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Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2015 Dec 05
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
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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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 Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +020038- The regexp engines are not reentrant, causing havoc when interrupted by a
39 remote expression or something else. Move global variables onto the stack
40 or into an allocated struct.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010041- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
42 matches everywhere.
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010043- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
44 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +010045- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020046- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
47 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010048- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010049- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
50 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010051- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010052 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +010053- Difference in NFA and old engine. (Brett Stahlman, 2014 Nov 5)
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010054- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020055- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
56- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
57 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020058- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010059- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
60 2015 Feb 7)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020061- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
62 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
63 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaar979243b2015-06-26 19:35:49 +020064 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
65 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010066- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
67- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010068- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010069- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
70 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
71 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
72 col and vcol when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +010073- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
74 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +020075- The pattern "\1" with the old engine gives E65, with the new engine it
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +010076 matches the empty string. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Oct 2, Nov 24)
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78English spell file has an encoding error in the affix file.
79Perhaps use the files from here:
80https://github.com/marcoagpinto/aoo-mozilla-en-dict
81
82Patch to enable clipboard with MSYS2. (Ken Takata, 2015 Nov 26)
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020083
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020084Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020085More info Jul 24. Not clear why.
86
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020087Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
88work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020089
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010090Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
91
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +010092Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
93It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
94Add configure check?
95Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
96Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
97Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
98
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +010099test107 fails when run in the GUI on Linux.
100
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100101Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
102(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
103
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100104Patch to fix test_listchars for MingW. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Nov 29)
105
106Patch to not set the python home if $PYTHONHOME is set. (Kazuki Sakamoto,
1072015 Nov 24)
108
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100109Patch to use local value of 'errorformat' in :cexpr. (Christian Brabandt,
1102015 Oct 16) Only do this for :lexpr ?
111
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100112":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
113directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
114
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100115Patch to make fnamemodify() work better with Cygwin. (Wily Wampa, 2015 Nov 28,
116issue 505)
117
118Patch to fix mc_FullName() on root directory. (Milly, 2015 Nov 24, Issue 501)
119
120Patch to make matchparen restore curswant properly. (Christian Brabandt, 2015
121Nov 26)
122
123Test 17 does not clean up the directory it creates. (Michael Soyka, 2015 Nov
12428)
125
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100126English spell checking has an error. Updating doesn't work.
127(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Oct 15)
128Hint for new URL: Christian Brabandt, 2015 Oct 15.
129But that file looks old.
130
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200131Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
132changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
133and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
134Perhaps we can use ":silent window"?
135
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200136Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
137
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200138Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
139
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200140Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
141(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200142
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100143Patch for tee on Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Nov 30)
144Update Dec 1.
145
146Patch to use 256 color setup for all terminals that have 256 colors or more.
147#504. (rdebath, 2015 Dec 1)
148
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100149Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, can we get them from
150github? This URL works:
151 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
152>
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200153Can src/GvimExt/Make_cyg.mak be removed?
154Same for src/xxd/Make_cyg.mak
155
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100156Patch to replace deprecated gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline(). (Kazunobu Kuriyama,
1572015 Nov 30, PR #507)
158
159Updated Fortran files. (Ajit Thakkar, 2015 Nov 30, second one)
160
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200161Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200162
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100163Patch to add wordcount(). (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Nov 27)
164
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100165Plugin to use Vim in MANPAGER. Konfekt, PR #491
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100166
167Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
168
169Patch to recognize string slice for variable followed by colon.
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100170(Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100171
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200172Patch to add debug backtrace. (Alberto Fanjul, 2015 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100173Update Dec 2.
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100174
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100175MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
176wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
177
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100178Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
179specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
180
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100181Patch to fix "." after CTRL-A in Visual block mode. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 Oct
18224)
183
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200184Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200185inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200186
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100187Patch to add window and tab arguments to getcwd(). (Thinca, 2015 Nov 15)
188
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100189Patch to build with Python using MSYS2. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Nov 26)
190Updated Nov 29.
191
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100192To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
193library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
194
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100195When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
196is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
197
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +0200198Test 44 fails when [[=A=]] is changed to [[=À=]]. Caused by getcmdline() not
199handling the 0x80 as a second byte correctly? (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jun 10)
200
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100201Weird encryption problems on Windows. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Feb 13)
202Goes away when disabling the swap file. (might1, Feb 16)
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200203
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200204MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
205(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
206
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100207Patch to add ":syn iskeyword". (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Nov 10)
208
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100209Patch to use PLATFORM to determine target architecture. (Taro Muraoka, 2015
210Nov 29)
211
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200212If libiconv.dll is not found search for libiconv2.dll. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto,
2132015 Oct 7)
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200214
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200215The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
21624): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100217
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200218":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
219effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
220
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200221":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
2229)
223
224The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
225wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
226
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200227Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200228Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200229
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100230Crash in :cnext on MS-Windows. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Oct 27)
231
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100232Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
23326, update 2013 Dec 14, another 2014 Nov 22)
234
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200235Patch for problem with restoring screen on Windows. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2015
236Sep 10)
237
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200238Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200239Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8.
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200240
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200241Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
242(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100243
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200244Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectating that it ends in a
245slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
246inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
247
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100248Patch to load TCL dynamically. (Ken Takata, 2015 Nov 11)
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100249
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200250ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
2512014 Sep 11)
252
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200253Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
254(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
255
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100256Patch to support Python 'None' value in pyeval(). (Damien, 2015 Nov 21)
257Need a Vim equivalent of None and a way to test for it.
258
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200259When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
260'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
261
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200262Patch to apply 'fileformats' when starting Vim. (Mike Williams, 2015 Jul 22)
263
264Patch for matchit plugin related to multibyte chars. (Ken Takata, 2015 Jul 22)
265
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200266Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200267(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200268Is this the right solution?
269
270Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
271Work in progress.
272
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200273Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
274Is this right?
275
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200276Patch to have CTRL-A and CTRL-X update the '[ and '] marks.
277(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2015 Aug 23)
278
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200279Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
280(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
281Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
282
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200283Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
284Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100285
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200286Patch to fix that wide characters do not work properly after exiting.
287(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 May 24) Better patch to come.
288
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100289Patch to add wordcount(). Same info as g CTRL-G. (Christian Brabandt, 2015
290Nov 17)
291
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200292Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
293Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
294
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200295Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
296
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100297Cannot execute the shell when it's in a directory with a space.
298Issue #459.
299
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100300When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
301filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
302initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
303
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100304Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
305
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200306Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
307OK to not block marks?
308
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100309Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
310
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100311Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
312(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100313Now on Git: https://gist.github.com/nocd5/165286495c782b815b94
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100314
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100315Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
316
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100317When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline.
318Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17)
319
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200320When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
321(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
322
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200323Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200324
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200325Patch to improve behavior of dead keys on MS-Windows. (John Wellesz, 2015 Aug
32625) https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/399.diff
327
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100328Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
329(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
330
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200331When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
332any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
333
334Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +0200335
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100336Patch to add the EndOfBuffer highlight group, used instead of NonText for "~"
337lines. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Nov 2)
338
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100339Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100340
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100341Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
3422015 Feb 6.
343
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100344Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what happened
345before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about keeping the
346last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
347
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100348":q!" should reset modified flag for current buffer, if another buffer is
349modified no need to abandon it again.
350Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 21.
351Update from Hirohito Higashi, 2014 Nov 21.
352With test, Nov 23.
353
354Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
355Is this a good solution?
356
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200357Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
358functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
359Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
360Second one. Update May 22.
361Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14, Oct 14, Oct 15.
362
363Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
364(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
365
366Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
367
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100368Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
369Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
370was already defined.
371(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
372
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200373Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
374
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200375Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100376Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100377Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
378Updated patch from Charles, Dec 29.
379
380Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200381
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200382Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
383(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
384
385Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
386
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100387Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
388(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
389
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200390Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
391Update 2015 Jul 25 (email).
392
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100393Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
394change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
395them: ":repeats".
396
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100397Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
398
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100399When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
400these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
401window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
402
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100403Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
404should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
405history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
406Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
407
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200408"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
409Jun 8)
410
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100411Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
412insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
413
414Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100415Update Dec 6.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200416
417Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
418
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100419No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
420
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200421Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
422(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
423Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
424arguments.
425
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100426Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
427
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200428Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100429
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200430Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
4310x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
432New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
433compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
434
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100435Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100436Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Has a problem (email 2015 Jan 7).
437Update 2015 Jan 10.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100438
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200439Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
440More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10.
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200441
442Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
443right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200444its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200445
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100446Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
447What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
448
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100449Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
450
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100451Patch to add TabNew, TabNewEntered and TabClosed autocommand events.
452(Felipe Morales, 2015 Feb 1)
453
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100454This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
455 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
456This neither: (ZyX)
457 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
458
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200459'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
460Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
461from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100462
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200463Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
4642014 Jun 8)
465
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100466Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
467Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
468Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
469User view:
470- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
471 the files before deciding to install.
472- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
473- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
474 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
475 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
476 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
477 on vim.org.
478- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
479 there. Can manually update when really needed.
480- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
481- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
482- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
483- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
484Implementation:
485- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
486 plugin separate.
487- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
488 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
489 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
490- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
491 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
492- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
493 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
494 installing.
495Out of scope:
496- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
497- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
498 useful).
499
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200500Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
501normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100502
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200503CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
504when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
505
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200506When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
507menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
508
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200509Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
510(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
511
512":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
513various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100514
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +0200515Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200516(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
517
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200518Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
519Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
520
521Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
52230)
523
524Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
525Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200526Or should we add a more general mechanism, like a lambda() function?
527Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Sep 16.
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200528
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100529Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
530Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
531https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
532
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200533VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
534instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
535
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100536Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200537Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100538
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200539Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200540command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100541
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100542Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
543
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100544Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
545highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100546
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200547The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
548For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
549
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100550Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200551possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100552
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100553Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
554
555Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200556
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200557Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
558
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100559Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
560
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200561With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
5622013 Sep 5)
563
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100564Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100565Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100566
567Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
5683. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
569
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200570/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
571
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01005727 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
573 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
574 "lucida_console:h8").
575Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
576
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200577:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
578
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200579Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100580names.
581(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100582Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200583
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200584Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200585With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200586
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100587Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
588(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
589
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200590Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
591
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200592Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
593
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100594When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
595(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
596
597Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
598Dec 13.
599
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100600Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
601buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
602
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200603GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
604(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
605
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100606Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
607registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
608
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200609Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
610
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200611The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
612(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
613Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
614
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200615The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
616- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
617- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
618
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100619Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
620Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
621reliably?
622
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200623Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
624That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
625Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
62617)
627Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200628Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200629
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100630Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
631(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
632
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100633Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
634(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
635
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02006368 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
637 defined.
638Issue 28.
639
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200640Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
6412013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100642
643Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
644
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200645Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
6465)
647
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200648Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
649carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
650
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200651Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
652highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
653
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100654Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200655
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200656Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200657May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
658May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200659May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200660
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200661Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020066228) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200663
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200664Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
665optional. (2013 Jul 12)
666
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200667Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
668
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100669Patch to check whether a buffer is quickfix or a location list.
670(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 9)
671
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100672Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
673
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100674Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100675
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200676- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
677 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
678Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200679
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200680Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200681
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200682Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
683Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
684
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200685In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
686process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
687a reboot.
688
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100689Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100690Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
691Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100692Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100693
694Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
695cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
696
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100697patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
698
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100699Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
700I can't reproduce it.
701
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100702Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
703not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100704
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200705Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
706Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
707
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200708Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
709Or use expand('<sid>')?
710
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100711Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
712
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100713Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100714
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200715Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
716signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
717
718Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
719
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100720Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
721
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100722b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
7237)
724
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200725Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
726compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
727
728Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
729Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
730vim.bindeval().
731
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200732Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
7332012 Aug 4)
734
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100735Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
736(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
737
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100738Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
739But use Gnome instead of GTK?
740
741Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
742Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
743Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200744
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200745Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
746loading all files.
747
748Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
749line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
750after starting up?
751
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02007528 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
753 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
754
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200755MS-Windows resizing problems:
756- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
757 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
758- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
759 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
760 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100761
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100762Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
763Latest version: 2011 May 18
7648 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
765 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
766 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
767Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
768Or the one on Issue 279
769
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200770'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200771
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200772Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200773of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
774
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200775Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
776
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100777Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200778Also question if examples are correct.
779
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200780The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
781Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
782But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200783
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200784Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
785Aug 16)
786
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100787When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
788is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
789
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200790xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
791enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
792
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100793URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100794- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100795- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
796 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
797
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200798Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
799(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
800Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
801
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200802Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200803New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200804
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100805When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
806for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
807Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100808
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200809Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
810
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200811Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
81224)
813
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200814Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
815
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100816Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
817
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200818Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
819Apr 18)
820
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200821Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
822And one for gui_x11.txt.
823
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100824":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
825finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
826Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
827
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200828Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
829
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100830Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
831
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200832Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
833they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
834
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100835Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
836
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100837Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
838Nov 20)
839
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200840Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200841Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200842
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100843`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100844(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
845
846Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
847
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100848BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
849Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
850
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100851Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
852Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
853
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100854Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
855
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200856Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
857
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200858On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
8592012 Jun 19)
860
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200861'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
862'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
863Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200864Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200865
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200866With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
867(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
868need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
869
870Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
871only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
87221, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
873
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100874The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
875support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
876
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200877'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
878highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
879
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100880Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
881New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
882
883Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
884Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
885
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100886Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
887Jan 19)
888
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200889Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
890Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
891Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200892
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200893"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100894Oct 26)
895
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200896Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
897
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200898With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
899register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200900
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200901Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
902
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200903When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
904(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
905
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100906Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
907Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
908
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200909Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
910doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
911Jun 17)
912
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100913When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
914then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
915from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
916
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200917Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
918":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
91915)
920
921Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
922
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200923BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
924cleared. See test64.
925
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200926Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
927
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200928Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200929effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200930Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
931
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200932On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
93364 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
934right type.
935
936string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
937(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
938
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200939Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
940
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200941When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
942(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200943When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
944following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
945(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200946
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200947When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
948doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
949
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100950Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
951
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02009527 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
953Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
954
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200955maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
956mapping, how to restore the script ID?
957
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200958Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
959(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
960
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200961When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
962indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
963the help file.
964
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200965After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
966Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
967
968Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
969
970"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
971
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200972Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
973May 24) Update May 26.
974
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100975Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
976
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200977Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200978
979Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
9802010 Dec 18)
981
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200982With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
983number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
984Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
985
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200986Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
987Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
988
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02009898 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
990Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
991
9928 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
993 after typing something.
994Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
995function that resets did_cursorhold.
996Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
997
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100998Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
999one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1000the match scrolls into view.
1001
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020010027 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1003Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1004Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1005
10069 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1007 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1008Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1009
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001010Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1011Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1012
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001013In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1014or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1015sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1016
1017GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1018doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1019
1020GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1021
1022Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1023Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1024
1025Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1026
10277.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1028there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1029do?
1030
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001031Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
103222)
1033
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001034New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1035- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001036- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001037 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1038
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001039"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
10402011 Feb 27)
1041
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001042Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1043^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1044
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001045'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
1046way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
1047
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001048When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1049exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
10509) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1051
1052g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1053the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1054
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001055Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1056crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1057
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001058Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1059number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1060
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001061Regexp engine performance:
1062- Profiling:
1063 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1064 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1065 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1066 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1067 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1068 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1069- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1070- Performance tests:
1071 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1072 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1073 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1074 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1075 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1076 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1077 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1078 'hlsearch'.
1079 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1080 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1081 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1082 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1083
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001084Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1085names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1086Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1087the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1088
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001089Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1090Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1091
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001092'beval' option should be global-local.
1093
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001094Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001095
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001096setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001097
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020010987 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1099 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1100 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
1101
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001102With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
11032010 Oct 24)
1104
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001105Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1106Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
1107
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001108Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1109
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001110When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1111Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1112
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001113":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1114
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001115'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1116
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001117C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1118checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1119Issue 46.
1120
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001121Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1122
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001123Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1124gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1125
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001126":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1127accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1128
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001129Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1130setwinvar().
1131
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001132Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1133
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001134When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
1135(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
1136
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001137When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1138instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1139
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001140Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1141Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1142Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001143
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001144Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1145back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1146
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001147Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001148Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1149
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001150CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1151the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1152FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1153
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001154Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1155Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1156
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001157Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1158Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1159
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001160I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1161Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1162an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001163
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001164Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1165
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001166Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1167non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001168
1169iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1170Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1171or replace with a character and continue?
1172
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001173Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1174Requires configure check for localtime().
1175Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1176
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001177Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1178Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1179
1180Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1181
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001182Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1183Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1184path.
1185
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001186Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001187Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001188
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001189'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1190
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001191":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1192like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1193
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001194Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1195https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001196
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001197Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
11982010 Nov 5)
1199
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001200Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
1201Jan 7)
1202
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001203Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1204Only with "vim -u NONE".
1205
1206Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1207
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001208With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1209entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1210Feb 12)
1211
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001212Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1213characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1214
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001215Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1216
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001217Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1218 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1219
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001220Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1221
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001222When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1223Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1224
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001225When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1226not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1227string value.
1228
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001229Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
1230
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001231For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001232line argument -noregister.
1233
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001234When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1235missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1236
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001237When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1238doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001239
1240Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1241(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1242Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1243There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1244Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1245
1246":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1247highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1248to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1249
1250Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1251Probably needs a bit of work.
1252
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001253Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1254Added test, updates, June 23.
1255Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1256With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1257Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1258
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001259List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001260Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1261
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001262Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1263
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001264Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1265
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001266Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1267Sep 1)
1268
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001269Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1270
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001271Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1272on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1273
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001274Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
12752009 Jul 18)
1276
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001277Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1278window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1279Needs more work.
1280
1281Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1282
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001283When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1284few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1285
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001286'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001287(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1288
1289Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1290J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1291
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001292When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1293for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1294
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001295Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1296
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001297Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1298
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001299When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1300
1301":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1302because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1303ex_docmd.c.
1304
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001305Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001306Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1307
1308string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1309for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1310
1311Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1312
1313'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
131420)
1315
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001316Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
13172009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1318
1319Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1320
1321Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1322SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1323
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001324When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1325indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1326(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1327
1328Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1329are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1330Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1331Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1332that doesn't have a window.
1333
1334When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1335doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1336
1337getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1338displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1339
1340":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1341
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001342There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1343was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1344perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1345
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001346Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1347
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001348Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1349file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1350system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1351
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001352Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1353command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001355Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1356does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1357
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001358opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1359height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001360very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001362Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1363(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1364
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001365Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001366(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001368Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1369char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1370
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001371Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1372Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1373
1374This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1375
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001376A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001377
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001378Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1379messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1380es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
13812009 Jan 26)
1382
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001383When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001384in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1385Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1386
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001387Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1388a modeline.
1389
1390Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1391Sergey Khorev)
1392
1393Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1394part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001395
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001396netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1397number to be below last visible line.
1398
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001399After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1400correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1401
1402Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1403(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1404
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001405shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001406'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1407Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1408unix-like shell?
1409
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001410Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1411register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1412(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1413
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001414Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1415Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1416
1417Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1418make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1419
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001420When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1421still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1422
1423"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1424(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1425
1426Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1427
1428"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1429
1430Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1431that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1432ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1433Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1434
1435Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001436Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001437
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001438MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1439doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1440probably causes this.
1441
1442'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020014432009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001444
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001445Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010014462013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001447
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001448Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1449 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1450 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1451(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1452
1453Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1454":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1455option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1456is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001457
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001458":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1459first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001460Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001461
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001462Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1463laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1464Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001465
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001466Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1467anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1468
1469On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1470doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1471Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1472Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1473
1474":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1475
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001476When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1477'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1478fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1479the buffer to be unmodified.
1480Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1481another look at it.
1482
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001483c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1484(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001486You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1487error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1488Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1489at the other match for 0xBF.
1490
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001491When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1492argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1493
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001494Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1495backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1496
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001497When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1498line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1499
1500Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1501position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1502
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001503After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1504(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001505command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001506
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001507":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1508Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1509
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001510Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1511Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1512
1513When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1514either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1515put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1516
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001517Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1518Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1519Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1520Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1521(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1522
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001523Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1524
1525ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001526
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001527Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1528(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1529escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1530an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001531This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1532July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001533Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1534work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1535
1536When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
153731)
1538
1539Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1540work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1541Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001542
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001543Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
15442008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001545Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001546
1547Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1548Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1549'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1550
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001551Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1552Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1553
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001554Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1555Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1556
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020015578 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1558 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1559 several).
1560 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1561 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1562 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1563Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1564
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001565Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1566
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001567The utf class table is missing some entries:
1568 0x2212, minus sign
1569 0x2217, star
1570 0x2500, bar
1571 0x26ab, circle
1572
1573Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1574line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1575
1576GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1577Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1578
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001579Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1580try the Cocoa version.
1581
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001582Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1583changed or the window is resized.
1584
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001585GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1586the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1587
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001588Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1589Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001590
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001591Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
15921) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1593
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001594C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1595with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1596Try to reproduce at work.
1597
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001598Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1599Is there a way to list all the files first?
1600
1601When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1602result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
160316)
1604
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001605Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1606(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1607
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001608Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1609Await response to question to make the register writable.
1610
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001611src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1612remark why.
1613
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001614Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
16151)
1616
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001617In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1618each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1619
1620try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1621
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001622try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1623
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001624":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1625Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1626
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001627Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1628
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001629Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1630Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1631
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001632Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1633Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1634Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001635
1636C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1637(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1638
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001639When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1640and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1641
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001642Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1643 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1644
1645New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1646
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001647":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1648a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1649
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001650'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1651Likonen, March 19)
1652
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001653Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1654other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1655
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001656The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1657appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1658matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1659
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001660When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1661character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1662'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1663(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1664
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001665Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1666Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001667
1668More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1669
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001670Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1671http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1672
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001673Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1674back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1675Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001676
1677Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1678No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1679
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001680Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1681terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001682
1683Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1684
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001685Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1686but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1687that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001688
1689When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1690
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001691Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1692Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1693
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001694Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1695popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1696size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1697This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1698
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001699Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1700a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1701isn't right?
1702
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001703When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1704it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1705
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001706Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1707then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1708files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001709Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1710indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1711":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001712in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
1713quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001714Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001715
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001716When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1717parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1718neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1719particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1720Jun 3)
1721However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1722the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001723
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001724A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1725Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1726
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001727Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1728Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1729
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001730Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1731switch list is noticed:
1732 switch (i)
1733 {
1734 case 1:
1735 foobar:
1736 }
1737
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001738Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1739
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001740Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1741with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1742go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1743moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1744
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001745Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
174664-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1747
1748Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1749Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1750Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1751argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1752(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1753
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001754Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1755(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1756
1757Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1758makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1759.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1760 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1761
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001762Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
17632007 Feb 8)
1764
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001765Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1766set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001767
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001768Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1769
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001770Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1771Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1772New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1773patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1774
1775Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1776Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001778Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1779
1780Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
17812007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001782Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001783
1784Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001785label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1786
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001787Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1788with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1789Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001790
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001791Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1792pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001793Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001794
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001795Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1796
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001797Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1798Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1799only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1800
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001801Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1802Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001803Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001804properly?
1805
1806Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
18072007 Jun 21)
1808
1809When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1810Jun 18)
1811
1812If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001814Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1815windows. (Adam George)
1816
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001817F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1818modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1819K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001820
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001821UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1822to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1823
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001824In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1825the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1826
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001827C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1828
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001829":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1830
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001831When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001832error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001833
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001834Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1835use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1836
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001837Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1838if_ruby.c.
1839
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001840":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1841
1842The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1843it in keep_msg?
1844
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001845Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001846error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001847name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1848
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001849Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1850longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001851
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001852Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1853Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1854Also for ":w" without a file name.
1855The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001856
1857"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1858Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1859
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001860VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1861directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1862(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1863
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001864VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1865
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001866input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1867name?
1868
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001869Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1870
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001871When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1872(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1873Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1874will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1875
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001876gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1877This also fails with --remote.
1878
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001879When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
18802008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1881all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1882
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001883aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1884
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001885When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1886(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1887
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001888Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1889the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1890
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001891GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1892
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001893Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1894superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1895
1896Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1897character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1898
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001899Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1900Jun 5)
1901
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001902Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
19032008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1904Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1905
1906In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1907but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1908Jul 22)
1909
1910There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1911
1912Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1913":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1914somehow? Or use a new function.
1915
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001916Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1917
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001918Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1919moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1920that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1921
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001922The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1923
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001924When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001925cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1926the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1927
1928Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1929has been created.
1930
1931Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1932shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1933fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1934background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1935A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001936
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001937These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1938 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1939 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1940 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1941
1942Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1943partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1944
1945In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1946buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1947reload it then?
1948
1949New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1950previous version.
1951
1952For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1953
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001954Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1955only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1956
1957Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1958tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1959doesn't contain other directories.
1960
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001961Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1962Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1963
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001964Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1965 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1966 set background=dark
1967This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1968color is, not reset it.
1969
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001970Linux distributions:
1971- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1972 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1973 xfree-xterm".
1974- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1975
1976Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1977start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1978show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1979middle?
1980
1981When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001982(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001983connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1984dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1985
1986Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1987
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001988When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1989current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1990the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1991
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001992When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1993Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1994
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001995Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1996 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1997 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1998 - getting colors in xterm
1999 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2000
2001Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2002Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2003
2004Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2005
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002006A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2007Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2008
2009Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2010Dara, 2006 June 21)
2011
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002012Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2013number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2014
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002015After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2016the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2017
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002018Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002019
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002020Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
2021copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
2022error and stop using the connection to the server.
2023
2024Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2025Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2026
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002027Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010020282008 Sep 29)
2029
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002030In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2031check the result of has("patch13").
2032
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002033Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2034restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2035
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002036Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2037and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2038
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002039Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2040put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2041
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002042Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2043resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2044
2045In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2046can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2047
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002048GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2049maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2050doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002051Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2052visible.
2053
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002054When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2055differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002056
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002057The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2058be only one.
2059
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002060"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
2061script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
2062
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002063It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
2064the function name before resolving it to a number?
2065 let d = {}
2066 fun! d.foo()
2067 echo "here"
2068 endfun
2069 call d.foo(9)
2070
2071Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
2072only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002073Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
2074used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
2075
2076Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
2077output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
2078Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
2079
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002080Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002081"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2082name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2083Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002084
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002085printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
2086perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
2087
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002088Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2089(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2090
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002091Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2092as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2093
2094Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2095Jan 1)
2096
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002097Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
209823)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002099
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002100":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2101tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2102Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002103
2104xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
2105buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
2106Xterm 224 supports it!
2107
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002108When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2109text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2110latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2111
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002112Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
2113
2114Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2115no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2116
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002117In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2118VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
21192007 Oct 16)
2120
2121TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2122Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2123
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002124Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002125
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002126When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2127typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2128Sep 3, 11)
2129
2130When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2131respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2132the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2133what happens for the GUI.
2134
2135X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
2136pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
2137clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
2138Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
2139Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
2140clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
2141
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002142":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2143this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2144
2145When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2146Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2147restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2148
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002149Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
21502010 Jun 30)
2151
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002152Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2153'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2154(Kartik Agaram)
2155
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002156
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02002157At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002158- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002159- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
2160 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002161
2162
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002163More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002164- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2165 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002166- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
2167- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
2168 21)
2169- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2170 patch May 10)
2171- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2172 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2173- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2174 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2175- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2176- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2177- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2178 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2179 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002180- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002181- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2182 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2183- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2184 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2185- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2186 21)
2187- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2188 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2189- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2190 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002191- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2192 Sep 13)
2193- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002194 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24, 2014 Oct 10)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002195- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2196 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2197 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2198 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2199 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002200- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002201
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002202Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000022039 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2204 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2205 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2206 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2207 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2208 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2209 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2210 (Alan Schmitt)
2211 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002212 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2213 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000022149 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002215 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000022168 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022178 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00002218 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022197 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2220 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2221 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022228 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002223 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020022247 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002225 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2226- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2227 for multi-byte characters.
2228- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2229- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2230 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2231 been given values.
2232 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
22338 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002234 with an ESC sequence.
2235 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2236 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2237 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022387 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2239 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2240- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2241 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2242 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
22438 Add functions:
2244 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2245 Update 2004 Sep 10
2246 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2247 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002248 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002249 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2250 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2251 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2252 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2253 (2003 May 13)
2254 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2255 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002256 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2257 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002258 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2259 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2260 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022617 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2262 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2263- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2264 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
22657 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2266 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000022678 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2268 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022697 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
22708 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2271 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
22727 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2273 Kotchan has a patch for it)
22748 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
2275 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2276 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
22777 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2278- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2279 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2280 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002281- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2282 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2283- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2284
2285
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002286Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002287- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2288 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022898 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2290 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2291 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2292 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2293 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2294 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022958 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2296 make Vim exit.
22977 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2298 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2299 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
23008 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2301 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2302 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
23036 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2304 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2305 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
23068 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2307 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2308 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2309 names in one buffer???
2310 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2311 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2312 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
23137 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2314 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2315 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002316 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2317 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023187 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2319 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
23207 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
23217 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
23227 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2323 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
23247 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2325 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2326 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2327 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
23287 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
23297 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
23307 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2331 to the match with the tag? Option?
23327 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
23337 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2334 (Sayre).
23357 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2336 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023377 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2338 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2339 match. Nvi can do it too.
23407 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2341 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2342 line 1\ line 2\\
2343 line 2\ line 3\\
2344 . line4/
23456 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2346 the way the shell is started?
23476 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2348 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2349
2350
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002351GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000023529 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023538 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2354 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2355 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000023568 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2357 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2358 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023599 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2360 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2361 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2362 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002363- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2364 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2365 blocked for now.
2366
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002367
2368Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002369- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2370 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023718 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2372 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
23738 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2374 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2375 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
23768 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2377 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023786 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2379 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000023808 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2381 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2382 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023837 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2384 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2385 to use an opaque background in most places?
23868 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2387 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2388 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023897 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2390 2004 May 9)
23918 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2392 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2393 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2394 MS-Windows 98?
2395 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2396 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2397 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2398 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023998 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2400 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2401 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2402 doesn't work properly.
24038 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2404 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2405 appears in the right position. (Webb)
24069 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2407 button doesn't give popup menu.
2408 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2409 selection.
2410 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2411 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2412 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
24138 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2414 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2415 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2416 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
24178 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2418 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2419 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024207 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2421 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2422 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
24237 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2424 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002425 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024267 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2427 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024286 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
24298 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2430 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2431 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
24328 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2433 know which keyboard is being used?
24347 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2435 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2436 area (Koloseike).
24378 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2438 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2439 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2440 the font name).
2441
2442
2443Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000024446 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2445 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2446 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2447 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2448 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024499 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2450 required and it's missing?
24518 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2452 wrong.
24539 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2454 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000024559 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002456 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2457 flag.
24588 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2459 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2460 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
24618 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
24626 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2463 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2464 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2465 the tooltips work though...
24667 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2467 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
24688 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2469 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2470 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2471
2472
2473Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010024749 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2475 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024769 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2477 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2478 through files.
24797 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2480 read long file names. (Schroeder)
24814 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2482 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2483 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2484 problem during a refresh.
24855 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2486 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2487 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2488 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2489 colors as it should.
2490 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2491 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2492
2493
2494Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002495- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024967 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2497 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024988 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2499 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2500 (Phillipps)
2501
2502
2503GUI:
25049 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2505 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
25069 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002507 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002508 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
25099 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2510 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
25118 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2512 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
25138 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2514 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2515 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
25168 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2517 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2518 of where it is processing the output.
2519 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
25208 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2521 doesn't work.
25228 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000025238 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2524 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2525 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020025268 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025278 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2528 browse().
25298 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2530 use that code? Or use console dialog.
25318 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2532 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000025337 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2534 - regexp on/off
2535 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2536 when all buffers/directory is used:
2537 - filter for file name
2538 when directory is used:
2539 - subdirectory on/off
2540 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025418 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2542 to avoid problems.
25438 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2544 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2545 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
25468 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2547 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2548 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
25498 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2550 up. Set erase character somehow?
25518 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2552 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2553 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2554 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
25558 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
25567 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2557 visible.
25587 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2559 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
25607 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2561 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
25628 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2563 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
25648 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2565 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2566 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2567 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2568- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
25694 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2570 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2571 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2572
2573
2574MSDOS/DJGPP:
25759 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2576 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2577 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
25788 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2579 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
25809 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002581 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2582 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025839 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2584 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2585 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2586 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
25879 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2588 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2589 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2590 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2591 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2592 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2593 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2594 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2595 key code. Use a translation table?
25969 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2597 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
25988 Use DJGPP 2.03.
25998 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2600 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
26018 setlocale() is bogus.
26028 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2603 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2604 Windows 95 system!
26058 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000026067 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002607 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
26087 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2609 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2610 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
26118 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2612 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
26137 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2614 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2615 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2616 "[New file]".
26177 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2618 that is supported?
26198 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
26208 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2621 Briscoe)
2622
2623
2624MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
26258 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2626 gen_expand_wildcards().
26278 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2628 Wagner.
26298 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
26308 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2631 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000026328 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2633 a good fallback, thus use:
2634 $HOME
2635 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2636 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2637 $USERPROFILE
2638 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2639 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2640 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2641 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026428 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2643 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
26448 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2645 Should work like in the GUI version.
26468 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2647 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
26488 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2649 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
26508 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2651 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2652 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026538 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2654 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2655 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2656
2657
2658Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020026598 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002660 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2661 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
26628 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2663 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2664
2665
2666Win32 console:
26679 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2668 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2669 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2670 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2671 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2672 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2673 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2674 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2675 and the file is not saved.
2676 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2677 long name.
26788 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2679 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
26807 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2681 besides the console.
26828 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
26839 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2684 <C-S-i>?
26859 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2686 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
26878 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2688 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026897 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2690 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2691 exiting.
2692
2693
2694Amiga:
26958 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2696 sequences.
26979 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2698 backslashes in result.
26998 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2700 all options, using white space separation.
2701
2702
2703Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002704- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027057 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2706 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2707 (Jack)
2708 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027098 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2710 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027118 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
27128 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
27139 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2714 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027159 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002716
2717
2718"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002719- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2720 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002721- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2722 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002723- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2724 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2725 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2726 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2727 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2728 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2729 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000027309 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2731 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000027329 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002733 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2734 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027358 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2736 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2737 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002738 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027397 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2740 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
27418 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2742 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2743 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027447 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2745 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002746- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2747 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027488 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2749 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2750 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2751 using the horizontal scrollbar.
27527 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2753 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2754 invocations belong together.
27558 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2756 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
27578 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2758 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2759 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2760 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2761 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000027628 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2763 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2764 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027658 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2766 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027677 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2768 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2769 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2770 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027717 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2772 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2773 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
27747 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2775 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2776 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
27777 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2778 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027797 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2780 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027819 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2782 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2783 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2784 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2785 script can be called.
27868 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2787 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2788 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027898 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2790 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000027918 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002792 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2793 configurable?
27948 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
27959 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2796 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2797 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027988 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2799 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028008 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2801 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028028 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2803 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028049 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2805 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2806 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028077 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028088 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2809 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2810 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000028118 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2812 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002813 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2814 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028158 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2816 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
28179 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2818 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2819 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002820 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028217 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2822 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028237 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2824 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2825 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2826 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028278 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002828 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2829 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2830 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2831 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002832 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2833 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002834 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002835 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002836 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2837 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2838 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2839 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2840 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
28418 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2842 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
28439 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2844 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2845 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028468 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2847 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
28488 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2849 in lines that don't extend into the block?
28508 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2851 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2852 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
28538 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2854 'linebreak'.
28558 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2856 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2857 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028589 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2859 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2860 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2861 'magic' in history. (Margo)
28629 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2863 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
28649 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2865 isn't updated).
28669 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
28679 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2868 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2869 cause another redraw, etc.
28708 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2871 must escape special characters in the pattern.
28728 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2873 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2874 ":w!!" for that.
2875 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2876 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002877 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028787 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2879 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2880 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2881 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2882 clipboard)
28837 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2884 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2885 Waggoner)
28868 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2887 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2888 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000028896 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2890 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2891 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028928 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2893 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
28948 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2895 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2896 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000028978 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028988 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2899 (e.g., ":w").
29008 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2901 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
29028 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2903 for ">>".
29048 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2905 script in do_cmdline().
29068 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2907 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2908 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2909 changes.
29108 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2911 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
29128 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2913 check for file marks. This can be slow.
29147 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2915 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2916 needed.
2917 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
29188 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2919 to skip catch_signals()?
29209 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2921 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2922 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2923 text?
29248 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2925 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
29268 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2927 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
29289 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2929 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2930 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2931 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2932 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
29337 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2934 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2935 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2936 in the list?
29378 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2938 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2939 instead of on button down.
29408 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
29419 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2942 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002943 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2944 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029458 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2946 character is typed.
29478 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2948 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
29498 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2950 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
29518 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2952 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2953 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2954 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2955 cygwin bash.
29567 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2957 Remember flags for backreferences.
29587 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2959 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
29607 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2961 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
29628 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2963 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
29647 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2965 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029667 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2967 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2968 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
29697 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2970 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
29718 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2972 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2973 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
29747 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2975 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002976
2977
2978I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
29799 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2980 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2981 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002982
2983
2984Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002985- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2986 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2987 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002988- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2989 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2990 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2991 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2992 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2993 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002994 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002995- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2996 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002997 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002998 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2999 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3000 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003001- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3002 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3003 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3004 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3005 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3006- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3007 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3008 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3009- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3010 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003011- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003012- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3013 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3014 character gets the highlighting.
3015- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3016 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3017- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3018 (Jennings)
3019- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3020- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3021 errors. How do we get the rest?
3022- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003023- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003024 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
3025- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
3026 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
3027 first?
3028- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
3029 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
3030- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3031 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3032 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3033- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3034 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3035 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3036 (Benzinger).
3037- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3038 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3039 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3040- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3041 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3042- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3043 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3044- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3045 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3046 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3047 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3048 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3049 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3050- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3051 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3052 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003053- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3054 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3055 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003056- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3057 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3058 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3059- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3060 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3061- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3062 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003063- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3064 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3065- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3066 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3067 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3068 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3069 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3070- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3071 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3072 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3073- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3074 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3075 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003076- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3077 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 +00003078- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3079 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3080 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3081 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3082 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3083- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3084 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3085
3086--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3087 *extensions-improvements*
3088
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003089Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3090- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3091 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3092 calling a function.
3093 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3094 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003095- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3096 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
3097- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
3098 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
3099 http://clewn.sf.net.
3100 And the idevim plugin/script.
3101 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
3102 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
3103 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
3104 other window.
3105 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
3106 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
3107 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
3108 in terminal mode.
3109- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3110 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3111 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3112 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3113 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3114 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003115 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003116- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3117 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3118 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003119- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3120 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003121- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
3122 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
3123 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031248 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3125 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3126 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3127 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003128- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3129 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003130
3131
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003132Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031338 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3134 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000031358 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3136 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000031378 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3138 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031398 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031407 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
31419 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3142 - change to cursor position and curswant
3143 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3144 - how it works for folded lines
3145 - how it works with multi-byte characters
31469 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3147 work too.
31488 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3149 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3150 text.
31518 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
31527 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3153 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
31547 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3155 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003156 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003157- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3158
3159
3160Help:
3161- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3162 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3163- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3164 to the other matches.
3165- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
3166- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
3167- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3168 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3169 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3170 default contents.
3171- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3172 height for the help window (and other windows).
3173- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3174- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3175- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3176
3177
3178User Friendlier:
31798 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3180 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3181 Briscoe)
31828 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
31838 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3184 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3185 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
31868 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3187 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3188- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3189 ":mkplugin <file>"?
31908 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
3191 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
3192 'runtimepath'.
3193 " Vim plugin
3194 <main plugin code>
3195 " >>> plugin help start <<<
3196 <plugin docs>
3197- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
31989 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3199 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3200 item?).
3201 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032028 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
32037 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000032047 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3205 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3206 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000032078 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3208 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3209 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3210 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003211
3212
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003213Tab pages:
32149 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032157 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3216 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032178 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000032188 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032197 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032207 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003221 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032227 Add local variables for each tab page?
32238 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3224 tab pages.
32257 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032267 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3227 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003228
3229
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003230Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003231- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3232 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3233- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3234 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3235 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3236- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3237 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003238- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3239 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3240 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003241- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3242 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3243 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003244- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3245 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003246- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003247 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3248 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000032498 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3250 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
32518 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3252 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
32538 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3254 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003255 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003256 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3257 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3258 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3259 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003260- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3261 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003262- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003263- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3264 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003265- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003266 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003267- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003268 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003269- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3270 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003271- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3272 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3273- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003274 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003275 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3276 in the affix file separately.
3277 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003278 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003279 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3280 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3281 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3282- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3283 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3284 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3285 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3286 Alternative:
3287 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3288 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3289 affix which is required.
3290- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003291 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003292- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3293 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3294 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003295- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3296 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003297- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3298 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3299- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033008 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3301 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3302 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3303 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003304- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3305 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3306 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3307 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033088 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3309 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033108 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
33118 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3312 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033137 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
33148 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3315 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3316 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3317 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003318
3319
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003320Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020033219 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3322 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033239 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3324 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003325 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033268 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3327 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3328 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003329 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3330 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033317 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3332 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3333 location.
3334
3335
3336Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003337 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3338 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033398 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3340 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000033418 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033429 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3343 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033448 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3345 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3346 user aware of this?
33478 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3348 commands skip over a closed fold.
33498 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
33508 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033517 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003352- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3353 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3354 missing line goes unnoticed.
3355 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003356- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3357 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3358 smoother?
3359- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3360 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003361- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3362 file can contain:
3363 args version.c main.c
3364 edit version.c
3365 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003366- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003367- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3368 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003369- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3370 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003371- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3372 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003373- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000033748 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003375 searches.
3376
3377
3378Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003379- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3380 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3381 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3382 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033839 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3384 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3385 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3386 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020033879 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3388 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3389 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033908 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3391 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3392 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3393 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3394 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3395 item.
33968 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003397 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3398 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033998 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3400 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003401 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003402 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034038 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3404 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034058 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3406 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3407 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034087 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3409 so that the user can fix the problem.
34108 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3411 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034129 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
34138 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034148 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
34158 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034167 Searching and composing characters:
3417 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003418 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3419 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034208 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
34218 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
34228 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3423 characters.
34248 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
34258 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3426 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
34277 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3428 'display' option to specify this.
34297 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3430 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3431- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3432 fontselector somehow.
3433- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3434 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3435- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3436 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3437- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3438 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3439 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3440 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3441 if a font exists?
3442- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003443 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003444- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3445 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
34467 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3447 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003448- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3449 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3450 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3451 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003452- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3453 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3454 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3455- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3456 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3457 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3458 But it's very complicated...
3459
3460
3461Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000034627 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003463- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3464- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3465 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003466- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3467 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003468- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3469- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3470 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003471- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3472 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003473- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3474 units as for the margins.
3475- Support right-to-left text?
34768 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3477 color.
3478
3479
3480Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034818 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3482 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
34838 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3484 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
34858 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3486 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000034877 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3488 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034898 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3490 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3491 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034927 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3493 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3494 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034958 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
34969 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3497 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034987 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3499 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000035007 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3501 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035028 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3503 change this for each release.
35048 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3505 pattern, but not in the body.
35068 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3507 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3508 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035098 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
35108 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3511 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3512 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3513 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003514 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3515 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035168 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3517 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
35188 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3519 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003520 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035218 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3522 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3523 used.
35248 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3525 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
35268 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3527 re-insert the [] if possible.
35288 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3529 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035308 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3531 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3532 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3533 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3534 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035358 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3536 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
35378 Support for deleting syntax items:
3538 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3539 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3540 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
35418 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3542 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3543 a '<'. (Fleiner)
35447 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3545 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3546 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
35477 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3548 detected.
35498 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003550 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035518 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3552 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035538 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
35548 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
35557 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3556 ":mkvimrc".
35578 Improve c.vim:
3558 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3559 "c_strict_ansi".
3560 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
35618 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3562 current line while in Insert mode.
35638 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3564 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
35658 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3566 display position.
35678 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3568 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3569 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
35708 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3571 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3572 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035738 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3574 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3575 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035767 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3577 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3578 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3579 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3580 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035817 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3582 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3583 E.g. for this html:
3584 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035857 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
35867 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3587 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035888 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
35898 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035907 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3591 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3592 completion?
35938 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3594 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
35957 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3596 select one of the sets.
35978 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3598 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3599 2, etc.
36008 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3601 highlighting (for "." command).
36028 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3603 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
36048 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
36057 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3606 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
36076 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3608 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3609- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3610 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3611- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003612- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3613 (for comment blocks).
3614- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3615 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3616 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3617 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3618 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3619 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3620 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3621 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3622 (Campbell)
3623 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3624 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
36257 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3626 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
36277 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3628 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3629 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
36307 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3631 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3632 messages. And external commands?
36338 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3634 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
36357 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3636 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3637
3638
3639Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036408 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3641 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003642 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036437 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3644 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3645 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036468 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3647 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003648- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3649 2006 Dec 11.
3650- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020036518 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3652 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3653 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3654 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3655 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3656 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000036577 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3658 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036598 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
36608 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3661 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3662 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3663 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3664 nested packages?
3665 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3666 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3667 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036687 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3669 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3670 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3671 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3672 autocommand.
3673 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3674 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3675 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3676 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036777 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3678 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036796 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3680 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036818 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003682 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3683 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3684 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3685 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3686 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3687 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3688 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003689 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3690 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3691 3 2002
3692 Only add this when also implemented for
3693 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3694 be used.
3695 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003696 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3697 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3698 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3699 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3700 File.Open..." argument.
3701 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3702 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3703 with properties instead.
3704 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3705 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3706 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003707 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003708 crypt() encrypt string
3709 decrypt() decrypt string
3710 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3711 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003712 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003713 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003714 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003715 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003716 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003717 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3718 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003719 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3720 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003721 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003722 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3723 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003724 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3725 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3726 to allow the library to execute a command or
3727 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037287 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3729 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
37308 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3731 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037328 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3733 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037348 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037357 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3736 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
37376 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000037388 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3739 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037408 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3741 option or environment variable.
37428 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037438 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003744 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000037457 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3746 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037478 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3748 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
37498 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
37508 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3751 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3752 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3753 charwise({expr}).
37547 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3755 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3756 buffer for this?
3757 result = scratch(string, command)
3758 result = apply(string, command)
3759 result = execute(string, command)
3760 "command" would use <> notation.
3761 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
37627 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003763
3764
3765Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000037666 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3767 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3768 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3769 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3770 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3771 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3772 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003773
3774
3775Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037767 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3777 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020037787 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3779 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3780 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3781 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037828 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3783 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3784 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3785 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003786 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037878 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3788 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3789 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037908 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
37919 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
37928 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
37937 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3794 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
37958 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3796 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3797 when starting up in a color terminal.
37988 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3799 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038008 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3801 function be improved?
38028 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3803 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3804 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3805 this be improved?
38068 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3807 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038087 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3809 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038107 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3811 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
38127 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3813 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020038147 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038157 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3816 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3817 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3818 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3819 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3820 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3821 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038228 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3823 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3824 using strcmp() too often?
38257 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3826 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3827 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3828 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3829 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3830 the two blocks to the memfile block.
38317 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3832 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3833 with an argument that can be messed with.
3834 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3835 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
38367 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3837- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
38388 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3839 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3840- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3841 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3842- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3843- Do profiling on:
3844 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3845 - 1000ii<Esc>
3846 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3847 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3848 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3849 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3850 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3851 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003852 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038537 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3854 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3855 changed).
3856 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3857 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3858- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3859- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3860 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3861- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3862 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3863 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3864- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3865 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3866- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3867- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3868 cursor is right of the screen.
38698 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3870 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3871
3872
3873Code size:
38748 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3875- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3876 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
38778 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
38788 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3879 it.
38807 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3881 left out.
38828 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3883 can be removed.
38848 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3885
3886
3887Messages:
38888 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3889 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
38908 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3891 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
38928 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3893 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003894- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3895 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3896- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038978 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3898 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038999 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3900 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3901 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3902 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3903 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039048 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3905 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
39068 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3907 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3908 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3909 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3910 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3911 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003912- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003913 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039148 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3915 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3916 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3917 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3918 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3919 error messages, printing text, etc.
39208 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3921 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3922 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3923
3924
3925Screen updating:
39267 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3927 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3928 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3929- screen_line():
3930 - insert/delete character stuff.
3931 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3932- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3933 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3934- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3935 waiting for a character.
39368 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3937 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3938 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
39397 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003940
3941
3942Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020039438 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039446 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3945- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3946 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3947 windows.
39487 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3949 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3950 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3951- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3952 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3953 (Goldfarb)
3954- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3955 bound windows.
3956- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3957 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003958- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003959- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3960 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3961 of lines but not with a single line).
3962
3963
3964Autoconf:
39658 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
39668 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3967 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3968- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3969 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3970- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3971- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3972- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3973
3974
3975Perl interface:
39768 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039777 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
39787 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
39796 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3980
3981
3982Shared libraries:
39836 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3984 :libload internal-name libname
3985 :libunload internal-name
3986 :liblist
3987 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3988 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3989 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
39906 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3991
3992
3993Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000039949 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3995 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3996 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3997 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3998 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000039998 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4000 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4001 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004002 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004003 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000040047 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4005 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4006 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040078 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
40088 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4009 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040107 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4011 window for each tag.
40127 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
40137 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4014 bottom" search message.
40157 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4016 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4017 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004018- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4019- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004020- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4021 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4022 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040237 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4024 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4025 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4026 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
40277 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4028 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4029 :tagargs clear
4030 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4031 matching).
40327 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4033 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4034 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4035 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
40367 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4037 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
40387 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4039 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4040 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004041
4042
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004043Win32 GUI:
40448 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4045 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040467 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4047 (Mike McCollister)
40488 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4049 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4050 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4051 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4052 common part of the path.
40538 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
40548 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4055 gettext and menus work.
40568 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4057 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004058 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004059 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
40608 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4061 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
40628 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4063 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
40647 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4065 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
40667 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
40677 <Esc> should close a dialog.
40687 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4069 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4070 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4071 prompts.
40727 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4073 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4074 the file added into an already running Vim.
40757 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4076 functions to find the window title.
4077
4078
4079GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020040808 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004081- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4082 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
40837 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
40848 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
40856 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
40868 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4087 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
40889 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
40897 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
40908 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4091 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
40928 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4093 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4094 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
40958 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4096 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
40978 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4098 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4099 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4100 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041017 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
41028 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4103 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000041047 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4105 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4106 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041078 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
41088 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004109 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041108 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
41118 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
41128 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4113 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4114 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
41157 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4116 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4117 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
41187 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4119 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
41207 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4121 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4122 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4123 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
41247 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
4125 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
41267 Should support multi-column menus.
4127- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4128 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4129- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
41308 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
41316 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4132 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
41337 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
41347 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4135 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4136 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
41377 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
41388 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4139 name can be chosen free.
41407 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4141 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
41426 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4143 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4144 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4145 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4146 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4147 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4148 things.
41497 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4150 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041517 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004152 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004153- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4154 where it was started from?
41557 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4156
4157
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004158Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020041599 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4160 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004161- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041628 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4163 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4164 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4165 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
41668 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4167 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000041687 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4169 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4170 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4171 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000041727 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000041738 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4174 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041758 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4176 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4177 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000041787 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4179 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4180 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041818 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4182 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4183 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000041848 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4185 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041868 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041876 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4188 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000041897 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041907 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004191 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4192 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4193 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041945 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4195 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4196 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
41977 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4198 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4199 file.
42008 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4201 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4202 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004203- Add events to autocommands:
4204 Error - When an error happens
4205 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004206 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004207 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4208 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004209 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004210 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004211 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4212 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004213 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004214 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004215 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4216 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4217 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4218 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004219 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004220 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4221 the char.
4222 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4223 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4224 file from CVS).
4225 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4226 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4227 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4228 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4229 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4230 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004231 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4232 changes.
4233 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4234 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004235- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004236 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004237 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004238 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4239 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4240 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4241 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4242 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4243
4244
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004245Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004246- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4247 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004248- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4249 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4250 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4251 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4252 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004253- Ideas from others:
4254 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4255 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4256 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4257 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4258 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4259 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4260 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4261 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4262 Uses Perl for C++.
4263 Uses ctags to find the info:
4264 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4265 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4266 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4267 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4268 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4269 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004270 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004271 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4272- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4273
4274
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004275Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004276- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000042777 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4278 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042797 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4280 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4281 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042828 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4283 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
42849 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4285 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4286 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042878 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4288 - ignore/match case
4289 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042908 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4291 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4292 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4293 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4294 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4295 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042968 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000042977 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4298 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042998 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4300 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4301 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4302 Should work for C++ and Java.
4303 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
43047 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
43057 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4306 instead of words.
43078 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
43088 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4309 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
43108 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4311 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004312- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4313 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004314- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4315 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4316 wildcards in the file name)?
4317- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4318- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4319- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4320 be in another file).
4321- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4322- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4323- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4324 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4325- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4326- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4327- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004328- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4329
4330
4331Command line editing:
43327 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4333 line.
43348 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4335 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4336 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4337- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4338 lines wraps to start of line).
4339- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4340 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4341 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4342 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4343 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4344 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4345 cmdwin does now already.
4346 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4347 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4348 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4349 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4350 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4351 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4352 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4353 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4354 Problems:
4355 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4356 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4357 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4358 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4359 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4360 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4361 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4362 character in first column?
4363 - Implementation ideas:
4364 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4365 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4366 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4367 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4368 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4369 Mode.
4370
4371
4372Command line completion:
43738 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
43748 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4375 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
43768 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4377 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043788 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4379 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043807 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4381 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004382- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4383- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4384 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043858 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4386 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
43877 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4388 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4389- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4390 identifiers (Webb).
43918 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4392 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
43937 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4394 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4395- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4396 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4397- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4398 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4399 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004400
4401
4402Command line history:
4403- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4404 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4405 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4406 completely resulted from one mapping.
4407- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4408 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4409
4410
4411Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000044129 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4413 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4414 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044158 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4416 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4417 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4418 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4419 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044208 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4421 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4422 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044237 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4424 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004425- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020044269 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044277 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4428 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4429- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4430 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4431 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4432 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4433 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4434 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4435- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4436 Normal mode.
4437- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4438 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4439 are used.
4440- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4441- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4442- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4443
4444
4445'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010044469 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4447 char * veryLongName =
4448 "very long string"
4449 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044508 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044518 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4452 long_type foo =
4453 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044548 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4455 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004456 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044578 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4458 func(
4459 new String[] {
4460 "asdf",
4461 "asdf"
4462 }
4463 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044648 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4465 (Chow Loong Jin)
4466 namespace {
4467 int
4468 func(int arg) {
4469 }
4470 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044716 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4472 func( arg1
4473 , arg2
4474 , arg3
4475 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000044767 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004477 func(
4478 int x) // indent like "(4"
4479 {
4480 if (a
4481 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044829 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4483 if (a)
4484 {
4485 if (b)
4486 {
4487 // {
4488 }
4489 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004490 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4491 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4492 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004493- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004494 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
44957 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4496- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4497 line).
4498- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4499- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4500 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004501- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4502 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4503- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4504 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4505- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4506- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4507 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
45088 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4509 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4510 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4511- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4512- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4513 lines start with "\item".
4514- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4515 /* here is a comment that
4516 is just autoindented, and
4517 nothing else */
4518- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
45197 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4520 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4521 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004522 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004523
4524
4525Java:
45268 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4527 Odendahl?
45288 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4529 "[i" commands and friends.
4530- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4531 (Jason)
4532- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4533 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4534
4535
4536'comments':
45378 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4538 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4539 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4540 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004541 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4542 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045437 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4544 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
45457 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
45466 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4547 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4548 regexp is used.
45498 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4550 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4551
4552
4553Virtual edit:
45548 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045557 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4556
4557
4558Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045598 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045608 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000045618 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004562 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000045638 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4564 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004565 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4566 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000045678 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045687 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4569 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045708 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4571 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045728 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4573 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4574 the end of the line or before a ".".
45757 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4576 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
45777 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4578 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045796 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
45805 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4581 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4582 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4583 cursor is on.
4584
4585
4586Select mode:
45878 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4588 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
45897 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004590 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045917 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4592 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4593 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4594 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4595 normal_cmd().
4596 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4597 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4598
4599
4600Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020046018 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4602 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004603- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4604 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4605 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004606- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4607 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4608 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046098 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004610 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004611 where needed.
46127 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4613 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
46147 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4615 of each selected line.
46168 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
46178 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4618 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4619 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
46208 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4621 Ben Godfrey)
46227 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4623 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
46247 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4625 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
46267 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4627 Young is working on this)
46287 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004629 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004630 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
46318 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4632 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
46337 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4634 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4635 option!
46367 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4637 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4638 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4639 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4640 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4641 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4642 without changing the column.
46436 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046447 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4645 current buffer.
46467 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
46476 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4648 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
46496 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046506 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004651 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004652 or other special character.
46536 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4654
4655
4656More advanced repeating commands:
4657- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046587 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004659 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004660- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004661- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004662 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4663 "y." will repeat last yank.
4664 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4665 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4666 and/or pick an older command.
4667- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4668
4669
4670Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046718 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4672 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4673 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
46748 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
46757 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4676 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046778 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4678 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
46798 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000046807 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046818 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4682 entering search strings.
46838 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4684 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4685 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046868 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4687 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046888 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4689 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4690 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
46917 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046927 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4693 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046946 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4695 abbreviations are to be used.
4696- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4697 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4698 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004699- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4700 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4701 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4702 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4703 Or implicit:
4704 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004705- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4706 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4707 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004708- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4709 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4710- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4711 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
47126 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4713 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4714 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4715 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004716- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4717 non-replace Insert mode?
4718- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004719- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4720- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4721 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4722- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004723 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004724- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4725 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4726- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4727- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4728 ":freekeys".
4729- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4730
4731
4732Incsearch:
4733- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4734- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4735 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4736 up every time.
4737- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4738 folds when going to another line.
4739- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4740 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4741 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4742 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4743- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4744 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4745
4746
4747Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010047489 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000047498 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004750 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004751 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004752 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004753 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047549 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4755 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010047568 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4757 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000047588 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4759 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4760 Perl does it this way:
4761 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4762 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4763 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4764 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047658 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4766 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4767 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047688 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4769 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4770 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000047717 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4772 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000047738 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4774 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000047757 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004776 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4777 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4778 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
47797 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4780 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000047817 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004782 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047837 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4784 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047858 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4786 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
47878 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4788 line.
47897 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4790 example.
47918 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4792 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4793- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4794 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4795 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4796 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047978 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4798 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4799 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
48007 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4801 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000048027 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4803 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048048 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4805 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048068 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4807 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048088 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4809 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4810 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4811 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004812- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4813 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004814- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4815 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4816- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4817 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4818 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4819 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048208 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4821 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004822- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4823 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048248 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4825 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4826 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004827- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4828 i ignore case
4829 I use case
4830 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4831 v use Vi regexp syntax
4832 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4833 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4834 Perl uses these too:
4835 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4836 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4837 o compile only once (Perl only)
4838 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4839 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4840 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4841 following command.
4842 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4843- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4844 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4845 for search string)?
48467 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4847 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4848- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4849 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4850- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4851 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4852- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4853- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004854 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004855 a for the next file in the argument list
4856 f for file in the buffer list
4857 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004858 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4859 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004860 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4861 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4862- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048637 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004864 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048657 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4866 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4867 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4868 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
48696 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4870 effects.
48717 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4872 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4873 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048747 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004875 Also ":dselect".
4876
4877
4878Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010048799 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4880 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4881 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048829 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4883 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020048848 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4885 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4886 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
48878 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4888 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048898 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4890 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4891 timestamp?
4892 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4893 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048948 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4895 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4896 was changed outside of Vim.
4897 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4898 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004899 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4900 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004901- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4902 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004903- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4904 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4905 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
49068 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4907 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4908 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4909 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
49108 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4911 only remember the lines that really changed.
49127 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4913 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4914 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4915 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004916- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4917 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4918- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4919 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4920- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4921 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4922 [-99].
4923- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4924- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004925- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4926 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4927
4928
4929Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049307 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4931 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4932 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4933 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
49348 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4935 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
49368 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4937 inode too.
49387 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004939 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4940 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049417 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4942 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4943- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4944 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4945- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4946 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
49477 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4948 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
49497 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4950 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
49518 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049528 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004953 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
49547 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4955 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010049568 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4957 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4958 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004959
4960
4961Swap (.swp) files:
49628 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4963 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4964 there are short file name problems.
49658 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4966 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
49678 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
49688 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004969 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004970 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4971 file the same as the actual file?
4972 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049737 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4974 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
49757 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004976 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004977 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4978 enough room.
49797 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4980 or /var/preserve.
4981- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4982 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4983- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4984 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4985- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4986 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4987 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4988 cached list of which line is where.
4989
4990
4991Viminfo:
49927 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4993 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4994 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000049958 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4996 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4997 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049988 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4999 name. (Schild)
50008 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
50018 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050028 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050038 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5004 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5005 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5006 this?
50077 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
50087 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5009 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
50106 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5011 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5012 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5013- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5014 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5015
5016
5017Modelines:
50188 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5019 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5020 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005021- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5022 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5023 'shiftwidth'.
5024- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5025 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005026- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5027 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5028 modeline setting.
5029- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5030 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5031- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5032 .cpp files.
5033- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5034 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5035- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5036 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5037
5038
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005039Sessions:
50408 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5041 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
50427 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5043 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050448 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5045 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050468 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5047 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5048 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000050497 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5050 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000050517 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005052
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005053
5054Options:
50557 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5056 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050578 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5058 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5059 also be supported.
50608 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5061 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5062 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
50637 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
50647 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5065 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005066 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005067
5068
5069External commands:
50708 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5071 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
50724 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5073 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5074 -f).
50754 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
50764 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5077 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
50784 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5079
5080
5081Multiple Windows:
50827 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
50838 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5084 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
50857 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5086 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5087 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050887 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5089 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000050907 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5091 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050926 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5093 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005094 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005095 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
50967 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5097 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5098 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5099 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5100- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5101 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5102 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5103 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5104
5105
5106Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051078 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051088 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5109 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051108 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 +000051118 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5112 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
51138 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5114 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5115 the mark was set.
51167 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5117 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5118 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5119 ":browse marks"?
51206 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051217 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5122 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
51237 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5124 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
51257 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5126 command).
51277 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5128 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5129 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5130 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
51315 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5132 mappings.
51336 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5134 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5135 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5136
5137
5138Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020051397 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005140 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005141- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5142 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000051438 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051447 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5145 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5146
5147
5148Writing files:
5149- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5150 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5151 shortname conversion.
51528 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
51538 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5154 file.
51558 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5156 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5157 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051586 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5159 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
51606 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5161 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
51626 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5163 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051648 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005165 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
51667 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5167 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
51687 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5169 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5170 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5171 waiting for a character to be typed).
51728 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5173 line of the window, like "[time]".
5174 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5175 Automatic and/or with a command.
5176
5177
5178Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000051798 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5180 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051818 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005182 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5183- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5184- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
51858 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5186 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005187- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005188 :s///N substitutes N times.
5189- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5190 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5191 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
51927 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5193 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5194 last line column 5.
51955 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5196 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5197 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5198 (Stanislav Sitar)
5199
5200
5201Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052028 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
52037 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
52048 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5205 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5206 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005207- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5208- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5209 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5210- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5211- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5212
5213
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005214Argument list:
52156 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5216 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5217 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
52186 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5219
5220
5221Registers:
52228 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052238 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5224 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5225 for every line.
52266 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5227 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5228 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5229- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5230 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5231- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5232 leader when line wraps?
5233- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5234 line in the range.
5235- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5236 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
52378 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5238 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005239
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005240
5241Debug mode:
52427 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
52438 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000052448 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052457 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00005246 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
5247 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
5248 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052497 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
52507 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5251
5252
5253Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000052547 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5255 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5256 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5257 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5258 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5259 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5260 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005261 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000052627 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5263 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000052647 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5265 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052668 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5267 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052687 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5269 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5270 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005271- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005272 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052737 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5274 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052757 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5276 window as a buffer-tab selection.
52778 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052787 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5279 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5280 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005281 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5282 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052837 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5284 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
52858 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5286 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052876 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052888 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5289 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5290 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5291 in this Vim.
52928 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005293 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052948 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5295 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5296 have it apply to the following command.
52978 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5298 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5299 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5300 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053017 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5302 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053037 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5304 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5305 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5306 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053076 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
53088 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
53099 Support ACLs on more systems.
53107 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5311 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053127 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5313 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5314 (truncated to fit in the space).
53157 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
53168 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
53178 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5318 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000053197 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005320 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
53217 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5322 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053237 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053247 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
53257 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053268 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
53278 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5328 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5329 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5330 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
53318 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
53326 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5333 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005334 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005335 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053368 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053378 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5338 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5339 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5340 does something like this. (Shah)
53417 Use growarray for replace stack.
53427 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5343 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
53443 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053457 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5346 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010053477 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5348 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005349- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5350- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5351- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5352- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
53537 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5354 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5355- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5356 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005357- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005358- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5359 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5360- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5361 call "play newbeep.au").
5362- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5363 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5364 (Bhatt).
5365- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5366 blockwise registers).
5367- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5368 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5369- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5370 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5371 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5372 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005373- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053747 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5375 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5376- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5377 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5378 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5379 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5380 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053818 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5382 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053838 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5384 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5385 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5386 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5387 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5388- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005389- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053907 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5391 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5392- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5393 not in column 1.
53946 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5395 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
53967 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5397- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005398- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005399 :redir #> bufname
5400 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005401- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5402 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005403- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5404 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5405 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
54066 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5407 console? (Klaus Hast)
5408- Add :delcr command:
5409 *:delcr*
5410 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5411 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5412 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5413 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5414 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5415 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5416- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5417- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5418 characters from 'isprint'.
5419- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5420- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5421 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5422- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5423 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5424 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5425- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5426- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5427 Nvi).
5428- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5429 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
54307 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5431- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5432 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
54336 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5434- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5435 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5436 macro).
5437- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005438- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5439 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5440- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
54418 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005442- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5443- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5444- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5445 if it is not the first or last window.
5446- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5447 there is one) instead of the file itself.
54487 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5449 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5450 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5451- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5452- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005453 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005454 many percent down the windows).
5455- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5456 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5457 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005458 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005459- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5460 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5461- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5462 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5463- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5464- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5465- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5466 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054678 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5468 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5469 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5470 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5471 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005472- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5473 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5474- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005475 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5476- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005477 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5478 (Webb).
5479- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005480 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005481- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5482 hex codes like 0xff).
5483- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5484 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5485 the last TYPED command.
5486- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5487- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5488- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5489 should also work?
5490- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
54918 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5492 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5493 name.
5494- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5495 trailing '.'.
5496- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5497 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5498 find_file_in_path().
5499- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5500 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5501- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5502- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5503 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5504- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005505 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005506- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5507 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5508 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005509- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5510- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5511- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5512 to the minimal size.
5513- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5514- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5515- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5516- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5517- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005518- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5519 entered)?
5520- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5521 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005522- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005523- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5524- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5525- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5526- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5527- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5528 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005529- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055308 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5531 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5532 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5533 or in octal.
55347 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5535 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005536- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005537 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5538- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5539- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5540 insert line command).
5541- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5542- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5543- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5544- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5545- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5546 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005547- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005548 yet.
5549- Implement 'redraw' option.
5550- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5551 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055527 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5553 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005554 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5555 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055568 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5557 do it.
5558- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5559- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5560 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5561- Add text justification option.
5562- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5563- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5564 off".
5565- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5566- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5567- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005568 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005569- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005570- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005571- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5572- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5573 commands.
5574- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5575- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5576- :table command (Webb)
5577- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005578- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5579- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5580- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5581- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5582- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5583 (Demirel).
5584- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5585- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5586 for use in macro's and the like.
5587- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005588 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005589- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005591- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005592 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5594- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5595 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005596- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005597 mkopttab to make option table?
5598- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5599 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5600- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5601 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005602- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005603 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5604- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5605 cursor?
5606- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5607- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
56085 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5609 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000056108 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5611 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5612 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5613 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5614 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056158 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5616 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5617 (Netherton)
56186 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5619 space after "(", for example.
56205 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5621 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5622 (Servatius Brandt)
5623
5624
5625From Elvis:
5626- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5627- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005628- Search patterns:
5629 \@ match word under cursor.
5630 but do:
5631 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5632 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
56338 ":window" command:
5634 :win + next window (up)
5635 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5636 :win - previous window (down)
5637 :win -- idem, wrapping
5638 :win nr to window number "nr"
5639 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
56407 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5641 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5642
5643
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005644From xvi:
5645- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5646- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5647
5648
5649From vile:
5650- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5651- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5652 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5653
5654
5655Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005656- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5657 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5658 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5659 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5660 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005661- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5662 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5663- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5664 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5665 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5666 current layout mirrored.
5667- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5668- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5669 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5670- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5671- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5672 font in each top-level window.
5673- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5674- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5675- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5676- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5677 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5678- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5679 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5680 mentioned in the tags file.
5681 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5682 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5683- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5684 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5685- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5686 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
56874 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5688 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5689 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5690 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005691 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005692 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5693 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5694- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5695 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5696 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5697
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005698When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5699empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005700
5701vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5702vim: set fo+=n :