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Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 May 11
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020041Patch to test TERM signal. (Dominique, #6055)
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43Include src/po/vim.pot
44
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010045Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020046Make closures work:
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +020047 - call closure from not compiled context
48 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020049Forward declarations:
50 - Cleanup when sourcing a script again: all script-local variables, imports
51 and functions are deleted.
52 - make sure only constants in declarations are executed, no function calls.
53 - Declare a variable at script level without an assignment.
54 let var: string
55 Error without a type or assignment
56 let var # error!
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020057Making everything work:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020058- Test that a script-local function in Vim9 script cannot be deleted.
59- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
60 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
61 defined.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020062- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
63 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020064- Compile: let [var, var] = expr
65- Compile: for [key, value] in items(map)
66- Assignment to dict doesn't work:
67 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
68 ret[i] = string(i)
69- Appending to dict item doesn't work:
70 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020071- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
72- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
73- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
74 islocked()
75- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
76- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
77- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
78- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
79 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
80 Can we share the code from ex_let_const() between direct execution and
81 compiling?
82- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
83- Make "++nr" work.
84- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
85- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
86- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020087- Make "true" and "false" work in vim9script
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020088New syntax and functionality:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020089Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010090- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020091Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020092- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
93 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010094- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010095- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
96- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010097- Check that import in legacy script works and puts item in s:
98- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
99- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100100- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100101- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100102- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
103 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
104- call autoload function.
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100105- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100106- can use func as reference:
107 def SomeFunc() ...
108 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100109- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
110 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100111- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200112- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100113- implement class
114- implement interface
115- predefined class: Promise<T>
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100116- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
117 EVAL expr
118 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200119Further improvements:
120- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
121 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
122 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200123- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
124 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
125 body
126 enddef
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200127- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
128- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
129- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100130
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200131Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100132- With some sequence get get hidden finished terminal buffer. (#5768)
133 Cannot close popup terminal (#5744)
134 Buffer can't be wiped, gets status "aF". (#5764)
135 Is buf->nwindows incorrect?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100136- popup_clear() and popup_close() should close the terminal popup, and
137 make the buffer hidden. #5745
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200138- Cursor not updated before a redraw, making it jump. (#5943)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100139- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100140- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
141 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
142 the way. (#5737)
143 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200144- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100145- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
146 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
147- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200148- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200149 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100150- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
151 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200152- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100153 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100154- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200155
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200156Text properties:
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200157- Patch to fix that split / join does not update properties properly (Axel
158 Forsman, #5839) Alternative: #5875.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200159- :goto does not go to the right place when test properties are present.
160 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100161- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100162- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100163- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
164 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100165- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100166- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200167
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100168'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200169- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
170 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100171- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
172 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200173- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200174- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200175- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
176 isn't one?
177 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
178
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200179Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100180- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200181- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100182- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200183
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200184Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200185- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100186- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
187 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200188- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100189- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200190- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
191 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
192 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100193- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100194- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
195 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100196 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100197 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200198
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200199Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200200- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
201 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
202 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
203 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100204- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
205 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
206 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100207- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100208- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
209 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200210- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
211 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200212- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200213- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200214- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
215 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200216- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
217 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
218- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
219 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200220- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
221 is disabled.
222- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
223- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
224 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200225- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
226 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
227 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
228- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
229- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
230 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
231- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
232 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200233
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200234Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200235E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E610, E611, E653,
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200236E856, E857, E861, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200237
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200238Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
239autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
240 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
241 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
242 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
243 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
244 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
245The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
246
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100247Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
248Causes flicker on resizing.
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100249
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200250Patch to support ipv6 for channel. (Ozaki Kiichi, #5893)
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100251
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100252Patch to explain use of "%" in :!. (David Briscoe, #5591)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100253
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100254Patch to improve Windows terminal support. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5546)
255Ready to include.
256
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100257Patch to add "-d" to xxd. (#5616)
258
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200259Patch for the Haiku port: #5961
260
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100261Patch to add Turkish manual. (Emir Sarı, #5641)
262
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200263Patch to add lua sleep function. (Prabir Shrestha, #6057)
264Alternative: use vim.call and vim.fn: #6063
265
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200266Patch to add getmarklist() (Yegappan, #6032)
267
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200268Patch to support different color for undercurl in cterm.
269(Timur Celik, #6011)
270
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100271Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
272(Max Rumpf, #5468)
273
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100274File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
275
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200276Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
277manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
278Athena is OK.
279Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
280
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200281:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
282(#5623, also see #5962)
283
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200284Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200285Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200286
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100287Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
288Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
289
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200290undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
291
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100292Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
293Ready to include? Review the code.
294
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100295When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
296(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
297
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200298Patch to delete BeOS code. (#5817) Anyone who wants to keep it?
299
300With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
301'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100302
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200303When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
304Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
305(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
306
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100307Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
308(Paul Jolly, #5656)
309Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100310 Later more requests for what to track.
311 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
312 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
313 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100314BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100315Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100316
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100317Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
318(Yegappan, #5465)
319
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100320Patch to add readdirex() (Ken Takata, #5619)
321
322Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
323(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
324
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200325Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
326
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100327:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
328Dec 19)
329
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100330Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
331May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200332Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
333remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200334Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100335Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200336
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100337When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
338the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
339
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100340Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
341Fujiwara, #5469)
342
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200343Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100344Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
345in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200346Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
347(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200348
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100349Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
350ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
351
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100352Patch to add "note" type to quickfix. (#5527) Missing tests.
353
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100354Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
355(#4087)
356
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100357FR: add search_status(), the current values displayed for search (current
358match, total matches). (#5631)
359Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
360statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
361
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100362Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
363(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
364
365behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
366#5771)
367
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200368":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
369goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
370unlisted. (#4478)
371
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100372Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
373
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100374Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100375
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200376Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
377
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200378Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
379Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
380
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100381Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
382
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100383Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
384
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200385The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
386support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
387
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100388"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
389
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100390Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
391
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100392Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
393
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100394Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
395
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200396Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
397(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
398
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200399When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
400default one. #4698
401
402When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
403with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
404
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100405Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100406Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100407
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200408Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200409Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200410
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200411Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
412fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
413
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200414Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
415-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
416
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200417Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
418- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
419- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100420- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200421
422Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
42313, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200424
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100425Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
426
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200427Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
428
429Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
430
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100431Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
432
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100433Patch to enable IXON, avoid that CTRL-S stops terminal output. (#5775)
434
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100435When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
436when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
437gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
438input buffer. (#5302)
439
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200440xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
441buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
442Xterm 224 supports it!
443Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
444Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
445Also see issue #609.
446We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
447
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100448:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
449(#5467)
450
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200451Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200452
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100453Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
4542007 Feb 18)
455Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
456
457Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
458Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
459
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200460Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
461
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200462Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
463Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200464
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100465Errors found with random data:
466 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100467
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200468Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
469change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
470patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
471(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
472
473Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
474Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
475
476Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
477
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200478Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
479files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
480Include part of #3242?
481
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200482When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
483it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
484
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200485Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
486Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
487Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
488
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100489":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
490window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
491#5443)
492
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200493Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
494(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
495Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
496- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
497 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
498 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
499- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
500 covered by the above change.
501So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
502same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
503Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200504
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200505Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
506t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
507
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100508v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
509(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
510
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100511Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
512Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
513
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200514'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
515
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200516"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
517(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
518
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200519Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
520
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100521Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
522
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200523Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
524
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100525When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
526in a long line. #5189
527
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200528The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
529Give a few examples. (#4288)
530
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200531Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
532work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
533
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200534Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
5357 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
536 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
537 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
538
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100539Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
540read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
541be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
542
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100543Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
544CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
545with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
546fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
547displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
548
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200549Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
550
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200551Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
552
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200553Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
554https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
555
556Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
557http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
558http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
559Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100560- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200561- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
562- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
563 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
564- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
565- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
566Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
567- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
568- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
569Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
570- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
571
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100572Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
573Mar 5)
574
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200575Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
576- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
577 line.
578- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
579 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
580- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
581 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
582
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200583Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
584on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
585
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200586Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
587in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
588buffer didn't change at all.
589
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200590Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
591register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
592(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
593
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200594Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
595(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
596
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200597Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
598":let buf = bufcreate('name')
599
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200600Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
601'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
602(#4450)
603
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100604When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
605But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
606similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
607
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200608C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
609(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
610
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100611Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
612added?
613
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200614Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
615maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
616
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200617Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
618negative. (see #4326)
619
620'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
621`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
622tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
623:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
624
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200625This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
626 vim: syn=nosyntax
627
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200628":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
629a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
630
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100631Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
632#2948. (related to #1512?)
633On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
634balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
63520, #2481)
636Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
637Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
638balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6392018 Sep 14)
640Another request: #3811.
641
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200642More warnings from static analysis:
643https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200644
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100645Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
646
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200647Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
648
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200649Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
650internals of the dict structure.
651
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100652nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
653
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200654Missing tests for:
655- add_termcap_entry()
656
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200657Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
658change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
659them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
660
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100661Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
662Also run all tests with C locale?
663
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100664"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
665#3927
666
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200667Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200668Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200669
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100670When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
671case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
672For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
673
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200674Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
675(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
676expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200677
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200678Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
679 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
680 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
681
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100682Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100683punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100684
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200685ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
686
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200687Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
688":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
689#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
690Updated 2019 May 25.
691
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200692Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
693drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
694
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200695Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
696is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
697
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100698When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
699scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
700using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
701
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200702Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
703#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
704(Sep 8)
705
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200706Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
707unified diff (list of lines).
708
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100709When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
710kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
711when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
712
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100713Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
714(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100715
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100716Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
717
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100718Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100719Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200720TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100721Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200722Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
723Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200724
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200725gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200726
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200727matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
72819.
729
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100730Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100731Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100732Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
733highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200734And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
735'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100736Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
737Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100738
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100739Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
740Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
741
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200742Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
743Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
744Not ready to include.
745
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200746Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
747Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
748Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
749
750Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
751
752Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
753screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
754
755Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
756 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
757 Not ready to include.
758
759Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
760Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
761
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200762home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
763
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200764When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
765terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
766How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
767
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200768Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
769
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100770Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
771Feedback from someone who uses this?
772
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200773ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
774
775Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
776Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
777values.
778
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100779Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200780- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
781- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
782- omit diff.exe from distribution
783- Can we make this show differences within a line?
784- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200785
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200786Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
787
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100788Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
789What is the practical use for this?
790
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200791When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
792includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
793
794Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200795Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200796
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200797MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
798(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
799
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100800Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
801
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200802Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
803
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200804Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
805window for the buffer.
806
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200807Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
808when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
809
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100810Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
811mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
812
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200813Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
814
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200815Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
816modified buffers
817 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
818 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
819 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
820 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
821
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100822Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
823- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
824- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
825- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100826- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
827
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200828Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
829characters. (#3246)
830
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200831'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
832
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100833Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
834Oct 28)
835
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200836ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
837Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
838Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
839Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
840
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100841Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
842- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
843
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200844Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
845- Test_setbufvar_options()
846- Test_exit_callback_interval()
847
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200848Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
849Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100850Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
851Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200852
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200853Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
854
855Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
85624)
857
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100858Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100859 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100860or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100861 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
862
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100863Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100864mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100865
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200866Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
867is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
868used for git temp files.
869
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100870Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
871
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200872Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
873behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
874(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
875
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200876Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
877pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
878
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200879Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
880script or function.
881
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200882When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
883E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
884does nothing otherwise?
885
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200886MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
887If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
888(wait a little while).
889CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100890
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200891Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
892MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8932017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
894receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
895
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200896Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
897missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
898
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200899":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
900deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
901
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200902Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200903
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100904Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200905Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
906
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200907With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
908included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
909(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
910
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200911Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200912Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200913
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100914Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100915Jan 15, #2555)
916
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200917":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
918
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100919Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
920
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100921No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
922No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
923
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200924Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
925http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
926Should be supported with a flag.
927
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100928Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
929confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
930
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100931Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
932
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100933Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
934Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
935applying the diff, etc.
936
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200937Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
938Apr 26, #2849)
939
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100940User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
941word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100942
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100943Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200944
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200945With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
946(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
947
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200948Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
949:drop (remote commands).
950
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200951Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9522018 Jun 18, #3027)
953
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200954Implement option_save() and option_restore():
955option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
956 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
957 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
958 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
959 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
960 be called when the same window is the current window.
961 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
962 the local options won't be restored.
963
964option_save({list}) *option_save()*
965 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
966 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
967 let s:saved_options = option_save([
968 \ 'ignorecase',
969 \ 'iskeyword',
970 \ ])
971 au <buffer> BufLeave *
972 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
973< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
974 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
975 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
976 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100977 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
978 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
979 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100980 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200981
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100982"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
983directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
984Also see #1689.
985
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100986When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100987highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100988
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200989":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
990
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100991No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9922017 Dec 26, #2501)
993
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200994A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
995
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200996Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
997
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200998A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
999Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1000
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001001Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
1002(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
1003
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001004ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1005
1006Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1007
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001008Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1009Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1010
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001011Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1012in #846)
1013Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1014
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001015Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
1016Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
1017
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001018When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1019redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001020
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001021In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1022(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1023
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001024Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1025neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001026
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001027Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1028Nov 21)
1029
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001030When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
1031triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1032set_color_count().
1033
1034Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1035responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1036
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001037When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1038CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1039Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1040always nested.
1041
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001042matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1043
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001044Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1045
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001046MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001047for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1048
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001049Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001050(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001051
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001052Test runtime files.
1053Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001054
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001055Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001056
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001057Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1058defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1059Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1060
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001061After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
106213, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001063
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001064When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1065line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1066
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001067The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1068
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001069Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1070set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
1071
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001072Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1073
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001074Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1075behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1076
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001077'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1078
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001079The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1080
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001081When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1082a command can delete it.
1083
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001084Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1085#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1086
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001087The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1088for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1089
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001090X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1091pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1092clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1093Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1094Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1095clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001096Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001097
1098Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1099
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001100Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1101attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1102that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1103
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001104Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1105(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1106
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001107Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1108buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1109Also fixes #2166?
1110
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001111Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1112stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1113
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001114Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1115possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1116
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001117When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1118case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1119
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001120Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1121existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1122Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1123
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001124Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001125
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001126MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1127Jul 4)
1128
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001129Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1130Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1131This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1132Christian cannot reproduce it.
1133
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001134Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1135wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1136Or is this not an actual problem?
1137
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001138Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1139
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001140Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
1141
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001142Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1143
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001144'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1145#1736)
1146
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001147Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11488, #1690)
1149
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001150Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1151(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1152
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001153Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1154it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1155
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001156Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1157Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1158How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1159
1160Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1161(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1162
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001163Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1164
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001165assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1166it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1167
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001168Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1169for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001170
1171Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1172(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1173Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1174later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1175Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1176mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001177Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1178mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001179maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001180
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001181Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001182plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1183be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1184
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001185Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1186 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1187 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001188
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001189json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001190What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001191
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001192Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1193
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001194import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1195(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1196
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001197When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1198buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1199Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001200
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001201Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1202Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001203Another example in #1309
1204
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001205When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1206when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1207
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001208Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1209#1330)
1210
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001211Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1212
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001213Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1214
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001215GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1216g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1217timer expires.
1218
1219Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1220
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001221Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1222highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1223
12248 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1225 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1226
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001227Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1228Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1229
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001230Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1231key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1232 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1233 echo keytrans(xx)
1234 <C-Home>
1235
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001236Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1237(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1238Make a function to check for function-like type?
1239
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001240Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1241(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1242
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001243Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001244 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001245 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001246
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001247Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1248somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1249
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001250Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1251(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1252
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001253Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001254Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001255Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001256
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001257The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1258"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1259Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1260
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001261Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1262
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001263Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1264about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001265Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1266
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001267Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1268#1053) With patch, does it work?
1269
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001270":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001271vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1272
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001273Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001274E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001275Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001276
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001277Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1278Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1279
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001280Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001281Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001282
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001283"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1284(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1285
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001286Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1287(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001288Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001289
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001290'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1291
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001292Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1293
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001294When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1295Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001296Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001297
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001298Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1299anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1300
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001301Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001302E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001303
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001304Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1305(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1306
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001307Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1308
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001309On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1310separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1311
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001312min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1313contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1314
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001315Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1316
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001317Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1318
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001319Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1320
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001321Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1322no longer support.
1323
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001324sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
13254#1038)
1326
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001327+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001328- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001329- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1330 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1331 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001332- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1333 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001334- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1335- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1336 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1337- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1338 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1339- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001340- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1341 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001342- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1343- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1344 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1345 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1346- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1347- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1348- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1349 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1350 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1351- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1352 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1353- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1354 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1355 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1356
1357Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001358- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1359 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1360 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1361 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001362- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1363 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001364- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1365 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1366- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1367 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1368- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1369 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1370 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1371 LC_CTYPE
1372- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1373 matches everywhere.
1374- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1375 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1376- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1377- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1378 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1379- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1380- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1381 2013 Dec 11)
1382- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1383 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1384- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1385- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1386 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1387- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1388- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1389- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1390- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1391 2015 Feb 7)
1392- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1393 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1394 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1395 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1396 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1397- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1398- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1399- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1400- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1401 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1402 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1403 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1404- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1405 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1406- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1407 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1408 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1409 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1410
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001411Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1412#1350)
1413
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001414Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
14153. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1416Also see #1635.
1417
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001418Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001419Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1420use the current behavior.
1421Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001422
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001423When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1424command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1425
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001426Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1427doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1428Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001429Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001430E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1431
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001432execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001433#1141)
1434
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001435cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1436
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001437:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1438
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001439Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1440
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001441When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1442synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1443
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001444Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1445Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001446
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001447Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1448(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1449
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001450ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1451Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001452
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001453Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1454
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001455Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001456(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001457
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001458Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1459Jul 25, #948)
1460
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001461Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1462names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1463Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1464the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1465
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001466'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1467
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001468MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1469Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001470
1471Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1472Also for ":@.".
1473
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001474Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1475
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001476Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1477#1125
1478
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001479Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1480times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1481
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001482Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1483
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001484Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1485
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001486Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1487
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001488Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1489
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001490We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1491the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1492
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001493Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1494
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001495When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1496emoji_width table has only one entry.
1497
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001498It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1499Reject the value? #710.
1500
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001501When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1502Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1503
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001504Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001505
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001506Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1507No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001508
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001509Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1510(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001511
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001512Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1513
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001514Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1515https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1516Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1517
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001518Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1519but the reference remains valid.
1520
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001521Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001522interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1523Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1524interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1525result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001526
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001527Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001528work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001529
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001530Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1531
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001532Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1533
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001534Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1535Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1536
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001537When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1538Apr 17) #762
1539
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001540exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1541Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1542
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001543Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1544'iskeyword' for syntax.
1545
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001546Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1547(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1548
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001549Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1550
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001551When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1552maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001553Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001554
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001555Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1556It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1557Add configure check?
1558Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1559Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1560Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1561
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001562Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1563Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1564
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001565Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1566Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1567
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001568":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1569directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1570
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001571In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1572(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1573
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001574If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15752016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001576
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001577Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1578(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1579
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001580Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1581
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001582When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1583restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1584Do not trigger the event?
1585
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001586Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1587changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1588and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001589Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1590Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
15916, 2nd message)
1592Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001593
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001594Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1595Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1596https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1597
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001598Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1599With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1600
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001601Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001602
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001603Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1604
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001605Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001606Only remembers one error.
1607
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001608GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001609
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001610Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1611(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001612
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001613Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1614github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001615 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001616Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001617
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001618Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001619
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001620Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001621comparing individual items.
1622Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1623Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1624Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1625equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1626
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001627Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1628
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001629MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1630wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1631
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001632Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1633specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1634
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001635Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1636(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1637
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001638Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001639inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001640
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001641Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1642(Luchr, #277)
1643
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001644Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001645'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1646before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001647
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001648C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1649and also line continuation after #include.
1650I can't recommend it though.
1651
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001652Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1653(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1654
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001655To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1656library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1657
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001658When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1659is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1660
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001661Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
166230)
1663
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001664MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1665(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1666
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001667The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
166824): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001669
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001670":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1671effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1672
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001673":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16749)
1675
1676The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1677wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1678
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001679Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001680Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001681
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001682When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1683the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1684
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001685Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001686slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1687inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1688
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001689ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16902014 Sep 11)
1691
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001692Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1693(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1694
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001695When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1696'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1697
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001698Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1699Work in progress.
1700
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001701Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1702when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1703
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001704Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1705Is this right?
1706
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001707Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1708(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1709Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1710
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001711Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1712Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001713
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001714Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1715Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1716
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001717Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1718
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001719When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1720filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1721initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1722
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001723Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1724
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001725Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1726OK to not block marks?
1727
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001728Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1729
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001730Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1731
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001732When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1733(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1734
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001735Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001736
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001737Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1738(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1739
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001740When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1741any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1742
1743Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001744
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001745Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001746
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001747Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1748(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1749
1750Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1751
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001752Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1753Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1754was already defined.
1755(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1756
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001757Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1758
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001759Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001760Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001761Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001762Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001763
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001764Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1765(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1766
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001767Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1768(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1769
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001770Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1771
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001772When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1773these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1774window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1775
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001776Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1777should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1778history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1779Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1780
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001781"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1782Jun 8)
1783
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001784Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1785insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1786
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001787No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1788
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001789Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1790(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1791Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1792arguments.
1793
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001794Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1795
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001796Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001797
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001798Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17990x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1800New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1801compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1802
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001803Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1804a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1805
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001806Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1807right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001808its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001809
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001810Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1811
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001812This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1813 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1814This neither: (ZyX)
1815 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1816
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001817'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1818Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1819from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001820
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001821Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
18222014 Jun 8)
1823
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001824Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001825Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001826Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1827Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1828User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001829- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1830 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1831 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001832- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1833- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1834 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1835 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1836 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1837 on vim.org.
1838- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1839 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1840- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1841- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1842- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1843- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1844Implementation:
1845- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1846 plugin separate.
1847- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1848 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1849 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1850- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1851 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1852- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1853 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1854 installing.
1855Out of scope:
1856- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1857- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1858 useful).
1859
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001860Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1861normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001862
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001863When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1864menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1865
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001866Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1867(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1868
1869":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1870various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001871
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001872Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001873(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1874
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001875VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1876instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1877
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001878Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001879Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001880
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001881Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001882command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001883
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001884Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1885
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001886Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1887highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001888
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001889The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1890For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1891
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001892Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001893possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001894
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001895Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001896
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001897Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1898
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018997 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1900 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1901 "lucida_console:h8").
1902Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1903
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001904:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1905
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001906Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1907
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001908Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1909
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001910When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1911(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1912
1913Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001914Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001915
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001916GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1917(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1918
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001919Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1920registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1921
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001922Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1923
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001924The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1925(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1926Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1927
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001928The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1929- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1930- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1931
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001932Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1933Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1934reliably?
1935
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001936Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1937(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1938
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001939Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1940(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1941
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001942Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
19432013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001944
1945Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1946
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001947Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
19485)
1949
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001950Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1951carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1952
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001953Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1954highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1955
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001956Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001957
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001958Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200195928) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001960
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001961Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1962
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001963Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1964
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001965- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1966 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1967Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001968
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001969Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001970
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001971In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1972process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1973a reboot.
1974
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001975patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1976
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001977Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1978not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001979
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001980Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1981Or use expand('<sid>')?
1982
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001983Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1984
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001985Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1986
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001987b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19887)
1989
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001990Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1991compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1992
1993Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1994Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1995vim.bindeval().
1996
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001997Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19982012 Aug 4)
1999
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002000Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
2001(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
2002
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002003Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
2004But use Gnome instead of GTK?
2005
2006Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
2007Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
2008Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002009
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002010Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
2011loading all files.
2012
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002013MS-Windows resizing problems:
2014- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
2015 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
2016- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
2017 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
2018 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002019
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002020'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002021
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02002022Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02002023of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
2024
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002025The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
2026Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
2027But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002028
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002029When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
2030is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
2031
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002032URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002033- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002034- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
2035 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
2036
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002037Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
2038(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
2039Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
2040
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002041Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02002042New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002043
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002044When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
2045for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
2046Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002047
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02002048Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
2049
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01002050Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
2051
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002052Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
2053Apr 18)
2054
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002055Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
2056And one for gui_x11.txt.
2057
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002058":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
2059finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
2060Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
2061
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002062Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
2063
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01002064Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
2065
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002066Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
2067they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
2068
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002069Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2070
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002071Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2072Nov 20)
2073
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002074Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002075Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002076
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002077`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002078(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2079
2080Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2081
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002082BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2083Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2084
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002085Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2086Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2087
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002088Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2089
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002090On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20912012 Jun 19)
2092
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002093'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2094'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2095Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002096Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002097
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002098With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2099(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2100need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2101
2102Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2103only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
210421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2105
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002106Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2107New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2108
2109Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2110Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2111
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002112Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2113Jan 19)
2114
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002115Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2116discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2117meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002118
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002119"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002120Oct 26)
2121
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002122Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2123
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002124With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2125register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002126
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002127Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2128
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002129When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2130(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2131
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002132When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2133then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2134from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2135
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002136Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2137":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
213815)
2139
2140Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2141
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002142BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2143cleared. See test64.
2144
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002145Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002146effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002147Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01002148https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002149
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002150On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
215164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2152right type.
2153
2154string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2155(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2156
2157When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2158(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002159When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2160following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2161(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002162
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002163When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2164doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2165
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002166Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2167
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002168maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2169mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2170
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002171Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2172(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2173
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002174When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2175indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2176the help file.
2177
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002178After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2179Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2180
2181Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2182
2183"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2184
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002185Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2186
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002187Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002188
2189Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21902010 Dec 18)
2191
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002192With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2193number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2194Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2195
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002196Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2197Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2198
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021998 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2200Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2201
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002202Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2203one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2204the match scrolls into view.
2205
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020022067 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2207Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2208Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2209
22109 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2211 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2212Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2213
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002214Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2215Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2216
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002217In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2218or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2219sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2220
2221GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2222doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2223
2224GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2225
2226Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2227Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2228
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002229Wish for NetBeans commands:
2230 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2231
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002232Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2233
22347.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2235there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2236do?
2237
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002238Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
223922)
2240
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002241New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2242- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002243- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002244 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2245
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002246"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
22472011 Feb 27)
2248
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002249Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2250^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2251
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002252When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2253exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
22549) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2255
2256g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2257the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2258
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002259Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2260crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2261
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002262Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2263number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2264
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002265Regexp engine performance:
2266- Profiling:
2267 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2268 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2269 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2270 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2271 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2272 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2273- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2274- Performance tests:
2275 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2276 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2277 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2278 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2279 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2280 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2281 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2282 'hlsearch'.
2283 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2284 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2285 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2286 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2287
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002288Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2289Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2290
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002291'beval' option should be global-local.
2292
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002293Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002294
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002295setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002296
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002297With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22982010 Oct 24)
2299
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002300Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2301
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002302When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2303Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2304
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002305":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2306
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002307'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2308
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002309C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2310checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2311Issue 46.
2312
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002313Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2314
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002315Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2316gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2317
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002318":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2319accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2320
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002321Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2322setwinvar().
2323
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002324Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002325
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002326When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2327instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2328
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002329Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2330Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2331Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002332
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002333Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2334back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2335
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002336Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002337Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2338
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002339CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2340the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2341FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2342
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002343Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2344Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2345
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002346Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2347Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2348
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002349Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2350
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002351Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2352non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002353
2354iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2355Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2356or replace with a character and continue?
2357
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002358Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2359Requires configure check for localtime().
2360Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2361
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002362Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2363Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2364
2365Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2366
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002367Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2368Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2369path.
2370
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002371Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002372Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002373
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002374'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2375
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002376":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2377like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2378
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002379Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2380https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002381
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002382Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23832010 Nov 5)
2384
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002385Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002386Jan 7)
2387
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002388Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2389
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002390With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2391entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2392Feb 12)
2393
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002394Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2395characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2396
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002397Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2398
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002399Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2400 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2401
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002402Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2403
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002404When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2405Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2406
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002407When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2408not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2409string value.
2410
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002411For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002412line argument -noregister.
2413
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002414When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2415missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2416
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002417When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2418doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002419
2420Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2421(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2422Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2423There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2424Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2425
2426":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2427highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2428to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2429
2430Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2431Probably needs a bit of work.
2432
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002433List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002434Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2435
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002436Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2437
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002438Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2439
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002440Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2441Sep 1)
2442
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002443Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2444
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002445Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2446on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2447
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002448Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
24492009 Jul 18)
2450
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002451Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2452window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2453Needs more work.
2454
2455Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2456
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002457When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2458few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2459
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002460'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002461(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2462
2463Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2464J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2465
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002466When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2467for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2468
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002469Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2470
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002471":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2472because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2473ex_docmd.c.
2474
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002475Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002476Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2477
2478string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2479for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2480
2481Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2482
2483'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
248420)
2485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002486Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24872009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2488
2489Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2490
2491Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2492SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2493
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002494When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2495indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2496(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2497
2498Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2499are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2500Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2501Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2502that doesn't have a window.
2503
2504When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2505doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2506
2507getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2508displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2509
2510":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2511
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002512There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2513was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2514perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2515
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002516Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2517
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002518Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2519command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2520
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002521Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2522does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2523
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002524opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2525height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002526very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002527
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002528Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2529(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2530
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002531Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002532(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2533
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002534Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2535char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2536
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002537Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2538Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2539
2540This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2541
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002542Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2543messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2544es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
25452009 Jan 26)
2546
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002547When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002548in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2549Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2550
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002551Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2552a modeline.
2553
2554Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2555Sergey Khorev)
2556
2557Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2558part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002559
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002560After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2561correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2562
2563Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2564(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2565
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002566shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002567'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2568Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2569unix-like shell?
2570
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002571Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2572register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2573(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2574
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002575Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2576Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2577
2578Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2579make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2580
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002581When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2582still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2583
2584"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2585(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2586
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002587Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2588that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2589ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2590Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2591
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002592MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2593doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2594probably causes this.
2595
2596'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025972009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002598
2599Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2600 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2601 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2602(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2603
2604Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2605":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2606option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2607is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002608
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002609":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2610first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002611Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002612
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002613Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2614laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2615Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002616
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002617Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2618anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2619
2620On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2621doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2622Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2623Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2624
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002625When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2626'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2627fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2628the buffer to be unmodified.
2629Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2630another look at it.
2631
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002632c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2633(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2634
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002635You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2636error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2637Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2638at the other match for 0xBF.
2639
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002640When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2641argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2642
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002643Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2644backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2645
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002646When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2647line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2648
2649Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2650position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2651
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002652After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2653(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002654command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002656":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2657Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2658
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002659When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2660either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2661put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2662
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002663Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2664Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2665Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2666Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2667(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2668
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002669Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2670
2671ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002672
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002673Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2674(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2675escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2676an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002677This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2678July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002679Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2680work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2681
2682When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
268331)
2684
2685Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2686work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2687Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002688
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002689Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2690multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2691(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2692
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002693Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26942008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002695Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002696
2697Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2698Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2699'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2700
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002701Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2702Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2703
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002704Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2705Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2706
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020027078 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2708 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2709 several).
2710 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2711 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2712 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2713Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2714
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002715The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002716 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002717 0x2217, star
2718 0x2500, bar
2719 0x26ab, circle
2720
2721Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2722line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2723
2724GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2725Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2726
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002727Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2728try the Cocoa version.
2729
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002730Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2731changed or the window is resized.
2732
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002733GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2734the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2735
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002736Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2737Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002738
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002739Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
27401) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2741
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002742C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2743with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2744Try to reproduce at work.
2745
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002746Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2747Is there a way to list all the files first?
2748
2749When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2750result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
275116)
2752
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002753Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2754(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2755
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002756Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2757Await response to question to make the register writable.
2758
2759Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
27601)
2761
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002762In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2763each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2764
2765try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2766
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002767try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2768
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002769":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2770Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2771
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002772Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2773
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002774Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2775Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2776
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002777Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2778Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2779Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002780
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002781When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2782and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2783
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002784Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2785 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2786
2787New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2788
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002789":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2790a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2791
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002792'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2793Likonen, March 19)
2794
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002795Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2796other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2797
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002798The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2799appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2800matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2801
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002802When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2803character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2804'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2805(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2806
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002807Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2808Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002809
2810More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2811
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002812Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2813http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2814
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002815Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2816back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2817Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002818
2819Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2820No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2821
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002822Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2823terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002824
2825Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2826
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002827Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2828but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2829that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002830
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002831Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2832Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2833
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002834Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2835popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2836size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2837This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2838
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002839When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2840it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2841
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002842Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2843then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2844files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002845Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2846indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2847":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002848in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2849quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002850Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002851
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002852When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2853parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2854neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2855particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2856Jun 3)
2857However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2858the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002859
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002860A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2861Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2862
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002863Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2864Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2865
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002866Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2867switch list is noticed:
2868 switch (i)
2869 {
2870 case 1:
2871 foobar:
2872 }
2873
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002874Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2875
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002876Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2877with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2878go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2879moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2880
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002881Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002882GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002883Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2884argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2885(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2886
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002887Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2888(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2889
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002890Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28912007 Feb 8)
2892
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002893Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2894set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002895
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002896Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2897
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002898Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2899Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2900New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2901patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2902
2903Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2904Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2905
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002906Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002907label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2908
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002909Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2910with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2911Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002912
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002913Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2914
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002915Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2916Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2917only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2918
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002919Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2920Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002921Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002922properly?
2923
2924Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
29252007 Jun 21)
2926
2927When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2928Jun 18)
2929
2930If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2931
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002932Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2933windows. (Adam George)
2934
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002935In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2936the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2937
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002938C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2939
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002940":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2941
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002942When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002943error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002944
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002945GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002946use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2947
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002948Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2949if_ruby.c.
2950
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002951":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2952
2953The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2954it in keep_msg?
2955
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002956Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002957error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002958name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2959
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002960Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2961longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002962
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002963Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2964Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2965Also for ":w" without a file name.
2966The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002967
2968"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2969Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2970
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002971VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2972directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2973(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2974
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002975VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2976
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002977input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2978name?
2979
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002980Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2981
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002982When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2983(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002984Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002985will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2986
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002987gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2988This also fails with --remote.
2989
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002990When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29912008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2992all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2993
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002994aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2995
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002996When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2997(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2998
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002999Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
3000the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
3001
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003002GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
3003
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003004Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
3005superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
3006
3007Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
3008character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
3009
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003010Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
3011Jun 5)
3012
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003013Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
30142008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
3015Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
3016
3017In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
3018but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
3019Jul 22)
3020
3021There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
3022
3023Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
3024":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
3025somehow? Or use a new function.
3026
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003027Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
3028
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003029Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
3030moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
3031that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
3032
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003033The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
3034
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003035When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003036cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
3037the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
3038
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003039These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
3040 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
3041 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
3042 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
3043
3044Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
3045partly. (2006 Dec 7)
3046
3047In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
3048buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
3049reload it then?
3050
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003051For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
3052
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003053Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
3054only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
3055
3056Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
3057tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
3058doesn't contain other directories.
3059
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01003060Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
3061Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
3062
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01003063Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
3064 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
3065 set background=dark
3066This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
3067color is, not reset it.
3068
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003069Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
3070start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
3071show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
3072middle?
3073
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003074Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
3075
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003076When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3077current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3078the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3079
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003080When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3081Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3082
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003083Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3084Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3085
3086Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3087
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003088A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3089Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3090
3091Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3092Dara, 2006 June 21)
3093
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003094Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3095number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3096
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003097After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3098the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3099
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003100Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003101
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003102Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3103Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3104
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003105Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010031062008 Sep 29)
3107
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003108In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3109check the result of has("patch13").
3110
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003111Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3112restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3113
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003114Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3115and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3116
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003117Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3118put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3119
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003120Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3121resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3122
3123In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3124can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3125
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003126GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3127maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3128doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003129Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3130visible.
3131
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003132When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3133differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003134
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003135The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3136be only one.
3137
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003138Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003139"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3140name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3141Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003142
3143Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3144(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3145
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003146Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3147as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3148
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003149Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
315023)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003151
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003152":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3153tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3154Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003155
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003156When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3157text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3158latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3159
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003160Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3161no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3162
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003163In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3164VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
31652007 Oct 16)
3166
3167TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3168Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3169
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003170Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003171
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003172When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3173typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3174Sep 3, 11)
3175
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003176":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3177this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3178
3179When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3180Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3181restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3182
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003183Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31842010 Jun 30)
3185
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003186Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3187'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3188(Kartik Agaram)
3189
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003190
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003191Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003192- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3193 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3194- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3195 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3196 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3197- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3198 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3199 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003200- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3201- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003202
3203
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003204More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003205- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3206 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003207- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003208- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3209 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003210- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3211- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3212- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3213 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3214 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003215- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003216- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3217 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3218- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3219 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3220- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3221 21)
3222- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3223 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3224- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3225 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003226- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3227 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003228- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3229 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3230 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3231 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3232 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003233- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003234
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003235Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000032369 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3237 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3238 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3239 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3240 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3241 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3242 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3243 (Alan Schmitt)
3244 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003245 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3246 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000032479 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003248 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000032498 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032507 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3251 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3252 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032538 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003254 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020032557 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003256 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3257- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3258 for multi-byte characters.
3259- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3260- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3261 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3262 been given values.
3263 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032647 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3265 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3266- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3267 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3268 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
32698 Add functions:
3270 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3271 Update 2004 Sep 10
3272 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3273 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003274 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003275 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3276 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3277 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3278 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3279 (2003 May 13)
3280 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3281 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003282 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3283 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003284 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3285 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3286 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032877 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3288 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032897 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3290 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032918 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3292 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032937 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32948 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3295 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32967 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3297 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032987 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3299- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3300 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3301 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003302- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3303 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3304- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3305
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003306Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3307- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3308 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3309
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003310Quickfix/Location List:
3311- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3312 #2999)
3313- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3314 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3315 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3316 the quickfix buffer?
3317- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3318 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3319- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3320 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3321- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3322 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3323 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3324- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3325 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3326- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3327- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3328 2007 Jan 1)
3329- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3330 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3331- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3332 errors. How do we get the rest?
33338 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3334 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3335 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3336 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
33377 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3338 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003339
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003340Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003341- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3342 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033438 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3344 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3345 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3346 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3347 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3348 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033498 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3350 make Vim exit.
33517 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3352 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3353 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
33548 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3355 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3356 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
33576 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3358 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3359 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
33608 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3361 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3362 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3363 names in one buffer???
3364 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3365 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3366 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
33677 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3368 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3369 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003370 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3371 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033727 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3373 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
33747 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
33757 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033767 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3377 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3378 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3379 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33807 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33817 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33827 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3383 to the match with the tag? Option?
33847 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33857 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3386 (Sayre).
33877 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3388 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033897 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3390 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3391 match. Nvi can do it too.
33927 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3393 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3394 line 1\ line 2\\
3395 line 2\ line 3\\
3396 . line4/
33976 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3398 the way the shell is started?
33996 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3400 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3401
3402
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003403GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000034049 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034058 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3406 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3407 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000034088 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3409 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3410 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034119 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3412 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3413 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3414 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003415- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3416 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3417 blocked for now.
3418
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003419
3420Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003421- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3422 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034238 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3424 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3425 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034266 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3427 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000034288 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3429 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3430 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034317 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3432 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3433 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034347 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3435 2004 May 9)
34368 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3437 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3438 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3439 MS-Windows 98?
3440 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3441 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3442 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3443 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034448 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3445 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3446 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3447 doesn't work properly.
34488 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3449 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3450 appears in the right position. (Webb)
34519 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3452 button doesn't give popup menu.
3453 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3454 selection.
3455 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3456 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3457 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
34588 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3459 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3460 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3461 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
34628 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3463 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3464 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034657 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3466 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003467 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034687 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3469 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034706 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
34718 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3472 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3473 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
34748 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3475 know which keyboard is being used?
34767 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3477 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3478 area (Koloseike).
34798 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3480 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3481 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3482 the font name).
3483
3484
3485Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034866 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3487 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3488 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3489 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3490 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034919 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3492 required and it's missing?
34938 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3494 wrong.
34959 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3496 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034979 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003498 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3499 flag.
35008 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3501 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3502 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
35038 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
35046 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3505 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3506 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3507 the tooltips work though...
35087 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3509 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
35108 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3511 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3512 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3513
3514
3515Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010035169 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3517 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035189 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3519 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3520 through files.
35217 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3522 read long file names. (Schroeder)
35234 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3524 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3525 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3526 problem during a refresh.
35275 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3528 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3529 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3530 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3531 colors as it should.
3532 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3533 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3534
3535
3536Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003537- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035387 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3539 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035408 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3541 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3542 (Phillipps)
3543
3544
3545GUI:
35469 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3547 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
35489 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003549 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003550 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
35519 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3552 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
35538 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3554 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
35558 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3556 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3557 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
35588 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3559 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3560 of where it is processing the output.
3561 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
35628 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3563 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010035648 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035658 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3566 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3567 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035688 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035698 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3570 browse().
35718 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3572 use that code? Or use console dialog.
35738 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3574 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035757 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3576 - regexp on/off
3577 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3578 when all buffers/directory is used:
3579 - filter for file name
3580 when directory is used:
3581 - subdirectory on/off
3582 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035838 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3584 to avoid problems.
35858 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3586 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3587 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35888 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3589 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3590 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35918 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3592 up. Set erase character somehow?
35938 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3594 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3595 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3596 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
35978 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35987 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3599 visible.
36007 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3601 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
36027 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3603 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
36048 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3605 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
36068 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3607 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3608 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3609 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3610- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
36114 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3612 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3613 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3614
3615
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003616Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000036178 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3618 a good fallback, thus use:
3619 $HOME
3620 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3621 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3622 $USERPROFILE
3623 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3624 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3625 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3626 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036278 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3628 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
36298 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3630 Should work like in the GUI version.
36318 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3632 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
36338 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3634 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
36358 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3636 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3637 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036388 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3639 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3640 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3641
3642
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003643Win32 console:
36449 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3645 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3646 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3647 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3648 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3649 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3650 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3651 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3652 and the file is not saved.
3653 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3654 long name.
36558 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3656 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
36577 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3658 besides the console.
36598 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
36609 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3661 <C-S-i>?
36629 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3663 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
36648 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3665 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003666
3667
3668Amiga:
36698 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3670 sequences.
36719 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3672 backslashes in result.
36738 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3674 all options, using white space separation.
3675
3676
3677Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003678- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036797 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3680 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3681 (Jack)
3682 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036838 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3684 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036858 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36868 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36879 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3688 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036899 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003690
3691
3692"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003693- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3694 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003695- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3696 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003697- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3698 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3699 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3700 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3701 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3702 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3703 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000037049 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3705 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000037069 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003707 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3708 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037098 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3710 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3711 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003712 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037137 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3714 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
37158 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3716 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3717 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037187 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3719 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003720- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3721 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037228 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3723 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3724 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3725 using the horizontal scrollbar.
37267 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3727 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3728 invocations belong together.
37298 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3730 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
37318 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3732 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3733 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003734 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000037358 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3736 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3737 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037388 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3739 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037407 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3741 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3742 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3743 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037447 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3745 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3746 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
37477 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3748 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3749 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
37507 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3751 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037527 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3753 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037549 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3755 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3756 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3757 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3758 script can be called.
37598 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3760 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3761 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037628 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3763 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000037648 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003765 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3766 configurable?
37678 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037688 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3769 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037708 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3771 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037728 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3773 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037749 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3775 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3776 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037777 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037788 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3779 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3780 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037818 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3782 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003783 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3784 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037858 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3786 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37879 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3788 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3789 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003790 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037917 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3792 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037937 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3794 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3795 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3796 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037978 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003798 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3799 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3800 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3801 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003802 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3803 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003804 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003805 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003806 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3807 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3808 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3809 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3810 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038118 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3812 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
38138 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3814 in lines that don't extend into the block?
38158 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3816 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3817 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
38188 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3819 'linebreak'.
38208 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3821 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3822 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038239 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3824 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3825 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3826 'magic' in history. (Margo)
38279 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3828 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038299 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
38309 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3831 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3832 cause another redraw, etc.
38338 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3834 must escape special characters in the pattern.
38358 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3836 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3837 ":w!!" for that.
3838 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3839 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003840 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038417 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3842 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3843 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3844 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3845 clipboard)
38467 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3847 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3848 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000038496 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3850 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3851 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038528 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3853 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
38548 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3855 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3856 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
38578 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3858 (e.g., ":w").
38598 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3860 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038618 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3862 script in do_cmdline().
38638 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3864 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3865 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3866 changes.
38678 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3868 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
38698 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3870 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038718 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3872 to skip catch_signals()?
38739 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3874 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3875 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3876 text?
38778 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3878 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
38798 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3880 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38819 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3882 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3883 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3884 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3885 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38867 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3887 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3888 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3889 in the list?
38908 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3891 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3892 instead of on button down.
38938 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
38949 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3895 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003896 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3897 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038988 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3899 character is typed.
39008 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3901 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
39028 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3903 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
39048 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3905 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3906 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3907 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3908 cygwin bash.
39097 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3910 Remember flags for backreferences.
39117 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3912 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
39137 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3914 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
39158 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3916 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
39177 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3918 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039197 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3920 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3921 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
39227 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3923 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
39248 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3925 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3926 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
39277 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3928 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003929
3930
3931I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
39329 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3933 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3934 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003935
3936
3937Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003938- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3939 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3940 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003941- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3942 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3943 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3944 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3945 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3946 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003947 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003948- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3949 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003950 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003951 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3952 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3953 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003954- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3955 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3956 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3957 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3958 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3959- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3960 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3961 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3962- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3963 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003964- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003965- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3966 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3967 character gets the highlighting.
3968- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3969 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3970- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3971 (Jennings)
3972- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003973- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003974- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003975 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003976- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3977 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3978 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3979- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3980 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3981 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3982 (Benzinger).
3983- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3984 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3985 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3986- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3987 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3988- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3989 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3990- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3991 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3992 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3993 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3994 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3995 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3996- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3997 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3998 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003999- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
4000 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
4001 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004002- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
4003 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
4004 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
4005- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
4006 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
4007- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
4008 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004009- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
4010 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
4011- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
4012 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
4013 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
4014 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
4015 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
4016- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
4017 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
4018 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
4019- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
4020 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
4021 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00004022- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
4023 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 +00004024- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
4025 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
4026 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
4027 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
4028 in the vimrc file to be lost.
4029- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
4030 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
4031
4032--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
4033 *extensions-improvements*
4034
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004035Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
4036- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
4037 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
4038 calling a function.
4039 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
4040 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004041- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
4042 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01004043 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004044- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
4045 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
4046 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
4047 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
4048 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
4049 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004050 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004051- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
4052 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
4053 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004054- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
4055 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040568 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
4057 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
4058 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
4059 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00004060- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
4061 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004062
4063
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004064Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040658 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
4066 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000040678 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
4068 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000040698 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
4070 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040718 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040729 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
4073 - change to cursor position and curswant
4074 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
4075 - how it works for folded lines
4076 - how it works with multi-byte characters
40779 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
4078 work too.
40798 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4080 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4081 text.
40828 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40837 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4084 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40857 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4086 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004087 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004088- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4089
4090
4091Help:
4092- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4093 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4094- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4095 to the other matches.
4096- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004097- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4098 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4099 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4100 default contents.
4101- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4102 height for the help window (and other windows).
4103- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4104- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4105- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4106
4107
4108User Friendlier:
41098 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4110 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4111 Briscoe)
41128 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
41138 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4114 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4115 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
41168 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4117 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4118- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4119 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004120- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
41219 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4122 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4123 item?).
4124 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041258 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000041267 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4127 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4128 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000041298 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4130 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4131 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4132 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004133
4134
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004135Tab pages:
41369 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041377 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4138 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000041398 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000041408 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000041417 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000041427 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004143 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000041448 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4145 tab pages.
41467 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4147
4148
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004149Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004150- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004151 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004152- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4153 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4154 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4155- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4156 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004157- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4158 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4159 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004160- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4161 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4162 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004163- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4164 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004165- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004166 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4167 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000041688 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4169 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
41708 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4171 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
41728 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4173 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004174 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004175 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4176 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4177 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4178 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004179- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4180 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004181- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004182- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4183 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004184- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004185 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004186- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004187 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004188- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4189 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004190- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4191 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4192- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004193 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004194 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4195 in the affix file separately.
4196 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004197 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004198 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4199 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4200 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4201- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4202 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4203 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4204 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4205 Alternative:
4206 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4207 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4208 affix which is required.
4209- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004210 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004211- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4212 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4213 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004214- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4215 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004216- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4217 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4218- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000042198 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4220 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4221 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4222 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004223- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4224 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4225 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4226 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042278 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4228 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000042298 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
42308 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4231 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000042327 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
42338 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4234 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4235 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4236 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004237
4238
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004239Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020042409 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4241 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020042428 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004243 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004244
4245Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004246 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4247 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042488 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4249 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020042508 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4251 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042528 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4253 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4254 user aware of this?
42558 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4256 commands skip over a closed fold.
42578 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
42588 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042597 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004260- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4261 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4262 missing line goes unnoticed.
4263 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004264- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4265 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4266 smoother?
4267- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4268 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004269- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4270 file can contain:
4271 args version.c main.c
4272 edit version.c
4273 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004274- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004275- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4276 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004277- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4278 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004279- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4280 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004281- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004282
4283Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004284- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4285 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4286 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4287 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042889 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4289 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4290 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4291 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042929 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4293 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4294 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042958 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4296 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4297 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4298 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4299 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4300 item.
43018 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004302 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4303 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043048 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4305 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043068 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4307 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4308 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043097 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4310 so that the user can fix the problem.
43118 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4312 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043139 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
43148 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043158 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
43168 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043177 Searching and composing characters:
4318 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004319 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4320 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043218 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
43228 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
43238 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4324 characters.
43258 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
43268 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4327 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
43287 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4329 'display' option to specify this.
43307 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4331 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4332- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4333 fontselector somehow.
4334- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4335 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4336- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4337 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4338- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4339 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4340 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4341 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4342 if a font exists?
4343- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004344 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004345- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4346 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004347- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4348 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4349 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4350 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004351- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4352 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004353 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004354- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4355 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4356 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4357 But it's very complicated...
4358
4359
4360Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000043617 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004362- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4363- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4364 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004365- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4366 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004367- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4368- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4369 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004370- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4371 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004372- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4373 units as for the margins.
4374- Support right-to-left text?
43758 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4376 color.
4377
4378
4379Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043808 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4381 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43828 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4383 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43848 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4385 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043867 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4387 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043888 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4389 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4390 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043917 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4392 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4393 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043948 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43959 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4396 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043977 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4398 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043997 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4400 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044018 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4402 change this for each release.
44038 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4404 pattern, but not in the body.
44058 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4406 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4407 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044088 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010044098 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004410 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4411 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044128 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4413 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
44148 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4415 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004416 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044178 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4418 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4419 used.
44208 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4421 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
44228 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4423 re-insert the [] if possible.
44248 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4425 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000044268 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4427 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4428 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4429 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4430 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044318 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4432 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
44338 Support for deleting syntax items:
4434 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4435 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4436 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
44378 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4438 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4439 a '<'. (Fleiner)
44407 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4441 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4442 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
44437 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4444 detected.
44458 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004446 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044478 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4448 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044498 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
44508 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
44517 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4452 ":mkvimrc".
44538 Improve c.vim:
4454 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4455 "c_strict_ansi".
4456 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
44578 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4458 current line while in Insert mode.
44598 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4460 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
44618 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4462 display position.
44638 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4464 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4465 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
44668 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4467 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4468 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000044697 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4470 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4471 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4472 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4473 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044747 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4475 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4476 E.g. for this html:
4477 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044787 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
44797 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4480 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044818 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44828 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044837 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4484 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4485 completion?
44868 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4487 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44887 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4489 select one of the sets.
44908 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4491 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4492 2, etc.
44938 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4494 highlighting (for "." command).
44958 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4496 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44978 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44987 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4499 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
45006 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4501 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4502- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4503 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4504- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004505- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4506 (for comment blocks).
4507- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4508 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4509 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4510 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4511 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4512 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4513 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4514 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4515 (Campbell)
4516 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4517 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
45187 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4519 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
45207 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4521 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4522 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
45237 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4524 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4525 messages. And external commands?
45268 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4527 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
45287 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4529 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4530
4531
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004532Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045338 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4534 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004535 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000045367 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4537 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4538 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045398 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4540 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004541- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020045428 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4543 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4544 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4545 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4546 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4547 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000045487 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4549 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045508 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010045518 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4552 can be the plugin name.
4553 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4554 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045557 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4556 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4557 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4558 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4559 autocommand.
4560 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4561 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4562 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4563 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045647 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4565 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045666 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4567 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045688 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004569 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4570 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004571 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4572 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4573 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004574 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4575 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4576 3 2002
4577 Only add this when also implemented for
4578 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4579 be used.
4580 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004581 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4582 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4583 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4584 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4585 File.Open..." argument.
4586 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4587 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4588 with properties instead.
4589 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4590 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4591 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004592 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004593 crypt() encrypt string
4594 decrypt() decrypt string
4595 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4596 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004597 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004598 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004599 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004600 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004601 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004602 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4603 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004604 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4605 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004606 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004607 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4608 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4609 to allow the library to execute a command or
4610 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046117 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4612 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
46138 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4614 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046158 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4616 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046178 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046186 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000046198 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4620 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046218 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4622 option or environment variable.
46238 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046248 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004625 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000046267 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4627 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046288 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4629 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
46308 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
46318 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4632 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4633 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4634 charwise({expr}).
46357 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4636 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4637 buffer for this?
4638 result = scratch(string, command)
4639 result = apply(string, command)
4640 result = execute(string, command)
4641 "command" would use <> notation.
4642 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
46437 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004644
4645
4646Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000046476 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4648 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4649 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4650 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4651 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4652 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4653 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004654
4655
4656Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046577 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4658 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020046597 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4660 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4661 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4662 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046638 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4664 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4665 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4666 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004667 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046688 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
46699 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
46708 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
46717 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4672 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
46738 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4674 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4675 when starting up in a color terminal.
46768 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4677 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046788 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4679 function be improved?
46808 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4681 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4682 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4683 this be improved?
46848 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4685 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046867 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4687 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046887 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4689 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46907 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4691 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046927 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4693 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4694 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4695 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4696 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4697 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4698 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046998 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4700 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4701 using strcmp() too often?
47027 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4703 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4704 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4705 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4706 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4707 the two blocks to the memfile block.
47087 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4709 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4710 with an argument that can be messed with.
4711 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4712 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
47137 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4714- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
47158 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4716 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4717- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4718 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4719- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4720- Do profiling on:
4721 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004722 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4723 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4724 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4725 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4726 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4727 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004728 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047297 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4730 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4731 changed).
4732 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4733 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4734- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4735- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4736 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4737- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4738 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4739 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004740- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4741- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4742 cursor is right of the screen.
47438 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4744 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4745
4746
4747Code size:
47488 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4749- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4750 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
47518 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
47528 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4753 it.
47547 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4755 left out.
47568 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4757 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010047588 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004759
4760
4761Messages:
47628 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4763 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
47648 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4765 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
47668 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4767 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004768- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4769 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4770- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047718 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4772 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047739 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4774 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4775 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4776 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4777 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047788 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4779 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
47808 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4781 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4782 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4783 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4784 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4785 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004786- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004787 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047888 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4789 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4790 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4791 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4792 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4793 error messages, printing text, etc.
47948 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4795 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4796 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4797
4798
4799Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004800- screen_line():
4801 - insert/delete character stuff.
4802 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4803- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4804 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4805- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4806 waiting for a character.
48078 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4808 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4809 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004810
4811Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020048128 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048136 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4814- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4815 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4816 windows.
48177 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4818 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4819 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4820- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4821 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4822 (Goldfarb)
4823- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4824 bound windows.
4825- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4826 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004827- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004828- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4829 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4830 of lines but not with a single line).
4831
4832
4833Autoconf:
48348 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
48358 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4836 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4837- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4838 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4839- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4840- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4841- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4842
4843
4844Perl interface:
48458 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048467 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
48477 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
48486 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4849
4850
4851Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020048528 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4853 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048546 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4855 :libload internal-name libname
4856 :libunload internal-name
4857 :liblist
4858 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4859 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4860 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
48616 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4862
4863
4864Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000048659 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4866 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4867 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4868 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4869 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048708 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4871 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4872 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004873 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004874 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000048757 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4876 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4877 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048788 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
48798 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4880 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048817 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4882 window for each tag.
48837 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48847 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4885 bottom" search message.
48867 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4887 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4888 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004889- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4890- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004891- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4892 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4893 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048947 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4895 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4896 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4897 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48987 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4899 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4900 :tagargs clear
4901 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4902 matching).
49037 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4904 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4905 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4906 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
49077 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4908 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
49097 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4910 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4911 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004912
4913
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004914Win32 GUI:
49158 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4916 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049177 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4918 (Mike McCollister)
49198 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4920 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4921 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4922 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4923 common part of the path.
49248 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
49258 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4926 gettext and menus work.
49278 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4928 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004929 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004930 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
49318 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4932 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
49338 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4934 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
49357 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4936 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
49377 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
49387 <Esc> should close a dialog.
49397 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4940 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4941 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4942 prompts.
49437 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4944 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4945 the file added into an already running Vim.
49467 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4947 functions to find the window title.
4948
4949
4950GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020049518 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004952- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4953 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
49547 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
49558 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
49566 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
49578 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4958 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
49599 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
49607 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
49618 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4962 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
49638 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4964 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4965 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
49668 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4967 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
49688 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4969 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4970 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4971 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049727 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
49738 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4974 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049757 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4976 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4977 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049788 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
49798 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004980 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049818 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
49828 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
49838 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4984 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4985 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49867 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4987 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4988 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49897 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4990 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49917 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4992 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4993 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4994 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049957 Should support multi-column menus.
4996- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4997 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4998- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49998 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
50006 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
5001 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
50027 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
50037 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
5004 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
5005 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
50067 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
50078 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
5008 name can be chosen free.
50097 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
5010 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
50116 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
5012 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
5013 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
5014 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
5015 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
5016 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
5017 things.
50187 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
5019 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050207 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005021 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005022- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
5023 where it was started from?
50247 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
5025
5026
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005027Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020050289 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
5029 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005030- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050318 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
5032 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
5033 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
5034 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
50358 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
5036 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000050377 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
5038 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
5039 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
5040 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000050417 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050428 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
5043 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050448 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
5045 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
5046 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050477 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
5048 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
5049 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050508 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
5051 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
5052 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050538 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
5054 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050558 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050566 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
5057 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050587 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050597 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02005060 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
5061 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
5062 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050635 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
5064 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
5065 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
50667 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
5067 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
5068 file.
50698 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
5070 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
5071 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005072- Add events to autocommands:
5073 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02005074 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00005075 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
5076 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005077 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005078 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005079 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
5080 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
5081 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
5082 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005083 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005084 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5085 the char.
5086 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5087 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5088 file from CVS).
5089 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5090 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5091 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5092 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5093 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5094 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005095 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5096 changes.
5097 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5098 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005099- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005100 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005101 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005102 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5103 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5104 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5105 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5106 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5107
5108
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005109Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005110- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5111 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005112- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5113 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5114 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5115 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5116 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005117- Ideas from others:
5118 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5119 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5120 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5121 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5122 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5123 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5124 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5125 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5126 Uses Perl for C++.
5127 Uses ctags to find the info:
5128 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5129 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5130 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5131 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5132 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5133 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005134 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005135 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5136- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5137
5138
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005139Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005140- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000051417 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5142 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000051437 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5144 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5145 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051468 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5147 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
51489 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5149 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5150 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051518 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5152 - ignore/match case
5153 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051548 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5155 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5156 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5157 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5158 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5159 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051608 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000051617 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5162 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051638 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5164 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5165 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5166 Should work for C++ and Java.
5167 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
51687 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
51697 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5170 instead of words.
51718 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
51728 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5173 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
51748 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5175 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005176- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5177 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005178- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5179 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5180 wildcards in the file name)?
5181- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5182- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5183- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5184 be in another file).
5185- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5186- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5187- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5188 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5189- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5190- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5191- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005192- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5193
5194
5195Command line editing:
51967 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5197 line.
51988 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5199 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5200 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5201- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5202 lines wraps to start of line).
5203- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5204 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5205 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5206 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5207 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5208 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5209 cmdwin does now already.
5210 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5211 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5212 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5213 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5214 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5215 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5216 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5217 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5218 Problems:
5219 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5220 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5221 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5222 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5223 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5224 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5225 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5226 character in first column?
5227 - Implementation ideas:
5228 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5229 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5230 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5231 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5232 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5233 Mode.
5234
5235
5236Command line completion:
52378 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
52388 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5239 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
52408 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5241 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052428 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5243 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052447 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5245 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005246- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5247- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5248 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052498 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5250 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
52517 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5252 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5253- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5254 identifiers (Webb).
52558 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5256 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
52577 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5258 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5259- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5260 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5261- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5262 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5263 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005264
5265
5266Command line history:
5267- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5268 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5269 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005270 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005271- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5272 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5273
5274
5275Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000052769 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5277 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5278 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052798 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5280 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5281 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5282 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5283 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052848 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5285 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5286 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052877 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5288 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005289- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052907 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5291 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5292- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5293 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5294 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5295 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5296 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5297 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5298- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5299 Normal mode.
5300- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5301 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5302 are used.
5303- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5304- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5305- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5306
5307
5308'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010053099 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5310 char * veryLongName =
5311 "very long string"
5312 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053138 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053148 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5315 long_type foo =
5316 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053178 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5318 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005319 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053208 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5321 func(
5322 new String[] {
5323 "asdf",
5324 "asdf"
5325 }
5326 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053278 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5328 (Chow Loong Jin)
5329 namespace {
5330 int
5331 func(int arg) {
5332 }
5333 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053346 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5335 func( arg1
5336 , arg2
5337 , arg3
5338 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000053397 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005340 func(
5341 int x) // indent like "(4"
5342 {
5343 if (a
5344 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053459 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5346 if (a)
5347 {
5348 if (b)
5349 {
5350 // {
5351 }
5352 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005353 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5354 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5355 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005356- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005357 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
53587 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5359- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5360 line).
5361- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5362- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5363 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005364- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5365 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5366- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5367 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5368- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5369- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5370 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
53718 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5372 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5373 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5374- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5375- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5376 lines start with "\item".
5377- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5378 /* here is a comment that
5379 is just autoindented, and
5380 nothing else */
5381- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
53827 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5383 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5384 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005385 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005386
5387
5388Java:
53898 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5390 Odendahl?
53918 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5392 "[i" commands and friends.
5393- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5394 (Jason)
5395- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5396 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5397
5398
5399'comments':
54008 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5401 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5402 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5403 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005404 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5405 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054067 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5407 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
54087 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
54096 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5410 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5411 regexp is used.
54128 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5413 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5414
5415
5416Virtual edit:
54178 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054187 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5419
5420
5421Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054228 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054238 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000054248 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005425 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000054268 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5427 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005428 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5429 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000054308 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054318 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5432 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054338 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5434 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5435 the end of the line or before a ".".
54367 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5437 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
54387 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5439 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054406 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
54415 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5442 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5443 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5444 cursor is on.
5445
5446
5447Select mode:
54488 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5449 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
54507 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005451 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054527 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5453 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5454 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5455 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5456 normal_cmd().
5457 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5458 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5459
5460
5461Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020054628 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5463 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005464- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5465 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5466 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005467- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5468 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5469 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054708 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005471 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005472 where needed.
54737 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5474 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
54757 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5476 of each selected line.
54778 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
54788 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5479 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5480 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
54818 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5482 Ben Godfrey)
54837 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5484 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54857 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5486 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054877 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005488 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005489 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54908 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5491 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54927 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5493 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5494 option!
54957 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5496 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5497 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5498 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5499 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5500 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5501 without changing the column.
55026 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055037 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5504 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055056 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5506 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
55076 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055086 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005509 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005510 or other special character.
55116 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5512
5513
5514More advanced repeating commands:
5515- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005516- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005517- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005518 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5519 "y." will repeat last yank.
5520 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5521 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5522 and/or pick an older command.
5523- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5524
5525
5526Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055278 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5528 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5529 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
55308 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
55317 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5532 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055338 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5534 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
55358 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000055367 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055378 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5538 entering search strings.
55398 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5540 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5541 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055428 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5543 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055447 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055457 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5546 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055476 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5548 abbreviations are to be used.
5549- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5550 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5551 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005552- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5553 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5554 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5555 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5556 Or implicit:
5557 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005558- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5559 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5560 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005561- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5562 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5563- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5564 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
55656 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5566 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5567 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5568 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005569- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5570 non-replace Insert mode?
5571- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005572- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5573- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5574 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5575- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005576 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005577- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5578 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5579- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5580- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5581 ":freekeys".
5582- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5583
5584
5585Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005586- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5587 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5588- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5589 folds when going to another line.
5590 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5591- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5592 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5594 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5595 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005596- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5597 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5598 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5599 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020056009 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5601 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005602
5603
5604Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056059 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000056068 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005607 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005608 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005609 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005610 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010056119 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5612 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010056138 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5614 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000056158 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5616 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5617 Perl does it this way:
5618 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5619 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5620 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5621 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056228 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5623 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5624 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000056257 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5626 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000056278 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5628 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000056297 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005630 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5631 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5632 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000056337 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005634 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056357 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5636 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056378 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5638 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
56398 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5640 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020056417 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005642 example.
56438 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5644 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5645- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5646 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5647 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5648 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056498 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5650 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5651 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
56527 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5653 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000056547 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5655 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056568 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5657 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056588 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5659 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056608 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5661 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5662 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5663 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005664- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5665 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005666- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5667 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5668- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5669 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5670 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5671 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056728 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5673 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005674- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5675 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056768 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5677 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5678 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005679- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5680 i ignore case
5681 I use case
5682 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5683 v use Vi regexp syntax
5684 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5685 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5686 Perl uses these too:
5687 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5688 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5689 o compile only once (Perl only)
5690 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5691 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5692 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5693 following command.
5694 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5695- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5696 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5697 for search string)?
56987 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5699 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5700- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5701 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5702- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5703 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5704- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5705- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005706 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005707 a for the next file in the argument list
5708 f for file in the buffer list
5709 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005710 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5711 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005712 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5713 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5714- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057157 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005716 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057177 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5718 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5719 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5720 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
57216 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5722 effects.
57237 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5724 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5725 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000057267 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005727 Also ":dselect".
5728
5729
5730Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010057319 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5732 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5733 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057349 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5735 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020057368 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5737 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057388 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5739 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5740 timestamp?
5741 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5742 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005743- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5744 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005745- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5746 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5747 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
57488 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5749 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5750 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5751 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
57528 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5753 only remember the lines that really changed.
57547 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5755 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5756 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5757 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005758- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5759 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5760- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5761 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5762- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5763 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5764 [-99].
5765- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5766- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005767- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5768 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5769
5770
5771Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057727 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5773 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5774 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5775 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
57768 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5777 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
57788 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5779 inode too.
57807 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005781 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5782 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057837 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5784 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5785- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5786 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5787- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5788 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57897 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5790 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57917 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5792 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57938 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057947 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5795 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057968 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5797 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5798 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005799
5800
5801Swap (.swp) files:
58028 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5803 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5804 there are short file name problems.
58058 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5806 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
58078 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
58088 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005809 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005810 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5811 file the same as the actual file?
5812 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058137 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5814 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
58157 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005816 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005817 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5818 enough room.
58197 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5820 or /var/preserve.
5821- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5822 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5823- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005824 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005825- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5826 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5827 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5828 cached list of which line is where.
5829
5830
5831Viminfo:
58327 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5833 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5834 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000058358 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5836 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5837 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058388 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5839 name. (Schild)
58408 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
58418 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058428 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058438 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5844 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5845 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5846 this?
58477 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
58487 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5849 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
58506 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5851 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5852 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5853- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5854 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5855
5856
5857Modelines:
58588 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5859 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5860 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005861- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5862 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5863 'shiftwidth'.
5864- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5865 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005866- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5867 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5868 modeline setting.
5869- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5870 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5871- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5872 .cpp files.
5873- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5874 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5875- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5876 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5877
5878
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005879Sessions:
58808 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5881 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
58827 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5883 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058848 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5885 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058868 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5887 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5888 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058897 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5890 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058917 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005892
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005893
5894Options:
58957 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5896 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058978 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5898 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5899 also be supported.
59008 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5901 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5902 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
59037 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005904
5905
5906External commands:
59078 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5908 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
59094 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5910 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5911 -f).
59124 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
59134 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5914 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
59154 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5916
5917
5918Multiple Windows:
59197 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
59208 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5921 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
59227 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5923 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5924 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000059257 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5926 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000059277 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5928 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059296 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5930 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005931 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005932 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
59337 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5934 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5935 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5936 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5937- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5938 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5939 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5940 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5941
5942
5943Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000059448 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059458 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5946 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059478 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 +000059488 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5949 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
59508 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5951 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5952 the mark was set.
59537 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5954 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5955 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5956 ":browse marks"?
59576 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059587 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5959 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
59607 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5961 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
59627 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5963 command).
59647 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5965 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5966 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5967 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
59685 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5969 mappings.
59706 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5971 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5972 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5973
5974
5975Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020059767 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005977 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005978- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5979 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000059808 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059817 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5982 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5983
5984
5985Writing files:
5986- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5987 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5988 shortname conversion.
59898 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59908 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5991 file.
59928 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5993 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5994 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059956 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5996 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59976 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5998 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59996 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
6000 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000060018 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006002 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
60037 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
6004 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
60057 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
6006 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
6007 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
6008 waiting for a character to be typed).
60098 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
6010 line of the window, like "[time]".
6011 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
6012 Automatic and/or with a command.
6013
6014
6015Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000060168 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
6017 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000060188 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006019 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
6020- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
6021- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
60228 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
6023 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006024- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006025 :s///N substitutes N times.
6026- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
6027 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
6028 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
60297 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
6030 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
6031 last line column 5.
60325 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
6033 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
6034 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
6035 (Stanislav Sitar)
6036
6037
6038Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060398 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
60407 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
60418 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
6042 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
6043 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006044- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
6045- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
6046 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
6047- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
6048- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
6049
6050
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006051Argument list:
60526 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
6053 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
6054 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
60556 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
6056
6057
6058Registers:
60598 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060608 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
6061 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
6062 for every line.
60636 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
6064 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
6065 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
6066- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
6067 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
6068- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
6069 leader when line wraps?
6070- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
6071 line in the range.
6072- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
6073 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
60748 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
6075 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00006076
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006077
6078Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060798 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060808 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060817 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
60827 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
6083
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006084Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000060857 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6086 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6087 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6088 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6089 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6090 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6091 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006092 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060937 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6094 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060957 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6096 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060978 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6098 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060997 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6100 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6101 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006102- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006103 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010061047 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6105 window as a buffer-tab selection.
61068 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061077 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6108 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
61098 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6110 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061116 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061128 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6113 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6114 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6115 in this Vim.
61168 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006117 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061188 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6119 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6120 have it apply to the following command.
61218 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6122 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6123 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6124 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061257 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6126 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061277 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6128 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6129 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6130 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061316 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
61328 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
61339 Support ACLs on more systems.
61347 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6135 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061367 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6137 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6138 (truncated to fit in the space).
61397 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
61408 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
61418 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6142 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000061437 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006144 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
61457 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6146 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061477 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061487 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
61497 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061508 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
61518 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6152 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6153 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6154 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
61558 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061568 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061578 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6158 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6159 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6160 does something like this. (Shah)
61617 Use growarray for replace stack.
61627 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6163 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
61643 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061657 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6166 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010061677 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6168 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006169- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6170- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6171- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6172- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
61737 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6174 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6175- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6176 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006177- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006178- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6179 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6180- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6181 call "play newbeep.au").
6182- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6183 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6184 (Bhatt).
6185- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6186 blockwise registers).
6187- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6188 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6189- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6190 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6191 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6192 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006193- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061947 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6195 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6196- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6197 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6198 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6199 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6200 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000062018 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6202 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062038 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6204 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6205 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6206 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6207 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6208- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006209- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062107 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6211 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6212- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6213 not in column 1.
62146 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6215 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
62167 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6217- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006218- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006219 :redir #> bufname
6220 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006221- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6222 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006223- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6224 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6225 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
62266 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6227 console? (Klaus Hast)
6228- Add :delcr command:
6229 *:delcr*
6230 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6231 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6232 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6233 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6234 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006235 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006236- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6237- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6238 characters from 'isprint'.
6239- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6240- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6241 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6242- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6243 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6244 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6245- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6246- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6247 Nvi).
6248- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6249 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
62507 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6251- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6252 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
62536 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6254- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6255 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6256 macro).
6257- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006258- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6259 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6260- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
62618 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006262- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6263- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6264- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6265 if it is not the first or last window.
6266- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6267 there is one) instead of the file itself.
62687 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6269 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6270 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6271- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6272- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006273 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006274 many percent down the windows).
6275- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6276 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6277 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006278 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006279- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6280 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6281- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6282 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6283- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6284- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6285- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6286 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062878 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6288 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6289 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6290 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6291 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006292- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6293 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6294- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006295 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6296- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006297 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6298 (Webb).
6299- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006300 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006301- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6302 hex codes like 0xff).
6303- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6304 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6305 the last TYPED command.
6306- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6307- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6308- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6309 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006310- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063118 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6312 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6313 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006314- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006315 trailing '.'.
6316- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6317 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6318 find_file_in_path().
6319- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6320 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6321- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6322- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6323 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6324- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006325 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006326- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6327 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6328 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006329- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6330- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6331- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6332 to the minimal size.
6333- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6334- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6335- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6336- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6337- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006338- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6339 entered)?
6340- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6341 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006342- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006343- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6344- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6345- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6346- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6347- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6348 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006349- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063508 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6351 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6352 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6353 or in octal.
63547 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6355 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006356- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006357 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6358- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6359- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6360 insert line command).
6361- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6362- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6363- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6364- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6365- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6366 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006367- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006368 yet.
6369- Implement 'redraw' option.
6370- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6371 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063727 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6373 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006374 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6375 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063768 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6377 do it.
6378- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6379- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6380 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6381- Add text justification option.
6382- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6383- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6384 off".
6385- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6386- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6387- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006388 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006389- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006390- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006391- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6392 commands.
6393- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6394- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6395- :table command (Webb)
6396- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006397- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6398- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6399- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6400- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6401- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6402 (Demirel).
6403- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6404- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6405 for use in macro's and the like.
6406- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006407 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006408- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006409 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006410- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006411 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006412 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6413- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6414 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006415- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006416 mkopttab to make option table?
6417- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6418 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6419- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6420 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006421- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006422 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6423- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6424 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006425- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000064268 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6427 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6428 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6429 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6430 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000064318 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6432 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6433 (Netherton)
64346 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6435 space after "(", for example.
64365 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6437 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6438 (Servatius Brandt)
6439
6440
6441From Elvis:
6442- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6443- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006444- Search patterns:
6445 \@ match word under cursor.
6446 but do:
6447 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6448 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
64498 ":window" command:
6450 :win + next window (up)
6451 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6452 :win - previous window (down)
6453 :win -- idem, wrapping
6454 :win nr to window number "nr"
6455 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
64567 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6457 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6458
6459
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006460From xvi:
6461- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6462- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6463
6464
6465From vile:
6466- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6467- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6468 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6469
6470
6471Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006472- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6473 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006474 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006475 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6476 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006477- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6478 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6479- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6480 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6481 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6482 current layout mirrored.
6483- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6484- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6485 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6486- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6487- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6488 font in each top-level window.
6489- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6490- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6491- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6492- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6493 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006494- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6495 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6496- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6497 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64984 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6499 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6500 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6501 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006502 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006503 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6504 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6505- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6506 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6507 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6508
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006509vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006510vim: set fo+=n :