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Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2018 Mar 29
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035 *known-bugs*
36-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
37
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020038Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020039- dump diff sometimes creates a different way of repeating.
40 Example: https://api.travis-ci.org/v3/job/359102504/log.txt
41 unclear why this can happen.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010042- Still some stuff to implement and bugs to fix, see src/terminal.c
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +010043
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +010044Mode message isn't updated on vertical split. (Alexei Averchenko, 2018 Feb 2,
45#2611)
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +010046
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047Patch to fix vimgrep adding to wrong quickfix list. (Yegappan, 2018 Mar 25)
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49Problem with sudo. #2758
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51Code refactoring, macro for message, #2729
52
53Patch to enforce c89 compliance. (James McCoy, #2735)
54With fix for Mac from Kazunobu.
55
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +010056Errors found with random data:
57 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +010058
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020059Patch to avoid bad highlighting caused by #if. (ichizok, #2731)
60
61Implement option_save() and option_restore()? Or remove the help.
62
63Looks like an error for inserting register makes ":file other" not work.
64(Tom M, 2018 Mar 28)
65
66Patch to fix mouse pointer after :tselect. (Hirohito Higashi, #2709)
67How to reproduce the problem?
68
69Patch to avoid job killed when I/O is disconnected. (ichizok, #2734)
70
71When opening foo/x.txt and bar/x.txt get swap file warning. Should check the
72file name. (Juergen Weigert)
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010073
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010074Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
75- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
76- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
77- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010078- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
79
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020080Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
81- Test_setbufvar_options()
82- Test_exit_callback_interval()
83
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010084Mouse pointer sticks to stop shape. Only on Windows GUI? #2709
85
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020086Patch to make log_tr() use variable arguments. (Ichizok, 2018 Mar 20, #2730)
87
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +010088balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
8920, #2481)
90Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +020091
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +010092Try out background make plugin:
93 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
94or asyncmake:
95 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
96
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010097Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
98mode. Also used for switching Terminal mode.
99
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100100Cursor in status line after search. (#2530)
101
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200102Patch to fix that an empty buffer remains when using :argedit. (Christian,
103#2713) Updated patch.
104
105Patch to fix interaction between 'virtualedit' and i_CTRL-G_j. (Christian
106Brabandt, #2743)
107
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100108Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
109
110Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
111
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200112Patch to add more flags to :ls. (Marcin Szamotulski, #2751)
113
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100114Does setting 'cursorline' cause syntax highlighting to slow down? Perhaps is
115mess up the cache? (Mike Lee Williams, 2018 Jan 27, #2539)
116
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200117When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
118with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200119
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100120Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100121Jan 15, #2555)
122
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200123":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
124
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100125Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
126
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200127Patch to add reg_executing() and reg_recording(). (Hirohito Higashi, #2745)
128
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100129No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
130No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
131
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100132When 'inchsearch' and 'hlsearch' are set /\v highlights everything.
133Also see #2337
134
135Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
136confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
137
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100138Patch to add "module" to quickfix entries. (Marcin Szamotulski, Coot, 2017 Jun
1398, #1757) Now part of #2322. Or #2327? #1757 was re-opened, include that
140first.
141
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100142Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
143
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100144Avoid that "sign unplace id" does a redraw right away, esp. when there is a
145sequence of these commands. (Andy Stewart, 2018 Mar 16)
146
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100147ch_sendraw() with long string does not try to read inbetween, which may cause
148a deadlock if the reading side is waiting for the write to finish. (Nate
149Bosch, 2018 Jan 13, #2548)
150
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100151Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
152Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
153applying the diff, etc.
154
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100155User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
156word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100157
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100158Problem with mouse scroll in tmux. (fcying, #2419) Might be caused by patch
1598.0.1309. Removing "held_button = MOUSE_RELEASE;" helps. (2018 Feb 5)
160
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100161Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200162
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200163With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
164(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
165
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200166Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
167:drop (remote commands).
168
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200169Patch to use the xdiff library instead of external diff. (Christian Brabandt,
1702018 Mar 20, #2732)
171
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100172"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
173directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
174Also see #1689.
175
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200176ml_get error when using a Python. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
Bram Moolenaar3ec574f2017-06-13 18:12:01 +0200177Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200178
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100179crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
18017, #2652)
181
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100182When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100183highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100184
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100185Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
186#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
187
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100188Patch to add winlayout() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 Jan 4)
189
190No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
1912017 Dec 26, #2501)
192
193Get a "No Name" buffer when 'hidden' is set and opening a new window from the
194quickfix list. (bfrg, 2018 Jan 22, #2574)
195
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200196CTRL-X on zero gets stuck on 0xfffffffffffffffe. (Hengyang Zhao, #2746)
197
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100198A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
199
Bram Moolenaar2f058492017-11-30 20:27:52 +0100200Patch to fix E806. (Dominique, 2017 Nov 22, #2368)
201Kazunobu Kuriyama: caused by XtSetLanguageProc().
202
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100203Patch to fix GUI find/replace dialog. (kiloliter, 2017 Dec 11, report in
204#2418, fix in #2435)
205
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100206Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
207(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
208
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200209Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
210program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
211implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
212Olaf Dabrunz is working on this. (10 Jan 2016)
2139 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
214 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
215 It's complicated and badly documented.
216Alternative: use the xdiff library. Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2018 Mar
2172018, #2732)
218
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200219ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
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221Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
222
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200223Using CTRL-G j in insert mode in combination with 'virtualedit' doesn't work
224as expected. (Rich, 2018 March 23, #2743)
225
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100226Patch to fix encoding in print document name (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2017 Dec 20,
227#2478)
228
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100229Patch to copy buffer-local options before buffer leaves the window. (Bjorn
230Linse, 2017 Nov 14, #2336)
231
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100232Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
233Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
234
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100235Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
236in #846)
237Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
238
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100239When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
240redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200241
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100242In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
243(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
244
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100245Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
246Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
247
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100248Patch to fix cmdline abbreviation after '<,'>. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Nov
24913, on issue #2320)
250
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100251Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
252neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100253
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200254Default install on MS-Windows should source defaults.vim.
255Ask whether to use Windows or Vim key behavior?
256
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100257Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
258Nov 21)
259
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100260When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
261CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
262Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
263always nested.
264
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200265matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
266
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100267Patch to add variable name after "scope add". (Eddie Lebow, 2018 Feb 7, #2620)
268Maybe not needed?
269
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100270Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
271
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100272MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100273for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
274
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100275Patch to adjust to DPI setting for GTK. (Roel van de Kraats, 2017 Nov 20,
276#2357)
277
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200278Test runtime files.
279Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200280
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200281Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200282
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200283Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue #539.
284Patch by Christian, 2016 Jan 29
285Another patch in #2733.
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Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200287Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
288defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
289Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
290
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200291After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
29213, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200293
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200294Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
295Still happens (2017 Jul 9)
296
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200297When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
298line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
299
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100300The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
301
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200302Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
303set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
304
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200305Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200306Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100307Memory leaks in test_escaped_glob
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200308
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200309Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
310
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100311Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
312
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200313Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200314It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100315Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200316Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200317
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200318Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
319
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200320Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
321behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
322
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100323'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
324
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200325All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
326For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
327 mylist~get(idx)
328 mydict~get(idx)
329 mystring~len()
330Alternatives for ~:
331 ^ list^get() could also be used
332 . list.get() already means concatenate
333 $ list$get() harder to read
334 @ list@get() harder to read
335 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
336
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200337The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
338
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100339When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
340a command can delete it.
341
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200342Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
343#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
344
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100345The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
346for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
347
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200348X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
349pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
350clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
351Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
352Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
353clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200354Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200355
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100356Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
357http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
358http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
359Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
360- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
361- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
362- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
363 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
364- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
365- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
366Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
367- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
368- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
369Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
370- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
371
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200372Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
373
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200374Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
375attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
376that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
377
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200378Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
379(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
380
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200381Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
382Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
383terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
384Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
385(Also #1890)
386
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100387Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
388buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
389Also fixes #2166?
390
391Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
392
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200393Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
394stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
395
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100396Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
397possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
398
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100399Add `:filter` support for various commands (Marcin Szamotulski, 2017 Nov 12
400#2322) Now in #2327?
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100401
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200402When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
403case of :bwipe followed by :new.
404
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200405Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
406existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
407Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
408
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200409Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200410
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200411MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
412Jul 4)
413
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200414Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
415Drucker, 2017 May 8).
416This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
417Christian cannot reproduce it.
418
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200419Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
420wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
421Or is this not an actual problem?
422
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200423Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
424
425Openhab syntax file (mueller, #1678)
426
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200427Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
428
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200429Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
430
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200431'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
432#1736)
433
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200434Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
4358, #1690)
436
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100437Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
438manager. Problem with Motif?
439
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200440Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
441(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
442
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200443Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
444it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
445
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200446Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
447Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
448How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
449
450Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
451(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
452
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100453Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
454
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200455Patch to add configure flags to skip rtl, farsi and arabic support.
456(Diego Carrión, #1867)
457
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200458assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
459it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
460
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200461New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
462
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100463Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
464for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200465
466Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
467(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
468Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
469later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
470Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
471mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200472Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
473mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200474maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200475
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100476Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200477plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
478be defined when the plugin is loaded.
479
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100480Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
481 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
482 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100483
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200484json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200485What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100486
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200487Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
488
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200489import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
490(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
491
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100492When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
493buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
494Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100495
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100496When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
497like the item was not a match for :cnext.
498
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200499Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
500Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100501Another example in #1309
502
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100503When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
504when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
505
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100506Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
507#1330)
508
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200509Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
510
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100511Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
512
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100513GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
514g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
515timer expires.
516
517Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
518
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100519Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
520highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
521
5228 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
523 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
524
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100525Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
526Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
527
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200528Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
529key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
530 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
531 echo keytrans(xx)
532 <C-Home>
533
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100534Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
535(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
536Make a function to check for function-like type?
537
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200538Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
539(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
540
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100541Implement optional arguments for functions.
542 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
543 call Foo(12)
544 call Foo(12, all = 0)
545 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100546
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200547Change the Farsi code to work with UTF-8. Possibly combined with the Arabic
548support, or similar.
549Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
550
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100551Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
552somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
553
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100554Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
555(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
556
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200557Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
558Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
559New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
560
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200561Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200562Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200563Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200564
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200565Characters deleted on completion. (Adrià Farrés, 2017 Apr 20, #1645)
566Remarks from Christian Brabandt (Apr 21)
567
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100568The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
569"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
570Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
571
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200572Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
573
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200574Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
575about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200576Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
577
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200578Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
579#1053) With patch, does it work?
580
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100581Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
582MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
5832017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
584receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
585
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200586":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100587vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
588
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200589Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
590Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100591
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100592Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
593Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
594
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200595Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100596Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200597
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100598"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
599(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
600
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100601Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
602(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100603Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100604
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200605'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
606
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100607Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
608
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200609Patch to be able to separately map CTRL-H and BS on Windows.
610(Linwei, 2017 Jul 11, #1833)
611
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200612When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
613Apr 23, #1653)
614
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100615Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
616anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
617
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100618When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
619Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
620(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
621
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200622Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200623E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200624
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200625Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
626(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
627
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200628Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
629
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100630Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
631
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100632Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
633
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100634On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
635separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
636
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200637min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
638contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
639
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200640Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
641
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200642Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
643
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200644Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
645
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200646Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
647no longer support.
648
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200649sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
6504#1038)
651
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100652+channel:
653- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
654 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100655- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
656- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
657 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
658- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
659 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
660- Implement |job-term| ?
661- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
662- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
663 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
664 minute. Option to set the droptime.
665- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
666- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
667- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
668 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
669 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
670- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
671 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
672- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
673 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
674 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
675
676Regexp problems:
677- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
678 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
679- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
680 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
681- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
682 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
683 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
684 LC_CTYPE
685- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
686 matches everywhere.
687- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
688 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
689- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
690- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
691 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
692- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
693- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
694 2013 Dec 11)
695- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
696 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
697- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
698- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
699 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
700- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
701- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
702- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
703- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
704 2015 Feb 7)
705- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
706 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
707 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
708 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
709 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
710- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
711- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
712- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
713- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
714 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
715 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
716 col and vcol when moving to another line.
717- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
718 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
719- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
720 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
721 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
722 (2017 May 15, #1252)
723
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200724Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
725
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100726Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
727#1350)
728
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200729Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
7303. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
731Also see #1635.
732
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200733Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200734Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
735use the current behavior.
736Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200737
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200738Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
739New update 2017 Apr 10, #1628
740
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200741When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
742command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
743
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100744Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
745change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
746
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200747Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
748doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
749Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100750Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200751E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
752
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100753execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200754#1141)
755
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200756cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
757
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200758:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
759
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200760Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
761
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100762patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
763(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
764
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200765When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
766synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
767
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200768Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
769Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200770
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200771Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
772(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
773
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200774ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
775Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200776
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100777Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
778
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200779Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100780(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200781
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200782Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
783Jul 25, #948)
784
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100785Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
786names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
787Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
788the system encoding (usually utf-8).
789
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200790Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
791(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
792Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
793
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200794'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
795
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200796MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
797Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200798
799Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
800Also for ":@.".
801
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200802Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
803
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200804Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
805#1125
806
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200807Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
808times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
809
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200810This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
811(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
812
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200813Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
814
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200815Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
816
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200817Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
818
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200819Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
820
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100821We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
822the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
823
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200824Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
825
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200826When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
827emoji_width table has only one entry.
828
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100829It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
830Reject the value? #710.
831
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200832When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
833Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
834
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200835Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +0200836Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200837
838Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200839
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200840Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
841No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200842
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200843Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
844(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100845
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200846Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
847
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100848Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
849https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
850Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
851
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100852Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
853but the reference remains valid.
854
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100855Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
856interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
857Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
858interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
859result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200860
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200861Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100862work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200863
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100864Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
865
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200866Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
867
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200868Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
869Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
870
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200871When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
872Apr 17) #762
873
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200874exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
875Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
876
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100877Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
878'iskeyword' for syntax.
879
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100880Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
881(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
882
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100883Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
884
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200885When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
886maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +0200887Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200888
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100889Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
890It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
891Add configure check?
892Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
893Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
894Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
895
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100896Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
897Do not include the linebreak at the start?
898
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200899Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
900Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
901Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
902
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200903Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
904Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
905
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100906Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
907(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
908
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100909":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
910directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
911
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100912In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
913(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
914
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200915If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
9162016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200917
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100918Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
919(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
920
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100921Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200922Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100923
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100924Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
925Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
926
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200927Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
928
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200929When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
930restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
931Do not trigger the event?
932
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200933Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
934changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
935and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100936Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
937Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
9386, 2nd message)
939Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100940
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100941Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
942(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
943
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100944Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
945Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
946https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
947
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100948Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
949With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
950
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200951Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100952
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100953Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
954
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100955Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100956Only remembers one error.
957
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200958Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
959
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200960Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
961(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200962
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +0100963Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
964github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100965 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100966Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100967
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100968When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
969triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
970set_color_count().
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100971
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200972Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200973
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100974Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100975comparing individual items.
976Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
977Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
978Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
979equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
980
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100981Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
982
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100983MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
984wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
985
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100986Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
987specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
988
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100989Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
990(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
991
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200992Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200993inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200994
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100995Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
996(Luchr, #277)
997
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100998Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200999'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1000before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001001
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001002C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1003and also line continuation after #include.
1004I can't recommend it though.
1005
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001006Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1007(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1008
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001009Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
101024) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001011Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001012
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001013To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1014library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1015
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001016When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1017is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1018
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001019Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
102030)
1021
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001022MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1023(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1024
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001025The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
102624): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001027
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001028":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1029effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1030
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001031":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
10329)
1033
1034The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1035wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1036
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001037Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001038Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001039
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001040When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1041the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1042
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001043Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001044slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1045inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1046
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001047ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
10482014 Sep 11)
1049
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001050Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1051(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1052
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001053When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1054'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1055
1056Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001057(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001058Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1059- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1060 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1061 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1062- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1063 covered by the above change.
1064So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001065same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001066Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001067
1068Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1069Work in progress.
1070
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001071Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1072when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1073
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001074Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1075Is this right?
1076
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001077Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1078(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1079Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1080
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001081Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1082Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001083
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001084Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1085Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1086
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001087Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1088
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001089When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1090filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1091initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1092
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001093Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1094
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001095Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1096OK to not block marks?
1097
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001098Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1099
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001100Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1101
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001102When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1103(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1104
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001105Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001106
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001107Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1108(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1109
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001110When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1111any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1112
1113Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001114
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001115Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001116
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001117Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
11182015 Feb 6.
1119
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001120Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
1121Is this a good solution?
1122
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001123Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1124(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1125
1126Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1127
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001128Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1129Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1130was already defined.
1131(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1132
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001133Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1134
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001135Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001136Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001137Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001138Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001139
1140Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001141
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001142Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1143(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1144
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001145Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1146(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1147
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001148Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +01001149Update 2018 March 12, #2711
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001150
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001151Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1152change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1153them: ":repeats".
1154
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001155Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1156
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001157When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1158these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1159window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1160
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001161Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1162should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1163history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1164Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1165
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001166"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1167Jun 8)
1168
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001169Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1170insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1171
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001172No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1173
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001174Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1175(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1176Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1177arguments.
1178
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001179Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1180
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001181Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001182
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001183Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
11840x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1185New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1186compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1187
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001188xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1189buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1190Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001191Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001192Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001193Also see issue #609.
1194We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001195
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001196Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1197right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001198its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001199
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001200Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001201What for systems that don't have unsetenv()? (Issue #1116)
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001202
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001203Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1204
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001205This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1206 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1207This neither: (ZyX)
1208 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1209
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001210'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1211Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1212from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001213
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001214Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
12152014 Jun 8)
1216
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001217Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001218Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001219Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1220Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1221User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001222- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1223 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1224 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001225- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1226- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1227 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1228 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1229 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1230 on vim.org.
1231- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1232 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1233- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1234- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1235- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1236- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1237Implementation:
1238- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1239 plugin separate.
1240- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1241 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1242 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1243- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1244 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1245- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1246 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1247 installing.
1248Out of scope:
1249- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1250- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1251 useful).
1252
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001253Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1254normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001255
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001256When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1257menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1258
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001259Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1260(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1261
1262":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1263various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001264
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001265Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001266(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1267
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001268VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1269instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1270
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001271Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001272Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001273
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001274Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001275command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001276
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001277Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1278
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001279Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1280highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001281
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001282The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1283For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1284
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001285Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001286possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001287
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001288Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001289
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001290Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
1291
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001292Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1293
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001294Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001295Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001296
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010012977 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1298 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1299 "lucida_console:h8").
1300Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1301
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001302:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1303
1304Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001305With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001306
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001307Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1308
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001309Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1310
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001311When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1312(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1313
1314Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
1315Dec 13.
1316
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001317GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1318(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1319
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001320Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1321registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1322
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001323Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1324
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001325The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1326(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1327Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1328
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001329The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1330- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1331- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1332
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001333Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1334Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1335reliably?
1336
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001337Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1338(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1339
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001340Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1341(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1342
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001343Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
13442013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001345
1346Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1347
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001348Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
13495)
1350
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001351Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1352carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1353
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001354Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1355highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1356
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001357Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001358
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001359Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200136028) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001361
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001362Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
1363optional. (2013 Jul 12)
1364
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001365Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1366
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001367Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001368- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001369- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
1370- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
1371 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
1372- make it possible to do a silent install, see
1373 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1374 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
1375- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
1376- The one on Issue 279.
1377Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
1378How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
1379
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001380Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1381
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001382- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1383 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1384Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001385
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001386Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001387
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001388In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1389process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1390a reboot.
1391
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001392patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1393
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001394Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1395not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001396
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001397Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1398Or use expand('<sid>')?
1399
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001400Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1401
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001402Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001403
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001404Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
1405
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001406Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1407
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001408b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
14097)
1410
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001411Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1412compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1413
1414Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1415Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1416vim.bindeval().
1417
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001418Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
14192012 Aug 4)
1420
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001421Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1422(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1423
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001424Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
1425(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
1426
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001427Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1428But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1429
1430Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1431Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1432Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001433
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001434Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1435loading all files.
1436
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001437MS-Windows resizing problems:
1438- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1439 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1440- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1441 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1442 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001443
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001444'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001445
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001446Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001447of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1448
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001449The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1450Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1451But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001452
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001453Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
1454Aug 16)
1455
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001456When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1457is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1458
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001459URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001460- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001461- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1462 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1463
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001464Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1465(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1466Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1467
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001468Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001469New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001470
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001471When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1472for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1473Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001474
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001475Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1476
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001477Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
147824)
1479
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001480Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1481
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001482Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1483
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001484Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1485Apr 18)
1486
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001487Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1488And one for gui_x11.txt.
1489
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001490":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1491finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1492Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1493
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001494Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1495
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001496Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1497
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001498Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1499they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1500
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001501Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1502
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001503Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1504Nov 20)
1505
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001506Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001507Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001508
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001509`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001510(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1511
1512Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1513
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001514BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1515Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1516
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001517Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1518Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1519
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001520Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1521
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001522On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
15232012 Jun 19)
1524
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001525'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1526'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1527Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001528Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001529
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001530With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1531(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1532need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1533
1534Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1535only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
153621, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1537
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001538The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1539support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1540
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001541'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1542highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1543
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001544Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1545New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1546
1547Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1548Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1549
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001550Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1551Jan 19)
1552
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001553Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1554discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1555meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001556
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001557"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001558Oct 26)
1559
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001560Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1561
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001562With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1563register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001564
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001565Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1566
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001567When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1568(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1569
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001570When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1571then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1572from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1573
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001574Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1575":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
157615)
1577
1578Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1579
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001580BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1581cleared. See test64.
1582
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001583Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001584effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001585Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1586
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001587On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
158864 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1589right type.
1590
1591string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1592(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1593
1594When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1595(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001596When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1597following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1598(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001599
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001600When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1601doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1602
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001603Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1604
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001605maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1606mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1607
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001608Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1609(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1610
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001611When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1612indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1613the help file.
1614
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001615After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1616Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1617
1618Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1619
1620"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1621
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001622Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1623
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001624Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001625
1626Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
16272010 Dec 18)
1628
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001629With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1630number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1631Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1632
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001633Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1634Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1635
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020016368 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1637Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1638
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001639Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1640one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1641the match scrolls into view.
1642
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020016437 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1644Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1645Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1646
16479 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1648 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1649Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1650
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001651Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1652Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1653
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001654In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1655or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1656sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1657
1658GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1659doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1660
1661GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1662
1663Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1664Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1665
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001666Wish for NetBeans commands:
1667 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1668
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001669Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1670
16717.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1672there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1673do?
1674
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001675Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
167622)
1677
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001678New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1679- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001680- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001681 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1682
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001683"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
16842011 Feb 27)
1685
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001686Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1687^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1688
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001689When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1690exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
16919) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1692
1693g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1694the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1695
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001696Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1697crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1698
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001699Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1700number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1701
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001702Regexp engine performance:
1703- Profiling:
1704 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1705 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1706 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1707 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1708 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1709 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1710- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1711- Performance tests:
1712 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1713 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1714 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1715 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1716 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1717 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1718 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1719 'hlsearch'.
1720 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1721 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1722 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1723 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1724
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001725Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1726Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1727
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001728'beval' option should be global-local.
1729
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001730Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001731
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001732setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001733
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020017347 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1735 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1736 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001737 Is this an update: related to: #179
1738 https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/backupdir
1739 Fixed patch 2017 Jul 1.
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001740
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001741With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
17422010 Oct 24)
1743
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001744Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1745
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001746When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1747Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1748
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001749":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1750
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001751'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1752
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001753C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1754checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1755Issue 46.
1756
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001757Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1758
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001759Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1760gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1761
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001762":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1763accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1764
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001765Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1766setwinvar().
1767
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001768Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1769
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001770When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1771instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1772
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001773Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1774Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1775Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001776
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001777Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1778back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1779
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001780Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001781Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1782
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001783CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1784the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1785FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1786
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001787Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1788Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1789
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001790Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1791Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1792
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001793I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1794Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1795an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001796
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001797Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1798
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001799Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1800non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001801
1802iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1803Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1804or replace with a character and continue?
1805
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001806Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1807Requires configure check for localtime().
1808Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1809
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001810Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1811Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1812
1813Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1814
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001815Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1816Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1817path.
1818
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001819Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001820Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001821
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001822'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1823
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001824":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1825like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1826
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001827Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1828https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001829
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001830Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
18312010 Nov 5)
1832
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001833Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001834Jan 7)
1835
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001836Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1837Only with "vim -u NONE".
1838
1839Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1840
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001841With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1842entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1843Feb 12)
1844
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001845Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1846characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1847
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001848Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1849
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001850Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1851 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1852
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001853Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1854
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001855When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1856Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1857
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001858When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1859not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1860string value.
1861
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001862For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001863line argument -noregister.
1864
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001865When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1866missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1867
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001868When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1869doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001870
1871Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1872(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1873Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1874There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1875Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1876
1877":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1878highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1879to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1880
1881Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1882Probably needs a bit of work.
1883
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001884Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1885Added test, updates, June 23.
1886Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1887With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1888Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1889
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001890List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001891Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1892
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001893Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1894
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001895Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1896
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001897Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1898Sep 1)
1899
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001900Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1901
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001902Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1903on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1904
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001905Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
19062009 Jul 18)
1907
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001908Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1909window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1910Needs more work.
1911
1912Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1913
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001914When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1915few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1916
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001917'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001918(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1919
1920Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1921J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1922
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001923When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1924for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1925
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001926Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1927
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001928Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1929
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001930":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1931because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1932ex_docmd.c.
1933
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001934Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001935Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1936
1937string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1938for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1939
1940Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1941
1942'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
194320)
1944
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001945Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
19462009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1947
1948Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1949
1950Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1951SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1952
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001953When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1954indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1955(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1956
1957Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1958are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1959Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1960Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1961that doesn't have a window.
1962
1963When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1964doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1965
1966getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1967displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1968
1969":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1970
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001971There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1972was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1973perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1974
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001975Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1976
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001977Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1978command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1979
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001980Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1981does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1982
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001983opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1984height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001985very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001986
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001987Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1988(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1989
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001990Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001991(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1992
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001993Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1994char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1995
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001996Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1997Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1998
1999This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2000
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002001Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2002messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2003es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
20042009 Jan 26)
2005
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002006When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002007in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2008Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2009
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002010Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2011a modeline.
2012
2013Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2014Sergey Khorev)
2015
2016Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2017part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002018
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002019After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2020correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2021
2022Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2023(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2024
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002025shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002026'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2027Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2028unix-like shell?
2029
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002030Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2031register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2032(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2033
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002034Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2035Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2036
2037Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2038make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2039
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002040When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2041still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2042
2043"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2044(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2045
2046Update src/testdir/main.aap.
2047
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002048Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2049that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2050ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2051Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2052
2053Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002054Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002055
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002056MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2057doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2058probably causes this.
2059
2060'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020020612009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002062
2063Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2064 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2065 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2066(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2067
2068Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2069":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2070option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2071is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002072
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002073":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2074first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002075Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002076
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002077Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2078laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2079Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002080
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002081Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2082anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2083
2084On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2085doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2086Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2087Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2088
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002089When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2090'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2091fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2092the buffer to be unmodified.
2093Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2094another look at it.
2095
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002096c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2097(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2098
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002099You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2100error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2101Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2102at the other match for 0xBF.
2103
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002104When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2105argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2106
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002107Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2108backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2109
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002110When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2111line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2112
2113Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2114position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2115
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002116After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2117(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002118command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002119
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002120":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2121Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2122
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002123When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2124either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2125put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2126
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002127Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2128Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2129Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2130Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2131(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2132
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002133Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2134
2135ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002136
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002137Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2138(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2139escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2140an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002141This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2142July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002143Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2144work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2145
2146When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
214731)
2148
2149Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2150work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2151Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002152
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002153Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2154multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2155(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2156
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002157Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
21582008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002159Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002160
2161Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2162Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2163'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2164
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002165Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2166Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2167
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002168Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2169Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2170
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020021718 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2172 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2173 several).
2174 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2175 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2176 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2177Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2178
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002179The utf class table is missing some entries:
2180 0x2212, minus sign
2181 0x2217, star
2182 0x2500, bar
2183 0x26ab, circle
2184
2185Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2186line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2187
2188GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2189Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2190
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002191Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2192try the Cocoa version.
2193
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002194Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2195changed or the window is resized.
2196
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002197GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2198the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2199
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002200Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2201Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002202
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002203Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
22041) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2205
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002206C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2207with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2208Try to reproduce at work.
2209
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002210Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2211Is there a way to list all the files first?
2212
2213When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2214result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
221516)
2216
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002217Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2218(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2219
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002220Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2221Await response to question to make the register writable.
2222
2223Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
22241)
2225
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002226In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2227each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2228
2229try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2230
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002231try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2232
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002233":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2234Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2235
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002236Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2237
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002238Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2239Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2240
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002241Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2242Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2243Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002244
2245C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
2246(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
2247
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002248When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2249and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2250
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002251Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2252 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2253
2254New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2255
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002256":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2257a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2258
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002259'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2260Likonen, March 19)
2261
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002262Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2263other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2264
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002265The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2266appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2267matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2268
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002269When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2270character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2271'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2272(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2273
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002274Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2275Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002276
2277More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2278
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002279Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2280http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2281
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002282Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2283back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2284Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002285
2286Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2287No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2288
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002289Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2290terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002291
2292Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2293
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002294Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2295but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2296that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002297
2298When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2299
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002300Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2301Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2302
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002303Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2304popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2305size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2306This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2307
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002308When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2309it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2310
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002311Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2312then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2313files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002314Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2315indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2316":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002317in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2318quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002319Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002320
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002321When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2322parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2323neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2324particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2325Jun 3)
2326However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2327the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002328
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002329A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2330Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2331
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002332Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2333Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2334
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002335Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2336switch list is noticed:
2337 switch (i)
2338 {
2339 case 1:
2340 foobar:
2341 }
2342
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002343Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2344
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002345Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2346with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2347go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2348moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2349
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002350Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
2351Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
2352Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2353argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2354(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2355
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002356Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2357(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2358
2359Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2360makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2361.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
2362 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2363
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002364Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
23652007 Feb 8)
2366
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002367Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2368set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002369
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002370Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2371
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002372Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2373Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2374New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2375patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2376
2377Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2378Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2379
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002380Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
23812007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002382Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002383
2384Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002385label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2386
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002387Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2388with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2389Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002390
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002391Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002393Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2394Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2395only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2396
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002397Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2398Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002399Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002400properly?
2401
2402Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
24032007 Jun 21)
2404
2405When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2406Jun 18)
2407
2408If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2409
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002410Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2411windows. (Adam George)
2412
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002413F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2414modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2415K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002416
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002417In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2418the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2419
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002420C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2421
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002422":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2423
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002424When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002425error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002426
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002427Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2428use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2429
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002430Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2431if_ruby.c.
2432
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002433":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2434
2435The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2436it in keep_msg?
2437
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002438Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002439error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002440name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2441
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002442Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2443longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002444
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002445Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2446Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2447Also for ":w" without a file name.
2448The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002449
2450"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2451Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2452
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002453VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2454directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2455(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2456
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002457VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2458
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002459input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2460name?
2461
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002462Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2463
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002464When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2465(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2466Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2467will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2468
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002469gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2470This also fails with --remote.
2471
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002472When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
24732008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2474all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2475
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002476aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2477
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002478When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2479(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2480
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002481Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2482the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2483
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002484GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002486Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2487superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2488
2489Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2490character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2491
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002492Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2493Jun 5)
2494
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002495Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
24962008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2497Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2498
2499In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2500but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2501Jul 22)
2502
2503There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2504
2505Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2506":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2507somehow? Or use a new function.
2508
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002509Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2510
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002511Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2512moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2513that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2514
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002515The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2516
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002517When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002518cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2519the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2520
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002521These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2522 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2523 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2524 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2525
2526Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2527partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2528
2529In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2530buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2531reload it then?
2532
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002533For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2534
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002535Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2536only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2537
2538Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2539tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2540doesn't contain other directories.
2541
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002542Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2543Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2544
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002545Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2546 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2547 set background=dark
2548This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2549color is, not reset it.
2550
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002551Linux distributions:
2552- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2553 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2554 xfree-xterm".
2555- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2556
2557Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2558start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2559show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2560middle?
2561
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002562Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2563
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002564When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2565current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2566the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2567
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002568When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2569Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2570
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002571Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2572 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2573 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2574 - getting colors in xterm
2575 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2576
2577Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2578Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2579
2580Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2581
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002582A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2583Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2584
2585Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2586Dara, 2006 June 21)
2587
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002588Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2589number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2590
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002591After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2592the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2593
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002594Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002595
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002596Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2597Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2598
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002599Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010026002008 Sep 29)
2601
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002602In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2603check the result of has("patch13").
2604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002605Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2606restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2607
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002608Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2609and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2610
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002611Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2612put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2613
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002614Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2615resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2616
2617In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2618can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2619
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002620GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2621maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2622doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002623Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2624visible.
2625
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002626When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2627differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002628
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002629The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2630be only one.
2631
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002632Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002633"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2634name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2635Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002636
2637Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2638(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2639
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002640Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2641as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2642
2643Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2644Jan 1)
2645
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002646Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
264723)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002648
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002649":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2650tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2651Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002652
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002653When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2654text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2655latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2656
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002657Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2658no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2659
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002660In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2661VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
26622007 Oct 16)
2663
2664TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2665Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2666
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002667Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002668
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002669When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2670typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2671Sep 3, 11)
2672
2673When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2674respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2675the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2676what happens for the GUI.
2677
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002678":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2679this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2680
2681When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2682Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2683restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2684
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002685Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
26862010 Jun 30)
2687
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002688Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2689'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2690(Kartik Agaram)
2691
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002692
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002693Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002694- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2695 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2696- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2697 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2698 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2699- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2700 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2701 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002702- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2703- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002704
2705
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002706More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002707- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2708 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002709- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002710- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2711 patch May 10)
2712- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2713 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2714- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2715 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2716- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2717- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2718- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2719 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2720 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002721- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002722- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2723 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2724- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2725 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2726- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2727 21)
2728- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2729 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2730- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2731 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002732- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2733 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002734- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2735 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2736 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2737 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2738 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002739- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002740
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002741Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000027429 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2743 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2744 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2745 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2746 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2747 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2748 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2749 (Alan Schmitt)
2750 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002751 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2752 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000027539 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002754 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000027558 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027567 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2757 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2758 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027598 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002760 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020027617 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002762 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2763- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2764 for multi-byte characters.
2765- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2766- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2767 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2768 been given values.
2769 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
27708 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002771 with an ESC sequence.
2772 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2773 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2774 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027757 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2776 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2777- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2778 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2779 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
27808 Add functions:
2781 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2782 Update 2004 Sep 10
2783 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2784 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002785 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002786 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2787 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2788 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2789 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2790 (2003 May 13)
2791 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2792 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002793 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2794 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002795 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2796 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2797 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027987 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2799 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2800- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2801 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
28027 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2803 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028048 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2805 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028067 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28078 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2808 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28097 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2810 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028117 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2812- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2813 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2814 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002815- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2816 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2817- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2818
2819
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002820Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002821- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2822 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028238 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2824 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2825 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2826 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2827 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2828 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028298 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2830 make Vim exit.
28317 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2832 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2833 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
28348 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2835 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2836 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
28376 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2838 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2839 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
28408 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2841 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2842 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2843 names in one buffer???
2844 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2845 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2846 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
28477 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2848 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2849 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002850 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2851 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028527 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2853 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
28547 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
28557 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028567 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2857 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2858 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2859 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
28607 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
28617 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
28627 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2863 to the match with the tag? Option?
28647 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
28657 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2866 (Sayre).
28677 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2868 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028697 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2870 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2871 match. Nvi can do it too.
28727 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2873 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2874 line 1\ line 2\\
2875 line 2\ line 3\\
2876 . line4/
28776 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2878 the way the shell is started?
28796 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2880 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2881
2882
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002883GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028849 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028858 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2886 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2887 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000028888 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2889 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2890 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028919 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2892 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2893 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2894 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002895- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2896 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2897 blocked for now.
2898
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002899
2900Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002901- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2902 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029038 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2904 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2905 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
29068 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2907 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029086 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2909 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000029108 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2911 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2912 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029137 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2914 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2915 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029167 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2917 2004 May 9)
29188 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2919 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2920 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2921 MS-Windows 98?
2922 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2923 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2924 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2925 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029268 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2927 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2928 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2929 doesn't work properly.
29308 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2931 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2932 appears in the right position. (Webb)
29339 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2934 button doesn't give popup menu.
2935 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2936 selection.
2937 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2938 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2939 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
29408 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2941 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2942 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2943 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
29448 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2945 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2946 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029477 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2948 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2949 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
29507 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2951 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002952 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029537 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2954 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029556 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
29568 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2957 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2958 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
29598 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2960 know which keyboard is being used?
29617 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2962 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2963 area (Koloseike).
29648 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2965 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2966 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2967 the font name).
2968
2969
2970Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000029716 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2972 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2973 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2974 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2975 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029769 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2977 required and it's missing?
29788 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2979 wrong.
29809 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2981 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000029829 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002983 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2984 flag.
29858 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2986 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2987 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
29888 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
29896 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2990 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2991 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2992 the tooltips work though...
29937 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2994 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
29958 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2996 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2997 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2998
2999
3000Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010030019 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3002 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030039 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3004 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3005 through files.
30067 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3007 read long file names. (Schroeder)
30084 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3009 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3010 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3011 problem during a refresh.
30125 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3013 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3014 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3015 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3016 colors as it should.
3017 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3018 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3019
3020
3021Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003022- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030237 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3024 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030258 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3026 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3027 (Phillipps)
3028
3029
3030GUI:
30319 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3032 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
30339 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003034 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003035 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
30369 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3037 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
30388 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3039 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
30408 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3041 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3042 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
30438 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3044 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3045 of where it is processing the output.
3046 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
30478 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3048 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010030498 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030508 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3051 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3052 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020030538 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030548 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3055 browse().
30568 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3057 use that code? Or use console dialog.
30588 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3059 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030607 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3061 - regexp on/off
3062 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3063 when all buffers/directory is used:
3064 - filter for file name
3065 when directory is used:
3066 - subdirectory on/off
3067 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030688 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3069 to avoid problems.
30708 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3071 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3072 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
30738 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3074 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3075 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
30768 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3077 up. Set erase character somehow?
30788 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3079 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3080 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3081 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
30828 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
30837 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3084 visible.
30857 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3086 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
30877 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3088 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
30898 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3090 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
30918 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3092 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3093 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3094 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3095- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
30964 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3097 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3098 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3099
3100
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003101Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000031028 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3103 a good fallback, thus use:
3104 $HOME
3105 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3106 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3107 $USERPROFILE
3108 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3109 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3110 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3111 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031128 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3113 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
31148 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3115 Should work like in the GUI version.
31168 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3117 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
31188 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3119 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
31208 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3121 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3122 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031238 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3124 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3125 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3126
3127
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003128Win32 console:
31299 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3130 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3131 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3132 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3133 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3134 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3135 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3136 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3137 and the file is not saved.
3138 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3139 long name.
31408 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3141 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
31427 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3143 besides the console.
31448 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
31459 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3146 <C-S-i>?
31479 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3148 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
31498 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3150 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003151
3152
3153Amiga:
31548 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3155 sequences.
31569 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3157 backslashes in result.
31588 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3159 all options, using white space separation.
3160
3161
3162Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003163- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031647 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3165 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3166 (Jack)
3167 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031688 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3169 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031708 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
31718 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
31729 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3173 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031749 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003175
3176
3177"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003178- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3179 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003180- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3181 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003182- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3183 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3184 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3185 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3186 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3187 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3188 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000031899 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3190 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000031919 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003192 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3193 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031948 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3195 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3196 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003197 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031987 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3199 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
32008 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3201 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3202 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032037 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3204 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003205- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3206 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032078 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3208 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3209 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3210 using the horizontal scrollbar.
32117 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3212 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3213 invocations belong together.
32148 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3215 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
32168 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3217 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3218 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003219 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000032208 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3221 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3222 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032238 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3224 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032257 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3226 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3227 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3228 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032297 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3230 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3231 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
32327 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3233 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3234 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
32357 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3236 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032377 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3238 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032399 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3240 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3241 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3242 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3243 script can be called.
32448 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3245 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3246 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032478 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3248 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032498 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003250 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3251 configurable?
32528 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032538 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3254 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032558 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3256 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032578 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3258 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032599 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3260 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3261 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032627 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032638 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3264 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3265 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000032668 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3267 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003268 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3269 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032708 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3271 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
32729 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3273 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3274 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003275 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032767 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3277 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032787 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3279 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3280 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3281 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032828 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003283 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3284 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3285 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3286 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003287 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3288 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003289 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003290 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003291 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3292 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3293 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3294 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3295 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032968 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3297 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
32988 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3299 in lines that don't extend into the block?
33008 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3301 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3302 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
33038 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3304 'linebreak'.
33058 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3306 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3307 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033089 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3309 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3310 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3311 'magic' in history. (Margo)
33129 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3313 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
33149 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
3315 isn't updated).
33169 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
33179 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3318 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3319 cause another redraw, etc.
33208 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3321 must escape special characters in the pattern.
33228 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3323 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3324 ":w!!" for that.
3325 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3326 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003327 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033287 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3329 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3330 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3331 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3332 clipboard)
33337 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3334 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3335 Waggoner)
33368 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
3337 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
3338 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000033396 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3340 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3341 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033428 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3343 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
33448 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3345 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3346 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000033478 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033488 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3349 (e.g., ":w").
33508 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3351 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033528 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3353 script in do_cmdline().
33548 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3355 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3356 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3357 changes.
33588 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3359 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
33608 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3361 check for file marks. This can be slow.
33627 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3363 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3364 needed.
3365 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
33668 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3367 to skip catch_signals()?
33689 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3369 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3370 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3371 text?
33728 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3373 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
33748 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3375 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
33769 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3377 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3378 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3379 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3380 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
33817 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3382 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3383 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3384 in the list?
33858 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3386 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3387 instead of on button down.
33888 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
33899 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3390 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003391 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3392 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033938 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3394 character is typed.
33958 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3396 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
33978 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3398 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
33998 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3400 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3401 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3402 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3403 cygwin bash.
34047 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3405 Remember flags for backreferences.
34067 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3407 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
34087 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3409 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
34108 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3411 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
34127 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3413 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034147 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3415 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3416 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
34177 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3418 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
34198 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3420 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3421 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
34227 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3423 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003424
3425
3426I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
34279 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3428 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3429 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003430
3431
3432Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003433- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3434 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3435 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003436- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3437 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3438 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3439 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3440 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3441 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003442 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003443- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3444 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003445 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003446 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3447 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3448 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003449- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3450 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3451 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3452 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3453 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3454- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3455 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3456 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3457- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3458 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003459- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003460- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3461 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3462 character gets the highlighting.
3463- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3464 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3465- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3466 (Jennings)
3467- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3468- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3469 errors. How do we get the rest?
3470- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003471- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003472 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003473- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3474 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3475 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3476- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3477 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3478 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3479 (Benzinger).
3480- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3481 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3482 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3483- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3484 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3485- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3486 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3487- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3488 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3489 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3490 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3491 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3492 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3493- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3494 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3495 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003496- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3497 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3498 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003499- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3500 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3501 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3502- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3503 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3504- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3505 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003506- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3507 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3508- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3509 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3510 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3511 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3512 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3513- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3514 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3515 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3516- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3517 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3518 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003519- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3520 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 +00003521- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3522 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3523 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3524 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3525 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3526- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3527 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3528
3529--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3530 *extensions-improvements*
3531
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003532Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3533- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3534 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3535 calling a function.
3536 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3537 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003538- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3539 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003540- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3541 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3542 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3543 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3544 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3545 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003546 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003547- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3548 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3549 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003550- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3551 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000035528 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3553 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3554 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3555 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003556- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3557 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003558
3559
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003560Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035618 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3562 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035638 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3564 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000035658 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3566 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035678 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035689 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3569 - change to cursor position and curswant
3570 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3571 - how it works for folded lines
3572 - how it works with multi-byte characters
35739 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3574 work too.
35758 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3576 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3577 text.
35788 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
35797 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3580 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
35817 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3582 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003583 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003584- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3585
3586
3587Help:
3588- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3589 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3590- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3591 to the other matches.
3592- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003593- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3594 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3595 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3596 default contents.
3597- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3598 height for the help window (and other windows).
3599- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3600- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3601- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3602
3603
3604User Friendlier:
36058 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3606 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3607 Briscoe)
36088 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
36098 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3610 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3611 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
36128 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3613 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3614- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3615 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003616- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
36179 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3618 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3619 item?).
3620 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036218 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000036227 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3623 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3624 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000036258 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3626 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3627 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3628 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003629
3630
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003631Tab pages:
36329 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036337 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3634 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036358 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000036368 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036377 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036387 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003639 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036408 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3641 tab pages.
36427 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036437 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3644 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003645
3646
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003647Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003648- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3649 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3650- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3651 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3652 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3653- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3654 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003655- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3656 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3657 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003658- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3659 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3660 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003661- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3662 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003663- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003664 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3665 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000036668 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3667 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
36688 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3669 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
36708 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3671 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003672 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003673 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3674 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3675 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3676 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003677- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3678 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003679- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003680- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3681 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003682- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003683 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003684- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003685 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003686- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3687 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003688- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3689 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3690- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003691 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003692 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3693 in the affix file separately.
3694 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003695 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003696 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3697 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3698 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3699- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3700 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3701 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3702 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3703 Alternative:
3704 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3705 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3706 affix which is required.
3707- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003708 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003709- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3710 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3711 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003712- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3713 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003714- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3715 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3716- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037178 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3718 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3719 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3720 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003721- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3722 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3723 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3724 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037258 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3726 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037278 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
37288 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3729 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037307 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
37318 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3732 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3733 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3734 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003735
3736
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003737Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020037389 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3739 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020037408 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003741 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003742
3743Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003744 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3745 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037468 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3747 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000037488 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037498 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3750 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3751 user aware of this?
37528 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3753 commands skip over a closed fold.
37548 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
37558 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037567 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003757- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3758 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3759 missing line goes unnoticed.
3760 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003761- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3762 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3763 smoother?
3764- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3765 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003766- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3767 file can contain:
3768 args version.c main.c
3769 edit version.c
3770 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003771- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003772- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3773 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003774- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3775 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003776- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3777 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003778- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003779
3780Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003781- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3782 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3783 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3784 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037859 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3786 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3787 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3788 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020037899 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3790 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3791 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037928 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3793 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3794 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3795 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3796 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3797 item.
37988 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003799 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3800 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038018 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3802 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003803 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003804 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038058 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3806 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038078 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3808 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3809 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038107 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3811 so that the user can fix the problem.
38128 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3813 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038149 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
38158 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038168 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
38178 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038187 Searching and composing characters:
3819 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003820 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3821 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038228 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
38238 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
38248 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3825 characters.
38268 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
38278 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3828 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
38297 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3830 'display' option to specify this.
38317 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3832 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3833- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3834 fontselector somehow.
3835- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3836 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3837- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3838 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3839- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3840 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3841 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3842 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3843 if a font exists?
3844- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003845 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003846- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3847 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003848- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3849 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3850 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3851 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003852- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3853 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003854 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003855- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3856 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3857 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3858 But it's very complicated...
3859
3860
3861Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000038627 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003863- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3864- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3865 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003866- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3867 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003868- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3869- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3870 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003871- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3872 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003873- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3874 units as for the margins.
3875- Support right-to-left text?
38768 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3877 color.
3878
3879
3880Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038818 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3882 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
38838 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3884 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
38858 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3886 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000038877 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3888 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038898 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3890 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3891 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038927 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3893 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3894 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038958 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
38969 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3897 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038987 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3899 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000039007 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3901 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039028 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3903 change this for each release.
39048 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3905 pattern, but not in the body.
39068 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3907 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3908 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039098 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010039108 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003911 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3912 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039138 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3914 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
39158 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3916 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003917 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039188 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3919 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3920 used.
39218 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3922 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
39238 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3924 re-insert the [] if possible.
39258 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3926 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000039278 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3928 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3929 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3930 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3931 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039328 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3933 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
39348 Support for deleting syntax items:
3935 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3936 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3937 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
39388 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3939 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3940 a '<'. (Fleiner)
39417 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3942 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3943 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
39447 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3945 detected.
39468 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003947 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039488 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3949 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039508 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
39518 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
39527 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3953 ":mkvimrc".
39548 Improve c.vim:
3955 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3956 "c_strict_ansi".
3957 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
39588 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3959 current line while in Insert mode.
39608 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3961 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
39628 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3963 display position.
39648 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3965 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3966 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
39678 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3968 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3969 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000039707 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3971 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3972 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3973 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3974 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039757 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3976 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3977 E.g. for this html:
3978 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039797 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
39807 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3981 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039828 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
39838 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039847 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3985 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3986 completion?
39878 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3988 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
39897 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3990 select one of the sets.
39918 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3992 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3993 2, etc.
39948 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3995 highlighting (for "." command).
39968 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3997 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
39988 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
39997 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4000 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
40016 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4002 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4003- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4004 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4005- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004006- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4007 (for comment blocks).
4008- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4009 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4010 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4011 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4012 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4013 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4014 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4015 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4016 (Campbell)
4017 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4018 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
40197 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4020 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
40217 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4022 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4023 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
40247 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4025 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4026 messages. And external commands?
40278 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4028 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
40297 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4030 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4031
4032
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004033Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040348 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4035 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004036 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040377 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4038 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4039 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040408 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4041 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004042- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
4043 2006 Dec 11.
4044- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020040458 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4046 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4047 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4048 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4049 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4050 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000040517 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4052 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040538 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010040548 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4055 can be the plugin name.
4056 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4057 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040587 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4059 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4060 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4061 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4062 autocommand.
4063 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4064 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4065 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4066 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040677 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4068 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040696 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4070 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040718 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004072 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4073 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004074 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4075 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4076 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004077 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4078 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4079 3 2002
4080 Only add this when also implemented for
4081 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4082 be used.
4083 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004084 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4085 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4086 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4087 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4088 File.Open..." argument.
4089 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4090 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4091 with properties instead.
4092 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4093 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4094 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004095 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004096 crypt() encrypt string
4097 decrypt() decrypt string
4098 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4099 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004100 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004101 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004102 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004103 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004104 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004105 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4106 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004107 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4108 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004109 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004110 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
4111 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004112 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4113 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4114 to allow the library to execute a command or
4115 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041167 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4117 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
41188 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4119 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041208 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4121 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041228 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020041239 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004124 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
41256 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000041268 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4127 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041288 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4129 option or environment variable.
41308 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041318 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004132 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000041337 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4134 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041358 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4136 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
41378 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
41388 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4139 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4140 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4141 charwise({expr}).
41427 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4143 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4144 buffer for this?
4145 result = scratch(string, command)
4146 result = apply(string, command)
4147 result = execute(string, command)
4148 "command" would use <> notation.
4149 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
41507 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004151
4152
4153Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000041546 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4155 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4156 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4157 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4158 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4159 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4160 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004161
4162
4163Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041647 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4165 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041667 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4167 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4168 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4169 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041708 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4171 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4172 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4173 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004174 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041758 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
41769 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
41778 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
41787 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4179 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
41808 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4181 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4182 when starting up in a color terminal.
41838 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4184 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041858 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4186 function be improved?
41878 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4188 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4189 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4190 this be improved?
41918 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4192 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000041937 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4194 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041957 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4196 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
41977 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4198 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041997 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4200 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4201 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4202 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4203 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4204 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4205 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042068 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4207 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4208 using strcmp() too often?
42097 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4210 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4211 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4212 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4213 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4214 the two blocks to the memfile block.
42157 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4216 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4217 with an argument that can be messed with.
4218 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4219 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
42207 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4221- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
42228 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4223 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4224- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4225 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4226- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4227- Do profiling on:
4228 - :g/pat/normal cmd
4229 - 1000ii<Esc>
4230 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4231 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4232 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4233 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4234 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4235 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004236 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042377 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4238 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4239 changed).
4240 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4241 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4242- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4243- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4244 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4245- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4246 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4247 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
4248- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
4249 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
4250- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4251- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4252 cursor is right of the screen.
42538 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4254 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4255
4256
4257Code size:
42588 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4259- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4260 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
42618 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
42628 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4263 it.
42647 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4265 left out.
42668 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4267 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010042688 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004269
4270
4271Messages:
42728 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4273 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
42748 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4275 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
42768 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4277 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004278- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4279 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4280- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042818 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4282 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042839 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4284 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4285 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4286 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4287 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042888 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4289 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
42908 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4291 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4292 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4293 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4294 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4295 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004296- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004297 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042988 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4299 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4300 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4301 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4302 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4303 error messages, printing text, etc.
43048 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4305 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4306 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4307
4308
4309Screen updating:
43107 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4311 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4312 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4313- screen_line():
4314 - insert/delete character stuff.
4315 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4316- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4317 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4318- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4319 waiting for a character.
43208 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4321 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4322 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004323
4324Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020043258 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043266 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4327- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4328 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4329 windows.
43307 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4331 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4332 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4333- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4334 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4335 (Goldfarb)
4336- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4337 bound windows.
4338- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4339 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004340- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004341- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4342 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4343 of lines but not with a single line).
4344
4345
4346Autoconf:
43478 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
43488 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4349 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4350- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4351 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4352- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4353- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4354- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4355
4356
4357Perl interface:
43588 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043597 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
43607 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
43616 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4362
4363
4364Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020043658 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4366 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043676 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4368 :libload internal-name libname
4369 :libunload internal-name
4370 :liblist
4371 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4372 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4373 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
43746 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4375
4376
4377Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000043789 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4379 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4380 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4381 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4382 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043838 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4384 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4385 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004386 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004387 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000043887 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4389 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4390 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043918 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
43928 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4393 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043947 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4395 window for each tag.
43967 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
43977 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4398 bottom" search message.
43997 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4400 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4401 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004402- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4403- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004404- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4405 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4406 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044077 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4408 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4409 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4410 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
44117 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4412 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4413 :tagargs clear
4414 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4415 matching).
44167 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4417 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4418 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4419 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
44207 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4421 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
44227 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4423 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4424 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004425
4426
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427Win32 GUI:
44288 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4429 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044307 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4431 (Mike McCollister)
44328 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4433 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4434 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4435 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4436 common part of the path.
44378 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
44388 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4439 gettext and menus work.
44408 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4441 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004442 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004443 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
44448 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4445 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
44468 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4447 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
44487 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4449 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
44507 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
44517 <Esc> should close a dialog.
44527 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4453 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4454 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4455 prompts.
44567 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4457 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4458 the file added into an already running Vim.
44597 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4460 functions to find the window title.
4461
4462
4463GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020044648 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004465- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4466 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
44677 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
44688 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
44696 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
44708 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4471 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
44729 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
44737 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
44748 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4475 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
44768 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4477 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4478 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
44798 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4480 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
44818 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4482 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4483 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4484 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044857 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
44868 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4487 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000044887 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4489 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4490 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044918 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
44928 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004493 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044948 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
44958 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
44968 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4497 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4498 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
44997 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4500 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4501 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
45027 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4503 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
45047 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4505 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4506 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4507 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045087 Should support multi-column menus.
4509- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4510 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4511- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
45128 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
45136 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4514 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
45157 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
45167 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4517 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4518 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
45197 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
45208 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4521 name can be chosen free.
45227 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4523 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
45246 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4525 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4526 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4527 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4528 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4529 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4530 things.
45317 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4532 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045337 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004534 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004535- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4536 where it was started from?
45377 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4538
4539
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004540Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020045419 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4542 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004543- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045448 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4545 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4546 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4547 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
45488 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4549 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000045507 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4551 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4552 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4553 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000045547 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045558 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4556 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045578 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4558 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4559 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045607 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4561 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4562 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045638 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4564 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4565 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045668 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4567 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045688 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045696 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4570 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045717 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045727 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004573 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4574 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4575 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045765 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4577 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4578 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
45797 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4580 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4581 file.
45828 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4583 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4584 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004585- Add events to autocommands:
4586 Error - When an error happens
4587 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004588 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004589 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004590 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004591 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4592 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004593 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004594 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004595 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4596 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4597 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4598 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004599 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004600 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4601 the char.
4602 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4603 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4604 file from CVS).
4605 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4606 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4607 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4608 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4609 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4610 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004611 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4612 changes.
4613 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4614 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004615- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004616 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004617 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004618 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4619 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4620 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4621 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4622 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4623
4624
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004625Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004626- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4627 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004628- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4629 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4630 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4631 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4632 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004633- Ideas from others:
4634 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4635 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4636 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4637 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4638 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4639 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4640 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4641 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4642 Uses Perl for C++.
4643 Uses ctags to find the info:
4644 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4645 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4646 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4647 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4648 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4649 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004650 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004651 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4652- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4653
4654
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004655Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004656- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000046577 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4658 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046597 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4660 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4661 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046628 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4663 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
46649 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4665 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4666 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046678 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4668 - ignore/match case
4669 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046708 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4671 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4672 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4673 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4674 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4675 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046768 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000046777 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4678 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046798 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4680 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4681 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4682 Should work for C++ and Java.
4683 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
46847 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
46857 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4686 instead of words.
46878 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
46888 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4689 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
46908 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4691 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004692- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4693 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004694- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4695 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4696 wildcards in the file name)?
4697- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4698- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4699- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4700 be in another file).
4701- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4702- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4703- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4704 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4705- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4706- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4707- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004708- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4709
4710
4711Command line editing:
47127 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4713 line.
47148 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4715 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4716 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4717- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4718 lines wraps to start of line).
4719- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4720 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4721 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4722 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4723 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4724 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4725 cmdwin does now already.
4726 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4727 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4728 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4729 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4730 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4731 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4732 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4733 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4734 Problems:
4735 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4736 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4737 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4738 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4739 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4740 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4741 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4742 character in first column?
4743 - Implementation ideas:
4744 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4745 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4746 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4747 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4748 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4749 Mode.
4750
4751
4752Command line completion:
47538 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
47548 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4755 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
47568 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4757 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047588 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4759 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047607 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4761 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004762- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4763- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4764 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047658 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4766 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
47677 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4768 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4769- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4770 identifiers (Webb).
47718 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4772 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
47737 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4774 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4775- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4776 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4777- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4778 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4779 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004780
4781
4782Command line history:
4783- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4784 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4785 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004786 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004787- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4788 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4789
4790
4791Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000047929 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4793 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4794 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047958 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4796 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4797 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4798 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4799 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048008 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4801 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4802 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048037 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4804 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004805- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048067 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4807 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4808- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4809 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4810 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4811 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4812 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4813 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4814- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4815 Normal mode.
4816- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4817 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4818 are used.
4819- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4820- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4821- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4822
4823
4824'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010048259 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4826 char * veryLongName =
4827 "very long string"
4828 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048298 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048308 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4831 long_type foo =
4832 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048338 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4834 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004835 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048368 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4837 func(
4838 new String[] {
4839 "asdf",
4840 "asdf"
4841 }
4842 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048438 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4844 (Chow Loong Jin)
4845 namespace {
4846 int
4847 func(int arg) {
4848 }
4849 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048506 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4851 func( arg1
4852 , arg2
4853 , arg3
4854 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000048557 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004856 func(
4857 int x) // indent like "(4"
4858 {
4859 if (a
4860 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048619 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4862 if (a)
4863 {
4864 if (b)
4865 {
4866 // {
4867 }
4868 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004869 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4870 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4871 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004872- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004873 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
48747 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4875- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4876 line).
4877- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4878- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4879 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004880- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4881 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4882- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4883 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4884- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4885- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4886 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
48878 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4888 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4889 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4890- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4891- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4892 lines start with "\item".
4893- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4894 /* here is a comment that
4895 is just autoindented, and
4896 nothing else */
4897- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
48987 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4899 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4900 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004901 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004902
4903
4904Java:
49058 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4906 Odendahl?
49078 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4908 "[i" commands and friends.
4909- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4910 (Jason)
4911- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4912 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4913
4914
4915'comments':
49168 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4917 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4918 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4919 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004920 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4921 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049227 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4923 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
49247 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
49256 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4926 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4927 regexp is used.
49288 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4929 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4930
4931
4932Virtual edit:
49338 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049347 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4935
4936
4937Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049388 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049398 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000049408 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004941 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000049428 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4943 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004944 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4945 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000049468 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049478 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4948 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049498 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4950 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4951 the end of the line or before a ".".
49527 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4953 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
49547 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4955 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049566 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
49575 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4958 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4959 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4960 cursor is on.
4961
4962
4963Select mode:
49648 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4965 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
49667 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004967 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049687 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4969 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4970 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4971 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4972 normal_cmd().
4973 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4974 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4975
4976
4977Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020049788 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4979 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004980- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4981 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4982 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004983- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4984 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4985 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049868 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004987 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004988 where needed.
49897 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4990 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
49917 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4992 of each selected line.
49938 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
49948 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4995 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4996 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
49978 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4998 Ben Godfrey)
49997 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5000 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
50017 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5002 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050037 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005004 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005005 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
50068 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5007 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
50087 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5009 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5010 option!
50117 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5012 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5013 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5014 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5015 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5016 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5017 without changing the column.
50186 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050197 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5020 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050216 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5022 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
50236 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050246 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005025 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005026 or other special character.
50276 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5028
5029
5030More advanced repeating commands:
5031- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005032- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005033- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005034 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5035 "y." will repeat last yank.
5036 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5037 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5038 and/or pick an older command.
5039- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5040
5041
5042Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050438 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5044 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5045 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
50468 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
50477 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5048 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050498 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5050 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
50518 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000050527 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050538 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5054 entering search strings.
50558 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5056 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5057 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050588 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5059 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050607 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050617 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5062 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050636 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5064 abbreviations are to be used.
5065- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5066 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5067 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005068- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5069 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5070 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5071 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5072 Or implicit:
5073 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005074- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5075 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5076 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005077- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5078 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5079- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5080 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
50816 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5082 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5083 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5084 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005085- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5086 non-replace Insert mode?
5087- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005088- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5089- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5090 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5091- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005092 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005093- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5094 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5095- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5096- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5097 ":freekeys".
5098- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5099
5100
5101Incsearch:
5102- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
5103- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5104 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5105 up every time.
5106- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5107 folds when going to another line.
5108- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5109 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5110 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5111 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005112
5113
5114Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051159 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000051168 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005117 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005118 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005119 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005120 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051219 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5122 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051238 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5124 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000051258 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5126 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5127 Perl does it this way:
5128 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5129 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5130 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5131 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051328 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5133 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5134 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000051357 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5136 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000051378 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5138 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000051397 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005140 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5141 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5142 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000051437 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005144 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051457 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5146 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051478 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5148 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
51498 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5150 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020051517 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005152 example.
51538 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5154 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5155- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5156 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5157 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5158 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051598 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5160 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5161 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
51627 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5163 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000051647 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5165 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051668 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5167 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051688 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5169 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051708 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5171 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5172 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5173 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005174- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5175 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005176- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5177 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5178- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5179 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5180 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5181 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051828 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5183 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005184- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5185 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051868 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5187 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5188 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005189- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5190 i ignore case
5191 I use case
5192 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5193 v use Vi regexp syntax
5194 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5195 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5196 Perl uses these too:
5197 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5198 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5199 o compile only once (Perl only)
5200 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5201 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5202 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5203 following command.
5204 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5205- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5206 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5207 for search string)?
52087 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5209 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5210- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5211 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5212- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5213 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5214- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5215- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005216 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005217 a for the next file in the argument list
5218 f for file in the buffer list
5219 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005220 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5221 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005222 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5223 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5224- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052257 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005226 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052277 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5228 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5229 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5230 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
52316 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5232 effects.
52337 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5234 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5235 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000052367 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005237 Also ":dselect".
5238
5239
5240Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010052419 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5242 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5243 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052449 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5245 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020052468 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5247 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052488 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5249 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5250 timestamp?
5251 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5252 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005253- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5254 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005255- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5256 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5257 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
52588 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5259 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5260 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5261 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
52628 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5263 only remember the lines that really changed.
52647 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5265 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5266 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5267 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005268- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5269 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5270- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5271 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5272- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5273 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5274 [-99].
5275- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5276- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005277- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5278 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5279
5280
5281Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052827 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5283 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5284 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5285 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
52868 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5287 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
52888 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5289 inode too.
52907 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005291 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5292 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052937 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5294 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5295- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5296 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5297- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5298 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
52997 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5300 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
53017 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5302 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
53038 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053047 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5305 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010053068 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5307 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5308 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005309
5310
5311Swap (.swp) files:
53128 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5313 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5314 there are short file name problems.
53158 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5316 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
53178 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
53188 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005319 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005320 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5321 file the same as the actual file?
5322 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053237 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5324 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
53257 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005326 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005327 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5328 enough room.
53297 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5330 or /var/preserve.
5331- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5332 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5333- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005334 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005335- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5336 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5337 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5338 cached list of which line is where.
5339
5340
5341Viminfo:
53427 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5343 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5344 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053458 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5346 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5347 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053488 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5349 name. (Schild)
53508 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
53518 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053528 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053538 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5354 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5355 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5356 this?
53577 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
53587 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5359 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
53606 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5361 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5362 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5363- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5364 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5365
5366
5367Modelines:
53688 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5369 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5370 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005371- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5372 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5373 'shiftwidth'.
5374- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5375 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005376- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5377 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5378 modeline setting.
5379- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5380 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5381- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5382 .cpp files.
5383- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5384 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5385- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5386 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5387
5388
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005389Sessions:
53908 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5391 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
53927 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5393 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053948 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5395 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053968 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5397 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5398 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000053997 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5400 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000054017 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005402
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005403
5404Options:
54057 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5406 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054078 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5408 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5409 also be supported.
54108 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5411 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5412 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
54137 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
54147 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5415 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005416 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005417
5418
5419External commands:
54208 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5421 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
54224 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5423 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5424 -f).
54254 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
54264 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5427 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
54284 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5429
5430
5431Multiple Windows:
54327 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
54338 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5434 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
54357 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5436 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5437 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000054387 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5439 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000054407 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5441 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054426 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5443 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005444 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005445 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
54467 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5447 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5448 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5449 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5450- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5451 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5452 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5453 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5454
5455
5456Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054578 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054588 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5459 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000054608 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 +000054618 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5462 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
54638 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5464 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5465 the mark was set.
54667 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5467 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5468 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5469 ":browse marks"?
54706 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054717 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5472 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
54737 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5474 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
54757 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5476 command).
54777 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5478 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5479 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5480 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
54815 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5482 mappings.
54836 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5484 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5485 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5486
5487
5488Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020054897 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005490 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005491- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5492 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000054938 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054947 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5495 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5496
5497
5498Writing files:
5499- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5500 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5501 shortname conversion.
55028 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
55038 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5504 file.
55058 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5506 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5507 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055086 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5509 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
55106 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5511 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
55126 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5513 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055148 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005515 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
55167 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5517 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
55187 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5519 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5520 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5521 waiting for a character to be typed).
55228 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5523 line of the window, like "[time]".
5524 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5525 Automatic and/or with a command.
5526
5527
5528Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000055298 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5530 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055318 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005532 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5533- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5534- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
55358 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5536 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005537- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005538 :s///N substitutes N times.
5539- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5540 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5541 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
55427 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5543 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5544 last line column 5.
55455 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5546 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5547 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5548 (Stanislav Sitar)
5549
5550
5551Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055528 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
55537 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
55548 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5555 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5556 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005557- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5558- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5559 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5560- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5561- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5562
5563
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005564Argument list:
55656 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5566 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5567 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
55686 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5569
5570
5571Registers:
55728 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055738 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5574 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5575 for every line.
55766 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5577 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5578 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5579- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5580 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5581- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5582 leader when line wraps?
5583- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5584 line in the range.
5585- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5586 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
55878 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5588 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005589
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590
5591Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055928 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000055938 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055947 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
55957 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5596
5597
5598Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000055997 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5600 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5601 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5602 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5603 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5604 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5605 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005606 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000056077 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5608 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000056097 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5610 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056118 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5612 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056137 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5614 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5615 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005616- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005617 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056187 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5619 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010056207 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5621 window as a buffer-tab selection.
56228 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056237 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5624 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
56258 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5626 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056276 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056288 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5629 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5630 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5631 in this Vim.
56328 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005633 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056348 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5635 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5636 have it apply to the following command.
56378 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5638 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5639 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5640 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056417 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5642 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056437 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5644 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5645 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5646 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056476 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
56488 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
56499 Support ACLs on more systems.
56507 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5651 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056527 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5653 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5654 (truncated to fit in the space).
56557 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
56568 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
56578 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5658 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000056597 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005660 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
56617 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5662 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056637 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056647 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
56657 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056668 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
56678 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5668 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5669 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5670 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
56718 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056728 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056738 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5674 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5675 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5676 does something like this. (Shah)
56777 Use growarray for replace stack.
56787 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5679 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
56803 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056817 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5682 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056837 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5684 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005685- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5686- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5687- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5688- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
56897 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5690 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5691- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5692 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005693- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005694- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5695 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5696- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5697 call "play newbeep.au").
5698- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5699 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5700 (Bhatt).
5701- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5702 blockwise registers).
5703- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5704 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5705- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5706 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5707 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5708 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005709- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057107 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5711 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5712- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5713 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5714 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5715 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5716 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057178 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5718 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057198 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5720 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5721 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5722 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5723 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5724- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005725- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057267 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5727 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5728- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5729 not in column 1.
57306 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5731 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
57327 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5733- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005734- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005735 :redir #> bufname
5736 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005737- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5738 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005739- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5740 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5741 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
57426 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5743 console? (Klaus Hast)
5744- Add :delcr command:
5745 *:delcr*
5746 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5747 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5748 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5749 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5750 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5751 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5752- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5753- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5754 characters from 'isprint'.
5755- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5756- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5757 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5758- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5759 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5760 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5761- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5762- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5763 Nvi).
5764- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5765 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
57667 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5767- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5768 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
57696 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5770- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5771 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5772 macro).
5773- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005774- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5775 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5776- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
57778 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005778- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5779- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5780- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5781 if it is not the first or last window.
5782- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5783 there is one) instead of the file itself.
57847 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5785 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5786 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5787- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5788- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005789 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005790 many percent down the windows).
5791- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5792 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5793 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005794 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005795- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5796 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5797- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5798 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5799- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5800- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5801- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5802 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058038 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5804 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5805 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5806 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5807 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005808- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5809 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5810- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005811 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5812- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005813 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5814 (Webb).
5815- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005816 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005817- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5818 hex codes like 0xff).
5819- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5820 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5821 the last TYPED command.
5822- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5823- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5824- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5825 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005826- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058278 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5828 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5829 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005830- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005831 trailing '.'.
5832- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5833 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5834 find_file_in_path().
5835- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5836 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5837- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5838- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5839 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5840- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005841 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005842- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5843 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5844 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005845- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5846- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5847- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5848 to the minimal size.
5849- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5850- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5851- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5852- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5853- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005854- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5855 entered)?
5856- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5857 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005858- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005859- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5860- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5861- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5862- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5863- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5864 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005865- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058668 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5867 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5868 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5869 or in octal.
58707 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5871 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005872- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005873 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5874- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5875- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5876 insert line command).
5877- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5878- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5879- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5880- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5881- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5882 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005883- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005884 yet.
5885- Implement 'redraw' option.
5886- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5887 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058887 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5889 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005890 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5891 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058928 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5893 do it.
5894- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5895- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5896 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5897- Add text justification option.
5898- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5899- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5900 off".
5901- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5902- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5903- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005904 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005905- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005906- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005907- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5908 commands.
5909- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5910- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5911- :table command (Webb)
5912- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005913- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5914- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5915- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5916- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5917- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5918 (Demirel).
5919- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5920- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5921 for use in macro's and the like.
5922- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005923 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005924- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005925 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005926- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005927 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005928 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5929- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5930 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005931- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005932 mkopttab to make option table?
5933- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5934 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5935- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5936 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005937- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005938 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5939- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5940 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005941- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059428 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5943 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5944 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5945 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5946 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059478 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5948 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5949 (Netherton)
59506 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5951 space after "(", for example.
59525 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5953 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5954 (Servatius Brandt)
5955
5956
5957From Elvis:
5958- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5959- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005960- Search patterns:
5961 \@ match word under cursor.
5962 but do:
5963 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5964 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
59658 ":window" command:
5966 :win + next window (up)
5967 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5968 :win - previous window (down)
5969 :win -- idem, wrapping
5970 :win nr to window number "nr"
5971 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
59727 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5973 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5974
5975
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005976From xvi:
5977- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5978- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5979
5980
5981From vile:
5982- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5983- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5984 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5985
5986
5987Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005988- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5989 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01005990 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005991 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5992 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005993- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5994 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5995- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5996 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5997 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5998 current layout mirrored.
5999- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6000- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6001 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6002- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6003- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6004 font in each top-level window.
6005- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6006- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6007- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6008- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6009 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006010- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6011 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6012- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6013 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
60144 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6015 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6016 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6017 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006018 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006019 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6020 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6021- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6022 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6023 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6024
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006025vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
6026vim: set fo+=n :