( arg1
5135 , arg2
5136 , arg3
5137 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051387 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005139 func(
5140 int x) // indent like "(4"
5141 {
5142 if (a
5143 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051449 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5145 if (a)
5146 {
5147 if (b)
5148 {
5149 // {
5150 }
5151 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005152 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5153 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5154 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005155- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005156 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51577 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5158- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5159 line).
5160- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5161- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5162 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005163- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5164 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5165- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5166 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5167- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5168- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5169 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
51708 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5171 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5172 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5173- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5174- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5175 lines start with "\item".
5176- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5177 /* here is a comment that
5178 is just autoindented, and
5179 nothing else */
5180- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
51817 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5182 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5183 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005184 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005185
5186
5187Java:
51888 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5189 Odendahl?
51908 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5191 "[i" commands and friends.
5192- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5193 (Jason)
5194- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5195 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5196
5197
5198'comments':
51998 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5200 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5201 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5202 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005203 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5204 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052057 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5206 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52077 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52086 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5209 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5210 regexp is used.
52118 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5212 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5213
5214
5215Virtual edit:
52168 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052177 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5218
5219
5220Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052218 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052228 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052238 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005224 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020052258 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005226 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005227 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5228 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020052298 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052308 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5231 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052328 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5233 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5234 the end of the line or before a ".".
52357 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5236 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52377 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5238 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052396 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52405 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5241 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5242 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5243 cursor is on.
5244
5245
5246Select mode:
52478 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5248 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52497 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005250 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052517 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5252 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5253 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5254 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5255 normal_cmd().
5256 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5257 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5258
5259
5260Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020052618 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5262 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005263- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5264 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5265 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005266- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5267 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5268 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052698 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005270 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005271 where needed.
52727 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5273 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
52747 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5275 of each selected line.
52768 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
52778 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5278 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5279 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
52808 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5281 Ben Godfrey)
52827 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5283 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
52847 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5285 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052867 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005287 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005288 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
52898 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5290 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
52917 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5292 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5293 option!
52947 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5295 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5296 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5297 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5298 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5299 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5300 without changing the column.
53016 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053027 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5303 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053046 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5305 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53066 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053076 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005308 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005309 or other special character.
53106 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5311
5312
5313More advanced repeating commands:
5314- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005315- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005316- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005317 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5318 "y." will repeat last yank.
5319 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5320 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5321 and/or pick an older command.
5322- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5323
5324
5325Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053268 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5327 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5328 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53298 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53307 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5331 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053328 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5333 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53348 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053357 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053368 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5337 entering search strings.
53388 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5339 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5340 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053418 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5342 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010053437 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053447 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5345 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053466 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5347 abbreviations are to be used.
5348- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5349 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5350 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005351- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5352 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5353 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5354 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5355 Or implicit:
5356 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005357- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5358 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5359 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005360- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5361 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5362- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5363 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
53646 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5365 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5366 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5367 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005368- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5369 non-replace Insert mode?
5370- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005371- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5372- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5373 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5374- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005375 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005376- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5377 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5378- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5379- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5380 ":freekeys".
5381- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5382
5383
5384Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005385- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5386 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5387- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5388 folds when going to another line.
5389 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5390- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5391 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005392- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5393 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5394 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005395- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5396 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5397 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5398 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020053999 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5400 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005401
5402
5403Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054049 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054058 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005406 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005407 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005408 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005409 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054109 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5411 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054128 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5413 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054148 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5415 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5416 Perl does it this way:
5417 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5418 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5419 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5420 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054218 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5422 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5423 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054247 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5425 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054268 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5427 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054287 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005429 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5430 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5431 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054327 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005433 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054347 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5435 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054368 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5437 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54388 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5439 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054407 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005441 example.
54428 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5443 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5444- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5445 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5446 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5447 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054488 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5449 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5450 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54517 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5452 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054537 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5454 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054558 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5456 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054578 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5458 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054598 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5460 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5461 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5462 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005463- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5464 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005465- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5466 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5467- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5468 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5469 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5470 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054718 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5472 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005473- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5474 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054758 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5476 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5477 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005478- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5479 i ignore case
5480 I use case
5481 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5482 v use Vi regexp syntax
5483 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5484 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5485 Perl uses these too:
5486 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5487 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5488 o compile only once (Perl only)
5489 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5490 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5491 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5492 following command.
5493 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5494- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5495 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5496 for search string)?
54977 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5498 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5499- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5500 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5501- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5502 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5503- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5504- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005505 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005506 a for the next file in the argument list
5507 f for file in the buffer list
5508 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005509 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5510 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005511 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5512 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5513- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055147 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005515 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055167 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5517 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5518 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5519 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55206 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5521 effects.
55227 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5523 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5524 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055257 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005526 Also ":dselect".
5527
5528
5529Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055309 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5531 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5532 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055339 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5534 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055358 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5536 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055378 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5538 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5539 timestamp?
5540 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5541 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005542- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5543 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005544- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5545 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5546 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55478 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5548 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5549 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5550 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55518 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5552 only remember the lines that really changed.
55537 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5554 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5555 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5556 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005557- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5558 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5559- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5560 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5561- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5562 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5563 [-99].
5564- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5565- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005566- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5567 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5568
5569
5570Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055717 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5572 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5573 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5574 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020055758 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005576 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
55778 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5578 inode too.
55797 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005580 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5581 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055827 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5583 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5584- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5585 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5586- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5587 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
55887 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5589 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
55907 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5591 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
55928 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055937 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5594 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055958 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5596 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5597 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005598
5599
5600Swap (.swp) files:
56018 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5602 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5603 there are short file name problems.
56048 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5605 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56068 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56078 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005608 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005609 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5610 file the same as the actual file?
5611 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056127 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5613 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56147 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005615 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005616 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5617 enough room.
56187 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5619 or /var/preserve.
5620- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5621 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5622- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005623 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005624- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5625 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5626 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5627 cached list of which line is where.
5628
5629
5630Viminfo:
56317 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5632 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5633 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056348 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5635 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5636 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056378 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5638 name. (Schild)
56398 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56408 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056418 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056428 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5643 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5644 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5645 this?
56467 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56477 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5648 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56496 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5650 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5651 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5652- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5653 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5654
5655
5656Modelines:
56578 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5658 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5659 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005660- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5661 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5662 'shiftwidth'.
5663- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5664 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005665- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5666 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5667 modeline setting.
5668- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5669 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5670- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5671 .cpp files.
5672- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5673 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005674- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005675 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5676
5677
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005678Sessions:
56798 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5680 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56817 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5682 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056838 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5684 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056858 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5686 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5687 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056887 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5689 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056907 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005691
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005692
5693Options:
56947 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5695 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056968 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5697 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5698 also be supported.
56998 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5700 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5701 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57027 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005703
5704
5705External commands:
57068 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5707 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57084 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5709 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5710 -f).
57114 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57124 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5713 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57144 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5715
5716
5717Multiple Windows:
57187 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57198 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5720 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57217 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5722 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5723 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057247 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5725 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057267 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5727 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057286 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5729 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005730 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005731 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57327 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5733 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5734 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5735 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5736- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5737 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5738 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5739 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5740
5741
5742Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057438 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057448 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5745 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057468 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 +000057478 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5748 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57498 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5750 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5751 the mark was set.
57527 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5753 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5754 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5755 ":browse marks"?
57566 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057577 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5758 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57597 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5760 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57617 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5762 command).
57637 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5764 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5765 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5766 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57675 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5768 mappings.
57696 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5770 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5771 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5772
5773
5774Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057757 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005776 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005777- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5778 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057798 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057807 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5781 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5782
5783
5784Writing files:
5785- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5786 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5787 shortname conversion.
57888 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57898 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5790 file.
57918 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5792 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5793 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057946 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5795 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
57966 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5797 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
57986 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5799 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058008 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005801 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58027 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5803 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010058047 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005805 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5806 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5807 waiting for a character to be typed).
58088 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5809 line of the window, like "[time]".
5810 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5811 Automatic and/or with a command.
5812
5813
5814Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058158 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5816 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058178 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005818 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5819- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5820- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58218 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5822 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005823- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005824 :s///N substitutes N times.
5825- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5826 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5827 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58287 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5829 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5830 last line column 5.
58315 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5832 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5833 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5834 (Stanislav Sitar)
5835
5836
5837Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058388 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58397 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58408 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5841 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5842 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005843- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5844- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5845 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5846- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5847- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5848
5849
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005850Argument list:
58516 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5852 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5853 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58546 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5855
5856
5857Registers:
58588 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058598 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5860 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5861 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005862- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5863 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5864- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5865 leader when line wraps?
5866- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5867 line in the range.
5868- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5869 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58708 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5871 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005872
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005873
5874Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058758 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058768 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058777 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58787 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5879
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005880Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000058817 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5882 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5883 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5884 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5885 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5886 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5887 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005888 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000058897 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5890 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000058917 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5892 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058938 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5894 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058957 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5896 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5897 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005898- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005899 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059007 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5901 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59028 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059037 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5904 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59058 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5906 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059076 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059088 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5909 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5910 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5911 in this Vim.
59128 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005913 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059148 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5915 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5916 have it apply to the following command.
59178 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5918 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5919 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5920 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059217 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5922 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059237 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5924 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5925 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5926 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059276 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59288 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59299 Support ACLs on more systems.
59307 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5931 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059327 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5933 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5934 (truncated to fit in the space).
59357 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59368 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59378 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5938 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059397 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005940 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59417 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5942 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059437 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059447 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59457 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059468 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59478 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5948 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5949 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5950 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59518 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059528 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059538 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5954 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5955 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5956 does something like this. (Shah)
59577 Use growarray for replace stack.
59587 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5959 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59603 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059617 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5962 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059637 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5964 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005965- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5966- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5967- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5968- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59697 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5970 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5971- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5972 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005973- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005974- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5975 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5976- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5977 call "play newbeep.au").
5978- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5979 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5980 (Bhatt).
5981- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5982 blockwise registers).
5983- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5984 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5985- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5986 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5987 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5988 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005989- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059907 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5991 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5992- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5993 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5994 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5995 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5996 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059978 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5998 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059998 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6000 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6001 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6002 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6003 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6004- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02006005- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060067 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6007 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6008- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6009 not in column 1.
60106 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6011 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60127 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6013- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006014- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006015 :redir #> bufname
6016 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006017- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6018 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006019- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6020 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6021 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60226 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6023 console? (Klaus Hast)
6024- Add :delcr command:
6025 *:delcr*
6026 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6027 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6028 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6029 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6030 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006031 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006032- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6033- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6034 characters from 'isprint'.
6035- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6036- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6037 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6038- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6039 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6040 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6041- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6042- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6043 Nvi).
6044- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6045 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60467 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6047- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6048 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60496 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6050- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6051 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6052 macro).
6053- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006054- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6055 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6056- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60578 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006058- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6059- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6060- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6061 if it is not the first or last window.
6062- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6063 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60647 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6065 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6066 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6067- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6068- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006069 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006070 many percent down the windows).
6071- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6072 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6073 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006074 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006075- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6076 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6077- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6078 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6079- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6080- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6081- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6082 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060838 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6084 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6085 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6086 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6087 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006088- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6089 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6090- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006091 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6092- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006093 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6094 (Webb).
6095- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006096 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6098 hex codes like 0xff).
6099- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6100 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6101 the last TYPED command.
6102- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6103- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6104- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6105 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006106- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061078 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6108 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6109 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006110- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006111 trailing '.'.
6112- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6113 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6114 find_file_in_path().
6115- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6116 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6117- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6118- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6119 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6120- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006121 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006122- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6123 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6124 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006125- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6126- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6127- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6128 to the minimal size.
6129- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6130- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6131- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6132- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6133- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006134- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6135 entered)?
6136- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6137 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006138- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006139- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6140- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6141- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6142- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6143- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6144 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006145- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061468 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6147 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6148 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6149 or in octal.
61507 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6151 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006152- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006153 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6154- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6155- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6156 insert line command).
6157- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6158- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6159- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6160- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6161- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6162 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006163- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006164 yet.
6165- Implement 'redraw' option.
6166- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6167 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061687 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6169 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006170 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6171 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061728 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6173 do it.
6174- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6175- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6176 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6177- Add text justification option.
6178- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6179- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6180 off".
6181- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6182- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6183- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006184 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006185- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006186- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006187- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6188 commands.
6189- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6190- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6191- :table command (Webb)
6192- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006193- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6194- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6195- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6196- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6197- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6198 (Demirel).
6199- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6200- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6201 for use in macro's and the like.
6202- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006203 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006204- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006205 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006206- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006207 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006208 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6209- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6210 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006211- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006212 mkopttab to make option table?
6213- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6214 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6215- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6216 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006217- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006218 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6219- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6220 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006221- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062228 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6223 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6224 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6225 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6226 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062278 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6228 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6229 (Netherton)
62306 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6231 space after "(", for example.
62325 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6233 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6234 (Servatius Brandt)
6235
6236
6237From Elvis:
6238- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6239- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006240- Search patterns:
6241 \@ match word under cursor.
6242 but do:
6243 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6244 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62458 ":window" command:
6246 :win + next window (up)
6247 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6248 :win - previous window (down)
6249 :win -- idem, wrapping
6250 :win nr to window number "nr"
6251 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62527 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6253 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6254
6255
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006256From xvi:
6257- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6258- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6259
6260
6261From vile:
6262- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6263- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6264 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6265
6266
6267Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006268- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6269 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006270 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006271 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6272 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006273- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6274 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6275- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6276 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6277 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6278 current layout mirrored.
6279- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6280- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6281 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6282- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6283- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6284 font in each top-level window.
6285- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6286- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6287- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6288- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6289 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006290- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6291 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6292- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6293 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
62944 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6295 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6296 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6297 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006298 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006299 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6300 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6301- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6302 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6303 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6304
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006305vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006306vim: set fo+=n :