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Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2014 Aug 23
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*
8
9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
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 Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020038- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
39 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010040- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010041- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
42 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010043- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010044 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010045- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020046- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
47- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
48 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020049- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020050- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
51 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
52 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020053
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020054Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020055More info Jul 24. Not clear why.
56
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020057Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
58(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
59Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
Bram Moolenaardb6ea062014-07-10 22:01:47 +020060
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020061Patch to fix a problem with breakindent. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Aug 17)
62It's actually not a breakindent problem. With test: Aug 19.
63With renamed test: Aug 20
64
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020065Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
66work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020067
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020068ml_get error when using Python, issue 248.
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +020069
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020070Patch to fix typos in help files. (Dominique, 2014 Aug 9)
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +020071
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020072Way to reproduce problem that characters are put on the screen twice in Insert
73mode when using system(). (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Aug 9)
74Related to setting TMODE_COOK. Perhaps we can omit that for system()?
75
76Update for Romanian spell file. (Vanilla Ice, 2014 Aug 13)
77
78Patch to remove ETO_IGNORELANGUAGE, it causes Chinese characters not to show
79up. (Paul Moore, 2014 Jul 30)
80Should it depend on the Windows version? Waiting for feedback.
81No longer needed after including DirectX patch?
82
83Patch by Marcin Szamotulski to add count to :close (2014 Aug 10, update Aug
8414)
85 Make ":1close" close the first window.
86 Make ":+1close" close the next window.
87 Make ":-1close" close the previous window.
88Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
89":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
90Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
91
92Patch by Marcin Szamotulski to add +cmd to buffer commands.
93(2014 Aug 18)
94
95Patch to fix that system() with empty input fails. (Olaf Dabrunz, 2014 Aug 19)
96
97When using a visual selection of multiple words and doing CTRL-W_] it jumps to
98the tag matching the word under the cursor, not the selected text.
99(Patrick hemmer)
100Patch by Christian, 2014 Aug 8.
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200101
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200102Completion for :buf does not use 'wildignorecase'. (Akshay H, 2014 May 31)
103
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200104Patch to handle list with some items locked. (ZyX, 2014 Aug 17)
105Prefer the second solution.
106
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100107":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
108directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
109
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200110Patch to add a special key name for K_CURSORHOLD. (Hirohito Higashi, 2014 Aug
11110)
112
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200113The entries added by matchaddpos() are returned by getmatches() but can't be
114set with setmatches(). (lcd47, 2014 Jun 29)
115
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100116Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100117
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200118Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200119
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200120Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
121inconsistant with the documentation.
122
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200123MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
124(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
125
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200126Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
127
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100128Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100129
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200130"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
131Jun 8)
132
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100133No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
134
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200135Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100136
137PHP syntax is extremely slow. (Anhad Jai Singh, 2014 Jan 19)
138
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200139Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
1400x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
141New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
142compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
143
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200144Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
145Also fixes wrong result from executable().
146Update from Ken Takata, 2014 Jan 10. Newer 2014 Apr 3.
147
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200148Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
149More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10.
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200150
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200151The garbage collector may use too much stack. Make set_ref_in_item()
152iterative instead of recursive. Test program by Marc Weber (2013 Dec 10)
153Patch by Ben Fritz, 2014 Jun 22.
154
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200155Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
156right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
157it's height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200158
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100159Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
160What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
161
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100162This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
163 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
164This neither: (ZyX)
165 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
166
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200167'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
168Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
169from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100170
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200171Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
1722014 Jun 8)
173
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100174Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
175Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
176Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
177User view:
178- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
179 the files before deciding to install.
180- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
181- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
182 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
183 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
184 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
185 on vim.org.
186- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
187 there. Can manually update when really needed.
188- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
189- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
190- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
191- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
192Implementation:
193- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
194 plugin separate.
195- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
196 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
197 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
198- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
199 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
200- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
201 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
202 installing.
203Out of scope:
204- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
205- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
206 useful).
207
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200208Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
209normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100210
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200211CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
212when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
213
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200214When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
215menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
216
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200217Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
218(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
219
220":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
221various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100222
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200223patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
224(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
225
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200226Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
227Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
228
229Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
23030)
231
232Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
233Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
234Or should we add a more general mechanism, like lambda functions?
235
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200236VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
237instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
238
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100239Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200240Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100241
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200242Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", whould be ":edit". Complete to the matching
243command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100244
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100245Patch to add v:completed_item. (Shougo Matsu, 2013 Nov 29).
246
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200247Patch to get MSVC version in a nicer way. (Ken Takata, 2014 Jul 24)
248
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100249Patch to make test 100 work on MS-Windows. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Dec 12)
250
251Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
252
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100253Perl: support for Activestate perl 5.18: Issue 170.
254
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100255Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
256highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100257
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100258Patch to fix temp directories for Windows, so that it works without tweaking.
259Issue 28.
260
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200261Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100262
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100263Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200264possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100265
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100266Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
267
268Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200269
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +0100270Some quickfix messages appear twice. (Gary Johnson, 2014 Feb 16)
271Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Feb 17.
272
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200273Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
274
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100275Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
276
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200277With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
2782013 Sep 5)
279
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100280Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100281Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100282
283Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
2843. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
285
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200286/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
287
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002887 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
289 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
290 "lucida_console:h8").
291Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
292
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200293:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
294
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200295Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100296names.
297(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100298Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200299
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200300Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200301With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200302
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100303Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
304(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
305
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200306Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
307
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200308Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
309
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100310When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
311(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
312
313Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
314Dec 13.
315
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200316Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown)
317Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely.
318
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100319Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
320buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
321
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100322Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
323(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
324
325":sign-jump" uses first window in buffer instead of current window.
326Patch by James McCoy, 2013 Nov 22.
327
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200328GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
329(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
330
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100331Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
332registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
333
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200334Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
335
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200336The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
337(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
338Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
339
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200340The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
341- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
342- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
343
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100344Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
345Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
346reliably?
347
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200348Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
349That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
350Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
35117)
352Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200353Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200354
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100355Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window
356correctly. Issue 91.
357
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100358Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
359(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
360
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100361Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
362(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
363
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02003648 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
365 defined.
366Issue 28.
367
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200368Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
3692013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100370
371Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
372
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200373Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
3745)
375
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200376Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
377carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
378
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200379Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
380highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
381
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100382Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200383
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200384Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200385May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
386May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200387May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200388
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200389Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020039028) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200391
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200392Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
393optional. (2013 Jul 12)
394
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200395Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
396
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200397Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
398functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200399Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200400Second one. Update May 22.
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200401Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200402
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100403Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
404
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +0200405MS-Windows: Patch to make tests copy files to avoid changing the fileformat of
406the files under version control. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jul 5)
407
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100408Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100409
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200410- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
411 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
412Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200413
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200414Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200415
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100416'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Issue 77)
417
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200418Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
419Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
420
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200421In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
422process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
423a reboot.
424
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100425Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100426Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
427Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100428Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100429
430Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
431cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
432
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100433patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
434
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100435Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
436I can't reproduce it.
437
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100438Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
439not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100440
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200441Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
442Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
443
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200444Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
445Or use expand('<sid>')?
446
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100447Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
448
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100449Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100450
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200451Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
452signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
453
454Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
455
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200456Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
457insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
458Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
459
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100460Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
461
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100462b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
4637)
464
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200465Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
466compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
467
468Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
469Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
470vim.bindeval().
471
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200472Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
4732012 Aug 4)
474
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100475Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
476(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
477
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100478Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
479But use Gnome instead of GTK?
480
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200481Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
482Saito, 2013 Apr 24)
483
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100484Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
485Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
486Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200487
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200488Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
489
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200490Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
491loading all files.
492
493Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
494line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
495after starting up?
496
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200497Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
498location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2)
499
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02005008 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
501 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
502
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200503MS-Windows resizing problems:
504- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
505 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
506- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
507 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
508 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100509
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200510'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200511
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200512Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200513of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
514
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200515Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
516
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100517Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200518Also question if examples are correct.
519
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200520The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
521Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
522But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200523
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200524Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
525Aug 16)
526
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100527When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
528is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
529
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200530xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
531enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
532
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100533URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100534- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100535- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
536 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
537
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200538Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200539New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200540
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100541When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
542for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
543Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100544
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200545Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
546
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200547Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
54824)
549
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200550Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
551
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100552Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
553
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200554Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
555Apr 18)
556
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200557Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
558And one for gui_x11.txt.
559
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100560":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
561finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
562Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
563
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200564Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
565
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100566Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
567
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200568Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
569they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
570
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100571Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
572
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100573Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
574Nov 20)
575
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200576Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200577Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200578
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100579`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100580(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
581
582Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
583
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100584BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
585Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
586
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100587Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
588Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
589
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100590Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
591
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100592Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
593Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
594
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200595Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
596
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200597On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
5982012 Jun 19)
599
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200600'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
601'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
602Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200603Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200604
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200605With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
606(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
607need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
608
609Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
610only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
61121, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
612
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200613'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
614highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
615
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100616Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
617New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
618
619Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
620Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
621
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100622Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
623Jan 19)
624
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200625Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
626Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
627Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200628
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200629"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100630Oct 26)
631
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200632Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
633
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200634With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
635register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200636
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200637Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
638
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200639When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
640(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
641
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100642Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
643Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
644
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200645Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
646doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
647Jun 17)
648
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100649When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
650then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
651from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
652
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200653Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
654":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
65515)
656
657Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
658
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200659BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
660cleared. See test64.
661
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200662Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
663
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200664Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200665effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200666Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
667
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200668Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200669Update Aug 16 (email).
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200670
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200671On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
67264 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
673right type.
674
675string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
676(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
677
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200678Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
679
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200680When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
681(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200682When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
683following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
684(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200685
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200686When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
687doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
688
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100689Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
690
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02006917 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
692Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
693
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200694maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
695mapping, how to restore the script ID?
696
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200697Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
698(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
699
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200700When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
701indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
702the help file.
703
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200704After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
705Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
706
707Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
708
709"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
710
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200711Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
712May 24) Update May 26.
713
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100714Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
715
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200716Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200717
718Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
7192010 Dec 18)
720
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200721With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
722number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
723Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
724
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200725Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
726Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
727
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02007288 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
729Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
730
7318 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
732 after typing something.
733Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
734function that resets did_cursorhold.
735Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
736
7377 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
738Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
739Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
740
7419 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
742 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
743Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
744
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200745Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
746Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
747
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200748In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
749or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
750sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
751
752GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
753doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
754
755GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
756
757Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
758Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
759
760Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
761
7627.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
763there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
764do?
765
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200766Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
76722)
768
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100769New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
770- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200771- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100772 the maximum repeat for * and +?
773
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100774"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
7752011 Feb 27)
776
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200777Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
778^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
779
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100780'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
781way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
782
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100783When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
784exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
7859) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
786
787g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
788the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
789
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100790Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
791crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
792
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200793Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
794number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
795
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200796Regexp engine performance:
797- Profiling:
798 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
799 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
800 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
801 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
802 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
803 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
804- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
805- Performance tests:
806 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
807 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
808 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
809 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
810 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
811 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
812 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
813 'hlsearch'.
814 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
815 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
816 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
817 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
818
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200819Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
820names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
821Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
822the system encoding (usually utf-8).
823
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100824Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010082526, update 2013 Dec 14)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100826
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200827Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
828Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
829
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200830'beval' option should be global-local.
831
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100832Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200833
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200834setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200835
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02008367 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
837 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
838 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
839
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200840With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
8412010 Oct 24)
842
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100843Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
844Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
845
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200846Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
847
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200848When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
849Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
850
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200851":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
852
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200853'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
854
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100855C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
856checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
857Issue 46.
858
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200859Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
860
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100861Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
862gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
863
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200864":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
865accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
866
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200867Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
868setwinvar().
869
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100870Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
871
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100872When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
873(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
874
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200875Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200876(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200877
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200878When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
879instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
880
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200881Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
882Winckler, 2011 May 11)
883Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100884
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100885Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
886back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
887
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100888Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200889Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
890
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100891CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
892the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
893FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
894
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200895Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
896Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
897
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200898Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
899Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
900
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100901I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
902Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
903an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100904
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200905Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
906
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100907Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
908non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100909
910iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
911Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
912or replace with a character and continue?
913
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100914Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
915Requires configure check for localtime().
916Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
917
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100918Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
919Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
920
921Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
922
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100923Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
924Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
925path.
926
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100927Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200928Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100929
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200930'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
931
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200932":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
933like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
934
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100935Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200936Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
937
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100938Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
9392010 Nov 5)
940
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100941Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
942Jan 7)
943
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100944Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
945Only with "vim -u NONE".
946
947Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
948
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100949With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
950entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
951Feb 12)
952
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200953Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
954characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
955
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100956Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
957
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200958Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
959 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
960
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200961Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
962
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200963When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
964Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
965
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100966When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
967not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
968string value.
969
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100970Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
971
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100972For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
973line argument -noregister.
974
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100975When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
976missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
977
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200978When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
979doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100980
981Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
982(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
983Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
984There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
985Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
986
987":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
988highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
989to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
990
991Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
992Probably needs a bit of work.
993
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100994List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100995Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
996
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200997Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
998
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100999Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1000
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001001Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1002Sep 1)
1003
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001004Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1005
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001006Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1007on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001009Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
10102009 Jul 18)
1011
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001012Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1013Added test, updates, June 23.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001014Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001015
1016Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1017window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1018Needs more work.
1019
1020Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1021
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001022When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1023few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1024
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001025'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001026(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1027
1028Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1029J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1030
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001031When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1032for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1033
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001034Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1035
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001036Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1037
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001038When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1039
1040":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1041because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1042ex_docmd.c.
1043
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001044Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001045Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1046
1047string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1048for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1049
1050Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1051
1052'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
105320)
1054
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001055Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
10562009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1057
1058Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1059
1060Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1061SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1062
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001063When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1064indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1065(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1066
1067Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1068are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1069Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1070Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1071that doesn't have a window.
1072
1073When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1074doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1075
1076getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1077displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1078
1079":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1080
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001081There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1082was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1083perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1084
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001085Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1086
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001087Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1088file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1089system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1090
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001091Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1092command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1093
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001094Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1095does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1096
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001097opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1098height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001099very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001100
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001101Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1102(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1103
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001104Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001105(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1106
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001107Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1108char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1109
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001110Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1111Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1112
1113This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1114
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001115A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001116
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001117Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1118messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1119es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
11202009 Jan 26)
1121
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001122When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001123in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1124Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1125
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001126Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1127a modeline.
1128
1129Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1130Sergey Khorev)
1131
1132Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1133part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001134
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001135netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1136number to be below last visible line.
1137
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001138After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1139correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1140
1141Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1142(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1143
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001144shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001145'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1146Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1147unix-like shell?
1148
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001149Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1150register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1151(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1152
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001153Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1154Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1155
1156Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1157make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1158
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001159When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1160still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1161
1162"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1163(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1164
1165Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1166
1167"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1168
1169Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1170that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1171ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1172Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1173
1174Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001175Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001176
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001177MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1178doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1179probably causes this.
1180
1181'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020011822009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001183
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001184Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010011852013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001186
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001187Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1188 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1189 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1190(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1191
1192Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1193":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1194option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1195is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001196
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001197":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1198first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001199Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001200
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001201Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1202laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1203Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001204
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001205Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1206anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1207
1208On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1209doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1210Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1211Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1212
1213":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1214
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001215When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1216'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1217fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1218the buffer to be unmodified.
1219Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1220another look at it.
1221
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001222c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1223(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1224
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001225You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1226error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1227Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1228at the other match for 0xBF.
1229
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001230When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1231argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1232
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001233Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1234backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1235
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001236When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1237line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1238
1239Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1240position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1241
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001242After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1243(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001244command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001245
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001246":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1247Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1248
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001249Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1250Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1251
1252When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1253either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1254put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1255
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001256Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1257Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1258Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1259Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1260(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1261
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001262Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1263
1264ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001265
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001266Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1267(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1268escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1269an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001270This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1271July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001272Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1273work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1274
1275When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
127631)
1277
1278Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1279work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1280Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001281
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001282Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
12832008 May 14)
1284
1285Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1286Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1287'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1288
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001289Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1290Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1291
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001292Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1293Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1294
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020012958 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1296 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1297 several).
1298 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1299 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1300 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1301Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1302
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001303Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1304
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001305The utf class table is missing some entries:
1306 0x2212, minus sign
1307 0x2217, star
1308 0x2500, bar
1309 0x26ab, circle
1310
1311Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1312line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1313
1314GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1315Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001317Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1318try the Cocoa version.
1319
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001320Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1321changed or the window is resized.
1322
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001323GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1324the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1325
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001326Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1327Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001328
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001329Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
13301) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1331
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001332C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1333with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1334Try to reproduce at work.
1335
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001336Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1337Is there a way to list all the files first?
1338
1339When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1340result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
134116)
1342
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001343Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1344(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1345
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001346Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1347Await response to question to make the register writable.
1348
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001349src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1350remark why.
1351
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001352Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
13531)
1354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001355In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1356each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1357
1358try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1359
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001360try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001362":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1363Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1364
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001365Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1366
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001367Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1368Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1369
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001370Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1371Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1372Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001373
1374C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1375(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1376
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001377When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1378and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1379
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001380Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1381 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1382
1383New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1384
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001385":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1386a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1387
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001388'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1389Likonen, March 19)
1390
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001391Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1392other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1393
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001394The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1395appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1396matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1397
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001398When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1399character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1400'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1401(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1402
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001403Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1404Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001405
1406More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1407
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001408Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1409http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1410
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001411Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1412back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1413Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001414
1415Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1416No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1417
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001418Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1419terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001420
1421Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1422
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001423Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1424but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1425that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001426
1427When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1428
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001429Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1430Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1431
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001432Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1433popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1434size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1435This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1436
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001437Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1438a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1439isn't right?
1440
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001441When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1442it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1443
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001444Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1445then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1446files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001447Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1448indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1449":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1450in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1451quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1452Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001453
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001454When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1455parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1456neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1457particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1458Jun 3)
1459However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1460the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001461
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001462A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1463Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1464
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001465Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1466Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1467
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001468Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1469switch list is noticed:
1470 switch (i)
1471 {
1472 case 1:
1473 foobar:
1474 }
1475
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001476Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1477
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001478Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1479with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1480go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1481moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1482
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001483Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001484Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010014858 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1486 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1487 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001488Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001489
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001490Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
149164-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1492
1493Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1494Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1495Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1496argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1497(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1498
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001499Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1500(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1501
1502Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1503makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1504.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1505 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1506
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001507Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
15082007 Feb 8)
1509
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001510Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1511set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001512
1513Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1514
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001515Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1516
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001517Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1518Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1519New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1520patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1521
1522Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1523Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1524
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001525Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1526
1527Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
15282007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001529Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001530
1531Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001532label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1533
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001534Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1535with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1536Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001537
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001538Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1539pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001540Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001541
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001542Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1543
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001544Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1545Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1546only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1547
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001548Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1549Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001550Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001551properly?
1552
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001553Add a few features to xxd. (Vadim Vygonets, 2013 Nov 11)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001554Patches: 2013 Nov 19
15551: Add -e: little endian hexdump
15562: Add -o: add offset to displayed position
15573: Change displayed file position width to 8 chars
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001558
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001559Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
15602007 Jun 21)
1561
1562When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1563Jun 18)
1564
1565If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1566
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001567Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1568windows. (Adam George)
1569
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001570F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1571modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1572K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001573
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001574UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1575to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1576
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001577In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1578the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1579
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001580C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1581
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001582":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1583
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001584When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001585error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001586
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001587Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1588use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1589
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001590Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1591if_ruby.c.
1592
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001593":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1594
1595The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1596it in keep_msg?
1597
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001598Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001599error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001600name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1601
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001602Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1603longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001605Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1606Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1607Also for ":w" without a file name.
1608The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001609
1610"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1611Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1612
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001613VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1614directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1615(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1616
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001617VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1618
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001619input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1620name?
1621
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001622Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1623
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001624When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1625(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1626Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1627will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1628
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001629gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1630This also fails with --remote.
1631
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001632When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
16332008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1634all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1635
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001636aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1637
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001638When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1639(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1640
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001641Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1642the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1643
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001644GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1645
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001646Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1647superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1648
1649Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1650character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1651
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001652Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1653Jun 5)
1654
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001655Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
16562008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1657Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1658
1659In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1660but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1661Jul 22)
1662
1663There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1664
1665Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1666":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1667somehow? Or use a new function.
1668
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001669Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1670
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001671Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1672moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1673that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1674
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001675The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1676
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001677When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001678cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1679the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1680
1681Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1682has been created.
1683
1684Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1685shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1686fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1687background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1688A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001689
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001690These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1691 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1692 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1693 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1694
1695Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1696partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1697
1698In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1699buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1700reload it then?
1701
1702New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1703previous version.
1704
1705For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1706
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001707Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1708only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1709
1710Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1711tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1712doesn't contain other directories.
1713
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001714Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1715Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1716
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001717Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1718 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1719 set background=dark
1720This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1721color is, not reset it.
1722
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001723Linux distributions:
1724- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1725 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1726 xfree-xterm".
1727- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1728
1729Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1730start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1731show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1732middle?
1733
1734When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001735(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001736connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1737dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1738
1739Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1740
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001741When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1742current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1743the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1744
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001745When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1746Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1747
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001748Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1749 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1750 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1751 - getting colors in xterm
1752 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1753
1754Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1755Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1756
1757Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1758
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001759A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1760Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1761
1762Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1763Dara, 2006 June 21)
1764
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001765Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1766number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1767
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001768After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1769the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1770
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001771Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001772
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001773Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1774copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1775error and stop using the connection to the server.
1776
1777Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1778Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1779
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001780Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010017812008 Sep 29)
1782
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001783In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1784check the result of has("patch13").
1785
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001786Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1787restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1788
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001789Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1790and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1791
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001792Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1793put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1794
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001795Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1796resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1797
1798In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1799can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1800
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001801GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1802maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1803doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001804Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1805visible.
1806
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001807When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1808differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001809
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001810The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1811be only one.
1812
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001813"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1814script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1815
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001816It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1817the function name before resolving it to a number?
1818 let d = {}
1819 fun! d.foo()
1820 echo "here"
1821 endfun
1822 call d.foo(9)
1823
1824Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1825only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001826Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1827used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1828
1829Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1830output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1831Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1832
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001833Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001834"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1835name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1836Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001837
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001838printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
1839perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
1840
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001841Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1842(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1843
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001844Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1845as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1846
1847Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1848Jan 1)
1849
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001850Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
185123)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001852
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001853":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1854tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1855Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001856
1857xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1858buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1859Xterm 224 supports it!
1860
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001861When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1862text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1863latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1864
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001865Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1866
1867Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1868no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1869
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001870In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1871VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
18722007 Oct 16)
1873
1874TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1875Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1876
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001877Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001878
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001879When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1880typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1881Sep 3, 11)
1882
1883When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1884respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1885the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1886what happens for the GUI.
1887
1888X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1889pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1890clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1891Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1892Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1893clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1894
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001895":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1896this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1897
1898When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1899Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1900restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1901
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001902Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
19032010 Jun 30)
1904
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001905
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02001906At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001907- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001908- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1909 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001910
1911
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001912More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001913- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1914 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001915- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1916- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1917 21)
1918- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1919 patch May 10)
1920- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1921 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1922- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1923 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1924- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1925- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1926- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1927 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1928 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001929- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001930- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1931 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1932- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1933 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1934- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1935 21)
1936- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1937 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1938- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1939 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001940- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1941 Sep 13)
1942- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001943 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001944- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1945 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1946 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1947 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1948 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001949- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001950
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001951Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000019529 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1953 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1954 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1955 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1956 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1957 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1958 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1959 (Alan Schmitt)
1960 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001961 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1962 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000019639 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001964 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000019658 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019668 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001967 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019687 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1969 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1970 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019718 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001972 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020019737 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001974 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1975- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1976 for multi-byte characters.
1977- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1978- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1979 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1980 been given values.
1981 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
19828 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001983 with an ESC sequence.
1984 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1985 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1986 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019877 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1988 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1989- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1990 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1991 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
19928 Add functions:
1993 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1994 Update 2004 Sep 10
1995 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1996 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001997 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001998 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001999 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
2000 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002001 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2002 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2003 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2004 (2003 May 13)
2005 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2006 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002007 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2008 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002009 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2010 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2011 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000020127 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2013 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2014- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2015 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
20167 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2017 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000020188 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2019 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000020207 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
20218 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2022 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
20237 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2024 Kotchan has a patch for it)
20258 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
2026 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2027 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
20287 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2029- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2030 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2031 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002032- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2033 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2034- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2035
2036
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002037Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002038- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2039 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020408 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2041 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2042 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2043 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2044 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2045 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020468 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2047 make Vim exit.
20487 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2049 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2050 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
20518 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2052 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2053 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
20546 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2055 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2056 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
20578 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2058 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2059 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2060 names in one buffer???
2061 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2062 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2063 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
20647 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2065 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2066 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002067 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2068 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020697 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2070 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
20717 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
20727 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
20737 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2074 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
20757 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2076 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2077 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2078 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
20797 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
20807 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
20817 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2082 to the match with the tag? Option?
20837 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
20847 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2085 (Sayre).
20867 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2087 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020887 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2089 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2090 match. Nvi can do it too.
20917 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2092 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2093 line 1\ line 2\\
2094 line 2\ line 3\\
2095 . line4/
20966 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2097 the way the shell is started?
20986 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2099 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2100
2101
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002102GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021039 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021048 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2105 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2106 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000021078 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2108 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2109 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021109 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2111 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2112 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2113 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002114- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2115 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2116 blocked for now.
2117
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002118
2119Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002120- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2121 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021228 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2123 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
21248 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2125 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2126 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
21278 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2128 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021296 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2130 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000021318 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2132 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2133 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021347 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2135 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2136 to use an opaque background in most places?
21378 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2138 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2139 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021407 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2141 2004 May 9)
21428 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2143 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2144 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2145 MS-Windows 98?
2146 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2147 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2148 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2149 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021508 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2151 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2152 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2153 doesn't work properly.
21548 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2155 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2156 appears in the right position. (Webb)
21579 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2158 button doesn't give popup menu.
2159 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2160 selection.
2161 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2162 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2163 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
21648 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2165 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2166 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2167 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
21688 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2169 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2170 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021717 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2172 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2173 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
21747 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2175 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002176 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021777 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2178 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021796 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
21808 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2181 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2182 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
21838 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2184 know which keyboard is being used?
21857 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2186 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2187 area (Koloseike).
21888 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2189 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2190 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2191 the font name).
2192
2193
2194Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000021956 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2196 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2197 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2198 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2199 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022009 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2201 required and it's missing?
22028 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2203 wrong.
22049 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2205 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000022069 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002207 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2208 flag.
22098 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2210 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2211 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
22128 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
22136 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2214 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2215 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2216 the tooltips work though...
22177 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2218 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
22198 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2220 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2221 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2222
2223
2224Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010022259 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2226 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022279 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2228 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2229 through files.
22307 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2231 read long file names. (Schroeder)
22324 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2233 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2234 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2235 problem during a refresh.
22365 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2237 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2238 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2239 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2240 colors as it should.
2241 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2242 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2243
2244
2245Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002246- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022477 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2248 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022498 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2250 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2251 (Phillipps)
2252
2253
2254GUI:
22559 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2256 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
22579 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002258 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002259 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
22609 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2261 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
22628 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2263 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
22648 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2265 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2266 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
22678 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2268 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2269 of where it is processing the output.
2270 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
22718 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2272 doesn't work.
22738 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000022748 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2275 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2276 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020022778 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022788 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2279 browse().
22808 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2281 use that code? Or use console dialog.
22828 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2283 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000022847 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2285 - regexp on/off
2286 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2287 when all buffers/directory is used:
2288 - filter for file name
2289 when directory is used:
2290 - subdirectory on/off
2291 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022928 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2293 to avoid problems.
22948 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2295 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2296 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
22978 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2298 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2299 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
23008 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2301 up. Set erase character somehow?
23028 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2303 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2304 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2305 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
23068 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
23077 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2308 visible.
23097 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2310 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
23117 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2312 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
23138 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2314 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
23158 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2316 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2317 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2318 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2319- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
23204 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2321 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2322 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2323
2324
2325MSDOS/DJGPP:
23269 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2327 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2328 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
23298 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2330 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
23319 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002332 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2333 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023349 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2335 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2336 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2337 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
23389 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2339 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2340 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2341 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2342 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2343 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2344 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2345 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2346 key code. Use a translation table?
23479 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2348 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
23498 Use DJGPP 2.03.
23508 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2351 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
23528 setlocale() is bogus.
23538 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2354 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2355 Windows 95 system!
23568 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000023577 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002358 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
23597 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2360 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2361 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
23628 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2363 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
23647 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2365 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2366 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2367 "[New file]".
23687 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2369 that is supported?
23708 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
23718 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2372 Briscoe)
2373
2374
2375MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
23768 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2377 gen_expand_wildcards().
23788 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2379 Wagner.
23808 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
23818 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2382 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000023838 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2384 a good fallback, thus use:
2385 $HOME
2386 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2387 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2388 $USERPROFILE
2389 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2390 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2391 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2392 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023938 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2394 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
23958 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2396 Should work like in the GUI version.
23978 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2398 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
23998 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2400 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
24018 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2402 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2403 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024048 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2405 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2406 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2407
2408
2409Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020024108 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002411 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2412 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
24138 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2414 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2415
2416
2417Win32 console:
24189 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2419 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2420 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2421 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2422 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2423 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2424 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2425 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2426 and the file is not saved.
2427 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2428 long name.
24298 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2430 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
24317 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2432 besides the console.
24338 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
24349 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2435 <C-S-i>?
24369 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2437 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
24388 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2439 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024407 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2441 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2442 exiting.
2443
2444
2445Amiga:
24468 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2447 sequences.
24489 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2449 backslashes in result.
24508 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2451 all options, using white space separation.
2452
2453
2454Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002455- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024567 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2457 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2458 (Jack)
2459 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024608 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2461 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024628 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
24638 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
24649 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2465 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024669 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002467
2468
2469"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002470- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2471 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002472- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2473 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002474- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2475 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2476 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2477 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2478 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2479 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2480 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000024819 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2482 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000024839 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002484 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2485 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024868 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2487 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2488 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002489 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024907 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2491 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
24928 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2493 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2494 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024957 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2496 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002497- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2498 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024998 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2500 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2501 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2502 using the horizontal scrollbar.
25037 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2504 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2505 invocations belong together.
25068 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2507 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
25088 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2509 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2510 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2511 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2512 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000025138 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2514 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2515 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025168 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2517 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025187 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2519 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2520 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2521 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025227 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2523 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2524 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
25257 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2526 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2527 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
25287 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2529 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025307 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2531 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025329 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2533 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2534 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2535 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2536 script can be called.
25378 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2538 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2539 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025408 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2541 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000025428 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002543 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2544 configurable?
25458 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
25469 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2547 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2548 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025498 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2550 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025518 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2552 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025538 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2554 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025559 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2556 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2557 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025587 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025598 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2560 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2561 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000025628 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2563 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002564 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2565 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025668 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2567 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
25689 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2569 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2570 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002571 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025727 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2573 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025747 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2575 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2576 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2577 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025788 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002579 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2580 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2581 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2582 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002583 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2584 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002585 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002586 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002587 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2588 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2589 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2590 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2591 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
25928 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2593 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
25949 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2595 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2596 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025978 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2598 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
25998 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2600 in lines that don't extend into the block?
26018 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2602 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2603 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
26048 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2605 'linebreak'.
26068 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2607 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2608 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026099 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2610 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2611 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2612 'magic' in history. (Margo)
26139 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2614 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
26159 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2616 isn't updated).
26179 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
26189 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2619 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2620 cause another redraw, etc.
26218 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2622 must escape special characters in the pattern.
26238 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2624 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2625 ":w!!" for that.
2626 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2627 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002628 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026297 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2630 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2631 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2632 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2633 clipboard)
26347 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2635 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2636 Waggoner)
26378 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2638 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2639 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000026406 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2641 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2642 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026438 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2644 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
26458 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2646 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2647 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000026488 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026498 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2650 (e.g., ":w").
26518 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2652 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
26538 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2654 for ">>".
26558 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2656 script in do_cmdline().
26578 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2658 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2659 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2660 changes.
26618 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2662 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
26638 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2664 check for file marks. This can be slow.
26657 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2666 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2667 needed.
2668 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
26698 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2670 to skip catch_signals()?
26719 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2672 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2673 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2674 text?
26758 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2676 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
26778 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2678 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
26799 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2680 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2681 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2682 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2683 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
26847 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2685 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2686 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2687 in the list?
26888 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2689 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2690 instead of on button down.
26918 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
26929 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2693 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002694 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2695 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026968 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2697 character is typed.
26988 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2699 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
27008 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2701 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
27028 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2703 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2704 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2705 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2706 cygwin bash.
27077 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2708 Remember flags for backreferences.
27097 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2710 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
27117 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2712 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
27138 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2714 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
27157 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2716 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027177 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2718 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2719 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
27207 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2721 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
27228 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2723 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2724 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
27257 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2726 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002727
2728
2729I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
27309 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2731 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2732 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002733
2734
2735Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002736- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2737 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2738 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002739- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2740 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2741 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2742 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2743 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2744 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002745 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002746- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2747 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002748 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002749 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2750 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2751 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002752- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2753 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2754 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2755 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2756 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2757- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2758 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2759 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2760- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2761 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002762- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002763- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2764 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2765 character gets the highlighting.
2766- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2767 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2768- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2769 (Jennings)
2770- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2771- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2772 errors. How do we get the rest?
2773- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002774- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002775 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2776- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2777 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2778 first?
2779- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2780 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2781- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2782 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2783 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2784- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2785 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2786 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2787 (Benzinger).
2788- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2789 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2790 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2791- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2792 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2793- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2794 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2795- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2796 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2797 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2798 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2799 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2800 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2801- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2802 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2803 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002804- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2805 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2806 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002807- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2808 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2809 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2810- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2811 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2812- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2813 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002814- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2815 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2816- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2817 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2818 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2819 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2820 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2821- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2822 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2823 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2824- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2825 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2826 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002827- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2828 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 +00002829- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2830 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2831 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2832 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2833 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2834- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2835 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2836
2837--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2838 *extensions-improvements*
2839
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002840Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2841- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2842 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2843 calling a function.
2844 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2845 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002846- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2847 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2848- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2849 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2850 http://clewn.sf.net.
2851 And the idevim plugin/script.
2852 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2853 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2854 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2855 other window.
2856 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2857 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2858 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2859 in terminal mode.
2860- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2861 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2862 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2863 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2864 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2865 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002866 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002867- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2868 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2869 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002870- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2871 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002872- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2873 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2874 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028758 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2876 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2877 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2878 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002879- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2880 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002881
2882
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002883Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028848 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2885 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028868 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2887 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000028888 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2889 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028908 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028917 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
28929 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2893 - change to cursor position and curswant
2894 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2895 - how it works for folded lines
2896 - how it works with multi-byte characters
28979 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2898 work too.
28998 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2900 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2901 text.
29028 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
29037 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2904 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
29057 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2906 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002907 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002908- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2909
2910
2911Help:
2912- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2913 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2914- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2915 to the other matches.
2916- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2917- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2918- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2919 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2920 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2921 default contents.
2922- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2923 height for the help window (and other windows).
2924- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2925- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2926- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2927
2928
2929User Friendlier:
29308 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2931 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2932 Briscoe)
29338 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
29348 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2935 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2936 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
29378 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2938 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2939- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2940 ":mkplugin <file>"?
29418 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2942 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2943 'runtimepath'.
2944 " Vim plugin
2945 <main plugin code>
2946 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2947 <plugin docs>
2948- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
29499 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2950 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2951 item?).
2952 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029538 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
29547 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000029557 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2956 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2957 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000029588 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2959 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2960 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2961 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002962
2963
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002964Tab pages:
29659 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029667 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2967 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029688 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000029698 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029707 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029717 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002972 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029737 Add local variables for each tab page?
29748 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2975 tab pages.
29767 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029777 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2978 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002979
2980
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002981Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002982- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2983 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2984- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2985 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2986 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2987- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2988 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002989- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2990 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2991 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002992- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2993 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2994 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002995- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2996 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002997- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002998 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2999 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000030008 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3001 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
30028 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3003 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
30048 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3005 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003006 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003007 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3008 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3009 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3010 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003011- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3012 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003013- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003014- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3015 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003016- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003017 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003018- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003019 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003020- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3021 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003022- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3023 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3024- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003025 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003026 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3027 in the affix file separately.
3028 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003029 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003030 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3031 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3032 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3033- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3034 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3035 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3036 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3037 Alternative:
3038 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3039 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3040 affix which is required.
3041- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003042 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003043- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3044 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3045 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003046- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3047 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003048- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3049 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3050- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030518 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3052 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3053 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3054 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003055- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3056 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3057 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3058 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030598 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3060 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030618 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
30628 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3063 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030647 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
30658 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3066 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3067 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3068 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003069
3070
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003071Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020030729 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3073 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030749 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3075 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003076 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030778 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3078 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3079 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003080 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3081 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030827 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3083 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3084 location.
3085
3086
3087Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003088 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3089 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030908 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3091 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000030928 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030939 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3094 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030958 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3096 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3097 user aware of this?
30988 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3099 commands skip over a closed fold.
31008 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
31018 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031027 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003103- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3104 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3105 missing line goes unnoticed.
3106 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003107- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3108 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3109 smoother?
3110- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3111 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003112- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3113 file can contain:
3114 args version.c main.c
3115 edit version.c
3116 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003117- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003118- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3119 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003120- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3121 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003122- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3123 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003124- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000031258 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003126 searches.
3127
3128
3129Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003130- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3131 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3132 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3133 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031349 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3135 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3136 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3137 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031389 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3139 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3140 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031418 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3142 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3143 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3144 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3145 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3146 item.
31478 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003148 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3149 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031508 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3151 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003152 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003153 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031548 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3155 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031568 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3157 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3158 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031597 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3160 so that the user can fix the problem.
31618 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3162 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031639 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
31648 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031658 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
31668 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031677 Searching and composing characters:
3168 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003169 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3170 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031718 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
31728 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
31738 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3174 characters.
31758 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
31768 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3177 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
31787 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3179 'display' option to specify this.
31807 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3181 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3182- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3183 fontselector somehow.
3184- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3185 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3186- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3187 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3188- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3189 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3190 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3191 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3192 if a font exists?
3193- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003194 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003195- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3196 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
31977 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3198 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003199- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3200 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3201 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3202 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003203- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3204 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3205 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3206- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3207 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3208 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3209 But it's very complicated...
3210
3211
3212Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000032137 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003214- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3215- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3216 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003217- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3218 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003219- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3220- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3221 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003222- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3223 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003224- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3225 units as for the margins.
3226- Support right-to-left text?
32278 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3228 color.
3229
3230
3231Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032328 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3233 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
32348 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3235 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
32368 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3237 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000032387 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3239 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032408 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3241 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3242 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032437 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3244 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3245 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032468 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
32479 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3248 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032497 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3250 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000032517 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3252 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032538 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3254 change this for each release.
32558 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3256 pattern, but not in the body.
32578 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3258 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3259 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032608 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
32618 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3262 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3263 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3264 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003265 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3266 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032678 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3268 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
32698 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3270 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003271 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032728 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3273 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3274 used.
32758 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3276 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
32778 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3278 re-insert the [] if possible.
32798 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3280 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000032818 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3282 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3283 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3284 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3285 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032868 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3287 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
32888 Support for deleting syntax items:
3289 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3290 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3291 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
32928 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3293 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3294 a '<'. (Fleiner)
32957 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3296 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3297 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
32987 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3299 detected.
33008 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003301 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033028 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3303 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033048 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
33058 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
33067 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3307 ":mkvimrc".
33088 Improve c.vim:
3309 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3310 "c_strict_ansi".
3311 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
33128 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3313 current line while in Insert mode.
33148 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3315 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
33168 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3317 display position.
33188 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3319 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3320 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
33218 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3322 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3323 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033248 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3325 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3326 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033277 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3328 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3329 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3330 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3331 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033327 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3333 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3334 E.g. for this html:
3335 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033367 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
33377 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3338 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033398 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
33408 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033417 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3342 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3343 completion?
33448 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3345 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
33467 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3347 select one of the sets.
33488 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3349 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3350 2, etc.
33518 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3352 highlighting (for "." command).
33538 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3354 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
33558 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
33567 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3357 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
33586 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3359 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3360- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3361 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3362- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003363- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3364 (for comment blocks).
3365- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3366 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3367 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3368 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3369 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3370 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3371 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3372 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3373 (Campbell)
3374 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3375 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
33767 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3377 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
33787 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3379 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3380 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
33817 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3382 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3383 messages. And external commands?
33848 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3385 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
33867 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3387 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3388
3389
3390Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033918 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3392 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003393 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033947 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3395 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3396 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033978 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3398 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003399- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3400 2006 Dec 11.
3401- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020034028 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3403 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3404 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3405 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3406 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3407 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034087 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3409 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034108 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
34118 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3412 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3413 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3414 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3415 nested packages?
3416 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3417 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3418 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034197 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3420 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3421 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3422 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3423 autocommand.
3424 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3425 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3426 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3427 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034287 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3429 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034306 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3431 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034328 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003433 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3434 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3435 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3436 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3437 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3438 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3439 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003440 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3441 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3442 3 2002
3443 Only add this when also implemented for
3444 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3445 be used.
3446 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003447 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3448 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3449 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3450 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3451 File.Open..." argument.
3452 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3453 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3454 with properties instead.
3455 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3456 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3457 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003458 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003459 crypt() encrypt string
3460 decrypt() decrypt string
3461 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3462 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003463 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003464 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003465 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003466 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003467 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003468 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3469 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003470 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3471 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003472 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003473 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3474 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003475 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3476 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3477 to allow the library to execute a command or
3478 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034797 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3480 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
34818 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3482 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034838 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3484 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034858 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034867 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3487 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
34886 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034898 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3490 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034918 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3492 option or environment variable.
34938 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034948 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003495 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034967 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3497 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034988 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3499 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
35008 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
35018 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3502 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3503 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3504 charwise({expr}).
35057 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3506 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3507 buffer for this?
3508 result = scratch(string, command)
3509 result = apply(string, command)
3510 result = execute(string, command)
3511 "command" would use <> notation.
3512 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
35137 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003514
3515
3516Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000035176 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3518 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3519 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3520 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3521 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3522 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3523 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003524
3525
3526Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000035277 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3528 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020035297 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3530 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3531 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3532 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000035338 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3534 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3535 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3536 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003537 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035388 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3539 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3540 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035418 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
35429 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
35438 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
35447 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3545 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
35468 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3547 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3548 when starting up in a color terminal.
35498 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3550 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035518 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3552 function be improved?
35538 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3554 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3555 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3556 this be improved?
35578 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3558 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035597 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3560 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035617 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3562 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
35637 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3564 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020035657 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035667 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3567 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3568 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3569 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3570 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3571 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3572 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035738 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3574 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3575 using strcmp() too often?
35767 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3577 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3578 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3579 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3580 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3581 the two blocks to the memfile block.
35827 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3583 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3584 with an argument that can be messed with.
3585 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3586 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
35877 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3588- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
35898 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3590 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3591- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3592 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3593- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3594- Do profiling on:
3595 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3596 - 1000ii<Esc>
3597 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3598 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3599 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3600 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3601 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3602 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003603 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036047 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3605 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3606 changed).
3607 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3608 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3609- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3610- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3611 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3612- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3613 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3614 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3615- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3616 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3617- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3618- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3619 cursor is right of the screen.
36208 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3621 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3622
3623
3624Code size:
36258 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3626- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3627 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
36288 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
36298 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3630 it.
36317 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3632 left out.
36338 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3634 can be removed.
36358 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3636
3637
3638Messages:
36398 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3640 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
36418 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3642 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
36438 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3644 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3646 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3647- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036488 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3649 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036509 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3651 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3652 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3653 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3654 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036558 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3656 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
36578 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3658 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3659 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3660 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3661 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3662 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003663- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003664 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036658 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3666 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3667 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3668 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3669 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3670 error messages, printing text, etc.
36718 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3672 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3673 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3674
3675
3676Screen updating:
36777 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3678 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3679 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3680- screen_line():
3681 - insert/delete character stuff.
3682 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3683- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3684 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3685- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3686 waiting for a character.
36878 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3688 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3689 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
36907 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003691
3692
3693Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020036948 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036956 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3696- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3697 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3698 windows.
36997 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3700 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3701 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3702- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3703 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3704 (Goldfarb)
3705- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3706 bound windows.
3707- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3708 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003709- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003710- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3711 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3712 of lines but not with a single line).
3713
3714
3715Autoconf:
37168 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
37178 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3718 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3719- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3720 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3721- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3722- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3723- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3724
3725
3726Perl interface:
37278 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037287 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
37297 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
37306 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3731
3732
3733Shared libraries:
37346 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3735 :libload internal-name libname
3736 :libunload internal-name
3737 :liblist
3738 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3739 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3740 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
37416 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3742
3743
3744Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000037459 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3746 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3747 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3748 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3749 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037508 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3751 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3752 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003753 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003754 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000037557 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3756 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3757 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037588 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
37598 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3760 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037617 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3762 window for each tag.
37637 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
37647 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3765 bottom" search message.
37667 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3767 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3768 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003769- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3770- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003771- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3772 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3773 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037747 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3775 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3776 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3777 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
37787 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3779 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3780 :tagargs clear
3781 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3782 matching).
37837 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3784 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3785 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3786 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
37877 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3788 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
37897 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3790 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3791 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003792
3793
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003794Win32 GUI:
37958 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3796 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037977 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3798 (Mike McCollister)
37998 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3800 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3801 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3802 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3803 common part of the path.
38048 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
38058 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3806 gettext and menus work.
38078 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3808 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003809 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003810 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
38118 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3812 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
38138 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3814 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
38157 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3816 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
38177 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
38187 <Esc> should close a dialog.
38197 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3820 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3821 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3822 prompts.
38237 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3824 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3825 the file added into an already running Vim.
38267 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3827 functions to find the window title.
3828
3829
3830GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020038318 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003832- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3833 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
38347 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
38358 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
38366 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
38378 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3838 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
38399 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
38407 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
38418 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3842 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
38438 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3844 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3845 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
38468 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3847 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
38488 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3849 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3850 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3851 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038527 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
38538 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3854 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000038557 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3856 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3857 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038588 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
38598 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003860 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038618 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
38628 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
38638 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3864 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3865 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
38667 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3867 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3868 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
38697 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3870 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
38717 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3872 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3873 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3874 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
38757 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3876 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
38777 Should support multi-column menus.
3878- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3879 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3880- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
38818 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
38826 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3883 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
38847 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
38857 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3886 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3887 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
38887 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
38898 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3890 name can be chosen free.
38917 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3892 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
38936 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3894 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3895 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3896 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3897 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3898 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3899 things.
39007 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3901 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039027 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003903 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003904- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3905 where it was started from?
39067 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3907
3908
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003909Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020039109 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3911 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003912- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010039138 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3914 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3915 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3916 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
39178 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3918 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000039197 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3920 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3921 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3922 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000039237 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039248 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3925 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039268 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3927 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3928 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039297 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3930 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3931 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039328 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3933 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3934 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039357 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3936 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039378 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3938 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039398 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039406 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3941 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039427 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039437 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003944 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3945 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3946 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039475 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3948 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3949 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
39507 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3951 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3952 file.
39538 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3954 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3955 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003956- Add events to autocommands:
3957 Error - When an error happens
3958 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003959 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003960 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3961 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003962 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003963 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003964 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3965 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003966 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003967 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003968 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3969 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3970 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3971 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003972 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003973 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3974 the char.
3975 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3976 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3977 file from CVS).
3978 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3979 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3980 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3981 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3982 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3983 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003984 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3985 changes.
3986 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3987 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003988- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003989 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003990 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003991 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3992 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3993 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3994 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3995 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3996
3997
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003998Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003999- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4000 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004001- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4002 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4003 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4004 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4005 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004006- Ideas from others:
4007 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4008 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4009 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4010 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4011 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4012 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4013 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4014 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4015 Uses Perl for C++.
4016 Uses ctags to find the info:
4017 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4018 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4019 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4020 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4021 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4022 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004023 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004024 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4025- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4026
4027
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004028Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004029- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000040307 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4031 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040327 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4033 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4034 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040358 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4036 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
40379 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4038 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4039 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040408 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4041 - ignore/match case
4042 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040438 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4044 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4045 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4046 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4047 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4048 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040498 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000040507 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4051 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040528 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4053 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4054 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4055 Should work for C++ and Java.
4056 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
40577 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
40587 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4059 instead of words.
40608 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
40618 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4062 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
40638 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4064 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004065- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4066 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004067- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4068 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4069 wildcards in the file name)?
4070- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4071- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4072- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4073 be in another file).
4074- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4075- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4076- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4077 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4078- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4079- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4080- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004081- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4082
4083
4084Command line editing:
40857 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4086 line.
40878 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4088 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4089 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4090- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4091 lines wraps to start of line).
4092- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4093 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4094 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4095 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4096 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4097 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4098 cmdwin does now already.
4099 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4100 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4101 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4102 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4103 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4104 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4105 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4106 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4107 Problems:
4108 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4109 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4110 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4111 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4112 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4113 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4114 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4115 character in first column?
4116 - Implementation ideas:
4117 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4118 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4119 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4120 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4121 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4122 Mode.
4123
4124
4125Command line completion:
41268 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
41278 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4128 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
41298 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4130 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041318 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4132 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041337 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4134 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004135- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4136- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4137 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041388 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4139 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
41407 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4141 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4142- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4143 identifiers (Webb).
41448 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4145 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
41467 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4147 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4148- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4149 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4150- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4151 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4152 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004153
4154
4155Command line history:
4156- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4157 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4158 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4159 completely resulted from one mapping.
4160- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4161 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4162
4163
4164Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000041659 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4166 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4167 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041688 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4169 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4170 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4171 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4172 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041738 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4174 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4175 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041767 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4177 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004178- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041799 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041807 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4181 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4182- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4183 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4184 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4185 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4186 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4187 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4188- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4189 Normal mode.
4190- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4191 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4192 are used.
4193- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4194- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4195- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4196
4197
4198'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041999 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4200 char * veryLongName =
4201 "very long string"
4202 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042038 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042048 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4205 long_type foo =
4206 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042078 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4208 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004209 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042108 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4211 func(
4212 new String[] {
4213 "asdf",
4214 "asdf"
4215 }
4216 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010042178 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4218 (Chow Loong Jin)
4219 namespace {
4220 int
4221 func(int arg) {
4222 }
4223 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042246 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4225 func( arg1
4226 , arg2
4227 , arg3
4228 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000042297 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004230 func(
4231 int x) // indent like "(4"
4232 {
4233 if (a
4234 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042359 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4236 if (a)
4237 {
4238 if (b)
4239 {
4240 // {
4241 }
4242 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004243 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4244 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4245 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004246- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004247 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
42487 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4249- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4250 line).
4251- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4252- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4253 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004254- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4255 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4256- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4257 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4258- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4259- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4260 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
42618 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4262 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4263 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4264- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4265- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4266 lines start with "\item".
4267- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4268 /* here is a comment that
4269 is just autoindented, and
4270 nothing else */
4271- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
42727 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4273 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4274 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004275 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004276
4277
4278Java:
42798 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4280 Odendahl?
42818 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4282 "[i" commands and friends.
4283- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4284 (Jason)
4285- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4286 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4287
4288
4289'comments':
42908 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4291 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4292 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4293 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004294 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4295 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042967 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4297 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
42987 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
42996 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4300 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4301 regexp is used.
43028 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4303 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4304
4305
4306Virtual edit:
43078 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043087 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4309
4310
4311Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043128 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043138 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000043148 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004315 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000043168 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4317 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004318 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4319 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000043208 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043217 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4322 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043238 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4324 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043258 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4326 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4327 the end of the line or before a ".".
43287 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4329 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
43307 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4331 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043326 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
43335 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4334 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4335 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4336 cursor is on.
4337
4338
4339Select mode:
43408 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4341 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
43427 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004343 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043447 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4345 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4346 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4347 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4348 normal_cmd().
4349 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4350 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4351
4352
4353Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020043548 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4355 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004356- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4357 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4358 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004359- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4360 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4361 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043628 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004363 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004364 where needed.
43657 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4366 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
43677 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4368 of each selected line.
43698 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
43708 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4371 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4372 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
43738 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4374 Ben Godfrey)
43757 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4376 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
43777 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4378 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
43797 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4380 Young is working on this)
43817 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004382 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004383 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
43848 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4385 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
43867 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4387 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4388 option!
43897 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4390 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4391 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4392 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4393 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4394 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4395 without changing the column.
43966 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043977 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4398 current buffer.
43997 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
44006 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4401 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
44026 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044036 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004404 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004405 or other special character.
44066 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4407
4408
4409More advanced repeating commands:
4410- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000044117 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004412 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004413- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004414- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004415 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4416 "y." will repeat last yank.
4417 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4418 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4419 and/or pick an older command.
4420- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4421
4422
4423Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044248 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4425 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4426 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
44278 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
44287 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4429 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044308 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4431 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
44328 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000044337 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044348 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4435 entering search strings.
44368 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4437 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4438 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044398 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4440 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044418 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4442 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4443 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
44447 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044457 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4446 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044476 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4448 abbreviations are to be used.
4449- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4450 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4451 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004452- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4453 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4454 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4455 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4456 Or implicit:
4457 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004458- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4459 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4460 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004461- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4462 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4463- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4464 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
44656 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4466 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4467 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4468 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004469- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4470 non-replace Insert mode?
4471- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004472- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4473- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4474 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4475- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004476 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004477- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4478 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4479- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4480- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4481 ":freekeys".
4482- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4483
4484
4485Incsearch:
4486- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4487- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4488 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4489 up every time.
4490- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4491 folds when going to another line.
4492- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4493 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4494 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4495 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4496- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4497 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4498
4499
4500Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010045019 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000045028 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004503 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004504 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004505 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004506 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045079 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4508 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010045098 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4510 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000045118 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4512 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4513 Perl does it this way:
4514 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4515 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4516 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4517 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045188 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4519 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4520 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045218 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4522 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4523 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000045247 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4525 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000045268 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4527 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000045287 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004529 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4530 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4531 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
45327 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4533 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000045347 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004535 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045367 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4537 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045388 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4539 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
45408 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4541 line.
45427 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4543 example.
45448 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4545 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4546- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4547 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4548 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4549 Alternative: use matchit.vim
45508 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
45518 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4552 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4553 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
45547 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4555 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000045567 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4557 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045588 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4559 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045608 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4561 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045628 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4563 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4564 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4565 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004566- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4567 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004568- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4569 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4570- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4571 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4572 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4573 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045748 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4575 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004576- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4577 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045788 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4579 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4580 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004581- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4582 i ignore case
4583 I use case
4584 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4585 v use Vi regexp syntax
4586 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4587 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4588 Perl uses these too:
4589 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4590 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4591 o compile only once (Perl only)
4592 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4593 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4594 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4595 following command.
4596 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4597- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4598 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4599 for search string)?
46007 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4601 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4602- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4603 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4604- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4605 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4606- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4607- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004608 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004609 a for the next file in the argument list
4610 f for file in the buffer list
4611 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004612 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4613 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004614 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4615 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4616- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046177 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004618 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046197 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4620 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4621 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4622 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
46236 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4624 effects.
46257 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4626 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4627 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046287 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004629 Also ":dselect".
4630
4631
4632Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010046339 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4634 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4635 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046369 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4637 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020046388 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4639 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4640 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
46418 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4642 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046438 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4644 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4645 timestamp?
4646 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4647 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046488 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4649 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4650 was changed outside of Vim.
4651 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4652 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004653 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4654 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004655- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4656 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004657- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4658 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4659 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
46608 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4661 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4662 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4663 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
46648 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4665 only remember the lines that really changed.
46667 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4667 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4668 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4669 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004670- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4671 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4672- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4673 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4674- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4675 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4676 [-99].
4677- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4678- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004679- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4680 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4681
4682
4683Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046847 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4685 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4686 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4687 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
46888 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4689 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
46908 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4691 inode too.
46927 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004693 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4694 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046957 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4696 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4697- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4698 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4699- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4700 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
47017 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4702 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
47037 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4704 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
47058 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000047068 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004707 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
47087 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4709 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047108 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4711 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4712 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004713
4714
4715Swap (.swp) files:
47168 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4717 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4718 there are short file name problems.
47198 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4720 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
47218 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
47228 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004723 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004724 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4725 file the same as the actual file?
4726 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047277 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4728 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
47297 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004730 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004731 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4732 enough room.
47337 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4734 or /var/preserve.
4735- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4736 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4737- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4738 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4739- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4740 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4741 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4742 cached list of which line is where.
4743
4744
4745Viminfo:
47467 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4747 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4748 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000047498 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4750 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4751 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047528 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4753 name. (Schild)
47548 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
47558 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047568 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047578 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4758 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4759 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4760 this?
47617 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
47627 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4763 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
47646 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4765 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4766 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4767- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4768 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4769
4770
4771Modelines:
47728 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4773 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4774 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004775- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4776 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4777 'shiftwidth'.
4778- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4779 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004780- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4781 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4782 modeline setting.
4783- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4784 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4785- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4786 .cpp files.
4787- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4788 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4789- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4790 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4791
4792
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004793Sessions:
47948 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4795 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
47967 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4797 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047988 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4799 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048008 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4801 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4802 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000048037 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4804 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000048057 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004806
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004807
4808Options:
48097 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4810 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048118 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4812 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4813 also be supported.
48148 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4815 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4816 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
48177 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
48187 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4819 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01004820 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004821
4822
4823External commands:
48248 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4825 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
48264 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4827 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4828 -f).
48294 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
48304 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4831 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
48324 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4833
4834
4835Multiple Windows:
48367 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
48378 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4838 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
48397 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4840 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4841 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048427 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4843 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000048447 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4845 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048466 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4847 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004848 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004849 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
48507 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4851 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4852 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4853 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4854- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4855 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4856 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4857 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4858
4859
4860Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048618 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048628 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4863 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048648 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 +000048658 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4866 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
48678 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4868 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4869 the mark was set.
48707 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4871 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4872 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4873 ":browse marks"?
48746 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048757 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4876 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
48777 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4878 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
48797 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4880 command).
48817 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4882 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4883 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4884 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
48855 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4886 mappings.
48876 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4888 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4889 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4890
4891
4892Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020048937 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004894 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004895- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4896 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000048978 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048987 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4899 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4900
4901
4902Writing files:
4903- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4904 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4905 shortname conversion.
49068 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
49078 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4908 file.
49098 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4910 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4911 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049126 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4913 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
49146 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4915 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
49166 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4917 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049188 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004919 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
49207 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4921 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
49227 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4923 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4924 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4925 waiting for a character to be typed).
49268 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4927 line of the window, like "[time]".
4928 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4929 Automatic and/or with a command.
4930
4931
4932Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000049338 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4934 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049358 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004936 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4937- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4938- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
49398 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4940 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004941- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004942 :s///N substitutes N times.
4943- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4944 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4945 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
49467 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4947 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4948 last line column 5.
49495 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4950 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4951 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4952 (Stanislav Sitar)
4953
4954
4955Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049568 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
49577 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
49588 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4959 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4960 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004961- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4962- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4963 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4964- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4965- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4966
4967
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004968Argument list:
49696 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4970 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4971 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
49726 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4973
4974
4975Registers:
49768 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
49778 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4978 around in windows.
49798 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4980 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4981 for every line.
49826 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4983 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4984 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4985- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4986 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4987- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4988 leader when line wraps?
4989- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4990 line in the range.
4991- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4992 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
49938 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4994 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004995
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004996
4997Debug mode:
49987 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
49998 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050008 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050017 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00005002 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
5003 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
5004 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050057 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
50067 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5007
5008
5009Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000050107 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5011 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5012 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5013 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5014 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5015 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5016 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005017 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000050187 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5019 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000050207 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5021 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050228 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5023 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050247 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5025 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5026 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005027- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005028 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050297 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5030 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050317 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5032 window as a buffer-tab selection.
50338 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050347 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5035 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5036 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005037 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5038 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050397 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5040 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
50418 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5042 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050436 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050448 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5045 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5046 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5047 in this Vim.
50488 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005049 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050508 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5051 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5052 have it apply to the following command.
50538 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5054 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5055 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5056 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050577 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5058 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050597 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5060 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5061 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5062 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050636 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
50648 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
50659 Support ACLs on more systems.
50667 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5067 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050687 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5069 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5070 (truncated to fit in the space).
50717 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
50728 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
50738 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5074 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000050757 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005076 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
50777 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5078 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050797 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050807 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
50817 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050828 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
50838 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5084 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5085 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5086 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
50878 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
50886 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5089 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005090 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005091 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050928 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050938 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5094 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5095 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5096 does something like this. (Shah)
50977 Use growarray for replace stack.
50987 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5099 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
51003 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051017 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5102 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010051037 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5104 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005105- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5106- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5107- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5108- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
51097 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5110 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5111- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5112 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005113- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005114- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5115 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5116- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5117 call "play newbeep.au").
5118- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5119 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5120 (Bhatt).
5121- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5122 blockwise registers).
5123- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5124 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5125- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5126 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5127 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5128 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005129- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051307 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5131 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5132- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5133 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5134 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5135 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5136 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051378 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5138 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051398 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5140 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5141 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5142 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5143 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5144- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005145- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051467 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5147 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5148- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5149 not in column 1.
51506 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5151 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
51527 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5153- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005154- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005155 :redir #> bufname
5156 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005157- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5158 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005159- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5160 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5161 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
51626 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5163 console? (Klaus Hast)
5164- Add :delcr command:
5165 *:delcr*
5166 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5167 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5168 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5169 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5170 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5171 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5172- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5173- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5174 characters from 'isprint'.
5175- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5176- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5177 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5178- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5179 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5180 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5181- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5182- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5183 Nvi).
5184- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5185 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
51867 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5187- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5188 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
51896 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5190- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5191 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5192 macro).
5193- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005194- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5195 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5196- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
51978 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005198- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5199- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5200- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5201 if it is not the first or last window.
5202- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5203 there is one) instead of the file itself.
52047 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5205 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5206 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5207- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5208- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005209 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005210 many percent down the windows).
5211- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5212 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5213 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005214 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005215- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5216 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5217- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5218 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5219- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5220- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5221- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5222 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052238 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5224 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5225 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5226 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5227 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005228- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5229 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5230- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005231 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5232- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005233 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5234 (Webb).
5235- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005236 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005237- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5238 hex codes like 0xff).
5239- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5240 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5241 the last TYPED command.
5242- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5243- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5244- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5245 should also work?
5246- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
52478 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5248 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5249 name.
5250- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5251 trailing '.'.
5252- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5253 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5254 find_file_in_path().
5255- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5256 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5257- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5258- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5259 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5260- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005261 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005262- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5263 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5264 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005265- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5266- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5267- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5268 to the minimal size.
5269- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5270- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5271- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5272- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5273- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005274- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5275 entered)?
5276- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5277 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005278- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005279- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5280- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5281- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5282- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5283- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5284 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005285- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052868 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5287 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5288 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5289 or in octal.
52907 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5291 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005292- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005293 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5294- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5295- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5296 insert line command).
5297- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5298- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5299- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5300- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5301- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5302 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005303- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005304 yet.
5305- Implement 'redraw' option.
5306- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5307 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053087 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5309 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005310 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5311 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053128 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5313 do it.
5314- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5315- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5316 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5317- Add text justification option.
5318- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5319- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5320 off".
5321- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5322- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5323- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005324 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005325- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005326- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005327- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5328- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5329 commands.
5330- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5331- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5332- :table command (Webb)
5333- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005334- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5335- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5336- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5337- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5338- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5339 (Demirel).
5340- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5341- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5342 for use in macro's and the like.
5343- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005344 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005345- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005346 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005347- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005348 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005349 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5350- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5351 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005352- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005353 mkopttab to make option table?
5354- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5355 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5356- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5357 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005358- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005359 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5360- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5361 cursor?
5362- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5363- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
53645 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5365 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000053668 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5367 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5368 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5369 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5370 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053718 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5372 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5373 (Netherton)
53746 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5375 space after "(", for example.
53765 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5377 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5378 (Servatius Brandt)
5379
5380
5381From Elvis:
5382- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5383- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005384- Search patterns:
5385 \@ match word under cursor.
5386 but do:
5387 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5388 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
53898 ":window" command:
5390 :win + next window (up)
5391 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5392 :win - previous window (down)
5393 :win -- idem, wrapping
5394 :win nr to window number "nr"
5395 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
53967 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5397 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5398
5399
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005400From xvi:
5401- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5402- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5403
5404
5405From vile:
5406- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5407- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5408 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5409
5410
5411Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005412- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5413 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5414 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5415 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5416 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005417- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5418 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5419- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5420 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5421 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5422 current layout mirrored.
5423- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5424- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5425 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5426- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5427- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5428 font in each top-level window.
5429- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5430- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5431- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5432- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5433 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5434- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5435 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5436 mentioned in the tags file.
5437 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5438 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5439- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5440 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5441- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5442 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
54434 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5444 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5445 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5446 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005447 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005448 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5449 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5450- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5451 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5452 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5453
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005454When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5455empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005456
5457vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5458vim: set fo+=n :