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Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Oct 26
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
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Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +010041Sign highlight in signcolumn disappears if there is line highlighting.
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Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020043Making everything work:
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +010044- Test all command modifiers.
45- Check many more builtin function arguments at compile time.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +020046- Closure arguments should be more strict, like any function call?
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +010047- Invoke user command in a :def function
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +020048- Make map() give an error if the resulting type is wrong.
49 Add mapnew() or mapcopy() to create a new List/Dict for the result, which
50 can have a different value type.
51- Error message for "'yes && 0" is "using String as a Number", should be "using
52 String as a Bool".
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020053- Run the same tests in :def and Vim9 script, like in Test_expr7_not()
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +020054- In autocmd: use legacy syntax, not whatever the current script uses?
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020055- need to check type when a declaration specifies a type: #6507
56 let nr: number = 'asdf'
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020057- Make sure that in vim9script a function call without namespace only finds
58 the script-local function, not a global one.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020059- Make sure that where a callback is expected a function can be used (without
60 quotes). E.g. sort() and map(). Also at the script level.
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020061- assignment to more complex lval: list[1][2][3] = 8
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +020062 Also "list[0] += value". test in Test_assign_dict_unknown_type().
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020063- ":put" with ISN_PUT does not handle range correctly, e.g. ":$-2put".
64 Add command to parse range at runtime?
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +020065- When defining an :autocmd or :command, how to specify using Vim9 syntax?
66 - always do this when defined in a Vim9 script
67 - add some command modifier.
68- For an :autocmd and :command argument, if a following line starts with "|"
69 append it. It's like line continuation. (#6702)
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020070- Implement "export {one, two three}".
71- ISN_CHECKTYPE could use check_argtype()
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020072- give error for variable name:
73 let p = function('NoSuchFunc')
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +020074- If a :def function is called with a function reference, compile it to get
75 the function type.
76 def Filter(x: string, Cond: func(string): bool)
77 Filter(x, { v -> v =~ '^b' })
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +020078- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
79- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
80- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020081- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
82 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
83 defined.
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020084- Does this work already: can use func as reference:
85 def SomeFunc() ...
86 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020087- Support passing v:none to use the default argument value. (#6504)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020088- make 0 == 'string' fail on the script level, like inside :def.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020089- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
90 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020091- Compile: for [key, value] in items(map)
92- Assignment to dict doesn't work:
93 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
94 ret[i] = string(i)
95- Appending to dict item doesn't work:
96 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +020097- Using ".." at script level doesn't convert arguments to a string.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020098- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
99- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
100- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
101 islocked()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200102- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
103 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200104- Implement "as Name" in "import Item as Name from ..."
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200105- Implement using imported items at script level from "import * as X" in
106 eval_variable(). Should pass the ".xxx" that follows and return that.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200107- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
108- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200109- Make closures work:
110 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100111 - nested closure only uses one context, not all (#7150)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200112- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
113- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
114- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200115- has() is compiled as a constant, but some checks are dynamic.
116 Check for dynamic values, such as "gui_running".
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200117New syntax and functionality:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200118Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100119- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200120Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200121- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
122 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100123- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100124- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
125- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100126- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
127- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
128- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100129- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
130 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100131- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
132 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100133- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200134- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200135- Future work: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200136- implement enum
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100137- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
138 EVAL expr
139 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200140- Make debugging work - at least per function. Need to recompile a function
141 to step through it line-by-line? Evaluate the stack and variables on the
142 stack?
143- Make profiling work - Add ISN_PROFILE instructions after every line?
144- List commands when 'verbose' is set or :verbose is used.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200145Further improvements:
146- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
147 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
148 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200149- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
150 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
151 body
152 enddef
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200153- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200154- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200155- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
156- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100157
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200158Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200159- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
160 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
161 current window.
162 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
163 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200164- Cursor not updated before a redraw, making it jump. (#5943)
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200165- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
166 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100167- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100168- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
169 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
170 the way. (#5737)
171 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200172- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
173 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200174- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
175 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200176- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100177- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
178 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
179- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200180- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200181 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100182- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
183 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200184- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100185 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100186- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200187
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200188Text properties:
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200189- :goto does not go to the right place when text properties are present.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200190 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100191- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100192- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
193 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100194- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200195
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100196'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200197- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
198 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100199- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
200 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200201- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200202- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200203- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
204 isn't one?
205 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
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Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200207Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100208- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200209- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100210- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200211
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200212Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200213- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100214- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
215 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200216- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100217- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200218- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200219 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
220 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100221- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100222- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
223 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100224 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100225 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200226
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200227Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200228- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200229- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
230 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
231 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200232- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
233 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
234 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
235 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200236- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
237 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100238- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
239 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200240 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
241 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100242 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100243- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100244- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
245 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200246- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
247 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200248- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200249- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200250- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
251 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200252- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
253 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
254- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
255 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200256- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
257 is disabled.
258- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
259- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
260 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200261- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
262 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
263 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
264- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
265- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
266 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
267- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
268 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200269
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200270Error numbers available: E653
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200271
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200272Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat, #7082)
273
274Patch for Template string: #4634
275Have another look at the implementation.
276
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200277Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200278Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200279
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200280Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
281
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200282Patch to use collation based sorting. (Christian Brabandt, #6229)
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200283
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200284Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
285with 'termguicolors'. #1740
286
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200287Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660.
288
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100289Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
290
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200291Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
292changes.
293
294Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
295This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
296to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
297
298Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
299Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
300
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200301Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
302Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
303
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200304Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
305Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
306
307Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200308Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200309(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
310Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
311- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
312 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
313 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
314- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
315 covered by the above change.
316So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
317same thing.
318Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200319
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200320Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
321autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
322 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
323 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
324 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
325 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
326 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
327The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
328
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200329Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
330Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200331
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200332Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
333Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
334After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
335work.
336
337Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
338autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200339
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200340Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
341 replace this:
342 let left = GetLeftFunc()
343 let right = GetRightFunc()
344 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
345 by:
346 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200347Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
348
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200349Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
350
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200351Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
352(#6539)
353
354When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
355register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
356(#6435)
357
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100358Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200359Causes flicker on resizing. Workaround from Ken Takata.
360How about only setting the attribute when part of the Vim window is offscreen?
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200361
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100362File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
363
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200364"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
365add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200366Athena is OK.
367Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200368Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
369manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200370
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200371Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
372
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200373:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
374(#5623, also see #5962)
375
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200376Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
377character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200378
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200379undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
380
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200381After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it causes
382corruption. (#6631)
383
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100384When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
385(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
386
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200387Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
388/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
389
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200390With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
391'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100392
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200393Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
394which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
395#6127
396
397When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
398":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
399Might be related to #6088.
400
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200401Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
402(#6919)
403
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200404When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
405Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
406(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
407
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100408Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
409(Paul Jolly, #5656)
410Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100411 Later more requests for what to track.
412 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
413 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
414 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100415BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100416Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100417
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200418Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
419
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100420Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
421(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
422
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200423Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
424
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200425Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
426
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200427Implement completion for "breakadd". Should expand the second argument, e.g.
428"func", and then function names after ":breakadd func". Including
429script-local functions.
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200430Also for ":profile".
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200431
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100432:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
433Dec 19)
434
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200435Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
436Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
437
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100438Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
439May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200440Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
441remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100442Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200443
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200444Alternate file is not set in the session file. Use setwintabvar("@#") ?
445(#6714)
446
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100447When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
448the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
449
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200450Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100451Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
452in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200453Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
454(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200455
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100456Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
457ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200458Is there a test for this?
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100459
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200460Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
461that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
462Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100463
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100464Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
465(#4087)
466
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100467behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
468#5771)
469
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200470":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
471goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
472unlisted. (#4478)
473
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100474Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100475
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200476":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
477find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
478
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200479Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
480
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200481Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
482Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
483
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100484Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
485
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100486Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
487
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200488The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
489support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
490
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100491"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
492
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200493Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
494Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
495
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100496Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
497
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200498When 'relativenumber' is set the line just below a diff change doesn't get
499updated. (#6138)
500
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100501Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
502
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100503Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
504
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200505Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
506(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
507
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200508When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
509default one. #4698
510
511When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
512with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
513
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100514Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200515Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100516
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200517Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200518Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200519
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200520Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200521fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
522
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200523Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200524
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200525Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
526- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
527- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100528- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200529
530Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
53113, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200532
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100533Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200534Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100535
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100536When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
537when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
538gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
539input buffer. (#5302)
540
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200541xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
542buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
543Xterm 224 supports it!
544Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
545Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
546Also see issue #609.
547We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
548
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100549:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
550(#5467)
551
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200552Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200553
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100554Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5552007 Feb 18)
556Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
557
558Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
559Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
560
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200561Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
562
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200563Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200564Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
565Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200566
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100567Errors found with random data:
568 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100569
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200570Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
571files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
572Include part of #3242?
573
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200574When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
575it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
576
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200577Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
578Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
579Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
580
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200581Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
582t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
583
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100584Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
585Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
586
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200587'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
588
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200589"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
590(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
591
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200592Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
593
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100594Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
595
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200596Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
597
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100598When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
599in a long line. #5189
600
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200601The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
602Give a few examples. (#4288)
603
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200604Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
605work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
606
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02006077 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
608 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
609 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200610Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200611
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100612Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
613read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
614be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
615
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100616Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
617CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
618with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
619fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
620displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
621
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200622Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
623
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200624Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
625
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200626Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
627https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
628
629Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
630http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
631http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
632Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100633- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200634- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
635- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
636 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
637- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
638- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
639Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
640- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
641- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
642Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
643- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
644
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100645Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
646Mar 5)
647
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200648Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
649- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
650 line.
651- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
652 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
653- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
654 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
655
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200656Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
657on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
658
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200659Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
660in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
661buffer didn't change at all.
662
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200663Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
664(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
665
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200666Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
667'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
668(#4450)
669
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100670When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
671But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
672similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
673
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200674C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
675(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
676
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100677Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
678added?
679
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200680Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
681negative. (see #4326)
682
683'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
684`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
685tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
686:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
687
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200688This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
689 vim: syn=nosyntax
690
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200691":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
692a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
693
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100694Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
695#2948. (related to #1512?)
696On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
697balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
69820, #2481)
699Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
700Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
701balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
7022018 Sep 14)
703Another request: #3811.
704
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200705More warnings from static analysis:
706https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200707
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100708Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
709
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200710Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
711
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200712Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
713internals of the dict structure.
714
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100715nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
716
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200717Missing tests for:
718- add_termcap_entry()
719
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200720Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
721change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
722them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
723
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100724Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
725Also run all tests with C locale?
726
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100727"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
728#3927
729
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200730Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200731Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200732
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100733When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
734case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
735For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
736
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200737Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
738(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
739expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200740
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200741Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
742 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
743 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
744
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100745Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100746punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100747
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200748ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
749
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200750Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
751drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
752
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200753Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
754is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
755
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100756When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
757scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
758using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
759
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200760Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
761#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
762(Sep 8)
763
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200764Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
765unified diff (list of lines).
766
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100767When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
768kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
769when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
770
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100771Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
772(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100773
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100774Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
775
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100776Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100777Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200778TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100779Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200780Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
781Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200782
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200783gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200784
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200785matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
78619.
787
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100788Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100789Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100790Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
791highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200792And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
793'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100794Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
795Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100796
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100797Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
798Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
799
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200800Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
801Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
802Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
803
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200804Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
805screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
806
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200807home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
808
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200809When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
810terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
811How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
812
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200813Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
814
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100815Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
816Feedback from someone who uses this?
817
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200818ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
819
820Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
821Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
822values.
823
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100824Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200825- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
826- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
827- omit diff.exe from distribution
828- Can we make this show differences within a line?
829- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200830
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200831Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
832
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100833Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200834What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100835
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200836When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
837includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
838
839Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200840Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200841
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200842MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
843(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
844
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100845Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
846
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200847Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
848
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200849Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
850window for the buffer.
851
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200852Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
853when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
854
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100855Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
856mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
857
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200858Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
859modified buffers
860 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
861 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
862 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
863 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
864
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100865Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
866- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
867- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
868- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100869- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
870
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200871Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
872characters. (#3246)
873
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200874'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
875
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100876Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
877Oct 28)
878
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200879ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
880Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
881Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
882Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
883
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100884Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
885- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
886
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200887Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
888- Test_setbufvar_options()
889- Test_exit_callback_interval()
890
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200891Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
892Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100893Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
894Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200895
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200896Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
897
898Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
89924)
900
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100901Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100902 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100903or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100904 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
905
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100906Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100907mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100908
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200909Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
910is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
911used for git temp files.
912
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100913Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
914
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200915Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
916behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
917(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
918
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200919Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
920pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
921
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200922Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
923script or function.
924
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200925When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
926E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
927does nothing otherwise?
928
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200929MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
930If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
931(wait a little while).
932CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100933
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200934Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
935MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
9362017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
937receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
938
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200939Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
940missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
941
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200942":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
943deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
944
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200945Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200946
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200947With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
948included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
949(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
950
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200951Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200952Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200953
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100954Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100955Jan 15, #2555)
956
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200957":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
958
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100959Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
960
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100961No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
962No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
963
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200964Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
965http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
966Should be supported with a flag.
967
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100968Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
969confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
970
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100971Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
972
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100973Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
974Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
975applying the diff, etc.
976
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200977Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
978Apr 26, #2849)
979
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100980User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
981word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100982
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100983Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200984
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200985With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
986(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
987
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200988Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
989:drop (remote commands).
990
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200991Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9922018 Jun 18, #3027)
993
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200994Implement option_save() and option_restore():
995option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
996 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
997 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
998 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
999 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
1000 be called when the same window is the current window.
1001 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
1002 the local options won't be restored.
1003
1004option_save({list}) *option_save()*
1005 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
1006 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
1007 let s:saved_options = option_save([
1008 \ 'ignorecase',
1009 \ 'iskeyword',
1010 \ ])
1011 au <buffer> BufLeave *
1012 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
1013< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
1014 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
1015 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
1016 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001017 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
1018 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
1019 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +01001020 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001021
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001022"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
1023directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
1024Also see #1689.
1025
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001026When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001027highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001028
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +02001029":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
1030
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001031No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
10322017 Dec 26, #2501)
1033
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001034A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
1035
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001036Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
1037
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001038A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
1039Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1040
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001041Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
1042(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
1043
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001044ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1045
1046Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1047
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001048Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1049Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1050
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001051Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1052in #846)
1053Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1054
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001055Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
1056Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
1057
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001058When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1059redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001060
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001061In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1062(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1063
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001064Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1065neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001066
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001067Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1068Nov 21)
1069
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001070When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
1071triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1072set_color_count().
1073
1074Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1075responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1076
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001077When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1078CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1079Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1080always nested.
1081
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001082matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1083
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001084Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1085
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001086MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001087for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1088
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001089Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001090(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001091
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001092Test runtime files.
1093Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001094
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001095Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001096
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001097Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1098defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1099Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1100
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001101After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
110213, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001103
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001104When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1105line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1106
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001107The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1108
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001109Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1110set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +02001111Was this fixed?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001112
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001113Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1114
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001115Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1116behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1117
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001118'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1119
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001120The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1121
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001122When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1123a command can delete it.
1124
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001125Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1126#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1127
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001128The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1129for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1130
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001131X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1132pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1133clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1134Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1135Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1136clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001137Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001138
1139Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1140
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001141Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1142attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001143that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001144
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001145Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1146(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1147
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001148Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1149buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1150Also fixes #2166?
1151
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001152Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1153stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1154
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001155Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1156possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1157
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001158When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1159case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1160
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001161Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1162existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1163Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1164
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001165Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001166
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001167MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1168Jul 4)
1169
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001170Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1171Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1172This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1173Christian cannot reproduce it.
1174
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001175Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1176wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1177Or is this not an actual problem?
1178
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001179Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1180
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001181Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1182
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001183'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1184#1736)
1185
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001186Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11878, #1690)
1188
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001189Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1190(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1191
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001192Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1193it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1194
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001195Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1196Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1197How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1198
1199Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1200(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1201
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001202Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1203
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001204assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1205it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1206
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001207Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1208for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001209
1210Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1211(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1212Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1213later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1214Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1215mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001216Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1217mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001218maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001219
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001220Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001221plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1222be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1223
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001224Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1225 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1226 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001227
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001228json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001229What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001230
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001231Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1232
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001233import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1234(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1235
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001236When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1237buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1238Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001239
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001240Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1241Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001242Another example in #1309
1243
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001244When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1245when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1246
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001247Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1248#1330)
1249
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001250Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1251
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001252GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1253g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1254timer expires.
1255
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001256Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1257highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1258
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020012598 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001260 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1261
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001262Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1263Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1264
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001265Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1266key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1267 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1268 echo keytrans(xx)
1269 <C-Home>
1270
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001271Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1272(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1273Make a function to check for function-like type?
1274
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001275Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1276(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1277
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001278Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1279 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001280 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001281
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001282Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1283somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1284
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001285The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1286"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1287Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1288
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001289Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1290
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001291Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1292about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001293Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1294
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001295Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1296#1053) With patch, does it work?
1297
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001298":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001299vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1300
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001301Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001302E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001303Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001304
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001305Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1306Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1307
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001308Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001309Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001310
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001311"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1312(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1313
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001314Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1315(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001316Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001317
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001318'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1319
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001320Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1321
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001322When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1323Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001324Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001325
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001326Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1327anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1328
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001329Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001330E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001331
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001332Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1333(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1334
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001335Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1336
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001337On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1338separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1339
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001340min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1341contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1342
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001343Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1344
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001345Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1346
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001347Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1348
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001349Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1350no longer support.
1351
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001352sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
13534#1038)
1354
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001355+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001356- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001357- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1358 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1359 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001360- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1361 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001362- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1363 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001364- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1365- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1366 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1367- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1368 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1369- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001370- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1371 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001372- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1373- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1374 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1375 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1376- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1377- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1378- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1379 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1380 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1381- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1382 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1383- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1384 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1385 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1386
1387Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001388- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1389 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1390 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1391 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001392- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1393 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001394- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1395 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1396- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1397 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1398- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1399 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1400 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1401 LC_CTYPE
1402- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1403 matches everywhere.
1404- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1405 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1406- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1407- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1408 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1409- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001410- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001411 2013 Dec 11)
1412- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1413 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1414- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1415- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1416 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1417- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1418- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1419- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1420- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1421 2015 Feb 7)
1422- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1423 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1424 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1425 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1426 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1427- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1428- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1429- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1430- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1431 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1432 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1433 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1434- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1435 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1436- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1437 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1438 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1439 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1440
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001441Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1442#1350)
1443
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001444Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
14453. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1446Also see #1635.
1447
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001448Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1449doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1450Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001451Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001452E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1453
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001454cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1455
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001456:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1457
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001458Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1459
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001460When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1461synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1462
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001463Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1464Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001465
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001466ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1467Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001468
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001469Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1470Jul 25, #948)
1471
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001472Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1473names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1474Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1475the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1476
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001477MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1478Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001479
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001480Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1481
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001482Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1483#1125
1484
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001485Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1486times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1487
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001488Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1489
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001490We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1491the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1492
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001493Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1494
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001495When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1496emoji_width table has only one entry.
1497
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001498It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1499Reject the value? #710.
1500
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001501When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1502Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1503
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001504Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1505No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001506
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001507Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1508(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001509
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001510Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1511
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001512Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1513https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001514Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001515
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001516Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1517but the reference remains valid.
1518
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001519Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001520interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1521Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1522interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1523result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001524
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001525Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001526work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001527
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001528Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1529
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001530Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1531
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001532Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1533Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1534
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001535When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1536Apr 17) #762
1537
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001538exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1539Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1540
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001541Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1542'iskeyword' for syntax.
1543
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001544When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1545maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001546Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001547
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001548Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1549It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1550Add configure check?
1551Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1552Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1553Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1554
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001555Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1556Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1557
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001558Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1559Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1560
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001561":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1562directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1563
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001564In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1565(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1566
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001567If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15682016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001569
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001570Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1571(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1572
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001573When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1574restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1575Do not trigger the event?
1576
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001577Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1578Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1579https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1580
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001581Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1582With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1583
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001584Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001585
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001586Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1587
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001588Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001589Only remembers one error.
1590
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001591GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001592
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001593Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1594(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001595
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001596Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1597github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001598 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001599Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001600
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001601Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001602
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001603Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001604comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001605
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001606Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1607
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001608MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1609wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1610
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001611Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1612specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1613
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001614Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1615(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1616
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001617Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001618inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001619
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001620Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001621(Luchr, #277)
1622
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001623Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001624'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1625before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001626
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001627C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1628and also line continuation after #include.
1629I can't recommend it though.
1630
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001631Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1632(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1633
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001634To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1635library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1636
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001637When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1638is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1639
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001640Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
164130)
1642
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001643MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1644(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1645
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001646The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
164724): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001648
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001649":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1650effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1651
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001652":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16539)
1654
1655The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1656wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1657
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001658Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001659Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001660
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001661When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1662the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1663
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001664Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001665slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1666inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1667
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001668ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16692014 Sep 11)
1670
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001671Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1672(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1673
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001674When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1675'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1676
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001677Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1678Work in progress.
1679
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001680Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1681when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1682
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001683Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1684Is this right?
1685
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001686Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1687(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1688Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1689
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001690Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1691Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001692
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001693Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1694Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1695
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001696Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1697
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001698When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1699filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1700initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1701
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001702Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1703
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001704Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1705OK to not block marks?
1706
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001707Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1708
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001709When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1710(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1711
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001712Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001713
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001714Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1715(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1716
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001717When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1718any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1719
1720Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001721
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001722Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001723
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001724Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1725(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1726
1727Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1728
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001729Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1730Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1731was already defined.
1732(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1733
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001734Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1735
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001736Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001737Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001738Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001739Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001740
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001741Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1742(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1743
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001744Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1745(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1746
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001747Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1748
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001749When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1750these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1751window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1752
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001753Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1754should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1755history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1756Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1757
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001758"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1759Jun 8)
1760
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001761Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1762insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1763
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001764No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1765
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001766Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1767(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1768Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1769arguments.
1770
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001771Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1772
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001773Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1774right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001775its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001776
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001777Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1778
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001779This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1780 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1781This neither: (ZyX)
1782 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1783
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001784'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1785Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1786from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001787
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001788Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17892014 Jun 8)
1790
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001791Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1792https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001793Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001794Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1795package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001796Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1797Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1798User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001799- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1800 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1801 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001802- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1803- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1804 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1805 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1806 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1807 on vim.org.
1808- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1809 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1810- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1811- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1812- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1813- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1814Implementation:
1815- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1816 plugin separate.
1817- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1818 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1819 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1820- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1821 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1822- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1823 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1824 installing.
1825Out of scope:
1826- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1827- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1828 useful).
1829
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001830Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1831normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001832
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001833When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1834menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1835
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001836Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1837(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1838
1839":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1840various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001841
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001842Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001843(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1844
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001845VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1846instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1847
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001848Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001849Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001850Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001851
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001852Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001853command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001854
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001855Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1856
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001857Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1858highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001859
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001860The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1861For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1862
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001863Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001864possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001865
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001866Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001867
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001868Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1869
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018707 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1871 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1872 "lucida_console:h8").
1873Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1874
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001875:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1876
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001877Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1878
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001879Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1880
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001881When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1882(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1883
1884Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001885Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001886
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001887GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1888(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1889
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001890Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1891registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1892
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001893Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1894
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001895The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1896(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1897Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1898
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001899The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1900- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1901- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1902
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001903Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1904Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1905reliably?
1906
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001907Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1908(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1909
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001910Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1911(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001912Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1913(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1914try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1915try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001916
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001917Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
19182013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001919
1920Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1921
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001922Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
19235)
1924
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001925Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1926carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1927
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001928Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1929highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1930
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001931Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001932
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001933Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200193428) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001935
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001936Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1937
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001938Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1939
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001940- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1941 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1942Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001943
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001944Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001945
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001946In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1947process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1948a reboot.
1949
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001950patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001951Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1952Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001953
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001954Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1955not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001956
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001957Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1958Or use expand('<sid>')?
1959
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001960Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1961
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001962Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1963
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001964b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19657)
1966
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001967Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1968compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1969
1970Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1971Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1972vim.bindeval().
1973
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001974Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19752012 Aug 4)
1976
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001977Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1978(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1979
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001980Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1981But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1982
1983Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1984Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1985Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001986
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001987Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1988loading all files.
1989
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001990'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001991
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001992Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001993of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1994
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001995The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1996Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1997But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001998
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001999When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
2000is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
2001
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002002URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002003- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002004- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
2005 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
2006
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002007Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
2008(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
2009Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
2010
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002011Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02002012New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002013
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002014When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
2015for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
2016Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002017
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02002018Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
2019
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01002020Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
2021
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002022Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
2023Apr 18)
2024
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002025Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
2026And one for gui_x11.txt.
2027
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002028":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
2029finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
2030Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
2031
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002032Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
2033
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01002034Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
2035
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002036Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
2037they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
2038
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002039Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2040
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002041Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2042Nov 20)
2043
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002044Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002045Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002046
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002047`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002048(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2049
2050Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2051
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002052BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2053Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2054
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002055Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2056Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2057
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002058Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2059
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002060On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20612012 Jun 19)
2062
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002063'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2064'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2065Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002066Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002067
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002068With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2069(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2070need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2071
2072Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2073only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
207421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2075
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002076Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2077New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2078
2079Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2080Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2081
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002082Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2083Jan 19)
2084
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002085Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2086discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2087meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002088
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002089"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002090Oct 26)
2091
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002092Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2093
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002094With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2095register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002096
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002097Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2098
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002099When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2100(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2101
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002102When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2103then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2104from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2105
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002106Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2107":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
210815)
2109
2110Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2111
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002112BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2113cleared. See test64.
2114
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002115On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
211664 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2117right type.
2118
2119string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2120(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2121
2122When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2123(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002124When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2125following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2126(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002127
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002128When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2129doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2130
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002131Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2132
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002133When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2134indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2135the help file.
2136
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002137After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2138Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2139
2140Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2141
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002142"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002143
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002144Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2145
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002146Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002147
2148Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21492010 Dec 18)
2150
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002151With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2152number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2153Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2154
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002155Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2156Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2157
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021588 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2159Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2160
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002161Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2162one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2163the match scrolls into view.
2164
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021657 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2166Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2167Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2168
21699 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2170 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2171Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2172
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002173Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2174Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2175
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002176In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2177or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2178sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2179
2180GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2181doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2182
2183GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2184
2185Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2186Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2187
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002188Wish for NetBeans commands:
2189 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2190
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002191Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2192
21937.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2194there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2195do?
2196
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002197Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
219822)
2199
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002200New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2201- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002202- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002203 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2204
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002205"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
22062011 Feb 27)
2207
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002208Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2209^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2210
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002211When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2212exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
22139) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2214
2215g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2216the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2217
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002218Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2219crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2220
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002221Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2222number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2223
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002224Regexp engine performance:
2225- Profiling:
2226 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2227 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2228 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2229 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2230 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2231 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2232- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2233- Performance tests:
2234 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2235 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2236 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2237 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2238 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2239 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2240 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2241 'hlsearch'.
2242 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2243 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2244 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2245 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2246
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002247Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2248Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2249
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002250'beval' option should be global-local.
2251
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002252Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002253
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002254setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002255
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002256With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22572010 Oct 24)
2258
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002259Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2260
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002261When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2262Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2263
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002264":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2265
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002266'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2267
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002268C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2269checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2270Issue 46.
2271
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002272Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2273
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002274Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2275gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2276
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002277":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2278accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2279
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002280Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2281setwinvar().
2282
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002283Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002284
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002285When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2286instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2287
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002288Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2289Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2290Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002291
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002292Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2293back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2294
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002295Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002296Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2297
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002298CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2299the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2300FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2301
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002302Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2303Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2304
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002305Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2306Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2307
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002308Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2309
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002310Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2311non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002312
2313iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2314Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2315or replace with a character and continue?
2316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002317Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2318Requires configure check for localtime().
2319Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2320
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002321Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2322
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002323Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2324Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2325path.
2326
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002327Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002328Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002329
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002330'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2331
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002332":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2333like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2334
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002335Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2336https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002337
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002338Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23392010 Nov 5)
2340
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002341Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002342Jan 7)
2343
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002344Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2345
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002346With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2347entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2348Feb 12)
2349
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002350Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2351characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2352
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002353Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2354
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002355Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2356 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2357
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002358Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2359
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002360When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2361Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2362
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002363When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2364not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2365string value.
2366
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002367For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368line argument -noregister.
2369
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002370When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2371missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2372
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002373When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2374doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002375
2376Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2377(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2378Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2379There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2380Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2381
2382":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2383highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2384to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2385
2386Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2387Probably needs a bit of work.
2388
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002389List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002390Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2391
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002392Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2393
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002394Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2395
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002396Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2397Sep 1)
2398
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002399Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2400
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002401Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2402on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2403
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002404Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
24052009 Jul 18)
2406
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002407Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2408window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2409Needs more work.
2410
2411Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2412
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002413When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2414few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2415
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002416'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002417(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2418
2419Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2420J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2421
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002422When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2423for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2424
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002425Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2426
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002427":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2428because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2429ex_docmd.c.
2430
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002431Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002432Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2433
2434string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2435for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2436
2437Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2438
2439'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
244020)
2441
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002442Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24432009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2444
2445Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2446
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002447When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2448indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2449(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2450
2451Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2452are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2453Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2454Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2455that doesn't have a window.
2456
2457When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2458doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2459
2460getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2461displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2462
2463":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2464
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002465There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2466was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2467perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2468
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002469Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2470
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002471Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2472command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2473
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002474Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2475does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2476
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002477opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2478height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002479very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002480
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002481Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2482(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2483
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002484Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002485(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2486
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002487Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2488char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2489
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002490Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2491Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2492
2493This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2494
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002495Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2496messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2497es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24982009 Jan 26)
2499
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002500When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002501in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2502Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2503
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002504Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2505a modeline.
2506
2507Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2508Sergey Khorev)
2509
2510Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2511part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020025126 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2513 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2514 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002515
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002516After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2517correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2518
2519Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2520(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2521
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002522shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002523'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2524Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2525unix-like shell?
2526
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002527Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2528register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2529(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2530
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002531Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2532Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2533
2534Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2535make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2536
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002537When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2538still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2539
2540"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2541(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2542
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002543Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2544that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2545ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2546Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2547
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002548MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2549doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2550probably causes this.
2551
2552'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025532009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002554
2555Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2556 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2557 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2558(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2559
2560Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2561":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2562option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2563is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002564
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002565":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2566first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002567Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002568
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002569Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2570laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2571Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002572
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002573Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2574anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2575
2576On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2577doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2578Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2579Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2580
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002581When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2582'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2583fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2584the buffer to be unmodified.
2585Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2586another look at it.
2587
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002588c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2589(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2590
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002591You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2592error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2593Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2594at the other match for 0xBF.
2595
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002596When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2597argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2598
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002599Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2600backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2601
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002602When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2603line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2604
2605Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2606position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2607
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002608After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2609(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002610command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002611
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002612":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2613Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2614
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002615When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2616either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2617put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2618
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002619Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2620Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2621Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2622Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2623(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2624
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002625Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2626
2627ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002628
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002629Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2630(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2631escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2632an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002633This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2634July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002635Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2636work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2637
2638When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
263931)
2640
2641Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2642work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2643Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002644
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002645Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002646multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002647(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2648
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002649Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26502008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002651Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002652
2653Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2654Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2655'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2656
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002657Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2658Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2659
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002660Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2661Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2662
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026638 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2664 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2665 several).
2666 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2667 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2668 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2669Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2670
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002671The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002672 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002673 0x2217, star
2674 0x2500, bar
2675 0x26ab, circle
2676
2677Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2678line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2679
2680GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2681Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2682
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002683Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2684try the Cocoa version.
2685
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002686Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2687changed or the window is resized.
2688
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002689GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2690the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2691
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002692Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2693Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002694
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002695Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26961) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2697
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002698C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2699with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2700Try to reproduce at work.
2701
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002702Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2703Is there a way to list all the files first?
2704
2705When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2706result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
270716)
2708
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002709Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2710(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2711
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002712Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2713Await response to question to make the register writable.
2714
2715Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
27161)
2717
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002718In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2719each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2720
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002721":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2722Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2723
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002724Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2725
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002726Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2727Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2728
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002729Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2730Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2731Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002732
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002733When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2734and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2735
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002736Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2737 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2738
2739New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2740
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002741":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2742a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2743
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002744'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2745Likonen, March 19)
2746
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002747Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2748other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2749
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002750The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2751appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2752matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2753
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002754When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2755character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2756'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2757(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2758
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002759Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2760Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002761
2762More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2763
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002764Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2765http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2766
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002767Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2768back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2769Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002770
2771Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2772No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2773
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002774Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2775terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002776
2777Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2778
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002779Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2780but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2781that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002782
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002783Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2784Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2785
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002786Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2787popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2788size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2789This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2790
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002791When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2792it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2793
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002794Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2795then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2796files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002797Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2798indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2799":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002800in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2801quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002802Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002803
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002804When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2805parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2806neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2807particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2808Jun 3)
2809However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2810the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002811
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002812A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2813Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2814
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002815Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2816Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2817
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002818Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2819switch list is noticed:
2820 switch (i)
2821 {
2822 case 1:
2823 foobar:
2824 }
2825
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002826Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2827
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002828Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2829with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2830go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2831moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2832
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002833Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002834GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002835Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2836argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2837(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2838
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002839Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2840(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2841
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002842Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28432007 Feb 8)
2844
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002845Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2846set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002847
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002848Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2849
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002850Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2851Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2852New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2853patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2854
2855Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2856Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2857
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002858Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002859label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2860
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002861Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2862with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2863Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002864
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002865Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2866
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002867Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2868Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2869only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2870
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002871Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2872Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002873Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002874properly?
2875
2876Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28772007 Jun 21)
2878
2879When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2880Jun 18)
2881
2882If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2883
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002884In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2885the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2886
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002887C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2888
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002889":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2890
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002891When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002892error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002893
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002894GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002895use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2896
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002897Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2898if_ruby.c.
2899
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002900":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2901
2902The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2903it in keep_msg?
2904
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002905Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002906error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002907name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2908
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002909Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2910longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002911
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002912Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2913Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2914Also for ":w" without a file name.
2915The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002916
2917"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2918Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2919
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002920VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2921directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2922(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2923
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002924VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2925
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002926input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2927name?
2928
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002929Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2930
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002931When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2932(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002933Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002934will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2935
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002936gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2937This also fails with --remote.
2938
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002939When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29402008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2941all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2942
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002943aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2944
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002945When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2946(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2947
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002948Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2949the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2950
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002951GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2952
2953Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2954Jun 5)
2955
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002956Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29572008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2958Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2959
2960In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2961but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2962Jul 22)
2963
2964There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2965
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002966Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2967
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002968Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2969moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2970that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2971
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002972The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2973
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002974When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002975cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2976the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2977
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002978These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2979 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2980 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2981 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2982
2983Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2984partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2985
2986In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2987buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2988reload it then?
2989
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002990For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2991
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002992Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2993only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2994
2995Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2996tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2997doesn't contain other directories.
2998
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002999Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
3000Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
3001
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01003002Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
3003 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
3004 set background=dark
3005This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
3006color is, not reset it.
3007
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003008Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
3009start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
3010show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
3011middle?
3012
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003013Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
3014
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003015When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3016current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3017the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3018
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003019When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3020Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3021
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003022Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3023Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3024
3025Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3026
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003027A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3028Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3029
3030Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3031Dara, 2006 June 21)
3032
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003033Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3034number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3035
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003036After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3037the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3038
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003039Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003040
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003041Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3042Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3043
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003044Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030452008 Sep 29)
3046
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003047In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3048check the result of has("patch13").
3049
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003050Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3051restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3052
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003053Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3054and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3055
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003056Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3057put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003059Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3060resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3061
3062In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3063can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3064
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003065GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3066maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3067doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003068Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3069visible.
3070
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003071When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3072differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003073
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003074The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3075be only one.
3076
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003077Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003078"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3079name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3080Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003081
3082Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3083(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3084
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003085Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3086as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3087
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003088Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
308923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003090
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003091":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3092tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3093Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003094
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003095When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3096text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3097latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3098
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003099Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3100no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3101
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003102In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3103VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
31042007 Oct 16)
3105
3106TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3107Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3108
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003109Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003110
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003111When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3112typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3113Sep 3, 11)
3114
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003115":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3116this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3117
3118When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3119Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3120restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3121
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003122Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31232010 Jun 30)
3124
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003125Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3126'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3127(Kartik Agaram)
3128
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003129
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003130Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003131- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3132 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3133- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3134 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3135 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3136- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3137 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3138 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003139- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3140- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003141
3142
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003143More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003144- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3145 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003146- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003147- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3148 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003149- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3150- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3151- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3152 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3153 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003154- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003155- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3156 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3157- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3158 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3159- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3160 21)
3161- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3162 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3163- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3164 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003165- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3166 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003167- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3168 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3169 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3170 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3171 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003172- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003173
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003174Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031759 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3176 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3177 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3178 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3179 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3180 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3181 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3182 (Alan Schmitt)
3183 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003184 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3185 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031869 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003187 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031888 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031897 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3190 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3191 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031928 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003193 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031947 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003195 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3196- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003197 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003198- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3199- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3200 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3201 been given values.
3202 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032037 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3204 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3205- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3206 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3207 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
32088 Add functions:
3209 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3210 Update 2004 Sep 10
3211 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3212 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003213 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003214 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3215 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3216 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3217 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3218 (2003 May 13)
3219 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3220 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003221 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3222 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003223 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3224 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3225 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032267 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3227 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032287 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3229 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032308 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3231 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032327 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32338 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3234 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32357 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3236 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032377 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3238- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3239 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3240 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003241- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3242 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3243- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3244
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003245Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3246- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3247 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3248
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02003249
3250Spell checking:
3251- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
3252 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
3253 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
3254 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
3255- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
3256- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
3257 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
3258 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
3259 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
3260 downloaded.
3261- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
3262 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
3263- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
3264 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
3265- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
3266 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
3267- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
3268 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
3269 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
3270
3271
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003272Quickfix/Location List:
3273- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3274 #2999)
3275- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3276 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3277 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3278 the quickfix buffer?
3279- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3280 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3281- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3282 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3283- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3284 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3285 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3286- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3287 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3288- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3289- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3290 2007 Jan 1)
3291- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3292 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3293- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3294 errors. How do we get the rest?
32958 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3296 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3297 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3298 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32997 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02003300 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003301
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003302Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003303- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3304 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033058 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3306 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3307 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3308 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3309 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3310 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033118 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3312 make Vim exit.
33137 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3314 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3315 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
33168 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3317 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3318 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
33196 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3320 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3321 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
33228 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3323 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3324 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3325 names in one buffer???
3326 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3327 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3328 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
33297 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3330 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3331 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003332 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3333 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033347 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3335 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
33367 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033377 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3338 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3339 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3340 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33417 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33427 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33437 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3344 to the match with the tag? Option?
33457 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33467 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3347 (Sayre).
33487 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3349 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033507 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3351 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3352 match. Nvi can do it too.
33537 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3354 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3355 line 1\ line 2\\
3356 line 2\ line 3\\
3357 . line4/
33586 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3359 the way the shell is started?
33606 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3361 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3362
3363
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003364GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033659 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033668 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3367 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3368 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033698 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3370 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3371 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033729 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3373 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3374 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3375 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003376- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3377 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3378 blocked for now.
3379
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003380
3381Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003382- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3383 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033848 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3385 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3386 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033876 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3388 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033898 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3390 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3391 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033927 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3393 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3394 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033957 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3396 2004 May 9)
33978 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3398 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3399 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3400 MS-Windows 98?
3401 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3402 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3403 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3404 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034058 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3406 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3407 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3408 doesn't work properly.
34098 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3410 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3411 appears in the right position. (Webb)
34129 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3413 button doesn't give popup menu.
3414 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3415 selection.
3416 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3417 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3418 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
34198 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3420 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3421 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3422 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
34238 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3424 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3425 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034267 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3427 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003428 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034297 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3430 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034316 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
34328 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3433 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3434 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
34358 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3436 know which keyboard is being used?
34377 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3438 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3439 area (Koloseike).
34408 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3441 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3442 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3443 the font name).
3444
3445
3446Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034476 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3448 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3449 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3450 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3451 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034529 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3453 required and it's missing?
34548 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3455 wrong.
34569 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3457 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034589 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003459 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3460 flag.
34618 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3462 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3463 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34648 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34656 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3466 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3467 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3468 the tooltips work though...
34697 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3470 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34718 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3472 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3473 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3474
3475
3476Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034779 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3478 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034799 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3480 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3481 through files.
34827 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3483 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34844 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3485 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3486 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3487 problem during a refresh.
34885 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3489 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3490 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3491 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3492 colors as it should.
3493 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3494 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3495
3496
3497Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003498- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034997 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3500 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035018 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3502 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3503 (Phillipps)
3504
3505
3506GUI:
35079 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3508 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
35099 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003510 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003511 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
35129 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3513 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035148 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3515 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3516 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
35178 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3518 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3519 of where it is processing the output.
3520 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
35218 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3522 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010035238 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035248 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3525 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3526 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035278 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035288 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3529 browse().
35308 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3531 use that code? Or use console dialog.
35328 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3533 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035347 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3535 - regexp on/off
3536 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3537 when all buffers/directory is used:
3538 - filter for file name
3539 when directory is used:
3540 - subdirectory on/off
3541 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035428 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3543 to avoid problems.
35448 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3545 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3546 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35478 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3548 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3549 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35508 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3551 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035528 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35537 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3554 visible.
35557 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3556 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35577 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3558 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35598 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3560 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35618 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3562 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3563 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3564 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3565- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35664 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3567 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3568 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3569
3570
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003571Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035728 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3573 a good fallback, thus use:
3574 $HOME
3575 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3576 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3577 $USERPROFILE
3578 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3579 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3580 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3581 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035828 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3583 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35848 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3585 Should work like in the GUI version.
35868 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3587 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35888 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3589 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35908 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3591 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3592 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035938 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3594 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3595 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3596
3597
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003598Win32 console:
35999 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3600 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3601 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3602 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3603 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3604 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3605 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3606 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3607 and the file is not saved.
3608 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3609 long name.
36108 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3611 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
36127 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3613 besides the console.
36148 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
36159 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3616 <C-S-i>?
36179 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3618 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
36198 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3620 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003621
3622
3623Amiga:
36248 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3625 sequences.
36269 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3627 backslashes in result.
36288 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3629 all options, using white space separation.
3630
3631
3632Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003633- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036347 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3635 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3636 (Jack)
3637 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036388 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3639 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036408 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36418 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36429 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3643 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036449 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645
3646
3647"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003648- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3649 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036509 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3651 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036529 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003653 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3654 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036558 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3656 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3657 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003658 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036597 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3660 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36618 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3662 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3663 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036647 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3665 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003666- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3667 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036688 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3669 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3670 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3671 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36727 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3673 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3674 invocations belong together.
36758 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3676 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36778 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3678 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3679 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003680 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036818 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3682 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3683 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036848 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3685 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036867 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3687 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3688 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3689 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036907 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3691 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3692 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36937 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3694 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3695 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36967 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3697 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036987 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3699 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037009 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3701 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3702 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3703 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3704 script can be called.
37058 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3706 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3707 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037088 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3709 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000037108 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003711 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3712 configurable?
37138 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037148 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3715 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020037168 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3717 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037188 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3719 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037209 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3721 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3722 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037237 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037248 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3725 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3726 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037278 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3728 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003729 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3730 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037318 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3732 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37339 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3734 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3735 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003736 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037377 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3738 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037397 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3740 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3741 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3742 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037438 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003744 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3745 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3746 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3747 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003748 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3749 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003750 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003751 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003752 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3753 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3754 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3755 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3756 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037578 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3758 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37598 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3760 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37618 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3762 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3763 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37648 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3765 'linebreak'.
37668 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3767 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3768 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037699 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3770 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3771 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3772 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37739 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3774 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037759 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37769 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3777 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3778 cause another redraw, etc.
37798 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3780 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37818 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3782 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3783 ":w!!" for that.
3784 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3785 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003786 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037877 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3788 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3789 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3790 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3791 clipboard)
37927 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3793 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3794 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037956 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3796 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3797 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037988 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3799 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
38008 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3801 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3802 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
38038 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3804 (e.g., ":w").
38058 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3806 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038078 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3808 script in do_cmdline().
38098 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3810 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3811 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3812 changes.
38138 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3814 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
38158 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3816 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038178 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3818 to skip catch_signals()?
38199 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3820 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3821 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3822 text?
38238 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3824 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
38258 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3826 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38279 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3828 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3829 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3830 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3831 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38327 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3833 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3834 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3835 in the list?
38368 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3837 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3838 instead of on button down.
38398 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038408 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3841 character is typed.
38428 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3843 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38448 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3845 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38468 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3847 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3848 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3849 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3850 cygwin bash.
38517 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3852 Remember flags for backreferences.
38537 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3854 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38557 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3856 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38578 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3858 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38597 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3860 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038617 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3862 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3863 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38647 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3865 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38668 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3867 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003868 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003869
3870
3871I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38729 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3873 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3874 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003875
3876
3877Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003878- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3879 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3880 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003881- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3882 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3883 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3884 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3885 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3886 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003887 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003888- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3889 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003890 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003891 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3892 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3893 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003894- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3895 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3896 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3897 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3898 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3899- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3900 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3901 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3902- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3903 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003904- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003905- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3906 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3907 character gets the highlighting.
3908- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3909 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3910- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3911 (Jennings)
3912- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003913- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003914- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003915 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003916- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3917 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3918 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3919- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3920 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3921 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3922 (Benzinger).
3923- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3924 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3925 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3926- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3927 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3928- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3929 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3930- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3931 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3932 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3933 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3934 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3935 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3936- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3937 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3938 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003939- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3940 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3941 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003942- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3943 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3944 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3945- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3946 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3947- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3948 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003949- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3950 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3951- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3952 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3953 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3954 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3955 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3956- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3957 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3958 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3959- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3960 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3961 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003962- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3963 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 +00003964- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3965 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3966 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3967 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3968 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3969- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3970 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3971
3972--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3973 *extensions-improvements*
3974
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003975Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3976- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3977 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3978 calling a function.
3979 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3980 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003981- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3982 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003983 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003984- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3985 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3986 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3987 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3988 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3989 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003990 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003991- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3992 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3993 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003994- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3995 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039968 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3997 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3998 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3999 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00004000- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
4001 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004002
4003
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004004Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040058 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
4006 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000040078 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
4008 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000040098 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
4010 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040118 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040129 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
4013 - change to cursor position and curswant
4014 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
4015 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004016 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040179 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
4018 work too.
40198 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4020 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4021 text.
40228 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40237 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4024 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40257 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4026 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004027 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004028- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4029
4030
4031Help:
4032- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4033 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4034- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4035 to the other matches.
4036- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004037- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4038 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02004039 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004040 default contents.
4041- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4042 height for the help window (and other windows).
4043- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4044- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4045- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4046
4047
4048User Friendlier:
40498 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4050 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4051 Briscoe)
40528 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40538 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4054 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4055 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40568 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4057 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4058- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4059 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004060- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40619 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4062 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4063 item?).
4064 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040658 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040667 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4067 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4068 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040698 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4070 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4071 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4072 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004073
4074
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004075Tab pages:
40769 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040777 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4078 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040798 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040808 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040817 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040827 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004083 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040848 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4085 tab pages.
40867 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4087
4088
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004089Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004090- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004091 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004092- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4093 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4094 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4095- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4096 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004097- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4098 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4099 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004100- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4101 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4102 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004103- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004104 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4105 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000041068 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4107 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
41088 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4109 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
41108 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4111 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004112 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004113 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4114 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4115 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4116 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004117- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4118 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004119- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004120- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4121 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004122- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004123 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004124- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004125 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004126- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4127 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004128- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4129 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4130- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004131 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004132 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4133 in the affix file separately.
4134 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004135 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004136 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4137 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4138 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4139- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4140 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4141 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4142 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4143 Alternative:
4144 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4145 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4146 affix which is required.
4147- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004148 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004149- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4150 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4151 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004152- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4153 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004154- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4155 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4156- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041578 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4158 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4159 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4160 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004161- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4162 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4163 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4164 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041658 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4166 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041678 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41688 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4169 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041707 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41718 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4172 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4173 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4174 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004175
4176
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004177Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041789 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4179 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041808 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004181 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004182
4183Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004184 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4185 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041868 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4187 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041888 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4189 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041908 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4191 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4192 user aware of this?
41938 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4194 commands skip over a closed fold.
41958 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41968 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041977 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004198- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4199 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4200 missing line goes unnoticed.
4201 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004202- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4203 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4204 smoother?
4205- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4206 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004207- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4208 file can contain:
4209 args version.c main.c
4210 edit version.c
4211 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004212- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004213- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4214 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004215- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4216 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004217- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4218 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004219- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004220
4221Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004222- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4223 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4224 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4225 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042269 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4227 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4228 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4229 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042309 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4231 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4232 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042338 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4234 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4235 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4236 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4237 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4238 item.
42398 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004240 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4241 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042428 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4243 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042448 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4245 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4246 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042477 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4248 so that the user can fix the problem.
42498 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4250 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042519 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020042528 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
42538 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042548 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042557 Searching and composing characters:
4256 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004257 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4258 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042598 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42608 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020042618 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004262 characters.
42638 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42648 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4265 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42667 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4267 'display' option to specify this.
42687 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4269 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4270- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4271 fontselector somehow.
4272- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4273 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4274- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4275 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4276- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4277 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4278 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4279 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4280 if a font exists?
4281- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004282 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004283- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4284 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004285- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004286 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4287 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004288 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004289- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4290 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004291 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004292- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004293 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4294 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4295 But it's very complicated...
4296
4297
4298Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042997 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004300- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4301- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4302 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004303- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4304 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004305- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4306- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4307 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004308- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4309 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004310- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4311 units as for the margins.
4312- Support right-to-left text?
43138 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4314 color.
4315
4316
4317Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043188 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4319 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43208 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4321 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43228 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4323 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043247 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4325 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043268 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4327 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4328 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043297 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4330 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4331 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043328 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43339 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4334 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043357 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4336 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043377 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4338 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043398 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4340 change this for each release.
43418 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4342 pattern, but not in the body.
43438 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4344 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4345 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043468 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043478 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004348 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4349 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043508 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4351 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43528 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4353 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004354 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043558 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4356 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4357 used.
43588 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4359 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43608 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4361 re-insert the [] if possible.
43628 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4363 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043648 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4365 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4366 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4367 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4368 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043698 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4370 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43718 Support for deleting syntax items:
4372 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4373 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4374 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43758 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4376 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4377 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43787 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4379 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4380 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43817 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4382 detected.
43838 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004384 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043858 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4386 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043878 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43888 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43897 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4390 ":mkvimrc".
43918 Improve c.vim:
4392 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4393 "c_strict_ansi".
4394 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43958 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4396 current line while in Insert mode.
43978 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4398 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43998 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4400 display position.
44018 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4402 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4403 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
44048 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4405 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4406 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000044077 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4408 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4409 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4410 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4411 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044127 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4413 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4414 E.g. for this html:
4415 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044167 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
44177 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4418 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044198 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44208 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044217 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4422 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4423 completion?
44248 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4425 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44267 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4427 select one of the sets.
44288 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4429 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4430 2, etc.
44318 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4432 highlighting (for "." command).
44338 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4434 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44358 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44367 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4437 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44386 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4439 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4440- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4441 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4442- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004443- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4444 (for comment blocks).
4445- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4446 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4447 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4448 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4449 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4450 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4451 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4452 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4453 (Campbell)
4454 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4455 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44567 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4457 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44587 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4459 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4460 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44617 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4462 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4463 messages. And external commands?
44648 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4465 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44667 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4467 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4468
4469
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004470Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044718 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4472 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004473 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044747 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4475 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4476 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004477- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044788 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4479 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4480 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4481 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4482 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4483 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044847 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4485 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044868 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044878 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4488 can be the plugin name.
4489 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4490 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044917 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4492 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4493 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4494 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4495 autocommand.
4496 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4497 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4498 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4499 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045007 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4501 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045026 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4503 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045048 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004505 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4506 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004507 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4508 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4509 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004510 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4511 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4512 3 2002
4513 Only add this when also implemented for
4514 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4515 be used.
4516 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004517 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4518 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4519 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4520 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4521 File.Open..." argument.
4522 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4523 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4524 with properties instead.
4525 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4526 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4527 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004528 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004529 crypt() encrypt string
4530 decrypt() decrypt string
4531 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4532 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004533 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004534 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004535 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004536 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004537 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004538 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4539 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004540 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4541 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004542 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004543 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4544 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4545 to allow the library to execute a command or
4546 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045477 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4548 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45498 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4550 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045518 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4552 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045538 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045546 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045558 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4556 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045578 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4558 option or environment variable.
45598 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045608 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004561 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045627 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4563 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045648 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4565 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45668 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45678 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4568 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4569 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4570 charwise({expr}).
45717 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4572 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4573 buffer for this?
4574 result = scratch(string, command)
4575 result = apply(string, command)
4576 result = execute(string, command)
4577 "command" would use <> notation.
4578 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45797 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004580
4581
4582Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045836 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4584 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4585 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4586 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4587 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4588 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4589 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004590
4591
4592Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045937 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4594 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045957 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4596 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4597 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4598 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045998 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4600 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4601 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4602 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004603 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046048 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
46059 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
46068 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
46077 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4608 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
46098 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4610 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4611 when starting up in a color terminal.
46128 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4613 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046148 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4615 function be improved?
46168 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4617 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4618 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4619 this be improved?
46208 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4621 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046227 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4623 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046247 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4625 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46267 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4627 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046287 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4629 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4630 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4631 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4632 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4633 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4634 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046358 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4636 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4637 using strcmp() too often?
46387 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4639 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4640 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4641 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4642 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4643 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46447 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4645 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4646 with an argument that can be messed with.
4647 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4648 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46497 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4650- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46518 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4652 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4653- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4654 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4655- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4656- Do profiling on:
4657 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004658 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4659 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4660 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4661 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4662 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4663 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004664 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046657 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4666 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4667 changed).
4668 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4669 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4670- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4671- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4672 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4673- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4674 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4675 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004676- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4677- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4678 cursor is right of the screen.
46798 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4680 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4681
4682
4683Code size:
46848 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4685- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4686 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46878 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46888 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4689 it.
46907 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4691 left out.
46928 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4693 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046948 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004695
4696
4697Messages:
46988 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4699 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
47008 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4701 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
47028 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4703 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004704- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4705 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4706- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
47079 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4708 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4709 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4710 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4711 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047128 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4713 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
47148 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4715 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4716 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4717 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4718 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4719 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004720- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004721 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047228 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4723 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4724 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4725 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4726 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4727 error messages, printing text, etc.
47288 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4729 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4730 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4731
4732
4733Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004734- screen_line():
4735 - insert/delete character stuff.
4736 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4737- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4738 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4739- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4740 waiting for a character.
47418 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4742 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4743 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004744
4745Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047468 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047476 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4748- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4749 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4750 windows.
47517 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4752 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4753 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4754- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4755 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4756 (Goldfarb)
4757- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4758 bound windows.
4759- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4760 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004761- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004762- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4763 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4764 of lines but not with a single line).
4765
4766
4767Autoconf:
47688 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47698 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4770 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4771- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4772 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4773- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4774- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4775- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4776
4777
4778Perl interface:
47798 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047807 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47817 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47826 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4783
4784
4785Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047868 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4787 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047886 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4789 :libload internal-name libname
4790 :libunload internal-name
4791 :liblist
4792 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4793 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4794 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47956 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4796
4797
4798Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047999 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4800 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4801 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4802 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4803 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048048 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4805 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4806 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004807 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004808 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000048097 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4810 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4811 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048128 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
48138 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4814 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048157 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4816 window for each tag.
48177 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48187 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4819 bottom" search message.
48207 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4821 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4822 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004823- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4824- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004825- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4826 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4827 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048287 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4829 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4830 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4831 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48327 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4833 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4834 :tagargs clear
4835 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4836 matching).
48377 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4838 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4839 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4840 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48417 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4842 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48437 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4844 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4845 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004846
4847
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004848Win32 GUI:
48498 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4850 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048517 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4852 (Mike McCollister)
48538 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4854 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4855 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4856 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4857 common part of the path.
48588 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48598 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4860 gettext and menus work.
48618 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4862 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004863 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004864 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48658 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4866 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48678 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4868 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48697 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4870 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48717 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48727 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48737 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4874 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4875 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4876 prompts.
48777 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4878 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4879 the file added into an already running Vim.
48807 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4881 functions to find the window title.
4882
4883
4884GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048857 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48868 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48876 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48888 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4889 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48909 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48917 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48928 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4893 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48948 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4895 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4896 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48978 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4898 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48998 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4900 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4901 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4902 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049037 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
49048 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4905 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049067 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4907 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4908 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049098 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
49108 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004911 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049128 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
49138 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
49148 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4915 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4916 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49177 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4918 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4919 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49207 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4921 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49227 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4923 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4924 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4925 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049267 Should support multi-column menus.
4927- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4928 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4929- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49308 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49316 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4932 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49337 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49347 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4935 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4936 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49377 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49388 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4939 name can be chosen free.
49407 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4941 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49426 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4943 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4944 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4945 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4946 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4947 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4948 things.
49497 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4950 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049517 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004952 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004953- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4954 where it was started from?
49557 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4956
4957
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004958Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049599 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4960 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004961- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049628 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4963 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4964 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4965 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49668 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4967 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049687 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4969 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4970 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4971 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049727 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049738 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4974 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049758 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4976 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4977 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049787 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4979 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4980 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049818 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4982 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4983 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049848 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4985 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049868 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049876 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4988 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049897 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049907 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004991 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4992 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4993 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049945 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4995 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4996 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49977 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4998 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4999 file.
50008 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
5001 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
5002 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005003- Add events to autocommands:
5004 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02005005 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00005006 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
5007 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005008 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005009 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005010 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
5011 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
5012 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
5013 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005014 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005015 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5016 the char.
5017 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5018 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5019 file from CVS).
5020 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5021 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5022 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5023 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5024 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5025 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005026 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5027 changes.
5028 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5029 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005030- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005031 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005032 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005033 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5034 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5035 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5036 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5037 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5038
5039
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005040Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005041- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5042 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005043- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5044 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5045 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5046 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5047 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005048- Ideas from others:
5049 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5050 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5051 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5052 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5053 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5054 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5055 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5056 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5057 Uses Perl for C++.
5058 Uses ctags to find the info:
5059 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5060 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5061 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5062 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5063 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5064 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005065 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005066 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5067- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5068
5069
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005070Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005071- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050727 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5073 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050747 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5075 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5076 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050778 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5078 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50799 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5080 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5081 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050828 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5083 - ignore/match case
5084 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050858 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5086 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5087 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5088 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5089 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5090 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050918 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050927 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5093 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050948 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5095 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5096 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5097 Should work for C++ and Java.
5098 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50997 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
51007 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5101 instead of words.
51028 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
51038 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5104 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
51058 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5106 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005107- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5108 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005109- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5110 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5111 wildcards in the file name)?
5112- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5113- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5114- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5115 be in another file).
5116- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5117- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5118- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5119 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5120- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5121- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5122- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005123- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5124
5125
5126Command line editing:
51277 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5128 line.
51298 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5130 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5131 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5132- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5133 lines wraps to start of line).
5134- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5135 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5136 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5137 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5138 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5139 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5140 cmdwin does now already.
5141 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5142 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5143 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5144 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5145 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5146 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5147 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5148 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5149 Problems:
5150 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5151 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5152 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5153 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5154 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5155 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5156 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5157 character in first column?
5158 - Implementation ideas:
5159 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5160 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5161 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5162 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5163 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5164 Mode.
5165
5166
5167Command line completion:
51688 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51698 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5170 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51718 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5172 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051738 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5174 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051757 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5176 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005177- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5178- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5179 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051808 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5181 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51827 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5183 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5184- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5185 identifiers (Webb).
51868 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5187 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51887 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5189 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5190- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5191 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5192- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5193 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5194 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005195
5196
5197Command line history:
5198- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5199 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5200 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005201 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005202- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5203 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5204
5205
5206Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000052079 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5208 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5209 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052108 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5211 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5212 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5213 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5214 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052158 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5216 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5217 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052187 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5219 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005220- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052217 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5222 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5223- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5224 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5225 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5226 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5227 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5228 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5229- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5230 Normal mode.
5231- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5232 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5233 are used.
5234- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5235- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5236- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5237
5238
5239'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052409 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5241 char * veryLongName =
5242 "very long string"
5243 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052448 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052458 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5246 long_type foo =
5247 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052488 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5249 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005250 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052518 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5252 func(
5253 new String[] {
5254 "asdf",
5255 "asdf"
5256 }
5257 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052588 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5259 (Chow Loong Jin)
5260 namespace {
5261 int
5262 func(int arg) {
5263 }
5264 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052656 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5266 func( arg1
5267 , arg2
5268 , arg3
5269 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052707 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005271 func(
5272 int x) // indent like "(4"
5273 {
5274 if (a
5275 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052769 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5277 if (a)
5278 {
5279 if (b)
5280 {
5281 // {
5282 }
5283 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005284 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5285 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5286 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005287- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005288 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52897 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5290- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5291 line).
5292- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5293- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5294 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005295- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5296 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5297- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5298 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5299- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5300- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5301 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
53028 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5303 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5304 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5305- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5306- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5307 lines start with "\item".
5308- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5309 /* here is a comment that
5310 is just autoindented, and
5311 nothing else */
5312- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
53137 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5314 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5315 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005316 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005317
5318
5319Java:
53208 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5321 Odendahl?
53228 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5323 "[i" commands and friends.
5324- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5325 (Jason)
5326- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5327 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5328
5329
5330'comments':
53318 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5332 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5333 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5334 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005335 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5336 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053377 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5338 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53397 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53406 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5341 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5342 regexp is used.
53438 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5344 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5345
5346
5347Virtual edit:
53488 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053497 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5350
5351
5352Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053538 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053548 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053558 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005356 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020053578 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005358 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005359 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5360 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020053618 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053628 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5363 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053648 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5365 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5366 the end of the line or before a ".".
53677 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5368 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53697 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5370 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053716 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53725 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5373 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5374 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5375 cursor is on.
5376
5377
5378Select mode:
53798 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5380 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53817 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005382 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053837 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5384 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5385 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5386 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5387 normal_cmd().
5388 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5389 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5390
5391
5392Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053938 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5394 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005395- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5396 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5397 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005398- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5399 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5400 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054018 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005402 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005403 where needed.
54047 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5405 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
54067 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5407 of each selected line.
54088 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
54098 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5410 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5411 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
54128 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5413 Ben Godfrey)
54147 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5415 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54167 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5417 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054187 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005419 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005420 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54218 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5422 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54237 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5424 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5425 option!
54267 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5427 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5428 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5429 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5430 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5431 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5432 without changing the column.
54336 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054347 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5435 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054366 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5437 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54386 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054396 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005440 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005441 or other special character.
54426 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5443
5444
5445More advanced repeating commands:
5446- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005447- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005448- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005449 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5450 "y." will repeat last yank.
5451 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5452 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5453 and/or pick an older command.
5454- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5455
5456
5457Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054588 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5459 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5460 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54618 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54627 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5463 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054648 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5465 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54668 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054677 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054688 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5469 entering search strings.
54708 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5471 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5472 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054738 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5474 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054757 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054767 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5477 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054786 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5479 abbreviations are to be used.
5480- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5481 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5482 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005483- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5484 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5485 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5486 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5487 Or implicit:
5488 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005489- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5490 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5491 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005492- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5493 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5494- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5495 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54966 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5497 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5498 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5499 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005500- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5501 non-replace Insert mode?
5502- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005503- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5504- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5505 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5506- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005507 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005508- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5509 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5510- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5511- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5512 ":freekeys".
5513- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5514
5515
5516Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005517- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5518 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5519- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5520 folds when going to another line.
5521 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5522- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5523 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005524- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5525 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5526 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005527- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5528 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5529 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5530 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055319 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5532 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005533
5534
5535Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055369 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055378 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005538 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005539 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005540 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005541 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055429 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5543 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055448 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5545 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055468 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5547 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5548 Perl does it this way:
5549 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5550 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5551 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5552 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055538 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5554 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5555 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055567 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5557 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055588 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5559 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055607 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005561 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5562 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5563 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055647 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005565 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055667 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5567 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055688 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5569 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55708 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5571 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055727 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005573 example.
55748 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5575 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5576- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5577 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5578 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5579 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055808 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5581 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5582 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55837 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5584 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055857 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5586 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055878 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5588 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055898 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5590 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055918 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5592 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5593 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5594 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005595- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5596 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005597- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5598 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5599- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5600 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5601 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5602 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056038 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5604 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005605- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5606 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056078 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5608 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5609 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005610- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5611 i ignore case
5612 I use case
5613 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5614 v use Vi regexp syntax
5615 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5616 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5617 Perl uses these too:
5618 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5619 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5620 o compile only once (Perl only)
5621 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5622 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5623 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5624 following command.
5625 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5626- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5627 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5628 for search string)?
56297 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5630 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5631- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5632 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5633- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5634 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5635- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5636- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005637 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005638 a for the next file in the argument list
5639 f for file in the buffer list
5640 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005641 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5642 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005643 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5644 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5645- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056467 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005647 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056487 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5649 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5650 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5651 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56526 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5653 effects.
56547 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5655 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5656 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056577 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005658 Also ":dselect".
5659
5660
5661Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056629 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5663 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5664 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056659 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5666 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056678 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5668 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056698 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5670 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5671 timestamp?
5672 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5673 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005674- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5675 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005676- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5677 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5678 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56798 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5680 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5681 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5682 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56838 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5684 only remember the lines that really changed.
56857 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5686 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5687 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5688 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005689- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5690 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5691- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5692 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5693- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5694 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5695 [-99].
5696- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5697- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005698- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5699 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5700
5701
5702Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057037 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5704 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5705 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5706 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020057078 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005708 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
57098 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5710 inode too.
57117 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005712 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5713 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057147 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5715 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5716- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5717 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5718- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5719 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57207 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5721 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57227 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5723 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57248 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057257 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5726 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057278 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5728 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5729 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005730
5731
5732Swap (.swp) files:
57338 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5734 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5735 there are short file name problems.
57368 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5737 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57388 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57398 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005740 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005741 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5742 file the same as the actual file?
5743 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057447 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5745 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57467 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005747 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005748 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5749 enough room.
57507 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5751 or /var/preserve.
5752- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5753 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5754- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005755 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005756- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5757 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5758 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5759 cached list of which line is where.
5760
5761
5762Viminfo:
57637 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5764 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5765 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057668 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5767 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5768 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057698 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5770 name. (Schild)
57718 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57728 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057738 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057748 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5775 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5776 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5777 this?
57787 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57797 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5780 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57816 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5782 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5783 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5784- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5785 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5786
5787
5788Modelines:
57898 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5790 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5791 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005792- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5793 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5794 'shiftwidth'.
5795- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5796 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005797- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5798 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5799 modeline setting.
5800- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5801 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5802- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5803 .cpp files.
5804- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5805 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005806- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005807 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5808
5809
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005810Sessions:
58118 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5812 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
58137 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5814 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058158 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5816 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058178 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5818 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5819 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058207 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5821 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058227 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005823
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005824
5825Options:
58267 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5827 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058288 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5829 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5830 also be supported.
58318 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5832 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5833 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58347 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005835
5836
5837External commands:
58388 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5839 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58404 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5841 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5842 -f).
58434 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58444 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5845 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58464 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5847
5848
5849Multiple Windows:
58507 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58518 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5852 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58537 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5854 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5855 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058567 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5857 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058587 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5859 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058606 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5861 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005862 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005863 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58647 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5865 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5866 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5867 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5868- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5869 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5870 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5871 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5872
5873
5874Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058758 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058768 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5877 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058788 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 +000058798 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5880 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58818 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5882 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5883 the mark was set.
58847 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5885 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5886 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5887 ":browse marks"?
58886 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058897 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5890 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58917 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5892 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58937 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5894 command).
58957 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5896 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5897 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5898 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58995 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5900 mappings.
59016 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5902 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5903 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5904
5905
5906Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020059077 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005908 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005909- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5910 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000059118 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059127 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5913 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5914
5915
5916Writing files:
5917- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5918 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5919 shortname conversion.
59208 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59218 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5922 file.
59238 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5924 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5925 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059266 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5927 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59286 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5929 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59306 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5931 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059328 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005933 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59347 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5935 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59367 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5937 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5938 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5939 waiting for a character to be typed).
59408 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5941 line of the window, like "[time]".
5942 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5943 Automatic and/or with a command.
5944
5945
5946Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059478 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5948 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059498 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005950 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5951- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5952- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59538 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5954 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005955- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005956 :s///N substitutes N times.
5957- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5958 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5959 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59607 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5961 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5962 last line column 5.
59635 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5964 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5965 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5966 (Stanislav Sitar)
5967
5968
5969Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059708 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59717 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59728 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5973 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5974 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005975- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5976- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5977 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5978- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5979- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5980
5981
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005982Argument list:
59836 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5984 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5985 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59866 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5987
5988
5989Registers:
59908 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059918 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5992 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5993 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005994- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5995 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5996- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5997 leader when line wraps?
5998- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5999 line in the range.
6000- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
6001 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
60028 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
6003 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00006004
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006005
6006Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060078 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060088 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060097 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
60107 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
6011
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006012Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000060137 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6014 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6015 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6016 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6017 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6018 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6019 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006020 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060217 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6022 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060237 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6024 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060258 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6026 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060277 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6028 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6029 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006030- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006031 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060327 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6033 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60348 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060357 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6036 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60378 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6038 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060396 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060408 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6041 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6042 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6043 in this Vim.
60448 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006045 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060468 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6047 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6048 have it apply to the following command.
60498 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6050 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6051 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6052 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060537 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6054 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060557 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6056 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6057 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6058 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060596 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60608 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60619 Support ACLs on more systems.
60627 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6063 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060647 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6065 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6066 (truncated to fit in the space).
60677 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60688 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60698 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6070 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060717 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006072 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60737 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6074 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060757 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060767 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60777 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060788 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60798 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6080 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6081 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6082 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60838 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060848 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060858 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6086 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6087 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6088 does something like this. (Shah)
60897 Use growarray for replace stack.
60907 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6091 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60923 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060937 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6094 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060957 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6096 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6098- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6099- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6100- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
61017 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6102 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6103- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6104 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006105- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006106- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6107 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6108- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6109 call "play newbeep.au").
6110- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6111 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6112 (Bhatt).
6113- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6114 blockwise registers).
6115- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6116 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6117- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6118 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6119 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6120 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006121- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061227 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6123 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6124- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6125 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6126 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6127 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6128 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061298 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6130 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061318 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6132 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6133 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6134 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6135 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6136- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02006137- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061387 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6139 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6140- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6141 not in column 1.
61426 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6143 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61447 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6145- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006146- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006147 :redir #> bufname
6148 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006149- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6150 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006151- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6152 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6153 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61546 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6155 console? (Klaus Hast)
6156- Add :delcr command:
6157 *:delcr*
6158 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6159 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6160 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6161 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6162 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006163 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006164- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6165- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6166 characters from 'isprint'.
6167- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6168- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6169 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6170- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6171 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6172 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6173- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6174- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6175 Nvi).
6176- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6177 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61787 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6179- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6180 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61816 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6182- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6183 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6184 macro).
6185- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006186- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6187 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6188- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61898 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006190- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6191- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6192- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6193 if it is not the first or last window.
6194- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6195 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61967 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6197 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6198 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6199- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6200- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006201 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006202 many percent down the windows).
6203- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6204 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6205 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006206 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006207- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6208 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6209- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6210 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6211- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6212- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6213- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6214 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062158 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6216 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6217 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6218 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6219 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006220- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6221 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6222- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006223 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6224- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6226 (Webb).
6227- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006228 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006229- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6230 hex codes like 0xff).
6231- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6232 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6233 the last TYPED command.
6234- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6235- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6236- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6237 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006238- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062398 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6240 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6241 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006242- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006243 trailing '.'.
6244- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6245 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6246 find_file_in_path().
6247- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6248 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6249- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6250- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6251 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6252- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006253 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006254- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6255 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6256 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006257- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6258- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6259- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6260 to the minimal size.
6261- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6262- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6263- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6264- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6265- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006266- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6267 entered)?
6268- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6269 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006270- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006271- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6272- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6273- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6274- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6275- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6276 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006277- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062788 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6279 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6280 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6281 or in octal.
62827 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6283 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006284- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006285 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6286- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6287- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6288 insert line command).
6289- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6290- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6291- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6292- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6293- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6294 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006295- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006296 yet.
6297- Implement 'redraw' option.
6298- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6299 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063007 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6301 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006302 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6303 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063048 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6305 do it.
6306- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6307- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6308 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6309- Add text justification option.
6310- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6311- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6312 off".
6313- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6314- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6315- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006316 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006317- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006318- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006319- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6320 commands.
6321- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6322- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6323- :table command (Webb)
6324- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006325- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6326- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6327- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6328- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6329- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6330 (Demirel).
6331- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6332- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6333 for use in macro's and the like.
6334- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006335 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006336- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006337 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006338- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006339 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006340 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6341- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6342 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006343- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006344 mkopttab to make option table?
6345- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6346 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6347- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6348 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006349- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006350 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6351- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6352 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006353- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063548 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6355 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6356 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6357 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6358 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063598 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6360 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6361 (Netherton)
63626 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6363 space after "(", for example.
63645 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6365 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6366 (Servatius Brandt)
6367
6368
6369From Elvis:
6370- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6371- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006372- Search patterns:
6373 \@ match word under cursor.
6374 but do:
6375 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6376 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63778 ":window" command:
6378 :win + next window (up)
6379 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6380 :win - previous window (down)
6381 :win -- idem, wrapping
6382 :win nr to window number "nr"
6383 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63847 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6385 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6386
6387
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006388From xvi:
6389- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6390- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6391
6392
6393From vile:
6394- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6395- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6396 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6397
6398
6399Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006400- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6401 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006402 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006403 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6404 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006405- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6406 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6407- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6408 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6409 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6410 current layout mirrored.
6411- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6412- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6413 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6414- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6415- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6416 font in each top-level window.
6417- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6418- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6419- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6420- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6421 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006422- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6423 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6424- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6425 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64264 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6427 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6428 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6429 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006430 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006431 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6432 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6433- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6434 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6435 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6436
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006437vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006438vim: set fo+=n :