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Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Jan 26
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020041'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010042- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
43 was set. (#3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020044- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
45 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010046- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
47 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020048- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020049- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020050- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
51 isn't one?
52 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
53
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020054Prompt buffer:
55- Add a command line history.
56- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010057- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020058
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020059Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020060- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010061- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
62 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020063- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020064- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
65 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
66 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010067- Add support for lldb? #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010068- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
69 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +010070 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010071 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020072
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020073Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +010074- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
75 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020076- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
77 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +010078- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +020079- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +020080- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
81 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
82 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020083- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020084- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
85 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020086- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
87 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020088- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
89 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
90- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
91 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +020092- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
93 is disabled.
94- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
95- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
96 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +020097- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
98 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
99 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
100- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
101- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
102 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
103- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
104 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200105
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100106Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
107Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100108Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
Bram Moolenaarf0d58ef2018-11-16 16:13:44 +0100109
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200110Key mapping times out when using a timer in Gvim. (Michael Henry, 2018 Sep 9,
111#3417)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100112Another report, with reproduction steps. (#3799)
113Is this fixed by 8.1.0761?
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100114
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200115Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
116- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
117- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200118
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100119js_decode() does not handle infinity properly. (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Jan 10,
120#3788)
121
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100122Patch to avoid skipping buffers when loading a session. (Jason Franklin, 2019
123Jan 20)
124
125Patch to update example of how to restore the cursor. (Ken Takata, 2019 Jan
12621)
127
128Patch to fix problems with timer in GUI. (Ozaki Kiichi, #3817)
129Should also fix #3824.
130Change the order in which GUI handles events? Make it work like os_unix.c,
131check timer on lower level, check for pending messages higher up.
132
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100133Signs:
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100134- screen not redrawn correctly. (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Jan 14, #3803)
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100135- Use a sign group in the Termdebug plugin.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100136- Avoid that "sign unplace id" does a redraw right away, esp. when there is
137 a sequence of these commands. (Andy Stewart, 2018 Mar 16)
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100138
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200139Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
14013, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200141
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100142Patch to recognize more systems with has(). (Ozaki Kiichi, #3855)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100143
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100144Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100145
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100146Errors found with random data:
147 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100148
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100149Patch for xxd to make it work with 64 bit numbers. (Christer Jense, 2019 Jan
15011, #3791)
151
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200152Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
153mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
154
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200155Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
156files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
157Include part of #3242?
158
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200159When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
160it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
161
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200162Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
163Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
164terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
165Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
166(Also #1890)
167
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100168Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
169Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
170
171Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
172
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100173When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
174But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
175similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
176
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200177C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
178(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
179
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100180Patch on #3690 to fix that "wincmd p" does not always behave properly.
181(Christian Brabandt, 2018 Dec 17)
182
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100183Patch: When using %v in 'errorformat', assume the number is the screen column
184not bytes, also handle multi-byte charactes. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #3700)
185
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100186Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
187"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
188
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100189Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
190#2948. (related to #1512?)
191On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
192balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
19320, #2481)
194Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
195Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
196balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
1972018 Sep 14)
198Another request: #3811.
199
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100200Patch for MinGW build with static libraries. (Ken Takata, 2018 Dec 16)
201
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100202Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
203(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
204
205Patch to add "termsig" - signal that caused job to end. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2019
206Jan 10, #3786)
207
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200208More warnings from static analysis:
209https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200210
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200211Patch for this: (Aron Widforss, 2018 Oct 13, #3539)
212 missing a test.
2137 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
214 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
215 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
216
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100217Patch for ConPTY support, new one: #3794 Does this work now?
218(Nobuhiro Takasaki)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100219
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100220Issue #3649: Retrying the X server connection once may be insufficient.
221Since patch 8.1.0615 we try reconnecting five times. Does it work?
222
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100223nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
224
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100225Patch to be able to separately map CTRL-H and BS on Windows.
226(Linwei, 2017 Jul 11, #1833)
227
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200228Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200229Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200230
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100231Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string doesn't work for the last
232character in the file. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3620)
233Suggested patch by Hirohito Higashi, 2018 Nov 18.
234
235Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
236punctiuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
237
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100238Using CTRL-L during search only picks up the base character, not a combining
239character. (Rick, 2018 Dec 11, #3682)
240
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200241ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
242
243Patch to convert temp file name. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #3520)
244Not ready to include yet.
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200245
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200246Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
247is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
248
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100249When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
250scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
251using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
252
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100253Patch to add ":vsbuffer" - vertical split + :sbuffer. (Rob Pilling, 2019 Jan
25417, #3816) Do we really need this?
255
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200256Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
257#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
258(Sep 8)
259
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200260Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
261unified diff (list of lines).
262
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200263Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
264 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
265
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100266Patch to fix that bracketed paste remains after Vim exits. (2018 Oct 30, #3579)
267
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100268Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
269(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100270
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100271cursorline highlighting not removed after yanking in Visual mode.
272(Matéo Zanibelli, 2018 Oct 30, #3578)
273Patch by Christian, Oct 30.
274
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200275Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
276Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200277Memory leak in test_terminal:
278==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
279==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
280==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
281==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
282==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
283==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
284==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
285==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
286==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200287
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200288gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200289
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100290Patch to add match count and current index "3/44" when using "n" command.
291(Christian Brabandt, on issue #453). Only when search string was typed?
292
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200293matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
29419.
295
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100296Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
297Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
298
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200299Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
300Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
301Not ready to include.
302
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200303:pedit resets the 'buflisted' option unexpectedly. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Oct 12,
304#3536)
305
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200306home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
307
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200308When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
309terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
310How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
311
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200312Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
313
314Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
315(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
316
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100317Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
318Feedback from someone who uses this?
319
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200320ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
321
Bram Moolenaarf0d58ef2018-11-16 16:13:44 +0100322Patch to use forward slash for completion even when 'shellslash' is set.
323Adds 'completepathslash'. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 15, #3612)
324
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200325Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
326Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
327values.
328
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100329Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200330- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
331- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
332- omit diff.exe from distribution
333- Can we make this show differences within a line?
334- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200335
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200336Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
337
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100338Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
339What is the practical use for this?
340
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200341When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
342includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
343
344Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100345Ask to write a test first.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200346
347Patch to add getregpoint() and setreg() with an option to set "".
348(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
349Better name?
350
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200351MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
352(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
353
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200354Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
355modified buffers
356 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
357 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
358 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
359 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
360
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100361Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
362- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
363- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
364- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100365- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
366
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200367Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
368characters. (#3246)
369
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200370'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
371
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100372Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
373Oct 28)
374
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200375ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
376Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
377Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
378Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
379
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200380Height of quickfix window is not retained with vertical splits. (Lifepillar,
3812018 Aug 24, #2998)
382
383Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
384#2999)
385
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200386Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
387- Test_setbufvar_options()
388- Test_exit_callback_interval()
389
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200390When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened window
391is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would have two
392windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for the quickfix
393buffer?
394
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200395Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
396(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1, update 2018 Oct 7)
397
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200398Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
399Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100400Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
401Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200402
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100403Try out background make plugin:
404 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
405or asyncmake:
406 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
407
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100408Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100409mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100410
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200411Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
412is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
413used for git temp files.
414
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100415Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
416
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200417Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
418#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
419
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200420Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
421behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
422(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
423
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200424Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
425pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
426
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200427The 'scrolloff' option is global, make it global-local. #3195
428
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200429Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
430script or function.
431
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200432Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
433Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
434
435When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
436E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
437does nothing otherwise?
438
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200439MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
440If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
441(wait a little while).
442CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100443
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200444Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
445MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
4462017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
447receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
448
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200449Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
450missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
451
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200452":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
453deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
454
455Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar, 2018
456Jun 10, #2998)
457
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200458Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200459
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100460Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200461Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
462
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200463With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
464included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
465(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
466
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200467When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
468with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200469
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200470Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200471Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200472
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100473Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100474Jan 15, #2555)
475
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200476":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
477
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100478Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
479
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100480No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
481No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
482
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200483Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
484http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
485Should be supported with a flag.
486
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100487Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
488confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
489
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100490Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
491
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100492Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
493Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
494applying the diff, etc.
495
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200496Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
497Apr 26, #2849)
498
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100499User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
500word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100501
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100502Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200503
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200504With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
505(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
506
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200507Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
508:drop (remote commands).
509
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200510Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
5112018 Jun 18, #3027)
512
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200513Implement option_save() and option_restore():
514option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
515 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
516 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
517 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
518 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
519 be called when the same window is the current window.
520 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
521 the local options won't be restored.
522
523option_save({list}) *option_save()*
524 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
525 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
526 let s:saved_options = option_save([
527 \ 'ignorecase',
528 \ 'iskeyword',
529 \ ])
530 au <buffer> BufLeave *
531 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
532< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
533 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
534 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
535 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100536 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
537 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
538 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100539 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200540
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100541"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
542directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
543Also see #1689.
544
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100545crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
54617, #2652)
547
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100548When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100549highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100550
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200551":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
552
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100553No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
5542017 Dec 26, #2501)
555
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200556A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
557
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200558Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
559
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200560A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
561Mention where they were defined somewhere.
562
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100563Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
564(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
565
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200566ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
567
568Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
569
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100570Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
571Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
572
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100573Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
574in #846)
575Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
576
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200577Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
578Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
579
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100580When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
581redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200582
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100583In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
584(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
585
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100586Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
587neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100588
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100589Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
590Nov 21)
591
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200592When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
593triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
594set_color_count().
595
596Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
597responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
598
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100599When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
600CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
601Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
602always nested.
603
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200604matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
605
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100606Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
607
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100608MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100609for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
610
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200611Would be nice for insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100612(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200613
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200614Test runtime files.
615Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200616
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200617Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200618
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200619Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
620defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
621Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
622
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200623After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
62413, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200625
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200626When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
627line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
628
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100629The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
630
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200631Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
632set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
633
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200634Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
635
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100636Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
637
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200638Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200639It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100640Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200641Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200642
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200643Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
644behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
645
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100646'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
647
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200648All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
649For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
650 mylist~get(idx)
651 mydict~get(idx)
652 mystring~len()
653Alternatives for ~:
654 ^ list^get() could also be used
655 . list.get() already means concatenate
656 $ list$get() harder to read
657 @ list@get() harder to read
658 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
659
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200660The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
661
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100662When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
663a command can delete it.
664
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200665When a swap file exists, is not for a running process, is from the same
666machine and recovering results in the same text, we could silently delete it.
667#1237
668
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200669Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
670#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
671
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100672The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
673for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
674
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200675X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
676pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
677clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
678Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
679Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
680clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200681Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200682
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100683Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
684http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
685http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
686Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
687- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
688- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
689- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
690 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
691- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
692- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
693Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
694- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
695- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
696Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
697- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
698
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200699Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
700
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200701Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
702attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
703that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
704
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200705Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
706(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
707
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100708Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
709buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
710Also fixes #2166?
711
712Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
713
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200714Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
715stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
716
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100717Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
718possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
719
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200720When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
721case of :bwipe followed by :new.
722
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200723Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
724existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
725Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
726
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200727Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200728
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200729MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
730Jul 4)
731
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200732Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
733Drucker, 2017 May 8).
734This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
735Christian cannot reproduce it.
736
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200737Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
738wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
739Or is this not an actual problem?
740
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200741Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
742
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200743Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
744
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200745Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
746
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200747'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
748#1736)
749
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200750Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
7518, #1690)
752
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100753Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
754manager. Problem with Motif?
755
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200756Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
757(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
758
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200759Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
760it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
761
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200762Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
763Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
764How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
765
766Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
767(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
768
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100769Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
770
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200771assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
772it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
773
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200774New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
775
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100776Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
777for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200778
779Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
780(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
781Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
782later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
783Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
784mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200785Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
786mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200787maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200788
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100789Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200790plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
791be defined when the plugin is loaded.
792
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100793Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
794 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
795 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100796
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200797json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200798What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100799
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200800Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
801
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200802import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
803(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
804
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100805When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
806buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
807Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100808
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100809When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
810like the item was not a match for :cnext.
811
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200812Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
813Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100814Another example in #1309
815
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100816When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
817when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
818
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100819Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
820#1330)
821
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200822Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
823
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100824Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
825
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100826GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
827g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
828timer expires.
829
830Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
831
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100832Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
833highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
834
8358 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
836 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
837
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100838Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
839Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
840
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200841Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
842key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
843 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
844 echo keytrans(xx)
845 <C-Home>
846
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100847Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
848(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
849Make a function to check for function-like type?
850
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200851Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
852(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
853
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100854Implement optional arguments for functions.
855 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
856 call Foo(12)
857 call Foo(12, all = 0)
858 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100859
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200860Change the Farsi code to work with UTF-8. Possibly combined with the Arabic
861support, or similar.
862Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
863
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100864Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
865somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
866
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100867Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
868(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
869
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200870Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
871Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
872New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
873
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200874Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200875Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200876Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200877
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100878The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
879"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
880Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
881
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200882Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
883
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200884Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
885about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200886Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
887
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200888Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
889#1053) With patch, does it work?
890
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200891":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100892vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
893
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200894Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200895E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200896Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100897
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100898Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
899Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
900
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200901Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100902Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200903
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100904"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
905(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
906
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100907Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
908(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100909Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100910
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200911'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
912
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100913Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
914
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200915When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
916Apr 23, #1653)
917
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100918Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
919anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
920
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100921When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
922Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
923(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
924
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200925Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200926E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200927
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200928Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
929(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
930
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200931Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
932
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100933Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
934
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100935Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
936
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100937On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
938separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
939
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200940min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
941contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
942
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200943Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
944
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200945Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
946
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200947Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
948
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200949Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
950no longer support.
951
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200952sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
9534#1038)
954
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100955+channel:
956- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
957 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100958- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
959- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
960 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
961- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
962 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
963- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100964- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
965 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100966- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
967- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
968 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
969 minute. Option to set the droptime.
970- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
971- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
972- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
973 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
974 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
975- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
976 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
977- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
978 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
979 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
980
981Regexp problems:
982- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
983 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
984- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
985 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
986- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
987 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
988 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
989 LC_CTYPE
990- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
991 matches everywhere.
992- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
993 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
994- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
995- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
996 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
997- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
998- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
999 2013 Dec 11)
1000- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1001 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1002- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1003- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1004 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1005- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1006- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1007- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1008- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1009 2015 Feb 7)
1010- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1011 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1012 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1013 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1014 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1015- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1016- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1017- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1018- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1019 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1020 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1021 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1022- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1023 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1024- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1025 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1026 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1027 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1028
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001029Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
1030
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001031Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1032#1350)
1033
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001034Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
10353. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1036Also see #1635.
1037
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001038Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001039Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1040use the current behavior.
1041Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001042
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001043Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
1044New update 2017 Apr 10, #1628
1045
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001046When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1047command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1048
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001049Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
1050change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001051patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
1052(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001053
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001054Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1055doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1056Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001057Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001058E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1059
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001060execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001061#1141)
1062
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001063cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1064
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001065:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1066
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001067Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1068
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001069When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1070synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1071
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001072Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1073Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001074
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001075Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1076(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1077
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001078ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1079Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001080
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001081Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1082
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001083Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001084(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001085
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001086Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1087Jul 25, #948)
1088
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001089Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1090names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1091Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1092the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1093
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001094Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1095(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1096Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1097
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001098'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1099
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001100MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1101Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001102
1103Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1104Also for ":@.".
1105
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001106Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1107
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001108Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1109#1125
1110
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001111Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1112times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1113
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001114This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
1115(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
1116
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001117Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1118
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001119Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1120
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001121Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1122
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001123Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1124
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001125We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1126the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1127
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001128Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1129
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001130When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1131emoji_width table has only one entry.
1132
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001133It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1134Reject the value? #710.
1135
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001136When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1137Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1138
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001139Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +02001140Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001141
1142Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001143
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001144Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1145No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001146
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001147Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1148(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001149
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001150Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1151
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001152Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1153https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1154Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1155
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001156Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1157but the reference remains valid.
1158
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001159Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001160interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1161Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1162interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1163result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001164
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001165Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001166work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001167
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001168Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1169
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001170Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1171
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001172Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1173Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1174
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001175When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1176Apr 17) #762
1177
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001178exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1179Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1180
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001181Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1182'iskeyword' for syntax.
1183
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001184Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1185(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1186
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001187Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1188
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001189When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1190maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001191Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001192
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001193Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1194It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1195Add configure check?
1196Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1197Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1198Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1199
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001200Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1201Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1202
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001203Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1204Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1205Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1206
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001207Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1208Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1209
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001210":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1211directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1212
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001213In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1214(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1215
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001216If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
12172016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001218
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001219Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1220(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1221
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001222Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001223Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001224
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001225Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1226
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001227When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1228restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1229Do not trigger the event?
1230
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001231Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1232changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1233and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001234Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1235Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
12366, 2nd message)
1237Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001238
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001239Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1240Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1241https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1242
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001243Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1244With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1245
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001246Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001247
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001248Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1249
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001250Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001251Only remembers one error.
1252
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001253GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001254
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001255Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1256(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001257
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001258Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1259github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001260 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001261Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001262
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001263Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001264
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001265Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001266comparing individual items.
1267Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1268Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1269Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1270equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1271
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001272Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1273
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001274MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1275wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1276
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001277Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1278specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1279
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001280Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1281(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1282
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001283Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001284inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001285
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001286Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1287(Luchr, #277)
1288
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001289Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001290'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1291before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001292
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001293C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1294and also line continuation after #include.
1295I can't recommend it though.
1296
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001297Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1298(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1299
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001300To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1301library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1302
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001303When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1304is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1305
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001306Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
130730)
1308
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001309MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1310(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1311
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001312The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
131324): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001314
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001315":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1316effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1317
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001318":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
13199)
1320
1321The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1322wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1323
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001324Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001325Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001326
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001327When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1328the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1329
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001330Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001331slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1332inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1333
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001334ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
13352014 Sep 11)
1336
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001337Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1338(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1339
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001340When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1341'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1342
1343Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001344(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001345Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1346- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1347 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1348 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1349- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1350 covered by the above change.
1351So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001352same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001353Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001354
1355Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1356Work in progress.
1357
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001358Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1359when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1360
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001361Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1362Is this right?
1363
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001364Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1365(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1366Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1367
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001368Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1369Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001370
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001371Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1372Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1373
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001374Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1375
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001376When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1377filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1378initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1379
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001380Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1381
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001382Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1383OK to not block marks?
1384
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001385Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1386
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001387Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1388
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001389When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1390(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1391
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001392Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001393
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001394Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1395(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1396
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001397When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1398any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1399
1400Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001401
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001402Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001403
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001404Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1405(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1406
1407Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1408
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001409Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1410Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1411was already defined.
1412(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1413
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001414Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1415
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001416Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001417Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001418Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001419Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001420
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001421Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1422(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1423
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001424Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1425(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1426
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001427Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1428change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1429them: ":repeats".
1430
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001431Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1432
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001433When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1434these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1435window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1436
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001437Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1438should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1439history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1440Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1441
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001442"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1443Jun 8)
1444
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001445Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1446insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1447
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001448No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1449
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001450Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1451(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1452Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1453arguments.
1454
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001455Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1456
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001457Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001458
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001459Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
14600x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1461New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1462compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1463
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001464Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1465a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1466
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001467xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1468buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1469Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001470Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001471Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001472Also see issue #609.
1473We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001474
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001475Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1476right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001477its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001478
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001479Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1480
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001481This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1482 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1483This neither: (ZyX)
1484 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1485
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001486'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1487Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1488from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001489
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001490Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
14912014 Jun 8)
1492
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001493Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001494Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001495Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1496Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1497User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001498- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1499 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1500 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001501- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1502- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1503 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1504 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1505 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1506 on vim.org.
1507- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1508 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1509- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1510- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1511- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1512- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1513Implementation:
1514- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1515 plugin separate.
1516- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1517 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1518 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1519- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1520 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1521- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1522 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1523 installing.
1524Out of scope:
1525- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1526- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1527 useful).
1528
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001529Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1530normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001531
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001532When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1533menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1534
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001535Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1536(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1537
1538":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1539various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001540
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001541Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001542(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1543
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001544VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1545instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1546
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001547Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001548Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001549
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001550Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001551command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001552
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001553Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1554
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001555Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1556highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001557
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001558The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1559For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1560
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001561Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001562possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001563
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001564Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001565
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001566Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1567
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010015687 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1569 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1570 "lucida_console:h8").
1571Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1572
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001573:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1574
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001575Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1576
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001577Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1578
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001579When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1580(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1581
1582Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001583Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001584
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001585GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1586(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1587
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001588Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1589registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1590
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001591Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1592
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001593The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1594(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1595Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1596
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001597The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1598- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1599- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1600
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001601Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1602Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1603reliably?
1604
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001605Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1606(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1607
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001608Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1609(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1610
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001611Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
16122013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001613
1614Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1615
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001616Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
16175)
1618
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001619Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1620carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1621
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001622Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1623highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1624
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001625Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001626
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001627Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200162828) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001629
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001630Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1631
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001632Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1633
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001634- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1635 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1636Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001637
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001638Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001639
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001640In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1641process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1642a reboot.
1643
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001644patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1645
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001646Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1647not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001648
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001649Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1650Or use expand('<sid>')?
1651
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001652Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1653
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001654Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1655
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001656b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
16577)
1658
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001659Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1660compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1661
1662Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1663Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1664vim.bindeval().
1665
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001666Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
16672012 Aug 4)
1668
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001669Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1670(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1671
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001672Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1673But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1674
1675Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1676Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1677Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001678
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001679Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1680loading all files.
1681
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001682MS-Windows resizing problems:
1683- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1684 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1685- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1686 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1687 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001688
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001689'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001690
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001691Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001692of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1693
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001694The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1695Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1696But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001697
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001698When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1699is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1700
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001701URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001702- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001703- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1704 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1705
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001706Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1707(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1708Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1709
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001710Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001711New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001712
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001713When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1714for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1715Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001716
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001717Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1718
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001719Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
172024)
1721
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001722Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1723
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001724Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1725
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001726Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1727Apr 18)
1728
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001729Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1730And one for gui_x11.txt.
1731
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001732":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1733finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1734Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1735
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001736Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1737
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001738Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1739
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001740Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1741they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1742
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001743Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1744
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001745Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1746Nov 20)
1747
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001748Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001749Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001750
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001751`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001752(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1753
1754Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1755
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001756BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1757Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1758
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001759Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1760Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1761
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001762Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1763
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001764On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
17652012 Jun 19)
1766
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001767'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1768'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1769Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001770Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001771
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001772With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1773(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1774need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1775
1776Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1777only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
177821, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1779
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001780The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1781support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1782
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001783'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1784highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1785
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001786Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1787New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1788
1789Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1790Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1791
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001792Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1793Jan 19)
1794
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001795Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1796discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1797meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001798
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001799"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001800Oct 26)
1801
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001802Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1803
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001804With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1805register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001806
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001807Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1808
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001809When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1810(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1811
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001812When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1813then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1814from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1815
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001816Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1817":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
181815)
1819
1820Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1821
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001822BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1823cleared. See test64.
1824
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001825Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001826effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001827Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001828https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001829
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001830On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
183164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1832right type.
1833
1834string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1835(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1836
1837When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1838(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001839When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1840following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1841(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001842
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001843When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1844doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1845
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001846Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1847
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001848maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1849mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1850
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001851Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1852(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1853
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001854When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1855indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1856the help file.
1857
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001858After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1859Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1860
1861Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1862
1863"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1864
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001865Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1866
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001867Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001868
1869Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
18702010 Dec 18)
1871
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001872With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1873number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1874Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1875
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001876Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1877Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1878
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020018798 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1880Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1881
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001882Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1883one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1884the match scrolls into view.
1885
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020018867 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1887Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1888Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1889
18909 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1891 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1892Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1893
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001894Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1895Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1896
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001897In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1898or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1899sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1900
1901GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1902doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1903
1904GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1905
1906Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1907Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1908
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001909Wish for NetBeans commands:
1910 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1911
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001912Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1913
19147.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1915there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1916do?
1917
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001918Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
191922)
1920
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001921New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1922- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001923- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001924 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1925
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001926"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
19272011 Feb 27)
1928
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001929Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1930^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1931
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001932When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1933exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
19349) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1935
1936g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1937the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1938
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001939Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1940crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1941
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001942Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1943number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1944
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001945Regexp engine performance:
1946- Profiling:
1947 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1948 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1949 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1950 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1951 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1952 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1953- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1954- Performance tests:
1955 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1956 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1957 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1958 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1959 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1960 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1961 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1962 'hlsearch'.
1963 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1964 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1965 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1966 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1967
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001968Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1969Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1970
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001971'beval' option should be global-local.
1972
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001973Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001974
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001975setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001976
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001977With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
19782010 Oct 24)
1979
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001980Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1981
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001982When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1983Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1984
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001985":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1986
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001987'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1988
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001989C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1990checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1991Issue 46.
1992
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001993Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1994
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001995Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1996gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1997
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001998":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1999accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2000
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002001Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2002setwinvar().
2003
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002004Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002005
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002006When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2007instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2008
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002009Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2010Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2011Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002012
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002013Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2014back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2015
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002016Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002017Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2018
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002019CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2020the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2021FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2022
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002023Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2024Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2025
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002026Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2027Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2028
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01002029I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
2030Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
2031an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002032
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002033Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2034
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002035Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2036non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002037
2038iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2039Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2040or replace with a character and continue?
2041
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002042Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2043Requires configure check for localtime().
2044Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2045
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002046Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2047Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2048
2049Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2050
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002051Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2052Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2053path.
2054
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002055Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002056Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002057
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002058'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2059
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002060":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2061like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2062
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002063Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2064https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002065
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002066Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
20672010 Nov 5)
2068
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002069Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002070Jan 7)
2071
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002072Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2073
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002074With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2075entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2076Feb 12)
2077
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002078Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2079characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2080
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002081Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2082
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002083Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2084 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2085
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002086Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2087
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002088When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2089Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2090
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002091When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2092not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2093string value.
2094
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002095For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002096line argument -noregister.
2097
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002098When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2099missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2100
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002101When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2102doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002103
2104Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2105(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2106Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2107There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2108Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2109
2110":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2111highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2112to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2113
2114Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2115Probably needs a bit of work.
2116
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002117Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
2118Added test, updates, June 23.
2119Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
2120With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
2121Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
2122
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002123List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002124Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2125
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002126Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2127
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002128Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2129
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002130Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2131Sep 1)
2132
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002133Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2134
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002135Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2136on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2137
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002138Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
21392009 Jul 18)
2140
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002141Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2142window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2143Needs more work.
2144
2145Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2146
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002147When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2148few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2149
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002150'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002151(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2152
2153Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2154J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2155
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002156When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2157for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2158
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002159Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2160
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002161Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
2162
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002163":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2164because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2165ex_docmd.c.
2166
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002167Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002168Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2169
2170string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2171for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2172
2173Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2174
2175'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
217620)
2177
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002178Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
21792009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2180
2181Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2182
2183Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2184SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2185
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002186When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2187indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2188(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2189
2190Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2191are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2192Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2193Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2194that doesn't have a window.
2195
2196When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2197doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2198
2199getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2200displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2201
2202":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2203
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002204There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2205was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2206perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2207
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002208Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2209
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002210Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2211command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2212
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002213Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2214does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2215
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002216opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2217height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002218very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002219
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002220Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2221(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2222
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002223Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002224(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2225
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002226Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2227char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2228
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002229Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2230Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2231
2232This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002234Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2235messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2236es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
22372009 Jan 26)
2238
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002239When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002240in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2241Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2242
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002243Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2244a modeline.
2245
2246Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2247Sergey Khorev)
2248
2249Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2250part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002251
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002252After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2253correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2254
2255Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2256(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2257
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002258shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002259'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2260Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2261unix-like shell?
2262
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002263Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2264register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2265(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2266
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002267Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2268Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2269
2270Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2271make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2272
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002273When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2274still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2275
2276"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2277(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2278
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002279Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2280that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2281ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2282Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2283
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002284MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2285doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2286probably causes this.
2287
2288'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020022892009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002290
2291Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2292 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2293 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2294(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2295
2296Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2297":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2298option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2299is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002300
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002301":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2302first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002303Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002304
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002305Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2306laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2307Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002308
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002309Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2310anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2311
2312On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2313doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2314Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2315Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2316
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002317When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2318'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2319fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2320the buffer to be unmodified.
2321Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2322another look at it.
2323
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002324c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2325(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002327You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2328error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2329Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2330at the other match for 0xBF.
2331
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002332When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2333argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2334
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002335Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2336backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2337
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002338When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2339line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2340
2341Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2342position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2343
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002344After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2345(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002346command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002347
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002348":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2349Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2350
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002351When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2352either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2353put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2354
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002355Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2356Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2357Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2358Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2359(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2360
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002361Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2362
2363ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002364
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002365Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2366(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2367escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2368an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002369This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2370July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002371Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2372work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2373
2374When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
237531)
2376
2377Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2378work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2379Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002380
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002381Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2382multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2383(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2384
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002385Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
23862008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002387Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002388
2389Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2390Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2391'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002393Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2394Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2395
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002396Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2397Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2398
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020023998 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2400 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2401 several).
2402 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2403 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2404 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2405Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2406
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002407The utf class table is missing some entries:
2408 0x2212, minus sign
2409 0x2217, star
2410 0x2500, bar
2411 0x26ab, circle
2412
2413Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2414line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2415
2416GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2417Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2418
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002419Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2420try the Cocoa version.
2421
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002422Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2423changed or the window is resized.
2424
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002425GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2426the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2427
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002428Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2429Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002430
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002431Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
24321) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2433
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002434C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2435with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2436Try to reproduce at work.
2437
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002438Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2439Is there a way to list all the files first?
2440
2441When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2442result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
244316)
2444
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002445Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2446(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2447
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002448Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2449Await response to question to make the register writable.
2450
2451Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
24521)
2453
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002454In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2455each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2456
2457try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2458
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002459try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2460
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002461":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2462Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2463
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002464Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2465
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002466Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2467Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2468
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002469Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2470Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2471Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002472
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002473When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2474and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2475
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002476Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2477 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2478
2479New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2480
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002481":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2482a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2483
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002484'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2485Likonen, March 19)
2486
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002487Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2488other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2489
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002490The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2491appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2492matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2493
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002494When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2495character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2496'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2497(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2498
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002499Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2500Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002501
2502More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2503
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002504Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2505http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2506
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002507Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2508back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2509Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002510
2511Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2512No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2513
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002514Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2515terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002516
2517Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2518
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002519Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2520but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2521that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002522
2523When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2524
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002525Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2526Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2527
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002528Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2529popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2530size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2531This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2532
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002533When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2534it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2535
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002536Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2537then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2538files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002539Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2540indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2541":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002542in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2543quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002544Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002545
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002546When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2547parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2548neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2549particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2550Jun 3)
2551However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2552the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002553
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002554A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2555Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2556
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002557Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2558Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2559
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002560Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2561switch list is noticed:
2562 switch (i)
2563 {
2564 case 1:
2565 foobar:
2566 }
2567
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002568Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2569
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002570Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2571with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2572go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2573moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2574
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002575Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002576GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002577Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2578argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2579(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2580
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002581Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2582(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2583
2584Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2585makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2586.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
2587 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2588
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002589Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
25902007 Feb 8)
2591
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002592Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2593set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002594
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002595Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2596
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002597Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2598Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2599New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2600patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2601
2602Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2603Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2604
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002605Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
26062007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002607Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002608
2609Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002610label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2611
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002612Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2613with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2614Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002615
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002616Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2617
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002618Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2619Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2620only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2621
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002622Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2623Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002624Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002625properly?
2626
2627Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
26282007 Jun 21)
2629
2630When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2631Jun 18)
2632
2633If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2634
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002635Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2636windows. (Adam George)
2637
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002638F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2639modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2640K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002641
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002642In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2643the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2644
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002645C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2646
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002647":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2648
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002649When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002650error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002651
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002652GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002653use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2654
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002655Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2656if_ruby.c.
2657
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002658":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2659
2660The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2661it in keep_msg?
2662
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002663Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002664error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002665name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2666
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002667Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2668longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002669
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002670Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2671Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2672Also for ":w" without a file name.
2673The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002674
2675"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2676Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2677
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002678VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2679directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2680(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2681
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002682VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2683
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002684input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2685name?
2686
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002687Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2688
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002689When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2690(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2691Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2692will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2693
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002694gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2695This also fails with --remote.
2696
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002697When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
26982008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2699all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2700
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002701aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2702
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002703When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2704(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2705
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002706Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2707the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2708
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002709GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2710
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002711Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2712superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2713
2714Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2715character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2716
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2718Jun 5)
2719
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002720Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
27212008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2722Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2723
2724In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2725but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2726Jul 22)
2727
2728There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2729
2730Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2731":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2732somehow? Or use a new function.
2733
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002734Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2735
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002736Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2737moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2738that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2739
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002740The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2741
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002742When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002743cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2744the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2745
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002746These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2747 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2748 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2749 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2750
2751Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2752partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2753
2754In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2755buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2756reload it then?
2757
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002758For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2759
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002760Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2761only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2762
2763Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2764tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2765doesn't contain other directories.
2766
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002767Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2768Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2769
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002770Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2771 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2772 set background=dark
2773This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2774color is, not reset it.
2775
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002776Linux distributions:
2777- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2778 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2779 xfree-xterm".
2780- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2781
2782Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2783start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2784show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2785middle?
2786
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002787Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2788
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002789When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2790current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2791the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2792
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002793When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2794Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2795
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002796Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2797 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2798 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2799 - getting colors in xterm
2800 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2801
2802Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2803Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2804
2805Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2806
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002807A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2808Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2809
2810Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2811Dara, 2006 June 21)
2812
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002813Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2814number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2815
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002816After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2817the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2818
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002819Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002820
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002821Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2822Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2823
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002824Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010028252008 Sep 29)
2826
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002827In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2828check the result of has("patch13").
2829
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002830Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2831restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2832
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002833Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2834and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2835
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002836Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2837put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2838
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002839Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2840resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2841
2842In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2843can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2844
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002845GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2846maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2847doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002848Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2849visible.
2850
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002851When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2852differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002853
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002854The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2855be only one.
2856
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002857Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002858"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2859name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2860Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002861
2862Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2863(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2864
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002865Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2866as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2867
2868Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2869Jan 1)
2870
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002871Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
287223)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002873
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002874":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2875tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2876Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002877
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2879text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2880latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2881
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002882Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2883no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2884
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002885In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2886VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
28872007 Oct 16)
2888
2889TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2890Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2891
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002892Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002893
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002894When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2895typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2896Sep 3, 11)
2897
2898When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2899respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2900the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2901what happens for the GUI.
2902
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002903":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2904this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2905
2906When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2907Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2908restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2909
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002910Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
29112010 Jun 30)
2912
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002913Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2914'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2915(Kartik Agaram)
2916
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002917
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002918Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002919- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2920 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2921- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2922 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2923 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2924- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2925 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2926 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002927- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2928- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002929
2930
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002931More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002932- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2933 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002934- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002935- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2936 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2937- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2938 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2939- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2940- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2941- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2942 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2943 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002944- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002945- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2946 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2947- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2948 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2949- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2950 21)
2951- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2952 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2953- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2954 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002955- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2956 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002957- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2958 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2959 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2960 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2961 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002962- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002963
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002964Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000029659 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2966 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2967 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2968 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2969 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2970 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2971 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2972 (Alan Schmitt)
2973 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002974 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2975 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000029769 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002977 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029788 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029797 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2980 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2981 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029828 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002983 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020029847 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002985 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2986- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2987 for multi-byte characters.
2988- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2989- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2990 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2991 been given values.
2992 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
29938 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002994 with an ESC sequence.
2995 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2996 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2997 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029987 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2999 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3000- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3001 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3002 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30038 Add functions:
3004 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3005 Update 2004 Sep 10
3006 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3007 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003008 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003009 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3010 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3011 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3012 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3013 (2003 May 13)
3014 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3015 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003016 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3017 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003018 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3019 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3020 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030217 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3022 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
3023- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3024 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
30257 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3026 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000030278 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3028 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030297 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
30308 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3031 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
30327 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3033 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030347 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3035- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3036 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3037 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003038- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3039 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3040- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3041
3042
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003043Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003044- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3045 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030468 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3047 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3048 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3049 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3050 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3051 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030528 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3053 make Vim exit.
30547 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3055 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3056 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
30578 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3058 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3059 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
30606 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3061 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3062 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
30638 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3064 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3065 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3066 names in one buffer???
3067 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3068 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3069 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
30707 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3071 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3072 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003073 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3074 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030757 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3076 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
30777 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
30787 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030797 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3080 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3081 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3082 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
30837 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
30847 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
30857 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3086 to the match with the tag? Option?
30877 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
30887 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3089 (Sayre).
30907 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3091 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030927 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3093 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3094 match. Nvi can do it too.
30957 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3096 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3097 line 1\ line 2\\
3098 line 2\ line 3\\
3099 . line4/
31006 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3101 the way the shell is started?
31026 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3103 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3104
3105
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003106GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031079 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031088 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3109 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3110 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000031118 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3112 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3113 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031149 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3115 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3116 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3117 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003118- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3119 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3120 blocked for now.
3121
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003122
3123Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003124- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3125 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031268 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3127 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3128 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
31298 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
3130 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031316 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3132 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000031338 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3134 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3135 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031367 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3137 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3138 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031397 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3140 2004 May 9)
31418 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3142 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3143 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3144 MS-Windows 98?
3145 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3146 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3147 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3148 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031498 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3150 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3151 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3152 doesn't work properly.
31538 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3154 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3155 appears in the right position. (Webb)
31569 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3157 button doesn't give popup menu.
3158 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3159 selection.
3160 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3161 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3162 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
31638 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3164 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3165 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3166 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
31678 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3168 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3169 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031707 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3171 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3172 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
31737 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3174 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003175 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031767 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3177 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031786 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
31798 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3180 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3181 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
31828 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3183 know which keyboard is being used?
31847 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3185 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3186 area (Koloseike).
31878 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3188 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3189 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3190 the font name).
3191
3192
3193Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031946 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3195 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3196 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3197 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3198 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031999 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3200 required and it's missing?
32018 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3202 wrong.
32039 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3204 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032059 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003206 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3207 flag.
32088 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3209 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3210 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
32118 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
32126 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3213 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3214 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3215 the tooltips work though...
32167 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3217 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
32188 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3219 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3220 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3221
3222
3223Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010032249 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3225 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032269 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3227 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3228 through files.
32297 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3230 read long file names. (Schroeder)
32314 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3232 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3233 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3234 problem during a refresh.
32355 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3236 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3237 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3238 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3239 colors as it should.
3240 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3241 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3242
3243
3244Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003245- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032467 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3247 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032488 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3249 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3250 (Phillipps)
3251
3252
3253GUI:
32549 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3255 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
32569 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003257 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003258 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
32599 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3260 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
32618 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3262 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
32638 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3264 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3265 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
32668 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3267 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3268 of where it is processing the output.
3269 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
32708 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3271 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010032728 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000032738 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3274 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3275 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020032768 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032778 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3278 browse().
32798 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3280 use that code? Or use console dialog.
32818 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3282 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000032837 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3284 - regexp on/off
3285 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3286 when all buffers/directory is used:
3287 - filter for file name
3288 when directory is used:
3289 - subdirectory on/off
3290 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032918 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3292 to avoid problems.
32938 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3294 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3295 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
32968 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3297 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3298 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
32998 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3300 up. Set erase character somehow?
33018 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3302 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3303 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3304 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
33058 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
33067 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3307 visible.
33087 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3309 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
33107 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3311 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
33128 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3313 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
33148 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3315 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3316 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3317 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3318- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
33194 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3320 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3321 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3322
3323
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003324Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000033258 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3326 a good fallback, thus use:
3327 $HOME
3328 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3329 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3330 $USERPROFILE
3331 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3332 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3333 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3334 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033358 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3336 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
33378 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3338 Should work like in the GUI version.
33398 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3340 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
33418 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3342 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
33438 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3344 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3345 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033468 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3347 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3348 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3349
3350
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003351Win32 console:
33529 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3353 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3354 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3355 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3356 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3357 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3358 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3359 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3360 and the file is not saved.
3361 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3362 long name.
33638 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3364 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
33657 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3366 besides the console.
33678 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
33689 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3369 <C-S-i>?
33709 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3371 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
33728 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3373 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003374
3375
3376Amiga:
33778 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3378 sequences.
33799 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3380 backslashes in result.
33818 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3382 all options, using white space separation.
3383
3384
3385Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003386- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033877 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3388 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3389 (Jack)
3390 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033918 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3392 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033938 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
33948 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
33959 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3396 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033979 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003398
3399
3400"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003401- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3402 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003403- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3404 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003405- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3406 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3407 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3408 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3409 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3410 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3411 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034129 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3413 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000034149 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003415 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3416 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034178 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3418 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3419 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003420 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034217 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3422 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
34238 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3424 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3425 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034267 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3427 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003428- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3429 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034308 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3431 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3432 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3433 using the horizontal scrollbar.
34347 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3435 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3436 invocations belong together.
34378 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3438 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
34398 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3440 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3441 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003442 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000034438 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3444 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3445 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034468 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3447 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034487 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3449 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3450 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3451 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034527 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3453 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3454 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
34557 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3456 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3457 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
34587 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3459 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034607 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3461 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034629 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3463 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3464 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3465 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3466 script can be called.
34678 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3468 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3469 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034708 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3471 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034728 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003473 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3474 configurable?
34758 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034768 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3477 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034788 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3479 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034808 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3481 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034829 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3483 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3484 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034857 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034868 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3487 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3488 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000034898 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3490 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003491 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3492 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034938 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3494 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
34959 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3496 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3497 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003498 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034997 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3500 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035017 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3502 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3503 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3504 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035058 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003506 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3507 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3508 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3509 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003510 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3511 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003512 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003513 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003514 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3515 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3516 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3517 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3518 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035198 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3520 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
35218 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3522 in lines that don't extend into the block?
35238 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3524 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3525 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
35268 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3527 'linebreak'.
35288 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3529 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3530 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035319 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3532 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3533 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3534 'magic' in history. (Margo)
35359 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3536 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035379 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
35389 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3539 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3540 cause another redraw, etc.
35418 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3542 must escape special characters in the pattern.
35438 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3544 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3545 ":w!!" for that.
3546 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3547 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003548 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035497 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3550 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3551 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3552 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3553 clipboard)
35547 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3555 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3556 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000035576 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3558 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3559 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035608 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3561 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
35628 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3563 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3564 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000035658 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035668 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3567 (e.g., ":w").
35688 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3569 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035708 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3571 script in do_cmdline().
35728 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3573 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3574 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3575 changes.
35768 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3577 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
35788 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3579 check for file marks. This can be slow.
35807 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3581 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3582 needed.
3583 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
35848 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3585 to skip catch_signals()?
35869 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3587 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3588 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3589 text?
35908 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3591 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
35928 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3593 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
35949 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3595 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3596 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3597 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3598 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
35997 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3600 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3601 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3602 in the list?
36038 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3604 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3605 instead of on button down.
36068 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
36079 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3608 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003609 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3610 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036118 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3612 character is typed.
36138 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3614 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
36158 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3616 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
36178 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3618 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3619 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3620 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3621 cygwin bash.
36227 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3623 Remember flags for backreferences.
36247 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3625 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
36267 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3627 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
36288 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3629 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
36307 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3631 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036327 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3633 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3634 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
36357 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3636 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
36378 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3638 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3639 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
36407 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3641 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003642
3643
3644I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
36459 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3646 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3647 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003648
3649
3650Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003651- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3652 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3653 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003654- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3655 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3656 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3657 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3658 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3659 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003660 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003661- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3662 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003663 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003664 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3665 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3666 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003667- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3668 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3669 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3670 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3671 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3672- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3673 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3674 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3675- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3676 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003677- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003678- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3679 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3680 character gets the highlighting.
3681- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3682 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3683- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3684 (Jennings)
3685- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3686- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3687 errors. How do we get the rest?
3688- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003689- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003690 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003691- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3692 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3693 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3694- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3695 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3696 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3697 (Benzinger).
3698- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3699 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3700 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3701- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3702 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3703- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3704 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3705- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3706 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3707 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3708 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3709 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3710 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3711- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3712 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3713 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003714- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3715 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3716 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003717- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3718 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3719 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3720- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3721 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3722- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3723 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003724- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3725 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3726- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3727 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3728 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3729 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3730 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3731- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3732 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3733 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3734- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3735 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3736 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003737- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3738 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 +00003739- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3740 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3741 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3742 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3743 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3744- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3745 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3746
3747--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3748 *extensions-improvements*
3749
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003750Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3751- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3752 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3753 calling a function.
3754 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3755 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003756- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3757 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003758 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003759- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3760 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3761 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3762 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3763 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3764 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003765 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003766- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3767 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3768 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003769- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3770 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000037718 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3772 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3773 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3774 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003775- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3776 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003777
3778
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003779Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037808 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3781 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000037828 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3783 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000037848 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3785 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037868 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037879 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3788 - change to cursor position and curswant
3789 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3790 - how it works for folded lines
3791 - how it works with multi-byte characters
37929 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3793 work too.
37948 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3795 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3796 text.
37978 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
37987 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3799 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
38007 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3801 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003802 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003803- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3804
3805
3806Help:
3807- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3808 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3809- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3810 to the other matches.
3811- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003812- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3813 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3814 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3815 default contents.
3816- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3817 height for the help window (and other windows).
3818- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3819- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3820- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3821
3822
3823User Friendlier:
38248 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3825 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3826 Briscoe)
38278 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
38288 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3829 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3830 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
38318 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3832 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3833- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3834 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003835- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
38369 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3837 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3838 item?).
3839 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038408 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000038417 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3842 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3843 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000038448 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3845 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3846 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3847 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003848
3849
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003850Tab pages:
38519 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038527 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3853 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000038548 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000038558 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000038567 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000038577 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003858 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000038598 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3860 tab pages.
38617 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038627 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3863 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003864
3865
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003866Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003867- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3868 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3869- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3870 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3871 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3872- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3873 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003874- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3875 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3876 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003877- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3878 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3879 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003880- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3881 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003882- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003883 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3884 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000038858 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3886 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
38878 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3888 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
38898 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3890 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003891 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003892 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3893 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3894 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3895 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003896- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3897 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003898- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003899- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3900 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003901- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003902 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003903- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003904 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003905- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3906 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003907- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3908 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3909- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003910 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003911 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3912 in the affix file separately.
3913 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003914 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003915 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3916 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3917 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3918- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3919 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3920 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3921 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3922 Alternative:
3923 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3924 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3925 affix which is required.
3926- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003927 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003928- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3929 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3930 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003931- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3932 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003933- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3934 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3935- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000039368 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3937 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3938 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3939 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003940- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3941 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3942 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3943 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039448 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3945 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000039468 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
39478 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3948 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000039497 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
39508 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3951 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3952 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3953 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003954
3955
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003956Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020039579 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3958 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020039598 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003960 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003961
3962Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003963 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3964 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039658 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3966 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000039678 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039688 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3969 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3970 user aware of this?
39718 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3972 commands skip over a closed fold.
39738 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
39748 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039757 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003976- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3977 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3978 missing line goes unnoticed.
3979 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003980- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3981 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3982 smoother?
3983- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3984 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003985- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3986 file can contain:
3987 args version.c main.c
3988 edit version.c
3989 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003990- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003991- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3992 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3994 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003995- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3996 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003997- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003998
3999Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004000- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4001 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4002 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4003 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040049 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4005 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4006 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4007 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020040089 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4009 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4010 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040118 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4012 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4013 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4014 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4015 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4016 item.
40178 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004018 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4019 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040208 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
4021 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004022 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00004023 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040248 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4025 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040268 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4027 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4028 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040297 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4030 so that the user can fix the problem.
40318 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4032 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040339 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
40348 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040358 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
40368 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040377 Searching and composing characters:
4038 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004039 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4040 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040418 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
40428 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
40438 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4044 characters.
40458 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
40468 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4047 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
40487 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4049 'display' option to specify this.
40507 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4051 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4052- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4053 fontselector somehow.
4054- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4055 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4056- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4057 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4058- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4059 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4060 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4061 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4062 if a font exists?
4063- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004064 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004065- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4066 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004067- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4068 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4069 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4070 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004071- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4072 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004073 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004074- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4075 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4076 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4077 But it's very complicated...
4078
4079
4080Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000040817 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004082- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4083- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4084 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004085- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4086 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004087- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4088- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4089 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004090- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4091 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004092- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4093 units as for the margins.
4094- Support right-to-left text?
40958 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4096 color.
4097
4098
4099Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041008 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4101 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
41028 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4103 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
41048 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4105 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000041067 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4107 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041088 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4109 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4110 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041117 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4112 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4113 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041148 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
41159 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4116 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041177 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4118 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000041197 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4120 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041218 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4122 change this for each release.
41238 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4124 pattern, but not in the body.
41258 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4126 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4127 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041288 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010041298 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004130 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4131 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041328 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4133 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
41348 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4135 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004136 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041378 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4138 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4139 used.
41408 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4141 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
41428 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4143 re-insert the [] if possible.
41448 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4145 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000041468 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4147 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4148 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4149 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4150 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041518 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4152 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
41538 Support for deleting syntax items:
4154 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4155 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4156 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
41578 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4158 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4159 a '<'. (Fleiner)
41607 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4161 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4162 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
41637 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4164 detected.
41658 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004166 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041678 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4168 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041698 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
41708 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
41717 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4172 ":mkvimrc".
41738 Improve c.vim:
4174 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4175 "c_strict_ansi".
4176 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
41778 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4178 current line while in Insert mode.
41798 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4180 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
41818 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4182 display position.
41838 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4184 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4185 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
41868 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4187 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4188 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000041897 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4190 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4191 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4192 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4193 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041947 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4195 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4196 E.g. for this html:
4197 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041987 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
41997 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4200 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042018 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
42028 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042037 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4204 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4205 completion?
42068 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4207 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
42087 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4209 select one of the sets.
42108 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4211 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4212 2, etc.
42138 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4214 highlighting (for "." command).
42158 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4216 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
42178 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
42187 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4219 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
42206 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4221 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4222- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4223 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4224- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004225- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4226 (for comment blocks).
4227- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4228 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4229 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4230 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4231 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4232 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4233 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4234 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4235 (Campbell)
4236 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4237 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
42387 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4239 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
42407 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4241 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4242 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
42437 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4244 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4245 messages. And external commands?
42468 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4247 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
42487 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4249 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4250
4251
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004252Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042538 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4254 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004255 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000042567 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4257 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4258 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042598 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4260 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004261- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
4262 2006 Dec 11.
4263- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020042648 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4265 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4266 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4267 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4268 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4269 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000042707 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4271 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042728 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010042738 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4274 can be the plugin name.
4275 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4276 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042777 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4278 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4279 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4280 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4281 autocommand.
4282 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4283 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4284 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4285 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042867 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4287 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042886 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4289 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042908 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004291 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4292 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004293 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4294 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4295 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004296 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4297 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4298 3 2002
4299 Only add this when also implemented for
4300 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4301 be used.
4302 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004303 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4304 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4305 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4306 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4307 File.Open..." argument.
4308 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4309 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4310 with properties instead.
4311 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4312 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4313 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004314 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004315 crypt() encrypt string
4316 decrypt() decrypt string
4317 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4318 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004319 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004320 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004321 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004322 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004323 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004324 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4325 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004326 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4327 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004328 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004329 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4330 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4331 to allow the library to execute a command or
4332 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043337 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4334 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
43358 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4336 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043378 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4338 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043398 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020043409 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004341 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
43426 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000043438 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4344 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043458 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4346 option or environment variable.
43478 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043488 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004349 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000043507 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4351 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043528 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4353 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
43548 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
43558 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4356 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4357 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4358 charwise({expr}).
43597 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4360 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4361 buffer for this?
4362 result = scratch(string, command)
4363 result = apply(string, command)
4364 result = execute(string, command)
4365 "command" would use <> notation.
4366 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
43677 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004368
4369
4370Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000043716 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4372 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4373 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4374 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4375 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4376 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4377 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004378
4379
4380Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043817 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4382 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020043837 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4384 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4385 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4386 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043878 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4388 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4389 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4390 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004391 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043928 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
43939 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
43948 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
43957 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4396 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
43978 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4398 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4399 when starting up in a color terminal.
44008 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4401 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044028 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4403 function be improved?
44048 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4405 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4406 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4407 this be improved?
44088 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4409 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000044107 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4411 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044127 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4413 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
44147 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4415 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044167 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4417 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4418 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4419 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4420 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4421 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4422 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044238 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4424 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4425 using strcmp() too often?
44267 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4427 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4428 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4429 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4430 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4431 the two blocks to the memfile block.
44327 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4433 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4434 with an argument that can be messed with.
4435 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4436 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
44377 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4438- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
44398 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4440 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4441- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4442 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4443- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4444- Do profiling on:
4445 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004446 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4447 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4448 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4449 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4450 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4451 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004452 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044537 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4454 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4455 changed).
4456 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4457 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4458- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4459- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4460 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4461- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4462 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4463 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004464- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4465- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4466 cursor is right of the screen.
44678 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4468 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4469
4470
4471Code size:
44728 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4473- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4474 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
44758 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
44768 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4477 it.
44787 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4479 left out.
44808 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4481 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010044828 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004483
4484
4485Messages:
44868 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4487 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
44888 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4489 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
44908 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4491 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004492- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4493 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4494- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044958 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4496 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044979 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4498 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4499 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4500 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4501 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045028 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4503 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
45048 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4505 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4506 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4507 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4508 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4509 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004510- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004511 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045128 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4513 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4514 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4515 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4516 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4517 error messages, printing text, etc.
45188 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4519 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4520 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4521
4522
4523Screen updating:
45247 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4525 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4526 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4527- screen_line():
4528 - insert/delete character stuff.
4529 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4530- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4531 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4532- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4533 waiting for a character.
45348 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4535 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4536 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004537
4538Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020045398 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045406 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4541- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4542 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4543 windows.
45447 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4545 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4546 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4547- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4548 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4549 (Goldfarb)
4550- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4551 bound windows.
4552- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4553 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004554- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004555- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4556 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4557 of lines but not with a single line).
4558
4559
4560Autoconf:
45618 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
45628 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4563 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4564- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4565 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4566- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4567- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4568- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4569
4570
4571Perl interface:
45728 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045737 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
45747 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
45756 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4576
4577
4578Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020045798 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4580 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045816 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4582 :libload internal-name libname
4583 :libunload internal-name
4584 :liblist
4585 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4586 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4587 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
45886 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4589
4590
4591Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000045929 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4593 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4594 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4595 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4596 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045978 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4598 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4599 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004600 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004601 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046027 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4603 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4604 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046058 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
46068 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4607 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046087 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4609 window for each tag.
46107 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
46117 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4612 bottom" search message.
46137 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4614 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4615 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004616- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4617- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004618- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4619 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4620 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046217 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4622 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4623 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4624 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
46257 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4626 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4627 :tagargs clear
4628 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4629 matching).
46307 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4631 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4632 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4633 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
46347 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4635 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
46367 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4637 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4638 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004639
4640
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004641Win32 GUI:
46428 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4643 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046447 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4645 (Mike McCollister)
46468 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4647 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4648 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4649 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4650 common part of the path.
46518 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
46528 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4653 gettext and menus work.
46548 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4655 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004656 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004657 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
46588 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4659 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
46608 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4661 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
46627 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4663 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
46647 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
46657 <Esc> should close a dialog.
46667 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4667 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4668 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4669 prompts.
46707 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4671 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4672 the file added into an already running Vim.
46737 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4674 functions to find the window title.
4675
4676
4677GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020046788 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004679- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4680 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
46817 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
46828 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
46836 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
46848 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4685 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
46869 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
46877 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
46888 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4689 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
46908 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4691 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4692 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
46938 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4694 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
46958 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4696 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4697 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4698 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046997 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
47008 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4701 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047027 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4703 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4704 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047058 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
47068 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004707 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047088 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
47098 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
47108 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4711 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4712 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
47137 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4714 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4715 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
47167 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4717 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
47187 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4719 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4720 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4721 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 Should support multi-column menus.
4723- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4724 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4725- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
47268 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
47276 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4728 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
47297 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
47307 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4731 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4732 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
47337 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
47348 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4735 name can be chosen free.
47367 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4737 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
47386 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4739 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4740 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4741 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4742 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4743 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4744 things.
47457 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4746 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047477 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004748 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004749- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4750 where it was started from?
47517 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4752
4753
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004754Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020047559 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4756 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004757- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047588 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4759 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4760 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4761 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
47628 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4763 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000047647 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4765 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4766 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4767 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000047687 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000047698 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4770 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047718 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4772 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4773 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000047747 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4775 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4776 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047778 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4778 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4779 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000047808 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4781 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047828 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047836 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4784 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000047857 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047867 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004787 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4788 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4789 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047905 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4791 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4792 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
47937 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4794 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4795 file.
47968 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4797 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4798 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004799- Add events to autocommands:
4800 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004801 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004802 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4803 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004804 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004805 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004806 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4807 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4808 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4809 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004810 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004811 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4812 the char.
4813 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4814 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4815 file from CVS).
4816 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4817 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4818 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4819 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4820 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4821 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004822 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4823 changes.
4824 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4825 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004826- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004827 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004828 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004829 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4830 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4831 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4832 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4833 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4834
4835
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004836Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004837- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4838 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004839- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4840 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4841 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4842 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4843 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004844- Ideas from others:
4845 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4846 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4847 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4848 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4849 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4850 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4851 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4852 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4853 Uses Perl for C++.
4854 Uses ctags to find the info:
4855 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4856 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4857 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4858 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4859 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4860 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004861 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004862 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4863- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4864
4865
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004866Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004867- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000048687 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4869 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048707 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4871 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4872 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048738 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4874 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
48759 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4876 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4877 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048788 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4879 - ignore/match case
4880 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048818 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4882 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4883 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4884 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4885 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4886 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048878 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048887 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4889 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048908 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4891 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4892 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4893 Should work for C++ and Java.
4894 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
48957 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
48967 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4897 instead of words.
48988 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
48998 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4900 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
49018 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4902 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004903- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4904 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004905- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4906 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4907 wildcards in the file name)?
4908- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4909- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4910- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4911 be in another file).
4912- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4913- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4914- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4915 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4916- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4917- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4918- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004919- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4920
4921
4922Command line editing:
49237 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4924 line.
49258 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4926 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4927 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4928- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4929 lines wraps to start of line).
4930- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4931 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4932 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4933 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4934 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4935 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4936 cmdwin does now already.
4937 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4938 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4939 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4940 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4941 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4942 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4943 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4944 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4945 Problems:
4946 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4947 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4948 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4949 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4950 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4951 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4952 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4953 character in first column?
4954 - Implementation ideas:
4955 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4956 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4957 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4958 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4959 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4960 Mode.
4961
4962
4963Command line completion:
49648 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
49658 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4966 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
49678 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4968 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049698 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4970 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049717 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4972 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004973- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4974- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4975 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049768 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4977 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
49787 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4979 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4980- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4981 identifiers (Webb).
49828 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4983 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
49847 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4985 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4986- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4987 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4988- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4989 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4990 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004991
4992
4993Command line history:
4994- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4995 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4996 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004997 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004998- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4999 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5000
5001
5002Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000050039 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5004 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5005 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050068 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5007 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5008 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5009 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5010 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050118 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5012 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5013 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050147 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5015 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005016- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050177 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5018 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5019- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5020 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5021 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5022 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5023 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5024 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5025- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5026 Normal mode.
5027- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5028 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5029 are used.
5030- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5031- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5032- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5033
5034
5035'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010050369 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5037 char * veryLongName =
5038 "very long string"
5039 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050408 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050418 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5042 long_type foo =
5043 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050448 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5045 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005046 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050478 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5048 func(
5049 new String[] {
5050 "asdf",
5051 "asdf"
5052 }
5053 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050548 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5055 (Chow Loong Jin)
5056 namespace {
5057 int
5058 func(int arg) {
5059 }
5060 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050616 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5062 func( arg1
5063 , arg2
5064 , arg3
5065 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000050667 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005067 func(
5068 int x) // indent like "(4"
5069 {
5070 if (a
5071 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050729 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5073 if (a)
5074 {
5075 if (b)
5076 {
5077 // {
5078 }
5079 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005080 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5081 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5082 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005083- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005084 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
50857 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5086- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5087 line).
5088- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5089- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5090 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005091- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5092 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5093- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5094 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5095- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5096- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5097 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
50988 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5099 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5100 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5101- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5102- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5103 lines start with "\item".
5104- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5105 /* here is a comment that
5106 is just autoindented, and
5107 nothing else */
5108- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
51097 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5110 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5111 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005112 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005113
5114
5115Java:
51168 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5117 Odendahl?
51188 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5119 "[i" commands and friends.
5120- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5121 (Jason)
5122- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5123 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5124
5125
5126'comments':
51278 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5128 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5129 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5130 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005131 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5132 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051337 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5134 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
51357 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
51366 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5137 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5138 regexp is used.
51398 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5140 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5141
5142
5143Virtual edit:
51448 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051457 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5146
5147
5148Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051498 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051508 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000051518 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005152 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000051538 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5154 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005155 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5156 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000051578 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051588 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5159 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051608 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5161 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5162 the end of the line or before a ".".
51637 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5164 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
51657 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5166 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051676 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
51685 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5169 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5170 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5171 cursor is on.
5172
5173
5174Select mode:
51758 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5176 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
51777 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005178 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051797 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5180 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5181 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5182 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5183 normal_cmd().
5184 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5185 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5186
5187
5188Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020051898 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5190 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005191- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5192 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5193 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005194- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5195 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5196 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051978 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005198 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005199 where needed.
52007 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5201 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
52027 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5203 of each selected line.
52048 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
52058 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5206 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5207 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
52088 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5209 Ben Godfrey)
52107 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5211 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
52127 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5213 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052147 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005215 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005216 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
52178 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5218 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
52197 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5220 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5221 option!
52227 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5223 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5224 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5225 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5226 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5227 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5228 without changing the column.
52296 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052307 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5231 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052326 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5233 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
52346 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052356 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005236 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005237 or other special character.
52386 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5239
5240
5241More advanced repeating commands:
5242- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005243- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005244- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005245 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5246 "y." will repeat last yank.
5247 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5248 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5249 and/or pick an older command.
5250- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5251
5252
5253Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052548 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5255 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5256 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
52578 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
52587 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5259 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052608 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5261 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
52628 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000052637 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052648 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5265 entering search strings.
52668 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5267 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5268 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052698 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5270 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052717 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052727 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5273 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052746 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5275 abbreviations are to be used.
5276- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5277 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5278 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005279- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5280 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5281 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5282 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5283 Or implicit:
5284 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005285- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5286 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5287 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005288- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5289 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5290- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5291 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
52926 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5293 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5294 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5295 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005296- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5297 non-replace Insert mode?
5298- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005299- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5300- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5301 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5302- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005303 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005304- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5305 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5306- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5307- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5308 ":freekeys".
5309- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5310
5311
5312Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005313- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5314 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5315- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5316 folds when going to another line.
5317 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5318- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5319 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005320- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5321 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5322 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005323- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5324 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5325 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5326 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020053279 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5328 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005329
5330
5331Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053329 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000053338 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005334 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005335 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005336 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005337 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053389 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5339 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010053408 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5341 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000053428 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5343 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5344 Perl does it this way:
5345 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5346 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5347 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5348 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053498 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5350 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5351 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000053527 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5353 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000053548 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5355 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000053567 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005357 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5358 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5359 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000053607 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005361 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053627 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5363 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053648 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5365 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
53668 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5367 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020053687 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005369 example.
53708 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5371 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5372- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5373 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5374 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5375 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053768 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5377 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5378 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
53797 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5380 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000053817 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5382 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053838 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5384 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053858 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5386 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053878 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5388 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5389 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5390 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005391- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5392 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005393- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5394 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5395- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5396 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5397 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5398 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053998 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5400 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005401- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5402 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054038 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5404 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5405 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005406- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5407 i ignore case
5408 I use case
5409 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5410 v use Vi regexp syntax
5411 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5412 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5413 Perl uses these too:
5414 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5415 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5416 o compile only once (Perl only)
5417 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5418 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5419 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5420 following command.
5421 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5422- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5423 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5424 for search string)?
54257 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5426 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5427- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5428 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5429- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5430 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5431- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5432- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005433 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005434 a for the next file in the argument list
5435 f for file in the buffer list
5436 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005437 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5438 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005439 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5440 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5441- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054427 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005443 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054447 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5445 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5446 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5447 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
54486 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5449 effects.
54507 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5451 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5452 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000054537 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005454 Also ":dselect".
5455
5456
5457Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054589 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5459 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5460 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054619 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5462 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020054638 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5464 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054658 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5466 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5467 timestamp?
5468 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5469 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005470- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5471 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005472- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5473 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5474 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
54758 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5476 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5477 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5478 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
54798 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5480 only remember the lines that really changed.
54817 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5482 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5483 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5484 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005485- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5486 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5487- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5488 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5489- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5490 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5491 [-99].
5492- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5493- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005494- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5495 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5496
5497
5498Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054997 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5500 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5501 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5502 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
55038 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5504 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
55058 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5506 inode too.
55077 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005508 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5509 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055107 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5511 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5512- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5513 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5514- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5515 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
55167 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5517 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
55187 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5519 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
55208 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055217 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5522 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055238 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5524 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5525 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005526
5527
5528Swap (.swp) files:
55298 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5530 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5531 there are short file name problems.
55328 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5533 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
55348 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
55358 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005536 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005537 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5538 file the same as the actual file?
5539 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055407 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5541 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
55427 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005543 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005544 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5545 enough room.
55467 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5547 or /var/preserve.
5548- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5549 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5550- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005551 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005552- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5553 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5554 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5555 cached list of which line is where.
5556
5557
5558Viminfo:
55597 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5560 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5561 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000055628 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5563 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5564 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055658 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5566 name. (Schild)
55678 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
55688 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055698 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055708 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5571 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5572 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5573 this?
55747 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
55757 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5576 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
55776 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5578 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5579 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5580- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5581 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5582
5583
5584Modelines:
55858 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5586 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5587 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005588- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5589 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5590 'shiftwidth'.
5591- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5592 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5594 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5595 modeline setting.
5596- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5597 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5598- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5599 .cpp files.
5600- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5601 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5602- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5603 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5604
5605
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005606Sessions:
56078 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5608 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56097 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5610 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056118 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5612 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056138 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5614 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5615 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056167 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5617 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056187 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005619
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005620
5621Options:
56227 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5623 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056248 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5625 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5626 also be supported.
56278 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5628 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5629 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
56307 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005631
5632
5633External commands:
56348 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5635 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
56364 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5637 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5638 -f).
56394 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
56404 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5641 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
56424 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5643
5644
5645Multiple Windows:
56467 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
56478 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5648 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
56497 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5650 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5651 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000056527 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5653 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000056547 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5655 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056566 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5657 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005658 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005659 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
56607 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5661 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5662 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5663 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5664- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5665 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5666 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5667 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5668
5669
5670Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056718 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056728 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5673 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056748 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 +000056758 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5676 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
56778 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5678 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5679 the mark was set.
56807 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5681 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5682 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5683 ":browse marks"?
56846 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056857 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5686 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
56877 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5688 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
56897 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5690 command).
56917 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5692 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5693 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5694 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
56955 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5696 mappings.
56976 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5698 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5699 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5700
5701
5702Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057037 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005704 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005705- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5706 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057078 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057087 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5709 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5710
5711
5712Writing files:
5713- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5714 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5715 shortname conversion.
57168 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57178 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5718 file.
57198 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5720 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5721 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057226 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5723 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
57246 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5725 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
57266 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5727 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057288 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005729 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
57307 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5731 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
57327 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5733 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5734 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5735 waiting for a character to be typed).
57368 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5737 line of the window, like "[time]".
5738 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5739 Automatic and/or with a command.
5740
5741
5742Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000057438 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5744 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057458 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005746 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5747- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5748- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
57498 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5750 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005751- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005752 :s///N substitutes N times.
5753- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5754 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5755 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
57567 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5757 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5758 last line column 5.
57595 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5760 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5761 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5762 (Stanislav Sitar)
5763
5764
5765Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057668 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
57677 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
57688 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5769 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5770 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005771- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5772- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5773 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5774- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5775- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5776
5777
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005778Argument list:
57796 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5780 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5781 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
57826 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5783
5784
5785Registers:
57868 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057878 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5788 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5789 for every line.
57906 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5791 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5792 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5793- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5794 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5795- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5796 leader when line wraps?
5797- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5798 line in the range.
5799- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5800 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58018 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5802 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005803
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005804
5805Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058068 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058078 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058087 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58097 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5810
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005811Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000058127 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5813 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5814 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5815 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5816 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5817 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5818 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005819 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000058207 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5821 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000058227 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5823 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058248 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5825 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058267 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5827 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5828 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005829- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005830 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058317 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5832 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010058337 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5834 window as a buffer-tab selection.
58358 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058367 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5837 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
58388 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5839 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058406 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058418 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5842 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5843 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5844 in this Vim.
58458 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005846 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058478 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5848 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5849 have it apply to the following command.
58508 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5851 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5852 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5853 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058547 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5855 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058567 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5857 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5858 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5859 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058606 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
58618 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
58629 Support ACLs on more systems.
58637 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5864 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058657 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5866 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5867 (truncated to fit in the space).
58687 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
58698 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
58708 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5871 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000058727 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005873 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
58747 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5875 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058767 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058777 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
58787 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058798 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
58808 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5881 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5882 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5883 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
58848 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058858 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058868 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5887 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5888 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5889 does something like this. (Shah)
58907 Use growarray for replace stack.
58917 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5892 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
58933 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058947 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5895 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010058967 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5897 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005898- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5899- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5900- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5901- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59027 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5903 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5904- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5905 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005906- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005907- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5908 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5909- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5910 call "play newbeep.au").
5911- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5912 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5913 (Bhatt).
5914- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5915 blockwise registers).
5916- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5917 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5918- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5919 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5920 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5921 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005922- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059237 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5924 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5925- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5926 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5927 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5928 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5929 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059308 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5931 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059328 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5933 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5934 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5935 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5936 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5937- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005938- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059397 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5940 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5941- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5942 not in column 1.
59436 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5944 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
59457 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5946- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005947- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005948 :redir #> bufname
5949 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005950- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5951 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005952- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5953 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5954 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
59556 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5956 console? (Klaus Hast)
5957- Add :delcr command:
5958 *:delcr*
5959 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5960 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5961 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5962 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5963 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5964 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5965- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5966- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5967 characters from 'isprint'.
5968- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5969- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5970 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5971- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5972 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5973 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5974- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5975- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5976 Nvi).
5977- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5978 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
59797 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5980- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5981 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
59826 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5983- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5984 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5985 macro).
5986- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005987- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5988 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5989- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
59908 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005991- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5992- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5993- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5994 if it is not the first or last window.
5995- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5996 there is one) instead of the file itself.
59977 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5998 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5999 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6000- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6001- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006002 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006003 many percent down the windows).
6004- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6005 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6006 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006007 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006008- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6009 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6010- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6011 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6012- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6013- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6014- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6015 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060168 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6017 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6018 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6019 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6020 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006021- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6022 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6023- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006024 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6025- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006026 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6027 (Webb).
6028- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006029 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006030- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6031 hex codes like 0xff).
6032- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6033 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6034 the last TYPED command.
6035- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6036- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6037- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6038 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006039- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060408 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6041 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6042 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006043- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006044 trailing '.'.
6045- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6046 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6047 find_file_in_path().
6048- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6049 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6050- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6051- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6052 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6053- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006054 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006055- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6056 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6057 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006058- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6059- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6060- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6061 to the minimal size.
6062- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6063- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6064- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6065- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6066- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006067- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6068 entered)?
6069- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6070 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006071- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006072- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6073- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6074- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6075- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6076- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6077 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006078- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060798 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6080 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6081 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6082 or in octal.
60837 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6084 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006085- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006086 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6087- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6088- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6089 insert line command).
6090- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6091- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6092- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6093- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6094- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6095 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006096- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097 yet.
6098- Implement 'redraw' option.
6099- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6100 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061017 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6102 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006103 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6104 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061058 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6106 do it.
6107- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6108- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6109 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6110- Add text justification option.
6111- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6112- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6113 off".
6114- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6115- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6116- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006117 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006118- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006119- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006120- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6121 commands.
6122- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6123- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6124- :table command (Webb)
6125- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006126- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6127- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6128- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6129- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6130- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6131 (Demirel).
6132- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6133- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6134 for use in macro's and the like.
6135- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006136 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006137- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006138 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006139- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006140 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006141 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6142- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6143 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006144- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006145 mkopttab to make option table?
6146- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6147 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6148- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6149 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006150- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006151 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6152- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6153 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006154- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000061558 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6156 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6157 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6158 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6159 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061608 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6161 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6162 (Netherton)
61636 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6164 space after "(", for example.
61655 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6166 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6167 (Servatius Brandt)
6168
6169
6170From Elvis:
6171- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6172- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006173- Search patterns:
6174 \@ match word under cursor.
6175 but do:
6176 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6177 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
61788 ":window" command:
6179 :win + next window (up)
6180 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6181 :win - previous window (down)
6182 :win -- idem, wrapping
6183 :win nr to window number "nr"
6184 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
61857 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6186 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6187
6188
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006189From xvi:
6190- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6191- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6192
6193
6194From vile:
6195- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6196- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6197 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6198
6199
6200Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006201- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6202 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006203 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006204 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6205 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006206- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6207 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6208- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6209 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6210 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6211 current layout mirrored.
6212- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6213- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6214 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6215- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6216- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6217 font in each top-level window.
6218- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6219- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6220- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6221- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6222 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006223- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6224 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6225- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6226 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
62274 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6228 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6229 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6230 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006231 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006232 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6233 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6234- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6235 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6236 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6237
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006238vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006239vim: set fo+=n :