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Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Jul 04
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
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram 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 Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +020041Ongoing work on text properties, see src/textprop.c
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43Popup windows are being implemented, see |popup-window|.
44
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +020045Patch to fix session file when using multiple tabs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May
4620)
47Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
48remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
49
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +020050Listener causes extra } to be inserted. (Paul Jolly, #4455)
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +020051
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +020052Refactor: Move common things out of evalfunc.c, it's too big.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020053
54Template string: review #4491
55
56Terminal test fails when vim is configured with some features. (Dominique,
57#4597)
58
59Popup windows:
60- Implement flip option
61- Have a way to scroll to the bottom? (#4577)
62- Why does 'nrformats' leak from the popup window buffer???
63- Disable commands, feedkeys(), CTRL-W, etc. in a popup window.
64 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for more commands.
65- Add 'balloonpopup': instead of showing text, let the callback open a popup
66 window and return the window ID. The popup will then be closed when the
67 mouse moves, except when it moves inside the popup.
68- For the "moved" property also include mouse movement?
69- Can the buffer be re-used if it was the last one, to avoid using up lots of
70 buffer numbers?
71- Have an option to attach the popup to a text position, like text properties
72 do. (#4560)
73- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
74 - put popup menu also put in popup_mask?
75- Invoke filter with character before mapping?
76- Figure out the size and position better.
77 if wrapping splits a double-wide character
78 if wrapping inserts indent
79- When drawing on top half a double-wide character, display ">" or "<" in the
80 incomplete cell.
81- Use a popup window for the "info" item of completion instead of using a
82 preview window. Ideas in issue #4544.
83 How to add highlighting?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020084
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020085'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010086- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
87 was set. (#3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020088- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
89 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010090- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
91 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020092- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020093- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020094- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
95 isn't one?
96 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
97
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020098Prompt buffer:
99- Add a command line history.
100- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100101- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200102
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200103Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200104- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100105- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
106 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200107- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100108- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200109- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
110 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
111 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100112- Add support for lldb? #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100113- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
114 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100115 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100116 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200117
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200118Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200119- When typing "exit" in a terminal window with a shell and it's the only
120 window, should exit Vim instead of editing another buffer. (#4539)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100121- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
122 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
123 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100124- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
125 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200126- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
127 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100128- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200129- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200130- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200131- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
132 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200133- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
134 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200135- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
136 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
137- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
138 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200139- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
140 is disabled.
141- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
142- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
143 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200144- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
145 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
146 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
147- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
148- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
149 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
150- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
151 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200152
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200153Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200154
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200155Patch to use forward slash for completion even when 'shellslash' is set.
156Adds 'completepathslash'. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 15, #3612)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100157
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200158Patch to add win_splitmove() function. (Andy Massimino, #4561)
159
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200160Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
161Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
162terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
163Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
164(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200165
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200166Patch to use timers in matchparen. (Daniel Hahler, #1338)
167Ready to include now?
168
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100169Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
170(#4087)
171
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200172Patch to the code to get sign information. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4586)
173
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200174":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
175goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
176unlisted. (#4478)
177
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200178Problem with German spell file. Hint for solution by Klaus-Peter Schreiner in
179#4314, solves the Rasenmäher problem.
180
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200181Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
182(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
183
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200184Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
185fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
186
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200187Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
188- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
189- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200190
191Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
19213, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200193
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200194Columns and Rows are long, they should be int.
195
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100196Errors found with random data:
197 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100198
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200199Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
200files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
201Include part of #3242?
202
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200203When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
204it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
205
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200206Patch for Inno Setup: #2739
207
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100208Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
209Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
210
211Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
212
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200213The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
214Give a few examples. (#4288)
215
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200216Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
217work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
218
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100219Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
220read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
221be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
222
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200223":registers" should indicate char/block/linewise. (Ayberk Aydin, #4546)
224
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200225Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
226(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
227
228Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
229
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100230Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
231Mar 5)
232
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200233Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
234on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
235
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200236Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
237in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
238buffer didn't change at all.
239
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200240Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
241register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
242(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
243
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200244Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
245(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
246
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200247Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
248":let buf = bufcreate('name')
249
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200250Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
251'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
252(#4450)
253
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100254When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
255But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
256similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
257
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200258C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
259(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
260
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100261Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
262"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
263
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100264Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
265added?
266
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200267Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
268negative. (see #4326)
269
270'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
271`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
272tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
273:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
274
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200275This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
276 vim: syn=nosyntax
277
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200278":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
279a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
280
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100281Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
282#2948. (related to #1512?)
283On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
284balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
28520, #2481)
286Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
287Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
288balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
2892018 Sep 14)
290Another request: #3811.
291
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200292More warnings from static analysis:
293https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200294
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100295Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
296
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200297Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
298
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200299Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
300internals of the dict structure.
301
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200302Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
303manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
304Athena is OK.
305Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100306
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100307nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
308
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200309Missing tests for:
310- add_termcap_entry()
311
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100312When using exclusive selection and vi" that fails, cursor moves to the left.
313Cursor should not move. (#4024)
314
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100315Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
316Also run all tests with C locale?
317
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100318"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
319#3927
320
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200321Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200322Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200323
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100324When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
325case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
326For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
327
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200328Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
329(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
330expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200331
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200332Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
333 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
334 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
335
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100336Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100337punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100338
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200339ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
340
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200341Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
342":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
343#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
344Updated 2019 May 25.
345
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200346Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
347drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
348
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200349Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
350is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
351
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100352When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
353scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
354using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
355
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200356Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
357#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
358(Sep 8)
359
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200360Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
361unified diff (list of lines).
362
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100363When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
364kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
365when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
366
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100367Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
368(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100369
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100370Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
371
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200372Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200373Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200374memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200375Memory leak in test_terminal:
376==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
377==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
378==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
379==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
380==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
381==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
382==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
383==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
384==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200385TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100386Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200387Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
388Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200389
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200390gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200391
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200392matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
39319.
394
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100395Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
396Probably window.
397Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
398highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200399And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
400'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100401
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100402Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
403Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
404
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200405Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
406Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
407Not ready to include.
408
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200409Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
410Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
411Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
412
413Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
414
415Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
416screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
417
418Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
419 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
420 Not ready to include.
421
422Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
423Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
424
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200425:pedit resets the 'buflisted' option unexpectedly. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Oct 12,
426#3536)
427
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200428home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
429
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200430When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
431terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
432How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
433
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200434Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
435
436Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
437(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
438
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100439Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
440Feedback from someone who uses this?
441
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200442ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
443
444Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
445Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
446values.
447
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100448Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200449- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
450- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
451- omit diff.exe from distribution
452- Can we make this show differences within a line?
453- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200454
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200455Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
456
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100457Patch to properly break CJK lines: #3875
458Requires more tests. dbcs_ functions are not implemented.
459
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100460Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
461What is the practical use for this?
462
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200463When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
464includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
465
466Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100467Ask to write a test first.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200468
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200469MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
470(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
471
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100472Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
473
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200474Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
475when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
476
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100477Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
478mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
479
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200480Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
481modified buffers
482 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
483 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
484 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
485 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
486
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100487Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
488- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
489- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
490- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100491- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
492
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200493Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
494characters. (#3246)
495
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200496'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
497
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100498Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
499Oct 28)
500
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200501ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
502Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
503Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
504Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
505
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100506Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
507- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
508
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200509Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
510- Test_setbufvar_options()
511- Test_exit_callback_interval()
512
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200513Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
514Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100515Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
516Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200517
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200518Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
519
520Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
52124)
522
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100523Try out background make plugin:
524 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
525or asyncmake:
526 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
527
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100528Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100529mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100530
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200531Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
532is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
533used for git temp files.
534
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100535Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
536
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200537Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
538#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
539
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200540Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
541behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
542(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
543
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200544Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
545pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
546
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200547Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
548script or function.
549
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200550Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
551Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
552
553When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
554E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
555does nothing otherwise?
556
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200557MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
558If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
559(wait a little while).
560CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100561
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200562Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
563MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
5642017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
565receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
566
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200567Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
568missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
569
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200570":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
571deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
572
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200573Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200574
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100575Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200576Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
577
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200578With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
579included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
580(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
581
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200582When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
583with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200584
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200585Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200586Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200587
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100588Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100589Jan 15, #2555)
590
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200591":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
592
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100593Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
594
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100595No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
596No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
597
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200598Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
599http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
600Should be supported with a flag.
601
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100602Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
603confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
604
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100605Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
606
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100607Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
608Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
609applying the diff, etc.
610
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200611Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
612Apr 26, #2849)
613
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100614User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
615word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100616
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100617Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200618
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200619With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
620(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
621
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200622Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
623:drop (remote commands).
624
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200625Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
6262018 Jun 18, #3027)
627
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200628Implement option_save() and option_restore():
629option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
630 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
631 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
632 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
633 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
634 be called when the same window is the current window.
635 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
636 the local options won't be restored.
637
638option_save({list}) *option_save()*
639 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
640 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
641 let s:saved_options = option_save([
642 \ 'ignorecase',
643 \ 'iskeyword',
644 \ ])
645 au <buffer> BufLeave *
646 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
647< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
648 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
649 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
650 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100651 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
652 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
653 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100654 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200655
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100656"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
657directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
658Also see #1689.
659
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100660crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
66117, #2652)
662
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100663When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100664highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100665
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200666":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
667
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100668No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
6692017 Dec 26, #2501)
670
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200671A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
672
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200673Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
674
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200675A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
676Mention where they were defined somewhere.
677
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100678Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
679(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
680
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200681ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
682
683Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
684
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100685Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
686Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
687
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100688Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
689in #846)
690Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
691
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200692Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
693Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
694
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100695When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
696redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200697
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100698In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
699(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
700
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100701Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
702neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100703
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100704Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
705Nov 21)
706
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200707When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
708triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
709set_color_count().
710
711Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
712responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
713
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100714When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
715CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
716Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
717always nested.
718
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200719matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
720
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100721Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
722
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100723MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100724for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
725
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200726Would be nice for insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100727(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200728
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200729Test runtime files.
730Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200731
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200732Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200733
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200734Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
735defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
736Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
737
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200738After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
73913, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200740
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200741When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
742line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
743
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100744The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
745
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200746Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
747set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
748
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200749Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
750
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100751Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
752
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200753Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200754It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100755Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200756Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200757
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200758Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
759behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
760
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100761'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
762
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200763All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
764For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
765 mylist~get(idx)
766 mydict~get(idx)
767 mystring~len()
768Alternatives for ~:
769 ^ list^get() could also be used
770 . list.get() already means concatenate
771 $ list$get() harder to read
772 @ list@get() harder to read
773 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
774
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200775The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
776
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100777When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
778a command can delete it.
779
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200780Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
781#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
782
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100783The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
784for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
785
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200786X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
787pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
788clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
789Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
790Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
791clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200792Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200793
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100794Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
795http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
796http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
797Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
798- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
799- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
800- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
801 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
802- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
803- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
804Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
805- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
806- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
807Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
808- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
809
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200810Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
811
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200812Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
813attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
814that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
815
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200816Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
817(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
818
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100819Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
820buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
821Also fixes #2166?
822
823Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
824
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200825Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
826stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
827
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100828Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
829possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
830
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200831When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
832case of :bwipe followed by :new.
833
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200834Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
835existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
836Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
837
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200838Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200839
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200840MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
841Jul 4)
842
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200843Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
844Drucker, 2017 May 8).
845This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
846Christian cannot reproduce it.
847
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200848Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
849wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
850Or is this not an actual problem?
851
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200852Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
853
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200854Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
855
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200856Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
857
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200858'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
859#1736)
860
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200861Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
8628, #1690)
863
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200864Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
865(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
866
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200867Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
868it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
869
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200870Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
871Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
872How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
873
874Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
875(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
876
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100877Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
878
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200879assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
880it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
881
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200882New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
883
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100884Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
885for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200886
887Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
888(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
889Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
890later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
891Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
892mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200893Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
894mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200895maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200896
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100897Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200898plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
899be defined when the plugin is loaded.
900
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100901Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
902 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
903 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100904
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200905json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200906What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100907
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200908Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
909
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200910import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
911(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
912
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100913When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
914buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
915Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100916
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200917Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
918Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100919Another example in #1309
920
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100921When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
922when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
923
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100924Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
925#1330)
926
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200927Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
928
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100929Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
930
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100931GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
932g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
933timer expires.
934
935Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
936
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100937Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
938highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
939
9408 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
941 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
942
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100943Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
944Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
945
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200946Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
947key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
948 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
949 echo keytrans(xx)
950 <C-Home>
951
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100952Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
953(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
954Make a function to check for function-like type?
955
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200956Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
957(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
958
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100959Implement optional arguments for functions.
960 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
961 call Foo(12)
962 call Foo(12, all = 0)
963 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100964
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100965Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
966somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
967
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100968Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
969(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
970
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200971Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
972Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
973New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
974
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200975Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200976Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200977Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200978
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100979The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
980"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
981Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
982
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200983Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
984
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200985Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
986about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200987Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
988
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200989Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
990#1053) With patch, does it work?
991
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200992":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100993vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
994
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200995Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200996E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200997Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100998
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100999Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1000Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1001
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001002Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001003Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001004
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001005"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1006(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1007
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001008Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1009(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001010Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001011
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001012'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1013
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001014Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1015
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001016When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1017Apr 23, #1653)
1018
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001019Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1020anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1021
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001022Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001023E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001024
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001025Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1026(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1027
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001028Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1029
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001030Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
1031
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001032Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
1033
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001034On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1035separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1036
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001037min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1038contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1039
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001040Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1041
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001042Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1043
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001044Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1045
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001046Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1047no longer support.
1048
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001049sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
10504#1038)
1051
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001052+channel:
1053- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1054 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001055- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1056- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1057 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1058- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1059 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1060- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001061- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1062 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001063- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1064- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1065 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1066 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1067- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1068- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1069- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1070 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1071 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1072- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1073 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1074- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1075 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1076 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1077
1078Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001079- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1080 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1081 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1082 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001083- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1084 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001085- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1086 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1087- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1088 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1089- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1090 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1091 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1092 LC_CTYPE
1093- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1094 matches everywhere.
1095- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1096 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1097- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1098- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1099 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1100- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1101- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1102 2013 Dec 11)
1103- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1104 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1105- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1106- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1107 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1108- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1109- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1110- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1111- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1112 2015 Feb 7)
1113- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1114 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1115 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1116 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1117 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1118- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1119- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1120- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1121- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1122 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1123 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1124 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1125- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1126 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1127- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1128 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1129 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1130 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1131
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001132Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
1133
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001134Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1135#1350)
1136
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001137Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
11383. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1139Also see #1635.
1140
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001141Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001142Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1143use the current behavior.
1144Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001145
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001146When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1147command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1148
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001149Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
1150change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001151patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
1152(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001153
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001154Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1155doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1156Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001157Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001158E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1159
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001160execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001161#1141)
1162
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001163cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1164
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001165:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1166
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001167Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1168
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001169When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1170synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1171
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001172Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1173Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001174
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001175Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1176(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1177
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001178ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1179Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001180
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001181Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1182
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001183Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001184(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001185
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001186Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1187Jul 25, #948)
1188
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001189Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1190names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1191Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1192the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1193
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001194Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1195(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1196Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1197
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001198'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1199
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001200MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1201Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001202
1203Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1204Also for ":@.".
1205
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001206Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1207
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001208Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1209#1125
1210
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001211Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1212times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1213
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001214Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1215
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001216Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1217
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001218Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1219
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001220Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1221
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001222We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1223the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1224
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001225Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1226
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001227When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1228emoji_width table has only one entry.
1229
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001230It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1231Reject the value? #710.
1232
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001233When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1234Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1235
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001236Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +02001237Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001238
1239Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001240
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001241Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1242No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001243
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001244Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1245(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001246
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001247Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1248
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001249Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1250https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1251Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1252
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001253Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1254but the reference remains valid.
1255
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001256Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001257interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1258Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1259interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1260result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001261
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001262Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001263work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001264
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001265Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1266
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001267Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1268
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001269Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1270Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1271
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001272When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1273Apr 17) #762
1274
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001275exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1276Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1277
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001278Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1279'iskeyword' for syntax.
1280
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001281Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1282(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1283
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001284Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1285
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001286When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1287maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001288Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001289
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001290Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1291It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1292Add configure check?
1293Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1294Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1295Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1296
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001297Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1298Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1299
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001300Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1301Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1302Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1303
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001304Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1305Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1306
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001307":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1308directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1309
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001310In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1311(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1312
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001313If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
13142016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001315
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001316Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1317(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1318
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001319Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001320Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001321
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001322Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1323
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001324When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1325restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1326Do not trigger the event?
1327
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001328Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1329changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1330and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001331Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1332Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
13336, 2nd message)
1334Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001335
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001336Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1337Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1338https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1339
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001340Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1341With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1342
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001343Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001344
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001345Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1346
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001347Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001348Only remembers one error.
1349
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001350GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001351
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001352Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1353(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001354
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001355Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1356github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001357 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001358Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001359
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001360Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001361
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001362Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001363comparing individual items.
1364Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1365Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1366Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1367equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1368
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001369Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1370
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001371MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1372wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1373
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001374Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1375specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1376
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001377Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1378(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1379
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001380Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001381inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001382
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001383Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1384(Luchr, #277)
1385
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001386Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001387'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1388before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001389
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001390C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1391and also line continuation after #include.
1392I can't recommend it though.
1393
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001394Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1395(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1396
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001397To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1398library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1399
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001400When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1401is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1402
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001403Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
140430)
1405
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001406MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1407(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1408
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001409The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
141024): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001411
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001412":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1413effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1414
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001415":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14169)
1417
1418The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1419wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1420
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001421Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001422Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001423
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001424When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1425the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1426
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001427Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001428slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1429inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1430
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001431ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
14322014 Sep 11)
1433
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001434Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1435(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1436
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001437When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1438'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1439
1440Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001441(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001442Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1443- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1444 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1445 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1446- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1447 covered by the above change.
1448So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001449same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001450Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001451
1452Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1453Work in progress.
1454
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001455Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1456when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1457
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001458Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1459Is this right?
1460
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001461Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1462(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1463Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1464
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001465Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1466Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001467
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001468Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1469Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1470
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001471Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1472
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001473When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1474filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1475initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1476
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001477Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1478
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001479Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1480OK to not block marks?
1481
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001482Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1483
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001484Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1485
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001486When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1487(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1488
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001489Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001490
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001491Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1492(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1493
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001494When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1495any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1496
1497Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001498
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001499Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001500
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001501Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1502(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1503
1504Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1505
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001506Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1507Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1508was already defined.
1509(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1510
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001511Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1512
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001513Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001514Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001515Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001516Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001517
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001518Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1519(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1520
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001521Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1522(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1523
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001524Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1525change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1526them: ":repeats".
1527
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001528Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1529
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001530When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1531these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1532window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1533
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001534Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1535should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1536history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1537Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1538
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001539"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1540Jun 8)
1541
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001542Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1543insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1544
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001545No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1546
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001547Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1548(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1549Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1550arguments.
1551
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001552Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1553
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001554Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001555
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001556Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
15570x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1558New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1559compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1560
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001561Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1562a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1563
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001564xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1565buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1566Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001567Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001568Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001569Also see issue #609.
1570We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001571
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001572Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1573right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001574its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001575
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001576Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1577
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001578This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1579 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1580This neither: (ZyX)
1581 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1582
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001583'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1584Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1585from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001586
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001587Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
15882014 Jun 8)
1589
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001590Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001591Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001592Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1593Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1594User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001595- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1596 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1597 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001598- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1599- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1600 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1601 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1602 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1603 on vim.org.
1604- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1605 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1606- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1607- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1608- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1609- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1610Implementation:
1611- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1612 plugin separate.
1613- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1614 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1615 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1616- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1617 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1618- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1619 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1620 installing.
1621Out of scope:
1622- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1623- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1624 useful).
1625
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001626Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1627normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001628
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001629When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1630menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1631
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001632Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1633(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1634
1635":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1636various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001637
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001638Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001639(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1640
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001641VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1642instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1643
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001644Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001645Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001646
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001647Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001648command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001649
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001650Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1651
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001652Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1653highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001654
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001655The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1656For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1657
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001658Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001659possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001660
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001661Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001662
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001663Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1664
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010016657 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1666 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1667 "lucida_console:h8").
1668Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1669
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001670:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1671
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001672Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1673
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001674Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1675
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001676When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1677(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1678
1679Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001680Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001681
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001682GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1683(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1684
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001685Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1686registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1687
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001688Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1689
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001690The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1691(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1692Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1693
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001694The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1695- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1696- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1697
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001698Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1699Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1700reliably?
1701
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001702Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1703(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1704
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001705Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1706(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1707
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001708Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17092013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001710
1711Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1712
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001713Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17145)
1715
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001716Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1717carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1718
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001719Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1720highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1721
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001722Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001723
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001724Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200172528) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001726
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001727Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1728
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001729Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1730
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001731- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1732 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1733Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001734
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001735Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001736
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001737In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1738process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1739a reboot.
1740
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001741patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1742
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001743Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1744not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001745
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001746Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1747Or use expand('<sid>')?
1748
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001749Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1750
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001751Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1752
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001753b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17547)
1755
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001756Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1757compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1758
1759Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1760Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1761vim.bindeval().
1762
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001763Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
17642012 Aug 4)
1765
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001766Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1767(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1768
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001769Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1770But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1771
1772Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1773Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1774Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001775
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001776Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1777loading all files.
1778
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001779MS-Windows resizing problems:
1780- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1781 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1782- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1783 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1784 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001785
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001786'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001787
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001788Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001789of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1790
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001791The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1792Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1793But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001794
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001795When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1796is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1797
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001798URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001799- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001800- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1801 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1802
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001803Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1804(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1805Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1806
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001807Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001808New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001809
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001810When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1811for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1812Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001813
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001814Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1815
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001816Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1817
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001818Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1819Apr 18)
1820
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001821Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1822And one for gui_x11.txt.
1823
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001824":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1825finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1826Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1827
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001828Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1829
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001830Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1831
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001832Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1833they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1834
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001835Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1836
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001837Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1838Nov 20)
1839
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001840Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001841Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001842
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001843`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001844(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1845
1846Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1847
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001848BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1849Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1850
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001851Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1852Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1853
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001854Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1855
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001856On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18572012 Jun 19)
1858
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001859'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1860'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1861Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001862Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001863
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001864With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1865(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1866need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1867
1868Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1869only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
187021, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1871
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001872The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1873support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1874
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001875'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1876highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1877
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001878Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1879New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1880
1881Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1882Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1883
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001884Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1885Jan 19)
1886
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001887Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1888discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1889meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001890
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001891"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001892Oct 26)
1893
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001894Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1895
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001896With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1897register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001898
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001899Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1900
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001901When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1902(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1903
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001904When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1905then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1906from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1907
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001908Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1909":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
191015)
1911
1912Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1913
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001914BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1915cleared. See test64.
1916
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001917Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001918effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001919Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001920https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001921
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001922On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
192364 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1924right type.
1925
1926string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1927(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1928
1929When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1930(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001931When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1932following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1933(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001934
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001935When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1936doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1937
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001938Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1939
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001940maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1941mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1942
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001943Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1944(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1945
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001946When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1947indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1948the help file.
1949
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001950After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1951Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1952
1953Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1954
1955"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1956
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001957Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1958
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001959Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001960
1961Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19622010 Dec 18)
1963
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001964With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1965number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1966Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1967
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001968Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1969Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1970
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019718 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1972Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1973
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001974Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1975one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1976the match scrolls into view.
1977
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019787 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1979Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1980Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1981
19829 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1983 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1984Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1985
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001986Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1987Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1988
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001989In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1990or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1991sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1992
1993GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1994doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1995
1996GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1997
1998Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1999Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2000
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002001Wish for NetBeans commands:
2002 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2003
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002004Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2005
20067.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2007there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2008do?
2009
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002010Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
201122)
2012
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002013New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2014- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002015- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002016 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2017
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002018"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20192011 Feb 27)
2020
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002021Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2022^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2023
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002024When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2025exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20269) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2027
2028g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2029the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2030
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002031Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2032crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2033
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002034Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2035number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2036
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002037Regexp engine performance:
2038- Profiling:
2039 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2040 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2041 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2042 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2043 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2044 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2045- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2046- Performance tests:
2047 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2048 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2049 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2050 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2051 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2052 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2053 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2054 'hlsearch'.
2055 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2056 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2057 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2058 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2059
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002060Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2061Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2062
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002063'beval' option should be global-local.
2064
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002065Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002066
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002067setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002068
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002069With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
20702010 Oct 24)
2071
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002072Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2073
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002074When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2075Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2076
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002077":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2078
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002079'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2080
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002081C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2082checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2083Issue 46.
2084
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002085Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2086
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002087Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2088gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2089
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002090":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2091accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2092
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002093Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2094setwinvar().
2095
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002096Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002097
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002098When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2099instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2100
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002101Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2102Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2103Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002104
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002105Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2106back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2107
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002108Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002109Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2110
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002111CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2112the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2113FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2114
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002115Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2116Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2117
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002118Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2119Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2120
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01002121I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
2122Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
2123an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002124
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002125Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2126
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002127Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2128non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002129
2130iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2131Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2132or replace with a character and continue?
2133
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002134Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2135Requires configure check for localtime().
2136Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2137
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002138Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2139Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2140
2141Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2142
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002143Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2144Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2145path.
2146
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002147Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002148Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002149
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002150'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2151
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002152":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2153like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2154
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002155Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2156https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002157
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002158Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
21592010 Nov 5)
2160
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002161Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002162Jan 7)
2163
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002164Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2165
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002166With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2167entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2168Feb 12)
2169
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002170Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2171characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2172
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002173Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2174
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002175Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2176 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2177
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002178Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2179
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002180When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2181Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2182
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002183When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2184not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2185string value.
2186
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002187For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002188line argument -noregister.
2189
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002190When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2191missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2192
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002193When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2194doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002195
2196Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2197(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2198Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2199There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2200Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2201
2202":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2203highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2204to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2205
2206Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2207Probably needs a bit of work.
2208
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002209List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002210Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2211
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002212Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2213
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002214Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2215
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002216Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2217Sep 1)
2218
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002219Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2220
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002221Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2222on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2223
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002224Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22252009 Jul 18)
2226
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002227Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2228window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2229Needs more work.
2230
2231Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2232
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002233When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2234few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2235
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002236'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002237(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2238
2239Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2240J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2241
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002242When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2243for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2244
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002245Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002247":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2248because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2249ex_docmd.c.
2250
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002251Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002252Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2253
2254string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2255for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2256
2257Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2258
2259'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
226020)
2261
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002262Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22632009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2264
2265Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2266
2267Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2268SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2269
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002270When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2271indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2272(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2273
2274Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2275are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2276Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2277Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2278that doesn't have a window.
2279
2280When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2281doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2282
2283getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2284displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2285
2286":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2287
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002288There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2289was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2290perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2291
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002292Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2293
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002294Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2295command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2296
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002297Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2298does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2299
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002300opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2301height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002302very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002303
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002304Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2305(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2306
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002307Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002308(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2309
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002310Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2311char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2312
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002313Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2314Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2315
2316This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2317
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002318Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2319messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2320es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23212009 Jan 26)
2322
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002323When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002324in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2325Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002327Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2328a modeline.
2329
2330Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2331Sergey Khorev)
2332
2333Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2334part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002335
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002336After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2337correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2338
2339Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2340(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2341
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002342shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002343'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2344Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2345unix-like shell?
2346
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002347Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2348register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2349(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2350
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002351Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2352Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2353
2354Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2355make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2356
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002357When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2358still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2359
2360"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2361(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2362
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002363Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2364that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2365ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2366Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2369doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2370probably causes this.
2371
2372'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020023732009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002374
2375Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2376 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2377 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2378(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2379
2380Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2381":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2382option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2383is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002384
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002385":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2386first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002387Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002388
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002389Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2390laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2391Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002393Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2394anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2395
2396On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2397doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2398Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2399Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2400
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002401When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2402'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2403fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2404the buffer to be unmodified.
2405Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2406another look at it.
2407
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002408c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2409(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002411You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2412error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2413Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2414at the other match for 0xBF.
2415
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002416When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2417argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2418
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002419Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2420backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2421
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002422When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2423line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2424
2425Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2426position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2427
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002428After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2429(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002430command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002431
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002432":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2433Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2434
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002435When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2436either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2437put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2438
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002439Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2440Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2441Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2442Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2443(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2444
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002445Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2446
2447ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002448
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002449Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2450(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2451escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2452an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002453This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2454July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002455Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2456work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2457
2458When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
245931)
2460
2461Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2462work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2463Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002464
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002465Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2466multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2467(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2468
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002469Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
24702008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002471Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002472
2473Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2474Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2475'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2476
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002477Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2478Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2479
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002480Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2481Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2482
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020024838 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2484 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2485 several).
2486 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2487 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2488 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2489Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2490
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002491The utf class table is missing some entries:
2492 0x2212, minus sign
2493 0x2217, star
2494 0x2500, bar
2495 0x26ab, circle
2496
2497Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2498line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2499
2500GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2501Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2502
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002503Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2504try the Cocoa version.
2505
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002506Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2507changed or the window is resized.
2508
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002509GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2510the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2511
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002512Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2513Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002514
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002515Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25161) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2517
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002518C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2519with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2520Try to reproduce at work.
2521
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002522Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2523Is there a way to list all the files first?
2524
2525When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2526result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
252716)
2528
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002529Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2530(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2531
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002532Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2533Await response to question to make the register writable.
2534
2535Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25361)
2537
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002538In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2539each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2540
2541try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2542
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002543try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2544
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002545":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2546Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2547
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002548Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2549
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002550Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2551Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2552
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002553Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2554Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2555Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002556
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002557When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2558and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2559
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002560Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2561 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2562
2563New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2564
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002565":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2566a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2567
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002568'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2569Likonen, March 19)
2570
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002571Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2572other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2573
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002574The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2575appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2576matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2577
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002578When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2579character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2580'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2581(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2582
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002583Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2584Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002585
2586More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2587
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002588Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2589http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2590
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002591Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2592back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2593Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002594
2595Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2596No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2597
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002598Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2599terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002600
2601Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2602
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002603Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2604but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2605that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002606
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002607Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2608Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2609
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002610Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2611popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2612size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2613This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2614
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002615When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2616it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2617
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002618Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2619then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2620files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002621Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2622indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2623":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002624in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2625quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002626Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002627
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002628When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2629parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2630neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2631particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2632Jun 3)
2633However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2634the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002635
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002636A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2637Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2638
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002639Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2640Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2641
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002642Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2643switch list is noticed:
2644 switch (i)
2645 {
2646 case 1:
2647 foobar:
2648 }
2649
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002650Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2651
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002652Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2653with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2654go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2655moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2656
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002657Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002658GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002659Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2660argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2661(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2662
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002663Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2664(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2665
2666Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2667makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2668.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002669 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002670
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002671Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
26722007 Feb 8)
2673
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002674Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2675set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002676
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002677Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2678
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002679Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2680Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2681New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2682patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2683
2684Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2685Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2686
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002687Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
26882007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002689Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002690
2691Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002692label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2693
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002694Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2695with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2696Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002697
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002698Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2699
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002700Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2701Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2702only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2703
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002704Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2705Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002706Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002707properly?
2708
2709Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27102007 Jun 21)
2711
2712When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2713Jun 18)
2714
2715If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2716
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002717Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2718windows. (Adam George)
2719
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002720F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2721modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2722K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002723
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002724In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2725the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2726
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002727C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2728
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002729":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2730
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002731When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002732error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002733
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002734GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002735use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2736
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002737Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2738if_ruby.c.
2739
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002740":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2741
2742The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2743it in keep_msg?
2744
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002745Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002746error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002747name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2748
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002749Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2750longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002751
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002752Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2753Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2754Also for ":w" without a file name.
2755The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002756
2757"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2758Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2761directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2762(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2763
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002764VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2765
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002766input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2767name?
2768
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002769Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2770
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002771When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2772(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2773Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2774will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2775
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002776gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2777This also fails with --remote.
2778
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002779When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
27802008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2781all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2782
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002783aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2784
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002785When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2786(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2787
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002788Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2789the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2790
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002791GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2792
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002793Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2794superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2795
2796Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2797character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2798
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002799Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2800Jun 5)
2801
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002802Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28032008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2804Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2805
2806In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2807but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2808Jul 22)
2809
2810There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2811
2812Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2813":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2814somehow? Or use a new function.
2815
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002816Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2817
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002818Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2819moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2820that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2821
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002822The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2823
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002824When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002825cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2826the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2827
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002828These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2829 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2830 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2831 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2832
2833Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2834partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2835
2836In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2837buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2838reload it then?
2839
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002840For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2841
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002842Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2843only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2844
2845Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2846tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2847doesn't contain other directories.
2848
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002849Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2850Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2851
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002852Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2853 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2854 set background=dark
2855This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2856color is, not reset it.
2857
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002858Linux distributions:
2859- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2860 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2861 xfree-xterm".
2862- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2863
2864Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2865start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2866show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2867middle?
2868
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002869Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2870
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002871When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2872current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2873the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2876Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2877
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2879 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2880 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2881 - getting colors in xterm
2882 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2883
2884Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2885Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2886
2887Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2888
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002889A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2890Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2891
2892Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2893Dara, 2006 June 21)
2894
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002895Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2896number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2897
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002898After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2899the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2900
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002901Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002902
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002903Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2904Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2905
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002906Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029072008 Sep 29)
2908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2910check the result of has("patch13").
2911
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002912Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2913restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2914
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002915Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2916and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2917
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002918Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2919put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2920
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002921Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2922resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2923
2924In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2925can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2926
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002927GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2928maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2929doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002930Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2931visible.
2932
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002933When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2934differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002935
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002936The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2937be only one.
2938
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002939Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002940"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2941name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2942Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002943
2944Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2945(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2946
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002947Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2948as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2949
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002950Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
295123)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002952
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002953":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2954tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2955Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002956
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002957When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2958text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2959latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2960
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002961Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2962no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2963
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002964In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2965VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29662007 Oct 16)
2967
2968TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2969Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2970
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002971Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002972
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002973When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2974typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2975Sep 3, 11)
2976
2977When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2978respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2979the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2980what happens for the GUI.
2981
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002982":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2983this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2984
2985When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2986Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2987restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2988
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002989Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
29902010 Jun 30)
2991
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002992Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2993'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2994(Kartik Agaram)
2995
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002996
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002997Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002998- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2999 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3000- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3001 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3002 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3003- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3004 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3005 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003006- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3007- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003008
3009
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003010More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003011- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3012 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003013- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003014- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3015 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
3016- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
3017 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
3018- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3019- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3020- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3021 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3022 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003023- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003024- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3025 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3026- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3027 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3028- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3029 21)
3030- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3031 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3032- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3033 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003034- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3035 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003036- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3037 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3038 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3039 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3040 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003041- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003042
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003043Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030449 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3045 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3046 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3047 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3048 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3049 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3050 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3051 (Alan Schmitt)
3052 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003053 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3054 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030559 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003056 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030578 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030587 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3059 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3060 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030618 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003062 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030637 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003064 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3065- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3066 for multi-byte characters.
3067- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3068- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3069 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3070 been given values.
3071 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
30728 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003073 with an ESC sequence.
3074 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
3075 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
3076 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030777 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3078 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3079- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3080 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3081 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30828 Add functions:
3083 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3084 Update 2004 Sep 10
3085 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3086 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003087 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003088 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3089 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3090 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3091 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3092 (2003 May 13)
3093 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3094 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003095 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3096 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003097 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3098 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3099 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031007 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3101 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031027 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3103 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031048 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3105 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031067 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31078 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3108 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31097 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3110 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031117 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3112- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3113 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3114 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003115- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3116 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3117- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3118
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003119Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3120- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3121 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3122
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003123Quickfix/Location List:
3124- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3125 #2999)
3126- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3127 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3128 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3129 the quickfix buffer?
3130- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3131 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3132- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3133 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3134- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3135 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3136 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3137- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3138 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3139- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3140- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3141 2007 Jan 1)
3142- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3143 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3144- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3145 errors. How do we get the rest?
31468 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3147 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3148 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3149 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31507 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3151 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003152
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003153Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003154- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3155 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031568 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3157 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3158 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3159 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3160 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3161 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031628 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3163 make Vim exit.
31647 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3165 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3166 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31678 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3168 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3169 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31706 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3171 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3172 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31738 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3174 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3175 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3176 names in one buffer???
3177 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3178 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3179 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
31807 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3181 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3182 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003183 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3184 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031857 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3186 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
31877 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
31887 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031897 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3190 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3191 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3192 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
31937 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
31947 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
31957 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3196 to the match with the tag? Option?
31977 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
31987 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3199 (Sayre).
32007 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3201 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032027 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3203 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3204 match. Nvi can do it too.
32057 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3206 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3207 line 1\ line 2\\
3208 line 2\ line 3\\
3209 . line4/
32106 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3211 the way the shell is started?
32126 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3213 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3214
3215
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003216GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032179 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032188 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3219 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3220 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032218 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3222 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3223 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032249 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3225 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3226 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3227 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003228- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3229 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3230 blocked for now.
3231
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003232
3233Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003234- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3235 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032368 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3237 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3238 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032396 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3240 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032418 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3242 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3243 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032447 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3245 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3246 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032477 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3248 2004 May 9)
32498 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3250 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3251 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3252 MS-Windows 98?
3253 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3254 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3255 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3256 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032578 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3258 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3259 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3260 doesn't work properly.
32618 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3262 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3263 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32649 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3265 button doesn't give popup menu.
3266 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3267 selection.
3268 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3269 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3270 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32718 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3272 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3273 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3274 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
32758 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3276 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3277 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032787 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3279 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3280 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
32817 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3282 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003283 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032847 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3285 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032866 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
32878 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3288 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3289 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
32908 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3291 know which keyboard is being used?
32927 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3293 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3294 area (Koloseike).
32958 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3296 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3297 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3298 the font name).
3299
3300
3301Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033026 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3303 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3304 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3305 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3306 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033079 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3308 required and it's missing?
33098 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3310 wrong.
33119 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3312 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033139 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003314 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3315 flag.
33168 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3317 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3318 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33198 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33206 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3321 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3322 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3323 the tooltips work though...
33247 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3325 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33268 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3327 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3328 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3329
3330
3331Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033329 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3333 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033349 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3335 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3336 through files.
33377 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3338 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33394 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3340 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3341 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3342 problem during a refresh.
33435 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3344 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3345 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3346 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3347 colors as it should.
3348 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3349 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3350
3351
3352Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003353- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033547 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3355 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033568 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3357 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3358 (Phillipps)
3359
3360
3361GUI:
33629 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3363 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33649 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003365 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003366 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33679 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3368 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
33698 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3370 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
33718 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3372 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3373 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33748 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3375 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3376 of where it is processing the output.
3377 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
33788 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3379 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010033808 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033818 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3382 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3383 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020033848 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033858 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3386 browse().
33878 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3388 use that code? Or use console dialog.
33898 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3390 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033917 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3392 - regexp on/off
3393 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3394 when all buffers/directory is used:
3395 - filter for file name
3396 when directory is used:
3397 - subdirectory on/off
3398 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033998 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3400 to avoid problems.
34018 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3402 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3403 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34048 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3405 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3406 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34078 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3408 up. Set erase character somehow?
34098 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3410 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3411 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3412 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34138 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34147 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3415 visible.
34167 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3417 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34187 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3419 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34208 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3421 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34228 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3423 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3424 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3425 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3426- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34274 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3428 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3429 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3430
3431
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003432Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034338 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3434 a good fallback, thus use:
3435 $HOME
3436 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3437 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3438 $USERPROFILE
3439 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3440 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3441 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3442 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034438 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3444 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34458 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3446 Should work like in the GUI version.
34478 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3448 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34498 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3450 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34518 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3452 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3453 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034548 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3455 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3456 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3457
3458
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003459Win32 console:
34609 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3461 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3462 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3463 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3464 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3465 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3466 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3467 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3468 and the file is not saved.
3469 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3470 long name.
34718 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3472 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34737 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3474 besides the console.
34758 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34769 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3477 <C-S-i>?
34789 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3479 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
34808 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3481 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003482
3483
3484Amiga:
34858 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3486 sequences.
34879 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3488 backslashes in result.
34898 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3490 all options, using white space separation.
3491
3492
3493Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003494- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034957 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3496 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3497 (Jack)
3498 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034998 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3500 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035018 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35028 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35039 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3504 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035059 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003506
3507
3508"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003509- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3510 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003511- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3512 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003513- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3514 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3515 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3516 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3517 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3518 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3519 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035209 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3521 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035229 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003523 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3524 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035258 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3526 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3527 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003528 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035297 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3530 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35318 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3532 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3533 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035347 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3535 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003536- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3537 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035388 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3539 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3540 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3541 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35427 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3543 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3544 invocations belong together.
35458 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3546 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35478 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3548 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3549 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003550 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035518 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3552 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3553 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035548 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3555 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035567 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3557 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3558 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3559 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035607 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3561 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3562 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35637 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3564 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3565 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35667 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3567 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035687 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3569 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035709 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3571 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3572 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3573 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3574 script can be called.
35758 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3576 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3577 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035788 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3579 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035808 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003581 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3582 configurable?
35838 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035848 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3585 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035868 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3587 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035888 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3589 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035909 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3591 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3592 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035937 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035948 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3595 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3596 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000035978 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3598 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003599 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3600 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036018 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3602 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36039 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3604 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3605 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003606 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036077 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3608 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036097 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3610 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3611 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3612 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036138 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003614 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3615 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3616 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3617 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003618 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3619 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003620 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003621 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003622 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3623 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3624 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3625 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3626 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036278 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3628 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36298 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3630 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36318 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3632 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3633 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36348 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3635 'linebreak'.
36368 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3637 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3638 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036399 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3640 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3641 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3642 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36439 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3644 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036459 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36469 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3647 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3648 cause another redraw, etc.
36498 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3650 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36518 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3652 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3653 ":w!!" for that.
3654 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3655 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003656 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036577 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3658 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3659 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3660 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3661 clipboard)
36627 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3663 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3664 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036656 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3666 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3667 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036688 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3669 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36708 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3671 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3672 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000036738 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036748 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3675 (e.g., ":w").
36768 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3677 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036788 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3679 script in do_cmdline().
36808 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3681 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3682 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3683 changes.
36848 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3685 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
36868 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3687 check for file marks. This can be slow.
36887 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3689 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3690 needed.
3691 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
36928 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3693 to skip catch_signals()?
36949 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3695 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3696 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3697 text?
36988 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3699 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37008 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3701 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37029 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3703 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3704 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3705 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3706 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37077 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3708 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3709 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3710 in the list?
37118 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3712 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3713 instead of on button down.
37148 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37159 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3716 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003717 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3718 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037198 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3720 character is typed.
37218 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3722 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37238 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3724 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37258 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3726 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3727 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3728 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3729 cygwin bash.
37307 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3731 Remember flags for backreferences.
37327 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3733 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37347 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3735 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37368 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3737 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37387 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3739 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037407 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3741 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3742 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37437 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3744 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37458 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3746 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3747 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37487 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3749 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003750
3751
3752I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37539 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3754 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3755 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003756
3757
3758Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003759- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3760 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3761 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003762- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3763 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3764 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3765 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3766 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3767 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003768 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003769- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3770 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003771 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003772 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3773 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3774 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003775- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3776 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3777 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3778 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3779 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3780- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3781 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3782 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3783- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3784 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003785- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003786- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3787 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3788 character gets the highlighting.
3789- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3790 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3791- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3792 (Jennings)
3793- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003794- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003795- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003796 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003797- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3798 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3799 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3800- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3801 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3802 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3803 (Benzinger).
3804- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3805 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3806 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3807- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3808 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3809- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3810 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3811- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3812 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3813 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3814 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3815 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3816 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3817- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3818 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3819 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003820- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3821 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3822 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003823- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3824 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3825 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3826- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3827 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3828- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3829 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003830- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3831 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3832- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3833 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3834 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3835 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3836 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3837- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3838 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3839 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3840- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3841 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3842 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003843- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3844 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 +00003845- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3846 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3847 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3848 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3849 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3850- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3851 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3852
3853--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3854 *extensions-improvements*
3855
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003856Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3857- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3858 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3859 calling a function.
3860 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3861 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003862- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3863 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003864 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003865- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3866 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3867 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3868 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3869 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3870 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003871 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003872- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3873 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3874 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003875- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3876 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038778 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3878 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3879 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3880 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003881- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3882 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003883
3884
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003885Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038868 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3887 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038888 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3889 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000038908 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3891 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038928 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038939 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3894 - change to cursor position and curswant
3895 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3896 - how it works for folded lines
3897 - how it works with multi-byte characters
38989 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3899 work too.
39008 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3901 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3902 text.
39038 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39047 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3905 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39067 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3907 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003908 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003909- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3910
3911
3912Help:
3913- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3914 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3915- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3916 to the other matches.
3917- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003918- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3919 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3920 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3921 default contents.
3922- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3923 height for the help window (and other windows).
3924- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3925- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3926- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3927
3928
3929User Friendlier:
39308 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3931 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3932 Briscoe)
39338 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39348 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3935 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3936 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39378 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3938 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3939- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3940 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003941- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39429 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3943 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3944 item?).
3945 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039468 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039477 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3948 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3949 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039508 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3951 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3952 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3953 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003954
3955
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003956Tab pages:
39579 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039587 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3959 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039608 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039618 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039627 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039637 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003964 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039658 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3966 tab pages.
39677 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3968
3969
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003970Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003971- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3972 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3973- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3974 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3975 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3976- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3977 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003978- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3979 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3980 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003981- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3982 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3983 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003984- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3985 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003986- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003987 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3988 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000039898 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3990 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
39918 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3992 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
39938 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3994 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003995 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003996 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3997 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3998 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3999 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004000- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4001 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004002- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004003- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4004 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004005- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004006 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004007- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004008 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004009- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4010 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004011- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4012 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4013- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004014 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004015 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4016 in the affix file separately.
4017 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004018 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004019 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4020 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4021 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4022- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4023 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4024 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4025 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4026 Alternative:
4027 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4028 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4029 affix which is required.
4030- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004031 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004032- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4033 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4034 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004035- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4036 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004037- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4038 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4039- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040408 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4041 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4042 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4043 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004044- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4045 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4046 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4047 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040488 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4049 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040508 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40518 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4052 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040537 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40548 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4055 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4056 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4057 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004058
4059
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004060Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040619 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4062 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040638 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004064 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004065
4066Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004067 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4068 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040698 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4070 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040718 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4072 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040738 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4074 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4075 user aware of this?
40768 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4077 commands skip over a closed fold.
40788 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40798 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040807 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004081- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4082 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4083 missing line goes unnoticed.
4084 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004085- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4086 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4087 smoother?
4088- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4089 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004090- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4091 file can contain:
4092 args version.c main.c
4093 edit version.c
4094 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004095- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004096- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4097 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004098- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4099 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004100- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4101 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004102- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004103
4104Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004105- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4106 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4107 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4108 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041099 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4110 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4111 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4112 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041139 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4114 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4115 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041168 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4117 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4118 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4119 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4120 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4121 item.
41228 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004123 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4124 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041258 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4126 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041278 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4128 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4129 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041307 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4131 so that the user can fix the problem.
41328 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4133 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041349 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41358 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041368 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41378 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041387 Searching and composing characters:
4139 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004140 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4141 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041428 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41438 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41448 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4145 characters.
41468 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41478 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4148 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41497 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4150 'display' option to specify this.
41517 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4152 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4153- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4154 fontselector somehow.
4155- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4156 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4157- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4158 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4159- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4160 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4161 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4162 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4163 if a font exists?
4164- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004165 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004166- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4167 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004168- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4169 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4170 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4171 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004172- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4173 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004174 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004175- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4176 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4177 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4178 But it's very complicated...
4179
4180
4181Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041827 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004183- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4184- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4185 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004186- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4187 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004188- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4189- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4190 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004191- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4192 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004193- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4194 units as for the margins.
4195- Support right-to-left text?
41968 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4197 color.
4198
4199
4200Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042018 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4202 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42038 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4204 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42058 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4206 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042077 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4208 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042098 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4210 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4211 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042127 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4213 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4214 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042158 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42169 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4217 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042187 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4219 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042207 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4221 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042228 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4223 change this for each release.
42248 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4225 pattern, but not in the body.
42268 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4227 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4228 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042298 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042308 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004231 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4232 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042338 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4234 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42358 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4236 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004237 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042388 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4239 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4240 used.
42418 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4242 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42438 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4244 re-insert the [] if possible.
42458 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4246 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042478 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4248 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4249 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4250 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4251 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042528 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4253 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42548 Support for deleting syntax items:
4255 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4256 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4257 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42588 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4259 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4260 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42617 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4262 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4263 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42647 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4265 detected.
42668 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004267 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042688 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4269 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042708 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42718 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42727 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4273 ":mkvimrc".
42748 Improve c.vim:
4275 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4276 "c_strict_ansi".
4277 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42788 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4279 current line while in Insert mode.
42808 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4281 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
42828 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4283 display position.
42848 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4285 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4286 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
42878 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4288 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4289 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000042907 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4291 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4292 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4293 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4294 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042957 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4296 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4297 E.g. for this html:
4298 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042997 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43007 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4301 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043028 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43038 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043047 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4305 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4306 completion?
43078 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4308 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43097 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4310 select one of the sets.
43118 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4312 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4313 2, etc.
43148 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4315 highlighting (for "." command).
43168 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4317 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43188 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43197 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4320 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43216 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4322 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4323- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4324 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4325- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004326- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4327 (for comment blocks).
4328- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4329 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4330 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4331 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4332 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4333 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4334 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4335 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4336 (Campbell)
4337 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4338 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43397 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4340 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43417 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4342 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4343 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43447 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4345 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4346 messages. And external commands?
43478 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4348 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43497 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4350 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4351
4352
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004353Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043548 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4355 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004356 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043577 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4358 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4359 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043608 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4361 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004362- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
4363 2006 Dec 11.
4364- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043658 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4366 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4367 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4368 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4369 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4370 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043717 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4372 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043738 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043748 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4375 can be the plugin name.
4376 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4377 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043787 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4379 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4380 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4381 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4382 autocommand.
4383 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4384 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4385 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4386 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043877 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4388 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043896 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4390 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043918 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004392 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4393 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004394 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4395 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4396 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004397 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4398 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4399 3 2002
4400 Only add this when also implemented for
4401 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4402 be used.
4403 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004404 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4405 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4406 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4407 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4408 File.Open..." argument.
4409 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4410 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4411 with properties instead.
4412 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4413 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4414 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004415 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004416 crypt() encrypt string
4417 decrypt() decrypt string
4418 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4419 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004420 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004421 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004422 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004423 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004424 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004425 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4426 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4428 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004429 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004430 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4431 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4432 to allow the library to execute a command or
4433 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044347 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4435 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44368 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4437 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044388 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4439 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044408 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044419 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004442 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44436 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044448 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4445 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044468 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4447 option or environment variable.
44488 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044498 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004450 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044517 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4452 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044538 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4454 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44558 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44568 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4457 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4458 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4459 charwise({expr}).
44607 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4461 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4462 buffer for this?
4463 result = scratch(string, command)
4464 result = apply(string, command)
4465 result = execute(string, command)
4466 "command" would use <> notation.
4467 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44687 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004469
4470
4471Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044726 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4473 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4474 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4475 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4476 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4477 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4478 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004479
4480
4481Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044827 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4483 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020044847 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4485 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4486 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4487 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044888 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4489 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4490 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4491 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004492 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044938 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
44949 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
44958 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
44967 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4497 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
44988 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4499 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4500 when starting up in a color terminal.
45018 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4502 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045038 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4504 function be improved?
45058 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4506 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4507 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4508 this be improved?
45098 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4510 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045117 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4512 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045137 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4514 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45157 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4516 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045177 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4518 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4519 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4520 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4521 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4522 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4523 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045248 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4525 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4526 using strcmp() too often?
45277 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4528 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4529 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4530 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4531 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4532 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45337 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4534 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4535 with an argument that can be messed with.
4536 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4537 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45387 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4539- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45408 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4541 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4542- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4543 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4544- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4545- Do profiling on:
4546 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004547 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4548 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4549 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4550 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4551 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4552 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004553 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045547 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4555 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4556 changed).
4557 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4558 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4559- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4560- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4561 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4562- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4563 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4564 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004565- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4566- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4567 cursor is right of the screen.
45688 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4569 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4570
4571
4572Code size:
45738 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4574- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4575 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45768 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45778 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4578 it.
45797 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4580 left out.
45818 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4582 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045838 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004584
4585
4586Messages:
45878 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4588 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
45898 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4590 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
45918 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4592 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004593- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4594 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4595- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045968 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4597 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045989 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4599 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4600 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4601 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4602 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046038 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4604 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46058 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4606 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4607 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4608 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4609 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4610 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004611- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004612 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046138 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4614 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4615 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4616 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4617 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4618 error messages, printing text, etc.
46198 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4620 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4621 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4622
4623
4624Screen updating:
46257 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4626 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4627 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4628- screen_line():
4629 - insert/delete character stuff.
4630 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4631- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4632 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4633- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4634 waiting for a character.
46358 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4636 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4637 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004638
4639Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046408 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046416 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4642- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4643 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4644 windows.
46457 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4646 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4647 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4648- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4649 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4650 (Goldfarb)
4651- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4652 bound windows.
4653- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4654 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004655- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004656- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4657 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4658 of lines but not with a single line).
4659
4660
4661Autoconf:
46628 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46638 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4664 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4665- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4666 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4667- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4668- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4669- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4670
4671
4672Perl interface:
46738 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046747 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
46757 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
46766 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4677
4678
4679Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046808 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4681 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046826 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4683 :libload internal-name libname
4684 :libunload internal-name
4685 :liblist
4686 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4687 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4688 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
46896 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4690
4691
4692Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000046939 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4694 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4695 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4696 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4697 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046988 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4699 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4700 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004701 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004702 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047037 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4704 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4705 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047068 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47078 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4708 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047097 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4710 window for each tag.
47117 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47127 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4713 bottom" search message.
47147 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4715 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4716 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004717- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4718- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004719- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4720 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4721 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4723 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4724 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4725 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47267 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4727 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4728 :tagargs clear
4729 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4730 matching).
47317 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4732 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4733 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4734 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47357 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4736 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47377 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4738 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4739 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004740
4741
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004742Win32 GUI:
47438 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4744 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047457 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4746 (Mike McCollister)
47478 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4748 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4749 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4750 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4751 common part of the path.
47528 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47538 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4754 gettext and menus work.
47558 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4756 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004757 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004758 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47598 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4760 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47618 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4762 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47637 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4764 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47657 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47667 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47677 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4768 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4769 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4770 prompts.
47717 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4772 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4773 the file added into an already running Vim.
47747 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4775 functions to find the window title.
4776
4777
4778GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020047798 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004780- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4781 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
47827 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47838 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47846 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47858 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4786 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
47879 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
47887 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
47898 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4790 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
47918 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4792 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4793 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
47948 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4795 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
47968 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4797 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4798 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4799 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048007 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48018 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4802 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048037 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4804 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4805 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048068 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48078 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004808 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048098 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48108 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48118 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4812 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4813 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48147 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4815 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4816 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48177 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4818 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48197 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4820 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4821 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4822 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048237 Should support multi-column menus.
4824- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4825 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4826- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48278 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48286 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4829 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48307 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48317 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4832 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4833 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48347 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48358 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4836 name can be chosen free.
48377 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4838 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48396 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4840 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4841 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4842 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4843 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4844 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4845 things.
48467 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4847 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048487 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004849 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004850- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4851 where it was started from?
48527 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4853
4854
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004855Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048569 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4857 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004858- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048598 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4860 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4861 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4862 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48638 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4864 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048657 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4866 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4867 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4868 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048697 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048708 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4871 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048728 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4873 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4874 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048757 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4876 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4877 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048788 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4879 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4880 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048818 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4882 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048838 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048846 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4885 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048867 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048877 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004888 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4889 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4890 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048915 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4892 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4893 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
48947 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4895 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4896 file.
48978 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4898 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4899 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004900- Add events to autocommands:
4901 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004902 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004903 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4904 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004905 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004906 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004907 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4908 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4909 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4910 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004911 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004912 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4913 the char.
4914 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4915 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4916 file from CVS).
4917 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4918 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4919 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4920 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4921 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4922 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004923 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4924 changes.
4925 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4926 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004927- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004928 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004929 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004930 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4931 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4932 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4933 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4934 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4935
4936
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004937Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004938- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4939 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004940- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4941 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4942 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4943 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4944 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004945- Ideas from others:
4946 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4947 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4948 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4949 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4950 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4951 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4952 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4953 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4954 Uses Perl for C++.
4955 Uses ctags to find the info:
4956 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4957 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4958 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4959 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4960 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4961 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004962 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004963 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4964- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4965
4966
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004967Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004968- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049697 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4970 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049717 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4972 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4973 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049748 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4975 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49769 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4977 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4978 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049798 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4980 - ignore/match case
4981 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049828 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4983 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4984 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4985 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4986 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4987 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049888 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049897 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4990 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049918 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4992 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4993 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4994 Should work for C++ and Java.
4995 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
49967 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
49977 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4998 instead of words.
49998 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50008 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5001 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50028 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5003 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005004- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5005 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005006- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5007 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5008 wildcards in the file name)?
5009- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5010- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5011- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5012 be in another file).
5013- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5014- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5015- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5016 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5017- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5018- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5019- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005020- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5021
5022
5023Command line editing:
50247 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5025 line.
50268 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5027 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5028 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5029- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5030 lines wraps to start of line).
5031- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5032 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5033 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5034 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5035 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5036 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5037 cmdwin does now already.
5038 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5039 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5040 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5041 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5042 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5043 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5044 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5045 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5046 Problems:
5047 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5048 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5049 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5050 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5051 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5052 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5053 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5054 character in first column?
5055 - Implementation ideas:
5056 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5057 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5058 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5059 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5060 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5061 Mode.
5062
5063
5064Command line completion:
50658 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50668 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5067 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50688 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5069 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050708 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5071 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050727 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5073 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005074- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5075- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5076 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050778 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5078 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50797 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5080 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5081- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5082 identifiers (Webb).
50838 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5084 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50857 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5086 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5087- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5088 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5089- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5090 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5091 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005092
5093
5094Command line history:
5095- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5096 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5097 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005098 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005099- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5100 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5101
5102
5103Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051049 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5105 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5106 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051078 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5108 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5109 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5110 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5111 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051128 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5113 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5114 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051157 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5116 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005117- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051187 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5119 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5120- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5121 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5122 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5123 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5124 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5125 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5126- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5127 Normal mode.
5128- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5129 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5130 are used.
5131- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5132- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5133- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5134
5135
5136'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051379 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5138 char * veryLongName =
5139 "very long string"
5140 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051418 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051428 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5143 long_type foo =
5144 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051458 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5146 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005147 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051488 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5149 func(
5150 new String[] {
5151 "asdf",
5152 "asdf"
5153 }
5154 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051558 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5156 (Chow Loong Jin)
5157 namespace {
5158 int
5159 func(int arg) {
5160 }
5161 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051626 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5163 func( arg1
5164 , arg2
5165 , arg3
5166 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051677 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005168 func(
5169 int x) // indent like "(4"
5170 {
5171 if (a
5172 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051739 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5174 if (a)
5175 {
5176 if (b)
5177 {
5178 // {
5179 }
5180 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005181 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5182 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5183 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005184- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005185 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51867 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5187- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5188 line).
5189- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5190- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5191 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005192- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5193 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5194- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5195 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5196- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5197- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5198 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
51998 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5200 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5201 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5202- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5203- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5204 lines start with "\item".
5205- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5206 /* here is a comment that
5207 is just autoindented, and
5208 nothing else */
5209- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52107 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5211 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5212 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005213 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005214
5215
5216Java:
52178 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5218 Odendahl?
52198 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5220 "[i" commands and friends.
5221- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5222 (Jason)
5223- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5224 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5225
5226
5227'comments':
52288 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5229 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5230 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5231 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005232 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5233 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052347 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5235 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52367 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52376 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5238 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5239 regexp is used.
52408 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5241 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5242
5243
5244Virtual edit:
52458 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052467 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5247
5248
5249Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052508 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052518 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052528 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005253 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052548 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5255 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005256 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5257 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052588 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052598 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5260 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052618 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5262 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5263 the end of the line or before a ".".
52647 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5265 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52667 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5267 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052686 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52695 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5270 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5271 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5272 cursor is on.
5273
5274
5275Select mode:
52768 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5277 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52787 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005279 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052807 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5281 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5282 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5283 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5284 normal_cmd().
5285 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5286 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5287
5288
5289Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020052908 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5291 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005292- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5293 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5294 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005295- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5296 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5297 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052988 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005299 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005300 where needed.
53017 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5302 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53037 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5304 of each selected line.
53058 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53068 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5307 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5308 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53098 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5310 Ben Godfrey)
53117 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5312 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53137 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5314 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053157 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005316 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005317 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53188 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5319 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53207 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5321 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5322 option!
53237 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5324 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5325 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5326 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5327 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5328 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5329 without changing the column.
53306 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053317 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5332 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053336 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5334 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53356 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053366 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005337 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005338 or other special character.
53396 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5340
5341
5342More advanced repeating commands:
5343- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005344- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005345- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005346 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5347 "y." will repeat last yank.
5348 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5349 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5350 and/or pick an older command.
5351- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5352
5353
5354Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053558 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5356 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5357 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53588 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53597 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5360 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053618 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5362 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53638 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053647 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053658 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5366 entering search strings.
53678 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5368 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5369 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053708 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5371 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053727 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053737 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5374 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053756 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5376 abbreviations are to be used.
5377- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5378 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5379 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005380- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5381 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5382 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5383 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5384 Or implicit:
5385 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005386- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5387 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5388 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005389- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5390 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5391- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5392 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
53936 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5394 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5395 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5396 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005397- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5398 non-replace Insert mode?
5399- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005400- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5401- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5402 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5403- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005404 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005405- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5406 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5407- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5408- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5409 ":freekeys".
5410- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5411
5412
5413Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005414- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5415 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5416- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5417 folds when going to another line.
5418 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5419- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5420 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005421- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5422 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5423 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005424- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5425 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5426 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5427 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054289 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5429 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005430
5431
5432Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054339 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054348 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005435 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005436 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005437 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005438 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054399 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5440 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054418 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5442 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054438 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5444 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5445 Perl does it this way:
5446 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5447 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5448 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5449 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054508 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5451 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5452 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054537 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5454 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054558 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5456 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054577 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005458 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5459 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5460 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054617 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005462 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054637 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5464 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054658 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5466 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54678 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5468 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054697 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005470 example.
54718 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5472 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5473- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5474 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5475 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5476 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054778 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5478 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5479 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54807 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5481 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054827 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5483 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054848 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5485 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054868 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5487 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054888 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5489 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5490 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5491 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005492- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5493 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005494- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5495 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5496- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5497 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5498 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5499 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055008 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5501 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005502- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5503 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055048 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5505 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5506 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005507- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5508 i ignore case
5509 I use case
5510 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5511 v use Vi regexp syntax
5512 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5513 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5514 Perl uses these too:
5515 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5516 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5517 o compile only once (Perl only)
5518 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5519 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5520 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5521 following command.
5522 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5523- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5524 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5525 for search string)?
55267 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5527 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5528- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5529 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5530- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5531 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5532- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5533- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005534 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005535 a for the next file in the argument list
5536 f for file in the buffer list
5537 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005538 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5539 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005540 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5541 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5542- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055437 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005544 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055457 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5546 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5547 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5548 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55496 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5550 effects.
55517 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5552 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5553 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055547 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005555 Also ":dselect".
5556
5557
5558Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055599 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5560 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5561 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055629 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5563 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055648 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5565 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055668 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5567 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5568 timestamp?
5569 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5570 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005571- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5572 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005573- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5574 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5575 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55768 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5577 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5578 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5579 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55808 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5581 only remember the lines that really changed.
55827 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5583 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5584 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5585 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005586- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5587 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5588- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5589 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5590- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5591 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5592 [-99].
5593- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5594- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005595- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5596 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5597
5598
5599Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056007 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5601 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5602 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5603 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56048 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5605 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56068 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5607 inode too.
56087 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005609 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5610 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056117 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5612 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5613- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5614 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5615- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5616 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56177 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5618 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56197 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5620 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56218 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056227 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5623 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056248 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5625 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5626 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005627
5628
5629Swap (.swp) files:
56308 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5631 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5632 there are short file name problems.
56338 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5634 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56358 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56368 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005637 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005638 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5639 file the same as the actual file?
5640 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056417 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5642 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56437 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005644 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005645 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5646 enough room.
56477 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5648 or /var/preserve.
5649- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5650 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5651- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005652 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005653- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5654 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5655 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5656 cached list of which line is where.
5657
5658
5659Viminfo:
56607 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5661 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5662 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056638 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5664 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5665 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056668 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5667 name. (Schild)
56688 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56698 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056708 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056718 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5672 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5673 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5674 this?
56757 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56767 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5677 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56786 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5679 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5680 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5681- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5682 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5683
5684
5685Modelines:
56868 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5687 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5688 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005689- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5690 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5691 'shiftwidth'.
5692- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5693 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005694- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5695 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5696 modeline setting.
5697- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5698 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5699- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5700 .cpp files.
5701- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5702 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5703- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5704 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5705
5706
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005707Sessions:
57088 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5709 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57107 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5711 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057128 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5713 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057148 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5715 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5716 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057177 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5718 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057197 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005720
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005721
5722Options:
57237 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5724 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057258 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5726 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5727 also be supported.
57288 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5729 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5730 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57317 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005732
5733
5734External commands:
57358 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5736 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57374 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5738 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5739 -f).
57404 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57414 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5742 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57434 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5744
5745
5746Multiple Windows:
57477 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57488 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5749 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57507 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5751 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5752 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057537 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5754 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057557 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5756 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057576 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5758 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005759 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005760 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57617 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5762 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5763 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5764 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5765- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5766 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5767 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5768 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5769
5770
5771Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057728 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057738 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5774 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057758 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 +000057768 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5777 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57788 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5779 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5780 the mark was set.
57817 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5782 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5783 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5784 ":browse marks"?
57856 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057867 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5787 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57887 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5789 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57907 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5791 command).
57927 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5793 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5794 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5795 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57965 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5797 mappings.
57986 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5799 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5800 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5801
5802
5803Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058047 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005805 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005806- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5807 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058088 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058097 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5810 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5811
5812
5813Writing files:
5814- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5815 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5816 shortname conversion.
58178 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58188 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5819 file.
58208 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5821 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5822 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058236 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5824 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58256 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5826 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58276 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5828 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058298 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005830 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58317 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5832 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58337 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5834 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5835 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5836 waiting for a character to be typed).
58378 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5838 line of the window, like "[time]".
5839 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5840 Automatic and/or with a command.
5841
5842
5843Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058448 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5845 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058468 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005847 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5848- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5849- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58508 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5851 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005852- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005853 :s///N substitutes N times.
5854- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5855 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5856 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58577 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5858 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5859 last line column 5.
58605 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5861 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5862 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5863 (Stanislav Sitar)
5864
5865
5866Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058678 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58687 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58698 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5870 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5871 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005872- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5873- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5874 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5875- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5876- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5877
5878
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005879Argument list:
58806 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5881 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5882 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58836 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5884
5885
5886Registers:
58878 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058888 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5889 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5890 for every line.
58916 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5892 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5893 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5894- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5895 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5896- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5897 leader when line wraps?
5898- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5899 line in the range.
5900- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5901 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59028 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5903 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005904
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005905
5906Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059078 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059088 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059097 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59107 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5911
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005912Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059137 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5914 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5915 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5916 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5917 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5918 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5919 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005920 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059217 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5922 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059237 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5924 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059258 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5926 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059277 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5928 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5929 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005930- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005931 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059327 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5933 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59348 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059357 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5936 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59378 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5938 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059396 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059408 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5941 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5942 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5943 in this Vim.
59448 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005945 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059468 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5947 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5948 have it apply to the following command.
59498 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5950 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5951 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5952 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059537 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5954 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059557 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5956 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5957 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5958 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059596 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59608 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59619 Support ACLs on more systems.
59627 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5963 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059647 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5965 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5966 (truncated to fit in the space).
59677 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59688 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59698 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5970 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059717 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005972 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59737 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5974 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059757 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059767 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59777 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059788 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59798 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5980 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5981 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5982 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59838 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059848 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059858 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5986 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5987 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5988 does something like this. (Shah)
59897 Use growarray for replace stack.
59907 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5991 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59923 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059937 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5994 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059957 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5996 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005997- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5998- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5999- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6000- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60017 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6002 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6003- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6004 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006005- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006006- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6007 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6008- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6009 call "play newbeep.au").
6010- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6011 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6012 (Bhatt).
6013- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6014 blockwise registers).
6015- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6016 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6017- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6018 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6019 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6020 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006021- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060227 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6023 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6024- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6025 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6026 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6027 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6028 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060298 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6030 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060318 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6032 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6033 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6034 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6035 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6036- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006037- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060387 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6039 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6040- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6041 not in column 1.
60426 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6043 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60447 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6045- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006046- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006047 :redir #> bufname
6048 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006049- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6050 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006051- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6052 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6053 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60546 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6055 console? (Klaus Hast)
6056- Add :delcr command:
6057 *:delcr*
6058 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6059 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6060 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6061 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6062 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006063 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006064- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6065- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6066 characters from 'isprint'.
6067- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6068- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6069 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6070- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6071 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6072 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6073- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6074- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6075 Nvi).
6076- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6077 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60787 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6079- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6080 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60816 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6082- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6083 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6084 macro).
6085- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006086- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6087 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6088- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60898 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006090- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6091- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6092- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6093 if it is not the first or last window.
6094- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6095 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60967 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6097 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6098 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6099- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6100- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006101 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006102 many percent down the windows).
6103- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6104 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6105 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006106 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006107- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6108 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6109- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6110 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6111- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6112- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6113- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6114 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061158 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6116 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6117 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6118 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6119 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006120- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6121 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6122- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006123 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6124- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006125 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6126 (Webb).
6127- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006128 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006129- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6130 hex codes like 0xff).
6131- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6132 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6133 the last TYPED command.
6134- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6135- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6136- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6137 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006138- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061398 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6140 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6141 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006142- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006143 trailing '.'.
6144- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6145 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6146 find_file_in_path().
6147- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6148 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6149- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6150- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6151 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6152- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006153 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006154- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6155 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6156 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006157- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6158- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6159- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6160 to the minimal size.
6161- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6162- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6163- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6164- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6165- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006166- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6167 entered)?
6168- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6169 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006170- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006171- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6172- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6173- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6174- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6175- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6176 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006177- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061788 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6179 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6180 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6181 or in octal.
61827 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6183 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006184- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006185 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6186- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6187- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6188 insert line command).
6189- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6190- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6191- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6192- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6193- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6194 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006195- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006196 yet.
6197- Implement 'redraw' option.
6198- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6199 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062007 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6201 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006202 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6203 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062048 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6205 do it.
6206- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6207- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6208 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6209- Add text justification option.
6210- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6211- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6212 off".
6213- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6214- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6215- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006216 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006217- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006218- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006219- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6220 commands.
6221- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6222- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6223- :table command (Webb)
6224- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6226- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6227- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6228- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6229- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6230 (Demirel).
6231- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6232- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6233 for use in macro's and the like.
6234- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006235 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006236- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006237 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006238- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006239 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006240 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6241- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6242 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006243- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006244 mkopttab to make option table?
6245- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6246 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6247- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6248 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006249- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006250 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6251- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6252 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006253- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062548 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6255 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6256 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6257 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6258 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062598 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6260 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6261 (Netherton)
62626 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6263 space after "(", for example.
62645 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6265 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6266 (Servatius Brandt)
6267
6268
6269From Elvis:
6270- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6271- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006272- Search patterns:
6273 \@ match word under cursor.
6274 but do:
6275 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6276 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62778 ":window" command:
6278 :win + next window (up)
6279 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6280 :win - previous window (down)
6281 :win -- idem, wrapping
6282 :win nr to window number "nr"
6283 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62847 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6285 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6286
6287
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006288From xvi:
6289- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6290- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6291
6292
6293From vile:
6294- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6295- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6296 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6297
6298
6299Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006300- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6301 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006302 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006303 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6304 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006305- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6306 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6307- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6308 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6309 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6310 current layout mirrored.
6311- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6312- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6313 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6314- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6315- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6316 font in each top-level window.
6317- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6318- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6319- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6320- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6321 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006322- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6323 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6324- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6325 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63264 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6327 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6328 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6329 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006330 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006331 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6332 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6333- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6334 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6335 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6336
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006337vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006338vim: set fo+=n :