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Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Aug 05
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020041Making everything work:
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020042- Check that when sourcing a Vim9 script, only the global items can be used.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020043- Make string indexes character indexes instead of byte indexes. (#6574)
44 explain how to use byte index when needed. Use blob?
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +020045- :put with a "=" register argument doesn't work, need to find the expression
46 and compile it. (#6397)
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020047- At the script level, keep script variables local to the block they are
48 declared in? Need to remember what variables were declared and delete them
49 when leaving the block.
50- Implement { } block at the script level.
51- need to check type when a declaration specifies a type: #6507
52 let nr: number = 'asdf'
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020053- Make sure that in vim9script a function call without namespace only finds
54 the script-local function, not a global one.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020055- Make map() give an error if the resulting type is wrong.
56 Add mapnew() to create a new List/Dict for the result, which can have a
57 different value type.
58- Implement "export {one, two three}".
59- ISN_CHECKTYPE could use check_argtype()
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +020060- Slice of list: [1, 2, 3][1:2].
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020061- give error for variable name:
62 let p = function('NoSuchFunc')
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +020063- Give runtime error if function argument is wrong.
64 def Increment(nr: number)
65 range(3)->Increment()
66- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
67- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
68- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020069- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
70 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
71 defined.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020072- Support passing v:none to use the default argument value. (#6504)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020073- make 0 == 'string' fail on the script level, like inside :def.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020074- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
75 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020076- Compile: for [key, value] in items(map)
77- Assignment to dict doesn't work:
78 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
79 ret[i] = string(i)
80- Appending to dict item doesn't work:
81 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020082- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
83- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
84- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
85 islocked()
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +020086- possible memory leak in test_vim9_func through compile_nested_function.
87- memory leaks in test_vim9_expr
88- memory leaks in test_vim9_script
89- memory leaks in test_vim9_cmd
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020090- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
91 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020092- Implement "as Name" in "import Item as Name from ..."
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020093- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
94- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020095- Make closures work:
96 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020097- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
98- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
99- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200100- has() is compiled as a constant, but some checks are dynamic.
101 Check for dynamic values, such as "gui_running".
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200102- Implement command modifiers, such as "silent". (#6530)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200103New syntax and functionality:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200104Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100105- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200106Test:
107- Using a Vim9 autoload script (functions must be global).
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200108Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200109- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
110 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100111- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100112- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
113- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100114- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
115- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100116- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100117- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100118- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
119 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
120- call autoload function.
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100121- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100122- can use func as reference:
123 def SomeFunc() ...
124 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100125- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
126 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100127- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200128- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100129- implement class
130- implement interface
131- predefined class: Promise<T>
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200132- implement enum
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100133- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
134 EVAL expr
135 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200136Further improvements:
137- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
138 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
139 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200140- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
141 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
142 body
143 enddef
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200144- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200145- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200146- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
147- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100148
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200149Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200150- Cursor not updated before a redraw, making it jump. (#5943)
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200151- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
152 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100153- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100154- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
155 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
156 the way. (#5737)
157 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200158- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
159 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200160- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100161- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
162 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
163- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200164- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200165 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100166- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
167 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200168- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100169 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100170- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200171
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200172Text properties:
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200173- :goto does not go to the right place when text properties are present.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200174 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100175- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100176- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100177- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
178 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100179- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100180- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200181
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100182'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200183- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
184 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100185- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
186 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200187- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200188- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200189- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
190 isn't one?
191 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
192
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200193Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100194- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200195- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100196- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200197
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200198Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200199- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100200- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
201 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200202- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100203- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200204- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200205 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
206 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100207- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100208- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
209 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100210 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100211 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200212
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200213Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200214- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200215- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
216 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
217 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200218- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
219 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
220 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
221 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200222- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
223 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100224- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
225 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200226 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
227 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100228 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100229- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100230- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
231 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200232- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
233 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200234- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200235- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200236- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
237 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200238- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
239 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
240- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
241 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200242- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
243 is disabled.
244- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
245- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
246 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200247- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
248 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
249 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
250- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
251- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
252 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
253- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
254 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200255
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200256Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200257E610, E611, E653
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200258
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200259Clean up empty entries in testdir/Make_all.mak
260
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200261Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
262
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200263Patch to use collaction based sorting. (Christian Brabandt, #6229)
264
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200265Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
266with 'termguicolors'. #1740
267
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200268Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
269Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
270
271Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
272Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
273(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
274Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
275- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
276 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
277 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
278- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
279 covered by the above change.
280So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
281same thing.
282Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200283
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200284Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
285autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
286 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
287 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
288 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
289 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
290 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
291The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
292
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200293Make it possible to map (console and GUI): #6457
294 <C-[> 0x27 or is this <Esc> ?
295 <C-\> 0x28
296 <C-]> 0x29
297 <C-^> 0x30
298 <C-_> 0x31
299
300Patch for Template string: #4634
301Have another look at the implementation.
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200302
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200303Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
304 replace this:
305 let left = GetLeftFunc()
306 let right = GetRightFunc()
307 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
308 by:
309 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200310Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
311
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200312Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
313(#6539)
314
315When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
316register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
317(#6435)
318
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100319Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200320Causes flicker on resizing. Workaround from Ken Takata.
321How about only setting the attribute when part of the Vim window is offscreen?
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200322
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100323File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
324
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200325"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
326add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200327Athena is OK.
328Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200329Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
330manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200331
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200332Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
333
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200334:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
335(#5623, also see #5962)
336
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200337Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
338character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200339
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200340undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
341
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200342After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it causes
343corruption. (#6631)
344
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100345When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
346(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
347
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200348Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
349/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
350
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200351With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
352'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100353
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200354Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
355which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
356#6127
357
358When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
359":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
360Might be related to #6088.
361
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200362When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
363Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
364(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
365
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +0200366Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
367Was originally writtten by Felipe Morales.
368
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100369Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
370(Paul Jolly, #5656)
371Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100372 Later more requests for what to track.
373 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
374 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
375 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100376BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100377Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100378
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200379Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
380
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100381Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
382(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
383
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200384Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
385
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200386Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
387
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200388Implement completion for "breakadd". Should expand the second argument, e.g.
389"func", and then function names after ":breakadd func". Including
390script-local functions.
391
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100392:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
393Dec 19)
394
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200395Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
396Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
397
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100398Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
399May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200400Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
401remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200402Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100403Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200404
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100405When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
406the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
407
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200408Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100409Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
410in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200411Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
412(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200413
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100414Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
415ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
416
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200417Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
418that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
419Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100420
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100421Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
422(#4087)
423
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100424behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
425#5771)
426
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200427":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
428goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
429unlisted. (#4478)
430
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100431Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100432
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200433":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
434find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
435
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200436Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
437
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200438Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
439Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
440
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100441Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
442
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100443Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
444
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200445The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
446support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
447
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100448"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
449
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200450Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
451Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
452
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100453Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
454
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200455When 'relativenumber' is set the line just below a diff change doesn't get
456updated. (#6138)
457
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100458Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
459
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100460Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
461
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200462Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
463(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
464
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200465When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
466default one. #4698
467
468When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
469with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
470
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100471Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200472Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100473
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200474Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200475Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200476
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200477Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
478fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
479
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200480Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200481
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200482Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
483- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
484- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100485- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200486
487Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
48813, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200489
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100490Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
491
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100492When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
493when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
494gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
495input buffer. (#5302)
496
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200497xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
498buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
499Xterm 224 supports it!
500Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
501Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
502Also see issue #609.
503We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
504
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100505:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
506(#5467)
507
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200508Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200509
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100510Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5112007 Feb 18)
512Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
513
514Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
515Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
516
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200517Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
518
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200519Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200520Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
521Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200522
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100523Errors found with random data:
524 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100525
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200526Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
527files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
528Include part of #3242?
529
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200530When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
531it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
532
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200533Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
534Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
535Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
536
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100537":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
538window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
539#5443)
540
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200541Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
542t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
543
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100544Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
545Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
546
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200547'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
548
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200549"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
550(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
551
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200552Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
553
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100554Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
555
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200556Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
557
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100558When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
559in a long line. #5189
560
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200561The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
562Give a few examples. (#4288)
563
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200564Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
565work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
566
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005677 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
568 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
569 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200570Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200571
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100572Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
573read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
574be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
575
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100576Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
577CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
578with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
579fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
580displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
581
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200582Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
583
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200584Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
585
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200586Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
587https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
588
589Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
590http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
591http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
592Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100593- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200594- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
595- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
596 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
597- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
598- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
599Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
600- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
601- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
602Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
603- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
604
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100605Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
606Mar 5)
607
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200608Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
609- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
610 line.
611- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
612 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
613- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
614 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
615
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200616Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
617on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
618
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200619Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
620in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
621buffer didn't change at all.
622
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200623Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
624(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
625
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200626Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
627'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
628(#4450)
629
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100630When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
631But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
632similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
633
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200634C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
635(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
636
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100637Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
638added?
639
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200640Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
641negative. (see #4326)
642
643'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
644`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
645tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
646:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
647
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200648This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
649 vim: syn=nosyntax
650
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200651":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
652a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
653
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100654Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
655#2948. (related to #1512?)
656On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
657balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
65820, #2481)
659Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
660Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
661balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6622018 Sep 14)
663Another request: #3811.
664
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200665More warnings from static analysis:
666https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200667
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100668Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
669
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200670Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
671
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200672Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
673internals of the dict structure.
674
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100675nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
676
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200677Missing tests for:
678- add_termcap_entry()
679
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200680Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
681change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
682them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
683
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100684Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
685Also run all tests with C locale?
686
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100687"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
688#3927
689
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200690Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200691Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200692
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100693When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
694case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
695For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
696
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200697Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
698(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
699expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200700
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200701Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
702 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
703 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
704
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100705Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100706punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100707
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200708ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
709
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200710Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
711drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
712
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200713Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
714is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
715
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100716When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
717scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
718using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
719
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200720Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
721#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
722(Sep 8)
723
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200724Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
725unified diff (list of lines).
726
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100727When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
728kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
729when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
730
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100731Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
732(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100733
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100734Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
735
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100736Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100737Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200738TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100739Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200740Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
741Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200742
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200743gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200744
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200745matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
74619.
747
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100748Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100749Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100750Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
751highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200752And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
753'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100754Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
755Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100756
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100757Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
758Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
759
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200760Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
761Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
762Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
763
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200764Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
765screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
766
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200767home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
768
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200769When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
770terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
771How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
772
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200773Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
774
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100775Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
776Feedback from someone who uses this?
777
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200778ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
779
780Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
781Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
782values.
783
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100784Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200785- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
786- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
787- omit diff.exe from distribution
788- Can we make this show differences within a line?
789- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200790
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200791Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
792
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100793Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200794What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100795
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200796When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
797includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
798
799Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200800Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200801
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200802MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
803(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
804
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100805Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
806
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200807Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
808
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200809Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
810window for the buffer.
811
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200812Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
813when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
814
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100815Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
816mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
817
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200818Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
819modified buffers
820 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
821 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
822 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
823 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
824
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100825Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
826- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
827- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
828- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100829- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
830
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200831Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
832characters. (#3246)
833
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200834'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
835
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100836Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
837Oct 28)
838
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200839ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
840Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
841Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
842Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
843
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100844Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
845- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
846
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200847Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
848- Test_setbufvar_options()
849- Test_exit_callback_interval()
850
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200851Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
852Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100853Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
854Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200855
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200856Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
857
858Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
85924)
860
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100861Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100862 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100863or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100864 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
865
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100866Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100867mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100868
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200869Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
870is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
871used for git temp files.
872
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100873Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
874
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200875Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
876behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
877(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
878
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200879Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
880pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
881
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200882Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
883script or function.
884
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200885When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
886E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
887does nothing otherwise?
888
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200889MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
890If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
891(wait a little while).
892CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100893
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200894Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
895MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8962017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
897receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
898
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200899Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
900missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
901
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200902":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
903deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
904
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200905Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200906
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200907With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
908included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
909(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
910
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200911Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200912Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200913
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100914Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100915Jan 15, #2555)
916
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200917":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
918
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100919Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
920
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100921No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
922No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
923
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200924Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
925http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
926Should be supported with a flag.
927
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100928Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
929confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
930
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100931Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
932
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100933Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
934Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
935applying the diff, etc.
936
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200937Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
938Apr 26, #2849)
939
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100940User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
941word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100942
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100943Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200944
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200945With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
946(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
947
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200948Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
949:drop (remote commands).
950
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200951Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9522018 Jun 18, #3027)
953
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200954Implement option_save() and option_restore():
955option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
956 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
957 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
958 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
959 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
960 be called when the same window is the current window.
961 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
962 the local options won't be restored.
963
964option_save({list}) *option_save()*
965 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
966 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
967 let s:saved_options = option_save([
968 \ 'ignorecase',
969 \ 'iskeyword',
970 \ ])
971 au <buffer> BufLeave *
972 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
973< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
974 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
975 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
976 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100977 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
978 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
979 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100980 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200981
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100982"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
983directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
984Also see #1689.
985
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100986When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100987highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100988
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200989":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
990
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100991No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9922017 Dec 26, #2501)
993
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200994A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
995
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200996Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
997
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200998A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
999Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1000
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001001Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
1002(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
1003
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001004ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1005
1006Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1007
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001008Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1009Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1010
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001011Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1012in #846)
1013Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1014
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001015Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
1016Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
1017
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001018When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1019redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001020
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001021In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1022(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1023
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001024Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1025neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001026
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001027Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1028Nov 21)
1029
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001030When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
1031triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1032set_color_count().
1033
1034Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1035responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1036
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001037When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1038CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1039Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1040always nested.
1041
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001042matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1043
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001044Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1045
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001046MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001047for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1048
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001049Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001050(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001051
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001052Test runtime files.
1053Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001054
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001055Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001056
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001057Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1058defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1059Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1060
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001061After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
106213, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001063
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001064When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1065line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1066
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001067The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1068
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001069Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1070set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +02001071Was this fixed?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001072
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001073Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1074
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001075Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1076behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1077
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001078'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1079
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001080The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1081
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001082When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1083a command can delete it.
1084
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001085Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1086#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1087
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001088The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1089for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1090
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001091X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1092pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1093clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1094Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1095Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1096clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001097Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001098
1099Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1100
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001101Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1102attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001103that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001104
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001105Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1106(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1107
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001108Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1109buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1110Also fixes #2166?
1111
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001112Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1113stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1114
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001115Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1116possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1117
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001118When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1119case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1120
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001121Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1122existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1123Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1124
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001125Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001126
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001127MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1128Jul 4)
1129
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001130Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1131Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1132This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1133Christian cannot reproduce it.
1134
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001135Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1136wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1137Or is this not an actual problem?
1138
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001139Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1140
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001141Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1142
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001143'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1144#1736)
1145
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001146Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11478, #1690)
1148
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001149Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1150(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1151
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001152Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1153it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1154
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001155Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1156Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1157How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1158
1159Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1160(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1161
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001162Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1163
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001164assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1165it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1166
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001167Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1168for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001169
1170Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1171(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1172Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1173later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1174Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1175mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001176Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1177mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001178maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001179
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001180Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001181plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1182be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1183
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001184Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1185 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1186 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001187
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001188json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001189What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001190
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001191Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1192
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001193import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1194(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1195
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001196When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1197buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1198Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001199
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001200Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1201Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001202Another example in #1309
1203
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001204When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1205when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1206
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001207Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1208#1330)
1209
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001210Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1211
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001212Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1213
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001214GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1215g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1216timer expires.
1217
1218Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1219
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001220Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1221highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1222
12238 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1224 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1225
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001226Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1227Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1228
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001229Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1230key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1231 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1232 echo keytrans(xx)
1233 <C-Home>
1234
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001235Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1236(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1237Make a function to check for function-like type?
1238
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001239Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1240(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1241
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001242Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1243 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001244 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001245
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001246Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1247somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1248
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001249The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1250"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1251Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1252
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001253Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1254
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001255Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1256about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001257Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1258
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001259Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1260#1053) With patch, does it work?
1261
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001262":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001263vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1264
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001265Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001266E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001267Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001268
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001269Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1270Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1271
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001272Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001273Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001274
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001275"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1276(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1277
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001278Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1279(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001280Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001281
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001282'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1283
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001284Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1285
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001286When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1287Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001288Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001289
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001290Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1291anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1292
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001293Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001294E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001295
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001296Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1297(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1298
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001299Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1300
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001301On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1302separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1303
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001304min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1305contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1306
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001307Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1308
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001309Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1310
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001311Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1312
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001313Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1314no longer support.
1315
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001316sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
13174#1038)
1318
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001319+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001320- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001321- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1322 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1323 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001324- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1325 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001326- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1327 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001328- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1329- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1330 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1331- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1332 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1333- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001334- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1335 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001336- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1337- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1338 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1339 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1340- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1341- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1342- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1343 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1344 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1345- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1346 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1347- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1348 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1349 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1350
1351Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001352- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1353 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1354 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1355 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001356- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1357 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001358- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1359 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1360- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1361 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1362- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1363 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1364 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1365 LC_CTYPE
1366- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1367 matches everywhere.
1368- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1369 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1370- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1371- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1372 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1373- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1374- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1375 2013 Dec 11)
1376- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1377 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1378- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1379- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1380 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1381- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1382- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1383- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1384- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1385 2015 Feb 7)
1386- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1387 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1388 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1389 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1390 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1391- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1392- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1393- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1394- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1395 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1396 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1397 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1398- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1399 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1400- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1401 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1402 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1403 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1404
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001405Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1406#1350)
1407
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001408Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
14093. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1410Also see #1635.
1411
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001412When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1413command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1414
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001415Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1416doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1417Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001418Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001419E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1420
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001421cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1422
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001423:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1424
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001425Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1426
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001427When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1428synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1429
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001430Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1431Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001432
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001433ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1434Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001435
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001436Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1437Jul 25, #948)
1438
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001439Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1440names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1441Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1442the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1443
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001444MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1445Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001446
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001447Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1448
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001449Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1450#1125
1451
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001452Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1453times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1454
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001455Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1456
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001457Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1458
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001459We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1460the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1461
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001462Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1463
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001464When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1465emoji_width table has only one entry.
1466
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001467It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1468Reject the value? #710.
1469
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001470When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1471Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1472
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001473Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1474No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001475
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001476Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1477(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001478
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001479Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1480
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001481Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1482https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001483Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001484
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001485Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1486but the reference remains valid.
1487
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001488Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001489interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1490Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1491interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1492result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001493
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001494Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001495work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001496
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001497Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1498
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001499Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1500
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001501Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1502Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1503
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001504When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1505Apr 17) #762
1506
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001507exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1508Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1509
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001510Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1511'iskeyword' for syntax.
1512
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001513When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1514maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001515Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001516
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001517Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1518It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1519Add configure check?
1520Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1521Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1522Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1523
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001524Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1525Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1526
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001527Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1528Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1529
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001530":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1531directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1532
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001533In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1534(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1535
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001536If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15372016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001538
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001539Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1540(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1541
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001542When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1543restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1544Do not trigger the event?
1545
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001546Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1547Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1548https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1549
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001550Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1551With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1552
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001553Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001554
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001555Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1556
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001557Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001558Only remembers one error.
1559
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001560GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001561
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001562Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1563(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001564
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001565Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1566github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001567 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001568Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001569
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001570Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001571
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001572Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001573comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001574
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001575Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1576
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001577MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1578wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1579
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001580Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1581specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1582
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001583Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1584(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1585
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001586Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001587inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001588
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001589Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1590(Luchr, #277)
1591
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001592Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001593'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1594before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001595
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001596C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1597and also line continuation after #include.
1598I can't recommend it though.
1599
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001600Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1601(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1602
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001603To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1604library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1605
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001606When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1607is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1608
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001609Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
161030)
1611
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001612MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1613(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1614
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001615The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
161624): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001617
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001618":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1619effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1620
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001621":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16229)
1623
1624The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1625wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1626
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001627Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001628Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001629
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001630When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1631the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1632
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001633Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001634slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1635inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1636
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001637ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16382014 Sep 11)
1639
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001640Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1641(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1642
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001643When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1644'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1645
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001646Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1647Work in progress.
1648
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001649Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1650when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1651
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001652Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1653Is this right?
1654
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001655Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1656(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1657Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1658
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001659Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1660Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001661
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001662Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1663Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1664
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001665Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1666
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001667When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1668filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1669initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1670
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001671Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1672
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001673Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1674OK to not block marks?
1675
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001676Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1677
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001678Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1679
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001680When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1681(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1682
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001683Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001684
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001685Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1686(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1687
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001688When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1689any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1690
1691Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001692
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001693Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001694
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001695Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1696(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1697
1698Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1699
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001700Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1701Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1702was already defined.
1703(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1704
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001705Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1706
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001707Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001708Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001709Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001710Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001711
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001712Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1713(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1714
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001715Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1716(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1717
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001718Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1719
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001720When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1721these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1722window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1723
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001724Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1725should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1726history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1727Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1728
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001729"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1730Jun 8)
1731
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001732Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1733insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1734
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001735No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1736
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001737Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1738(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1739Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1740arguments.
1741
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001742Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1743
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001744Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17450x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1746New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1747compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1748
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001749Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1750a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1751
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001752Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1753right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001754its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001755
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001756Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1757
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001758This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1759 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1760This neither: (ZyX)
1761 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1762
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001763'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1764Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1765from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001766
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001767Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17682014 Jun 8)
1769
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001770Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1771https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001772Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001773Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1774package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001775Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1776Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1777User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001778- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1779 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1780 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001781- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1782- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1783 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1784 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1785 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1786 on vim.org.
1787- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1788 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1789- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1790- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1791- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1792- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1793Implementation:
1794- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1795 plugin separate.
1796- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1797 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1798 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1799- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1800 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1801- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1802 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1803 installing.
1804Out of scope:
1805- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1806- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1807 useful).
1808
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001809Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1810normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001811
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001812When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1813menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1814
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001815Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1816(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1817
1818":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1819various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001820
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001821Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001822(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1823
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001824VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1825instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1826
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001827Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001828Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001829Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001830
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001831Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001832command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001833
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001834Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1835
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001836Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1837highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001838
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001839The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1840For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1841
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001842Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001843possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001844
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001845Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001846
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001847Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1848
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018497 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1850 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1851 "lucida_console:h8").
1852Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1853
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001854:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1855
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001856Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1857
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001858Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1859
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001860When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1861(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1862
1863Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001864Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001865
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001866GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1867(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1868
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001869Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1870registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1871
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001872Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1873
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001874The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1875(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1876Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1877
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001878The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1879- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1880- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1881
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001882Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1883Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1884reliably?
1885
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001886Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1887(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1888
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001889Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1890(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001891Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1892(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1893try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1894try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001895
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001896Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18972013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001898
1899Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1900
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001901Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
19025)
1903
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001904Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1905carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1906
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001907Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1908highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1909
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001910Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001911
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001912Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200191328) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001914
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001915Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1916
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001917Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1918
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001919- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1920 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1921Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001922
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001923Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001924
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001925In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1926process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1927a reboot.
1928
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001929patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001930Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1931Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001932
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001933Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1934not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001935
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001936Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1937Or use expand('<sid>')?
1938
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001939Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1940
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001941Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1942
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001943b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19447)
1945
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001946Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1947compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1948
1949Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1950Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1951vim.bindeval().
1952
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001953Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19542012 Aug 4)
1955
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001956Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1957(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1958
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001959Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1960But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1961
1962Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1963Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1964Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001965
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001966Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1967loading all files.
1968
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001969'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001970
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001971Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001972of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1973
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001974The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1975Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1976But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001977
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001978When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1979is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1980
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001981URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001982- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001983- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1984 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1985
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001986Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1987(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1988Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1989
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001990Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001991New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001992
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001993When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1994for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1995Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001996
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001997Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1998
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001999Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
2000
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002001Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
2002Apr 18)
2003
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002004Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
2005And one for gui_x11.txt.
2006
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002007":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
2008finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
2009Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
2010
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002011Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
2012
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01002013Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
2014
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002015Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
2016they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
2017
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002018Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2019
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002020Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2021Nov 20)
2022
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002023Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002024Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002025
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002026`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002027(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2028
2029Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2030
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002031BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2032Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2033
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002034Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2035Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2036
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002037Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2038
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002039On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20402012 Jun 19)
2041
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002042'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2043'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2044Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002045Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002046
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002047With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2048(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2049need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2050
2051Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2052only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
205321, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2054
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002055Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2056New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2057
2058Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2059Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2060
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002061Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2062Jan 19)
2063
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002064Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2065discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2066meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002067
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002068"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002069Oct 26)
2070
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002071Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2072
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002073With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2074register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002075
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002076Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2077
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002078When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2079(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2080
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002081When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2082then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2083from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2084
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002085Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2086":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
208715)
2088
2089Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2090
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002091BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2092cleared. See test64.
2093
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002094On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
209564 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2096right type.
2097
2098string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2099(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2100
2101When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2102(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002103When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2104following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2105(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002106
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002107When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2108doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2109
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002110Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2111
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002112When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2113indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2114the help file.
2115
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002116After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2117Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2118
2119Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2120
2121"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2122
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002123Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2124
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002125Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002126
2127Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21282010 Dec 18)
2129
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002130With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2131number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2132Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2133
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002134Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2135Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2136
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021378 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2138Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2139
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002140Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2141one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2142the match scrolls into view.
2143
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021447 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2145Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2146Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2147
21489 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2149 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2150Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2151
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002152Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2153Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2154
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002155In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2156or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2157sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2158
2159GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2160doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2161
2162GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2163
2164Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2165Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2166
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002167Wish for NetBeans commands:
2168 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2169
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002170Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2171
21727.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2173there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2174do?
2175
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002176Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
217722)
2178
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002179New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2180- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002181- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002182 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2183
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002184"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21852011 Feb 27)
2186
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002187Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2188^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2189
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002190When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2191exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21929) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2193
2194g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2195the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2196
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002197Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2198crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2199
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002200Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2201number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2202
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002203Regexp engine performance:
2204- Profiling:
2205 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2206 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2207 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2208 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2209 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2210 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2211- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2212- Performance tests:
2213 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2214 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2215 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2216 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2217 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2218 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2219 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2220 'hlsearch'.
2221 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2222 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2223 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2224 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2225
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002226Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2227Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2228
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002229'beval' option should be global-local.
2230
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002231Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002232
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002233setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002234
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002235With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22362010 Oct 24)
2237
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002238Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2239
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002240When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2241Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2242
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002243":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2244
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002245'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2246
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002247C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2248checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2249Issue 46.
2250
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002251Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2252
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002253Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2254gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2255
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002256":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2257accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2258
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002259Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2260setwinvar().
2261
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002262Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002263
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002264When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2265instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2266
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002267Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2268Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2269Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002270
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002271Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2272back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2273
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002274Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002275Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2276
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002277CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2278the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2279FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2280
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002281Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2282Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2283
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002284Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2285Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2286
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002287Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2288
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002289Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2290non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002291
2292iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2293Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2294or replace with a character and continue?
2295
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002296Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2297Requires configure check for localtime().
2298Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2299
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002300Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2301
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002302Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2303Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2304path.
2305
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002306Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002307Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002308
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002309'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2310
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002311":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2312like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2313
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002314Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2315https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002316
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002317Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23182010 Nov 5)
2319
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002320Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002321Jan 7)
2322
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002323Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2324
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002325With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2326entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2327Feb 12)
2328
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002329Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2330characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2331
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002332Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2333
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002334Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2335 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2336
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002337Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2338
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002339When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2340Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2341
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002342When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2343not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2344string value.
2345
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002346For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002347line argument -noregister.
2348
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002349When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2350missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2351
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002352When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2353doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002354
2355Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2356(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2357Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2358There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2359Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2360
2361":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2362highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2363to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2364
2365Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2366Probably needs a bit of work.
2367
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002368List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002369Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2370
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002371Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2372
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002373Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2374
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002375Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2376Sep 1)
2377
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002378Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2379
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002380Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2381on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2382
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002383Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23842009 Jul 18)
2385
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002386Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2387window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2388Needs more work.
2389
2390Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2391
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002392When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2393few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2394
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002395'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002396(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2397
2398Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2399J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2400
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002401When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2402for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2403
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002404Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2405
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002406":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2407because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2408ex_docmd.c.
2409
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002410Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002411Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2412
2413string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2414for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2415
2416Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2417
2418'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
241920)
2420
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002421Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24222009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2423
2424Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2425
2426Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2427SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2428
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002429When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2430indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2431(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2432
2433Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2434are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2435Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2436Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2437that doesn't have a window.
2438
2439When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2440doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2441
2442getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2443displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2444
2445":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2446
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002447There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2448was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2449perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2450
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002451Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2452
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002453Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2454command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2455
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002456Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2457does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2458
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002459opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2460height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002461very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002462
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002463Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2464(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2465
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002466Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002467(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002469Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2470char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2471
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002472Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2473Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2474
2475This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2476
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002477Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2478messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2479es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24802009 Jan 26)
2481
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002482When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002483in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2484Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002486Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2487a modeline.
2488
2489Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2490Sergey Khorev)
2491
2492Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2493part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020024946 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2495 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2496 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002497
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002498After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2499correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2500
2501Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2502(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2503
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002504shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002505'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2506Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2507unix-like shell?
2508
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002509Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2510register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2511(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2512
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002513Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2514Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2515
2516Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2517make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2518
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002519When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2520still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2521
2522"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2523(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2524
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002525Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2526that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2527ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2528Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2529
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002530MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2531doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2532probably causes this.
2533
2534'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025352009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002536
2537Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2538 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2539 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2540(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2541
2542Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2543":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2544option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2545is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002546
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002547":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2548first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002549Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002550
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002551Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2552laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2553Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002554
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002555Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2556anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2557
2558On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2559doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2560Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2561Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2562
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002563When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2564'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2565fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2566the buffer to be unmodified.
2567Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2568another look at it.
2569
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002570c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2571(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2572
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002573You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2574error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2575Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2576at the other match for 0xBF.
2577
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002578When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2579argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2580
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002581Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2582backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2583
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002584When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2585line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2586
2587Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2588position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2589
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002590After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2591(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002592command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002593
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002594":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2595Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2596
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002597When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2598either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2599put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2600
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002601Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2602Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2603Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2604Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2605(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2606
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002607Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2608
2609ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002610
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002611Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2612(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2613escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2614an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002615This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2616July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002617Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2618work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2619
2620When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
262131)
2622
2623Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2624work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2625Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002626
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002627Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2628multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2629(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2630
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002631Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26322008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002633Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002634
2635Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2636Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2637'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2638
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002639Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2640Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2641
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002642Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2643Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2644
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026458 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2646 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2647 several).
2648 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2649 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2650 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2651Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2652
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002653The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002654 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655 0x2217, star
2656 0x2500, bar
2657 0x26ab, circle
2658
2659Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2660line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2661
2662GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2663Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2664
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002665Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2666try the Cocoa version.
2667
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002668Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2669changed or the window is resized.
2670
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002671GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2672the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2673
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002674Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2675Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002676
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002677Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26781) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2679
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002680C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2681with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2682Try to reproduce at work.
2683
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002684Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2685Is there a way to list all the files first?
2686
2687When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2688result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
268916)
2690
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002691Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2692(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2693
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002694Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2695Await response to question to make the register writable.
2696
2697Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26981)
2699
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002700In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2701each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2702
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002703":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2704Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2705
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002706Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2707
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002708Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2709Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2710
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002711Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2712Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2713Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002714
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002715When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2716and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2717
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002718Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2719 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2720
2721New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2722
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002723":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2724a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2725
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002726'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2727Likonen, March 19)
2728
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002729Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2730other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2731
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002732The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2733appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2734matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2735
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002736When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2737character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2738'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2739(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2740
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002741Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2742Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002743
2744More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2745
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002746Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2747http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2748
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002749Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2750back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2751Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002752
2753Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2754No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2755
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002756Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2757terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002758
2759Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2760
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002761Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2762but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2763that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002764
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002765Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2766Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2767
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002768Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2769popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2770size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2771This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2772
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002773When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2774it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2775
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002776Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2777then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2778files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002779Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2780indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2781":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002782in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2783quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002784Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002785
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002786When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2787parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2788neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2789particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2790Jun 3)
2791However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2792the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002793
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002794A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2795Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2796
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002797Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2798Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2799
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002800Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2801switch list is noticed:
2802 switch (i)
2803 {
2804 case 1:
2805 foobar:
2806 }
2807
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002808Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2809
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002810Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2811with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2812go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2813moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2814
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002815Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002816GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002817Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2818argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2819(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2820
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002821Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2822(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2823
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002824Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28252007 Feb 8)
2826
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002827Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2828set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002829
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002830Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2831
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002832Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2833Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2834New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2835patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2836
2837Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2838Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2839
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002840Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002841label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2842
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002843Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2844with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2845Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002846
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002847Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2848
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002849Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2850Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2851only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2852
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002853Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2854Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002855Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002856properly?
2857
2858Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28592007 Jun 21)
2860
2861When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2862Jun 18)
2863
2864If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2865
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002866Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2867windows. (Adam George)
2868
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002869In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2870the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2871
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002872C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2873
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002874":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2875
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002876When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002877error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002878
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002879GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002880use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2881
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002882Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2883if_ruby.c.
2884
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002885":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2886
2887The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2888it in keep_msg?
2889
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002890Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002891error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002892name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2893
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002894Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2895longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002896
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002897Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2898Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2899Also for ":w" without a file name.
2900The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002901
2902"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2903Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2904
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002905VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2906directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2907(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2908
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002909VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2910
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002911input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2912name?
2913
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002914Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2915
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002916When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2917(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002918Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002919will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2920
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002921gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2922This also fails with --remote.
2923
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002924When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29252008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2926all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002928aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2929
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002930When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2931(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2932
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2934the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2935
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002936GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2937
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002938Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2939superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2940
2941Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2942character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2943
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002944Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2945Jun 5)
2946
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002947Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29482008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2949Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2950
2951In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2952but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2953Jul 22)
2954
2955There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2956
2957Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2958":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2959somehow? Or use a new function.
2960
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002961Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2962
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002963Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2964moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2965that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2966
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002967The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2968
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002969When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002970cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2971the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2972
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002973These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2974 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2975 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2976 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2977
2978Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2979partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2980
2981In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2982buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2983reload it then?
2984
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002985For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2986
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002987Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2988only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2989
2990Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2991tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2992doesn't contain other directories.
2993
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002994Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2995Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2996
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002997Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2998 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2999 set background=dark
3000This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
3001color is, not reset it.
3002
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003003Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
3004start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
3005show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
3006middle?
3007
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003008Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
3009
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003010When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3011current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3012the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3013
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003014When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3015Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3016
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003017Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3018Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3019
3020Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3021
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003022A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3023Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3024
3025Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3026Dara, 2006 June 21)
3027
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003028Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3029number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3030
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003031After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3032the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3033
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003034Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003035
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003036Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3037Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3038
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003039Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030402008 Sep 29)
3041
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003042In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3043check the result of has("patch13").
3044
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003045Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3046restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3047
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003048Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3049and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3050
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003051Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3052put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3053
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003054Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3055resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3056
3057In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3058can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3059
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003060GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3061maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3062doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003063Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3064visible.
3065
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003066When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3067differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003068
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003069The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3070be only one.
3071
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003072Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003073"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3074name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3075Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003076
3077Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3078(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3079
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003080Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3081as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3082
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003083Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
308423)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003085
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003086":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3087tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3088Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003089
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003090When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3091text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3092latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3093
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003094Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3095no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3096
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003097In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3098VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30992007 Oct 16)
3100
3101TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3102Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3103
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003104Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003105
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003106When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3107typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3108Sep 3, 11)
3109
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003110":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3111this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3112
3113When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3114Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3115restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3116
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003117Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31182010 Jun 30)
3119
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003120Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3121'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3122(Kartik Agaram)
3123
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003124
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003125Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003126- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3127 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3128- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3129 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3130 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3131- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3132 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3133 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003134- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3135- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003136
3137
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003138More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003139- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3140 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003141- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003142- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3143 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003144- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3145- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3146- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3147 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3148 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003149- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003150- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3151 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3152- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3153 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3154- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3155 21)
3156- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3157 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3158- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3159 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003160- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3161 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003162- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3163 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3164 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3165 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3166 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003167- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003168
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003169Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031709 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3171 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3172 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3173 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3174 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3175 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3176 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3177 (Alan Schmitt)
3178 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003179 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3180 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031819 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003182 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031838 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031847 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3185 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3186 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031878 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003188 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031897 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003190 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3191- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3192 for multi-byte characters.
3193- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3194- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3195 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3196 been given values.
3197 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031987 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3199 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3200- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3201 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3202 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
32038 Add functions:
3204 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3205 Update 2004 Sep 10
3206 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3207 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003208 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003209 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3210 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3211 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3212 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3213 (2003 May 13)
3214 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3215 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003216 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3217 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003218 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3219 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3220 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032217 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3222 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032237 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3224 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032258 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3226 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032277 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32288 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3229 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32307 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3231 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032327 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3233- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3234 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3235 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003236- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3237 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3238- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3239
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003240Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3241- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3242 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3243
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003244Quickfix/Location List:
3245- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3246 #2999)
3247- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3248 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3249 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3250 the quickfix buffer?
3251- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3252 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3253- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3254 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3255- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3256 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3257 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3258- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3259 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3260- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3261- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3262 2007 Jan 1)
3263- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3264 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3265- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3266 errors. How do we get the rest?
32678 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3268 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3269 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3270 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32717 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02003272 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003273
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003274Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003275- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3276 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032778 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3278 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3279 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3280 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3281 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3282 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032838 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3284 make Vim exit.
32857 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3286 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3287 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32888 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3289 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3290 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32916 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3292 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3293 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32948 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3295 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3296 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3297 names in one buffer???
3298 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3299 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3300 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
33017 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3302 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3303 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003304 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3305 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033067 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3307 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
33087 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033097 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3310 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3311 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3312 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33137 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33147 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33157 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3316 to the match with the tag? Option?
33177 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33187 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3319 (Sayre).
33207 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3321 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033227 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3323 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3324 match. Nvi can do it too.
33257 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3326 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3327 line 1\ line 2\\
3328 line 2\ line 3\\
3329 . line4/
33306 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3331 the way the shell is started?
33326 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3333 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3334
3335
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003336GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033379 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033388 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3339 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3340 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033418 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3342 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3343 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033449 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3345 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3346 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3347 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003348- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3349 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3350 blocked for now.
3351
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003352
3353Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003354- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3355 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033568 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3357 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3358 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033596 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3360 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033618 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3362 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3363 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033647 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3365 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3366 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033677 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3368 2004 May 9)
33698 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3370 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3371 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3372 MS-Windows 98?
3373 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3374 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3375 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3376 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033778 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3378 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3379 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3380 doesn't work properly.
33818 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3382 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3383 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33849 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3385 button doesn't give popup menu.
3386 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3387 selection.
3388 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3389 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3390 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33918 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3392 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3393 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3394 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33958 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3396 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3397 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033987 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3399 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003400 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034017 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3402 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034036 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
34048 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3405 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3406 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
34078 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3408 know which keyboard is being used?
34097 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3410 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3411 area (Koloseike).
34128 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3413 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3414 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3415 the font name).
3416
3417
3418Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034196 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3420 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3421 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3422 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3423 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034249 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3425 required and it's missing?
34268 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3427 wrong.
34289 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3429 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034309 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003431 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3432 flag.
34338 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3434 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3435 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34368 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34376 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3438 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3439 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3440 the tooltips work though...
34417 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3442 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34438 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3444 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3445 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3446
3447
3448Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034499 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3450 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034519 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3452 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3453 through files.
34547 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3455 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34564 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3457 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3458 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3459 problem during a refresh.
34605 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3461 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3462 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3463 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3464 colors as it should.
3465 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3466 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3467
3468
3469Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003470- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034717 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3472 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034738 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3474 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3475 (Phillipps)
3476
3477
3478GUI:
34799 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3480 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34819 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003482 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003483 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34849 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3485 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034868 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3487 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3488 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34898 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3490 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3491 of where it is processing the output.
3492 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34938 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3494 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034958 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034968 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3497 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3498 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034998 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035008 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3501 browse().
35028 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3503 use that code? Or use console dialog.
35048 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3505 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035067 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3507 - regexp on/off
3508 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3509 when all buffers/directory is used:
3510 - filter for file name
3511 when directory is used:
3512 - subdirectory on/off
3513 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035148 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3515 to avoid problems.
35168 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3517 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3518 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35198 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3520 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3521 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35228 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3523 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035248 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35257 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3526 visible.
35277 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3528 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35297 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3530 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35318 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3532 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35338 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3534 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3535 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3536 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3537- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35384 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3539 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3540 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3541
3542
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003543Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035448 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3545 a good fallback, thus use:
3546 $HOME
3547 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3548 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3549 $USERPROFILE
3550 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3551 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3552 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3553 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035548 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3555 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35568 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3557 Should work like in the GUI version.
35588 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3559 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35608 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3561 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35628 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3563 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3564 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035658 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3566 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3567 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3568
3569
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003570Win32 console:
35719 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3572 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3573 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3574 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3575 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3576 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3577 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3578 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3579 and the file is not saved.
3580 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3581 long name.
35828 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3583 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35847 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3585 besides the console.
35868 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35879 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3588 <C-S-i>?
35899 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3590 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35918 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3592 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003593
3594
3595Amiga:
35968 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3597 sequences.
35989 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3599 backslashes in result.
36008 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3601 all options, using white space separation.
3602
3603
3604Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003605- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036067 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3607 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3608 (Jack)
3609 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036108 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3611 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036128 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36138 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36149 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3615 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036169 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003617
3618
3619"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003620- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3621 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036229 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3623 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036249 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003625 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3626 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036278 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3628 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3629 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003630 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036317 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3632 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36338 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3634 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3635 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036367 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3637 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003638- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3639 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036408 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3641 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3642 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3643 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36447 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3645 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3646 invocations belong together.
36478 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3648 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36498 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3650 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3651 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003652 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036538 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3654 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3655 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036568 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3657 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036587 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3659 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3660 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3661 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036627 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3663 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3664 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36657 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3666 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3667 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36687 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3669 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036707 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3671 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036729 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3673 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3674 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3675 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3676 script can be called.
36778 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3678 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3679 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036808 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3681 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036828 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003683 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3684 configurable?
36858 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036868 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3687 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036888 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3689 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036908 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3691 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036929 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3693 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3694 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036957 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036968 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3697 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3698 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036998 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3700 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003701 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3702 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037038 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3704 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37059 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3706 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3707 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003708 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037097 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3710 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037117 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3712 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3713 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3714 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037158 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003716 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3717 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3718 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3719 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003720 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3721 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003722 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003723 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003724 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3725 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3726 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3727 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3728 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037298 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3730 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37318 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3732 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37338 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3734 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3735 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37368 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3737 'linebreak'.
37388 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3739 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3740 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037419 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3742 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3743 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3744 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37459 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3746 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037479 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37489 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3749 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3750 cause another redraw, etc.
37518 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3752 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37538 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3754 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3755 ":w!!" for that.
3756 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3757 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003758 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037597 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3760 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3761 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3762 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3763 clipboard)
37647 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3765 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3766 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037676 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3768 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3769 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037708 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3771 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37728 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3773 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3774 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37758 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3776 (e.g., ":w").
37778 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3778 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037798 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3780 script in do_cmdline().
37818 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3782 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3783 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3784 changes.
37858 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3786 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37878 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3788 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037898 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3790 to skip catch_signals()?
37919 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3792 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3793 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3794 text?
37958 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3796 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37978 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3798 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37999 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3800 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3801 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3802 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3803 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38047 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3805 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3806 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3807 in the list?
38088 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3809 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3810 instead of on button down.
38118 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
38129 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3813 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003814 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3815 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038168 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3817 character is typed.
38188 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3819 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38208 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3821 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38228 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3823 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3824 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3825 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3826 cygwin bash.
38277 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3828 Remember flags for backreferences.
38297 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3830 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38317 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3832 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38338 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3834 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38357 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3836 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038377 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3838 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3839 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38407 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3841 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38428 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3843 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3844 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003845
3846
3847I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38489 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3849 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3850 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003851
3852
3853Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003854- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3855 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3856 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003857- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3858 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3859 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3860 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3861 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3862 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003863 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003864- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3865 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003866 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003867 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3868 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3869 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003870- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3871 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3872 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3873 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3874 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3875- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3876 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3877 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3878- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3879 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003880- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003881- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3882 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3883 character gets the highlighting.
3884- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3885 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3886- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3887 (Jennings)
3888- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003889- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003890- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003891 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003892- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3893 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3894 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3895- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3896 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3897 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3898 (Benzinger).
3899- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3900 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3901 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3902- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3903 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3904- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3905 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3906- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3907 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3908 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3909 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3910 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3911 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3912- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3913 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3914 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003915- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3916 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3917 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003918- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3919 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3920 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3921- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3922 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3923- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3924 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003925- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3926 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3927- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3928 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3929 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3930 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3931 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3932- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3933 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3934 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3935- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3936 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3937 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003938- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3939 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 +00003940- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3941 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3942 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3943 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3944 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3945- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3946 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3947
3948--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3949 *extensions-improvements*
3950
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003951Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3952- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3953 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3954 calling a function.
3955 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3956 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003957- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3958 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003959 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003960- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3961 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3962 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3963 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3964 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3965 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003966 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003967- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3968 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3969 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003970- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3971 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039728 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3973 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3974 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3975 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003976- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3977 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003978
3979
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003980Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039818 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3982 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039838 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3984 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039858 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3986 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039878 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039889 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3989 - change to cursor position and curswant
3990 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3991 - how it works for folded lines
3992 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39939 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3994 work too.
39958 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3996 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3997 text.
39988 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39997 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4000 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40017 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4002 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004003 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004004- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4005
4006
4007Help:
4008- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4009 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4010- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4011 to the other matches.
4012- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004013- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4014 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4015 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4016 default contents.
4017- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4018 height for the help window (and other windows).
4019- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4020- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4021- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4022
4023
4024User Friendlier:
40258 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4026 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4027 Briscoe)
40288 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40298 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4030 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4031 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40328 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4033 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4034- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4035 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004036- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40379 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4038 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4039 item?).
4040 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040418 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040427 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4043 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4044 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040458 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4046 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4047 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4048 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004049
4050
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004051Tab pages:
40529 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040537 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4054 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040558 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040568 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040577 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040587 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004059 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040608 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4061 tab pages.
40627 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4063
4064
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004065Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004066- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004067 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004068- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4069 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4070 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4071- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4072 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004073- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4074 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4075 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004076- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4077 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4078 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004079- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004080 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4081 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040828 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4083 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40848 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4085 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40868 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4087 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004088 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004089 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4090 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4091 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4092 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004093- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4094 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004095- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004096- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4097 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004098- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004099 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004100- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004101 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004102- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4103 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004104- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4105 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4106- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004107 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004108 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4109 in the affix file separately.
4110 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004111 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004112 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4113 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4114 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4115- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4116 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4117 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4118 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4119 Alternative:
4120 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4121 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4122 affix which is required.
4123- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004124 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004125- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4126 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4127 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004128- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4129 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004130- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4131 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4132- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041338 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4134 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4135 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4136 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004137- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4138 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4139 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4140 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041418 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4142 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041438 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41448 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4145 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041467 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41478 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4148 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4149 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4150 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004151
4152
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004153Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041549 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4155 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041568 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004157 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004158
4159Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004160 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4161 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041628 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4163 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041648 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4165 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041668 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4167 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4168 user aware of this?
41698 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4170 commands skip over a closed fold.
41718 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41728 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041737 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004174- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4175 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4176 missing line goes unnoticed.
4177 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004178- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4179 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4180 smoother?
4181- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4182 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004183- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4184 file can contain:
4185 args version.c main.c
4186 edit version.c
4187 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004188- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004189- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4190 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004191- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4192 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004193- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4194 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004195- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196
4197Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004198- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4199 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4200 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4201 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042029 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4203 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4204 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4205 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042069 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4207 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4208 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042098 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4210 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4211 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4212 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4213 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4214 item.
42158 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004216 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4217 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042188 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4219 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042208 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4221 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4222 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042237 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4224 so that the user can fix the problem.
42258 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4226 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042279 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42288 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042298 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42308 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042317 Searching and composing characters:
4232 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004233 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4234 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042358 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42368 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42378 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4238 characters.
42398 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42408 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4241 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42427 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4243 'display' option to specify this.
42447 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4245 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4246- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4247 fontselector somehow.
4248- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4249 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4250- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4251 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4252- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4253 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4254 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4255 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4256 if a font exists?
4257- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004258 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004259- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4260 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004261- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4262 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4263 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4264 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004265- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4266 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004267 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004268- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4269 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4270 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4271 But it's very complicated...
4272
4273
4274Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042757 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004276- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4277- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4278 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004279- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4280 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004281- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4282- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4283 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004284- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4285 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004286- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4287 units as for the margins.
4288- Support right-to-left text?
42898 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4290 color.
4291
4292
4293Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042948 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4295 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42968 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4297 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42988 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4299 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043007 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4301 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043028 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4303 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4304 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043057 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4306 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4307 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043088 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43099 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4310 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043117 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4312 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043137 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4314 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043158 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4316 change this for each release.
43178 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4318 pattern, but not in the body.
43198 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4320 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4321 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043228 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043238 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004324 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4325 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043268 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4327 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43288 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4329 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004330 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043318 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4332 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4333 used.
43348 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4335 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43368 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4337 re-insert the [] if possible.
43388 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4339 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043408 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4341 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4342 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4343 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4344 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043458 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4346 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43478 Support for deleting syntax items:
4348 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4349 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4350 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43518 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4352 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4353 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43547 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4355 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4356 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43577 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4358 detected.
43598 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004360 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043618 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4362 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043638 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43648 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43657 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4366 ":mkvimrc".
43678 Improve c.vim:
4368 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4369 "c_strict_ansi".
4370 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43718 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4372 current line while in Insert mode.
43738 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4374 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43758 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4376 display position.
43778 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4378 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4379 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43808 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4381 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4382 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043837 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4384 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4385 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4386 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4387 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043887 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4389 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4390 E.g. for this html:
4391 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043927 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43937 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4394 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043958 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43968 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043977 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4398 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4399 completion?
44008 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4401 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44027 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4403 select one of the sets.
44048 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4405 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4406 2, etc.
44078 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4408 highlighting (for "." command).
44098 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4410 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44118 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44127 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4413 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44146 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4415 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4416- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4417 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4418- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004419- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4420 (for comment blocks).
4421- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4422 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4423 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4424 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4425 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4426 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4427 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4428 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4429 (Campbell)
4430 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4431 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44327 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4433 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44347 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4435 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4436 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44377 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4438 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4439 messages. And external commands?
44408 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4441 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44427 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4443 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4444
4445
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004446Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044478 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4448 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004449 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044507 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4451 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4452 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004453- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044548 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4455 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4456 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4457 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4458 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4459 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044607 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4461 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044628 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044638 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4464 can be the plugin name.
4465 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4466 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044677 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4468 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4469 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4470 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4471 autocommand.
4472 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4473 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4474 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4475 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044767 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4477 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044786 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4479 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044808 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004481 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4482 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004483 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4484 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4485 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004486 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4487 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4488 3 2002
4489 Only add this when also implemented for
4490 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4491 be used.
4492 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004493 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4494 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4495 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4496 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4497 File.Open..." argument.
4498 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4499 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4500 with properties instead.
4501 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4502 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4503 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004504 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004505 crypt() encrypt string
4506 decrypt() decrypt string
4507 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4508 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004509 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004510 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004511 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004512 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004513 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004514 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4515 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004516 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4517 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004518 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004519 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4520 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4521 to allow the library to execute a command or
4522 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045237 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4524 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45258 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4526 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045278 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4528 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045298 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045306 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045318 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4532 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045338 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4534 option or environment variable.
45358 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045368 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004537 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045387 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4539 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045408 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4541 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45428 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45438 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4544 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4545 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4546 charwise({expr}).
45477 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4548 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4549 buffer for this?
4550 result = scratch(string, command)
4551 result = apply(string, command)
4552 result = execute(string, command)
4553 "command" would use <> notation.
4554 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45557 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004556
4557
4558Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045596 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4560 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4561 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4562 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4563 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4564 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4565 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004566
4567
4568Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045697 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4570 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045717 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4572 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4573 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4574 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045758 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4576 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4577 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4578 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004579 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045808 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45819 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45828 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45837 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4584 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45858 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4586 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4587 when starting up in a color terminal.
45888 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4589 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045908 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4591 function be improved?
45928 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4593 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4594 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4595 this be improved?
45968 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4597 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045987 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4599 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046007 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4601 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46027 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4603 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046047 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4605 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4606 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4607 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4608 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4609 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4610 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046118 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4612 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4613 using strcmp() too often?
46147 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4615 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4616 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4617 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4618 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4619 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46207 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4621 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4622 with an argument that can be messed with.
4623 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4624 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46257 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4626- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46278 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4628 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4629- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4630 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4631- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4632- Do profiling on:
4633 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004634 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4635 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4636 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4637 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4638 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4639 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004640 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046417 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4642 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4643 changed).
4644 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4645 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4646- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4647- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4648 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4649- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4650 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4651 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004652- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4653- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4654 cursor is right of the screen.
46558 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4656 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4657
4658
4659Code size:
46608 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4661- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4662 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46638 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46648 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4665 it.
46667 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4667 left out.
46688 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4669 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046708 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004671
4672
4673Messages:
46748 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4675 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46768 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4677 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46788 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4679 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004680- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4681 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4682- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
46839 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4684 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4685 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4686 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4687 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046888 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4689 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46908 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4691 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4692 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4693 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4694 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4695 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004696- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004697 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046988 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4699 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4700 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4701 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4702 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4703 error messages, printing text, etc.
47048 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4705 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4706 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4707
4708
4709Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004710- screen_line():
4711 - insert/delete character stuff.
4712 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4713- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4714 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4715- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4716 waiting for a character.
47178 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4718 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4719 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004720
4721Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047228 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047236 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4724- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4725 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4726 windows.
47277 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4728 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4729 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4730- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4731 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4732 (Goldfarb)
4733- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4734 bound windows.
4735- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4736 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004737- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004738- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4739 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4740 of lines but not with a single line).
4741
4742
4743Autoconf:
47448 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47458 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4746 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4747- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4748 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4749- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4750- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4751- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4752
4753
4754Perl interface:
47558 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047567 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47577 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47586 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4759
4760
4761Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047628 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4763 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047646 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4765 :libload internal-name libname
4766 :libunload internal-name
4767 :liblist
4768 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4769 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4770 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47716 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4772
4773
4774Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047759 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4776 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4777 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4778 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4779 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047808 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4781 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4782 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004783 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004784 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047857 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4786 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4787 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047888 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47898 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4790 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047917 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4792 window for each tag.
47937 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47947 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4795 bottom" search message.
47967 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4797 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4798 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004799- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4800- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004801- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4802 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4803 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048047 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4805 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4806 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4807 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48087 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4809 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4810 :tagargs clear
4811 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4812 matching).
48137 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4814 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4815 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4816 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48177 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4818 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48197 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4820 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4821 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004822
4823
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004824Win32 GUI:
48258 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4826 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048277 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4828 (Mike McCollister)
48298 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4830 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4831 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4832 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4833 common part of the path.
48348 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48358 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4836 gettext and menus work.
48378 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4838 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004839 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004840 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48418 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4842 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48438 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4844 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48457 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4846 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48477 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48487 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48497 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4850 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4851 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4852 prompts.
48537 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4854 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4855 the file added into an already running Vim.
48567 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4857 functions to find the window title.
4858
4859
4860GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048617 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48628 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48636 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48648 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4865 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48669 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48677 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48688 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4869 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48708 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4871 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4872 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48738 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4874 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48758 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4876 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4877 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4878 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048797 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48808 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4881 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048827 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4883 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4884 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048858 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48868 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004887 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048888 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48898 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48908 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4891 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4892 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48937 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4894 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4895 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48967 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4897 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48987 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4899 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4900 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4901 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049027 Should support multi-column menus.
4903- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4904 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4905- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49068 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49076 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4908 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49097 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49107 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4911 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4912 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49137 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49148 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4915 name can be chosen free.
49167 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4917 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49186 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4919 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4920 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4921 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4922 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4923 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4924 things.
49257 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4926 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049277 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004928 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004929- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4930 where it was started from?
49317 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4932
4933
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004934Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049359 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4936 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004937- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049388 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4939 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4940 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4941 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49428 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4943 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049447 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4945 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4946 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4947 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049487 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049498 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4950 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049518 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4952 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4953 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049547 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4955 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4956 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049578 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4958 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4959 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049608 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4961 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049628 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049636 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4964 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049657 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049667 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004967 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4968 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4969 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049705 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4971 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4972 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49737 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4974 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4975 file.
49768 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4977 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4978 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004979- Add events to autocommands:
4980 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004981 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004982 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4983 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004984 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004985 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004986 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4987 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4988 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4989 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004990 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004991 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4992 the char.
4993 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4994 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4995 file from CVS).
4996 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4997 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4998 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4999 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5000 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5001 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005002 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5003 changes.
5004 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5005 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005006- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005007 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005008 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005009 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5010 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5011 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5012 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5013 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5014
5015
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005016Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005017- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5018 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005019- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5020 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5021 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5022 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5023 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005024- Ideas from others:
5025 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5026 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5027 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5028 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5029 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5030 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5031 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5032 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5033 Uses Perl for C++.
5034 Uses ctags to find the info:
5035 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5036 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5037 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5038 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5039 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5040 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005041 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005042 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5043- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5044
5045
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005046Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005047- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050487 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5049 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050507 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5051 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5052 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050538 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5054 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50559 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5056 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5057 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050588 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5059 - ignore/match case
5060 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050618 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5062 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5063 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5064 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5065 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5066 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050678 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050687 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5069 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050708 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5071 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5072 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5073 Should work for C++ and Java.
5074 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50757 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50767 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5077 instead of words.
50788 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50798 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5080 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50818 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5082 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005083- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5084 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005085- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5086 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5087 wildcards in the file name)?
5088- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5089- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5090- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5091 be in another file).
5092- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5093- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5094- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5095 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5096- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5097- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5098- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005099- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5100
5101
5102Command line editing:
51037 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5104 line.
51058 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5106 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5107 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5108- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5109 lines wraps to start of line).
5110- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5111 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5112 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5113 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5114 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5115 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5116 cmdwin does now already.
5117 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5118 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5119 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5120 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5121 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5122 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5123 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5124 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5125 Problems:
5126 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5127 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5128 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5129 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5130 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5131 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5132 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5133 character in first column?
5134 - Implementation ideas:
5135 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5136 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5137 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5138 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5139 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5140 Mode.
5141
5142
5143Command line completion:
51448 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51458 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5146 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51478 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5148 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051498 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5150 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051517 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5152 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005153- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5154- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5155 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051568 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5157 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51587 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5159 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5160- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5161 identifiers (Webb).
51628 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5163 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51647 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5165 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5166- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5167 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5168- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5169 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5170 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005171
5172
5173Command line history:
5174- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5175 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5176 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005177 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005178- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5179 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5180
5181
5182Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051839 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5184 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5185 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051868 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5187 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5188 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5189 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5190 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051918 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5192 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5193 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051947 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5195 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005196- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051977 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5198 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5199- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5200 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5201 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5202 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5203 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5204 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5205- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5206 Normal mode.
5207- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5208 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5209 are used.
5210- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5211- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5212- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5213
5214
5215'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052169 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5217 char * veryLongName =
5218 "very long string"
5219 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052208 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052218 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5222 long_type foo =
5223 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052248 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5225 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005226 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052278 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5228 func(
5229 new String[] {
5230 "asdf",
5231 "asdf"
5232 }
5233 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052348 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5235 (Chow Loong Jin)
5236 namespace {
5237 int
5238 func(int arg) {
5239 }
5240 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052416 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5242 func( arg1
5243 , arg2
5244 , arg3
5245 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052467 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005247 func(
5248 int x) // indent like "(4"
5249 {
5250 if (a
5251 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052529 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5253 if (a)
5254 {
5255 if (b)
5256 {
5257 // {
5258 }
5259 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005260 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5261 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5262 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005263- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005264 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52657 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5266- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5267 line).
5268- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5269- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5270 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005271- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5272 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5273- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5274 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5275- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5276- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5277 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52788 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5279 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5280 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5281- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5282- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5283 lines start with "\item".
5284- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5285 /* here is a comment that
5286 is just autoindented, and
5287 nothing else */
5288- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52897 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5290 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5291 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005292 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005293
5294
5295Java:
52968 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5297 Odendahl?
52988 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5299 "[i" commands and friends.
5300- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5301 (Jason)
5302- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5303 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5304
5305
5306'comments':
53078 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5308 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5309 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5310 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005311 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5312 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053137 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5314 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53157 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53166 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5317 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5318 regexp is used.
53198 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5320 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5321
5322
5323Virtual edit:
53248 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053257 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5326
5327
5328Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053298 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053308 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053318 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005332 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053338 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5334 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005335 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5336 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053378 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053388 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5339 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053408 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5341 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5342 the end of the line or before a ".".
53437 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5344 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53457 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5346 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053476 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53485 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5349 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5350 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5351 cursor is on.
5352
5353
5354Select mode:
53558 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5356 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53577 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005358 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053597 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5360 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5361 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5362 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5363 normal_cmd().
5364 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5365 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5366
5367
5368Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053698 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5370 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005371- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5372 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5373 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005374- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5375 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5376 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053778 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005378 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005379 where needed.
53807 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5381 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53827 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5383 of each selected line.
53848 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53858 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5386 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5387 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53888 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5389 Ben Godfrey)
53907 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5391 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53927 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5393 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053947 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005395 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005396 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53978 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5398 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53997 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5400 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5401 option!
54027 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5403 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5404 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5405 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5406 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5407 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5408 without changing the column.
54096 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054107 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5411 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054126 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5413 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54146 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054156 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005416 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005417 or other special character.
54186 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5419
5420
5421More advanced repeating commands:
5422- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005423- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005424- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005425 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5426 "y." will repeat last yank.
5427 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5428 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5429 and/or pick an older command.
5430- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5431
5432
5433Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054348 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5435 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5436 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54378 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54387 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5439 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054408 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5441 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54428 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054437 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054448 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5445 entering search strings.
54468 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5447 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5448 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054498 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5450 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054517 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054527 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5453 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054546 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5455 abbreviations are to be used.
5456- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5457 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5458 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005459- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5460 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5461 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5462 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5463 Or implicit:
5464 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005465- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5466 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5467 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005468- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5469 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5470- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5471 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54726 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5473 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5474 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5475 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005476- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5477 non-replace Insert mode?
5478- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005479- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5480- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5481 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5482- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005483 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005484- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5485 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5486- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5487- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5488 ":freekeys".
5489- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5490
5491
5492Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005493- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5494 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5495- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5496 folds when going to another line.
5497 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5498- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5499 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005500- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5501 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5502 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005503- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5504 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5505 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5506 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055079 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5508 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005509
5510
5511Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055129 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055138 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005514 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005515 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005516 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005517 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055189 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5519 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055208 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5521 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055228 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5523 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5524 Perl does it this way:
5525 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5526 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5527 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5528 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055298 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5530 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5531 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055327 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5533 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055348 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5535 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055367 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005537 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5538 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5539 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055407 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005541 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055427 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5543 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055448 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5545 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55468 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5547 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055487 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005549 example.
55508 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5551 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5552- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5553 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5554 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5555 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055568 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5557 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5558 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55597 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5560 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055617 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5562 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055638 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5564 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055658 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5566 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055678 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5568 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5569 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5570 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005571- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5572 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005573- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5574 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5575- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5576 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5577 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5578 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055798 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5580 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005581- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5582 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055838 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5584 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5585 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005586- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5587 i ignore case
5588 I use case
5589 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5590 v use Vi regexp syntax
5591 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5592 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5593 Perl uses these too:
5594 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5595 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5596 o compile only once (Perl only)
5597 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5598 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5599 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5600 following command.
5601 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5602- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5603 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5604 for search string)?
56057 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5606 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5607- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5608 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5609- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5610 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5611- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5612- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005613 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005614 a for the next file in the argument list
5615 f for file in the buffer list
5616 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005617 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5618 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005619 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5620 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5621- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056227 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005623 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056247 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5625 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5626 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5627 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56286 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5629 effects.
56307 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5631 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5632 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056337 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005634 Also ":dselect".
5635
5636
5637Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056389 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5639 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5640 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056419 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5642 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056438 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5644 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056458 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5646 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5647 timestamp?
5648 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5649 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005650- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5651 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005652- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5653 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5654 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56558 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5656 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5657 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5658 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56598 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5660 only remember the lines that really changed.
56617 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5662 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5663 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5664 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005665- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5666 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5667- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5668 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5669- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5670 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5671 [-99].
5672- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5673- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005674- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5675 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5676
5677
5678Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056797 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5680 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5681 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5682 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020056838 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005684 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56858 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5686 inode too.
56877 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005688 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5689 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056907 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5691 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5692- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5693 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5694- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5695 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56967 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5697 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56987 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5699 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57008 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057017 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5702 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057038 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5704 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5705 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005706
5707
5708Swap (.swp) files:
57098 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5710 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5711 there are short file name problems.
57128 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5713 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57148 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57158 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005716 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005717 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5718 file the same as the actual file?
5719 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057207 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5721 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57227 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005723 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005724 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5725 enough room.
57267 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5727 or /var/preserve.
5728- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5729 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5730- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005731 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005732- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5733 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5734 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5735 cached list of which line is where.
5736
5737
5738Viminfo:
57397 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5740 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5741 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057428 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5743 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5744 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057458 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5746 name. (Schild)
57478 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57488 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057498 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057508 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5751 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5752 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5753 this?
57547 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57557 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5756 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57576 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5758 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5759 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5760- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5761 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5762
5763
5764Modelines:
57658 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5766 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5767 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005768- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5769 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5770 'shiftwidth'.
5771- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5772 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005773- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5774 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5775 modeline setting.
5776- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5777 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5778- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5779 .cpp files.
5780- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5781 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5782- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5783 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5784
5785
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005786Sessions:
57878 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5788 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57897 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5790 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057918 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5792 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057938 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5794 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5795 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057967 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5797 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057987 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005799
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005800
5801Options:
58027 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5803 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058048 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5805 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5806 also be supported.
58078 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5808 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5809 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58107 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005811
5812
5813External commands:
58148 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5815 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58164 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5817 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5818 -f).
58194 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58204 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5821 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58224 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5823
5824
5825Multiple Windows:
58267 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58278 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5828 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58297 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5830 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5831 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058327 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5833 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058347 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5835 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058366 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5837 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005838 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005839 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58407 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5841 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5842 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5843 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5844- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5845 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5846 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5847 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5848
5849
5850Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058518 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058528 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5853 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058548 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 +000058558 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5856 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58578 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5858 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5859 the mark was set.
58607 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5861 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5862 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5863 ":browse marks"?
58646 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058657 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5866 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58677 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5868 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58697 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5870 command).
58717 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5872 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5873 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5874 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58755 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5876 mappings.
58776 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5878 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5879 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5880
5881
5882Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058837 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005884 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005885- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5886 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058878 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058887 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5889 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5890
5891
5892Writing files:
5893- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5894 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5895 shortname conversion.
58968 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58978 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5898 file.
58998 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5900 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5901 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059026 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5903 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59046 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5905 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59066 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5907 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059088 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005909 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59107 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5911 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59127 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5913 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5914 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5915 waiting for a character to be typed).
59168 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5917 line of the window, like "[time]".
5918 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5919 Automatic and/or with a command.
5920
5921
5922Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059238 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5924 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059258 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005926 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5927- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5928- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59298 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5930 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005931- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005932 :s///N substitutes N times.
5933- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5934 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5935 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59367 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5937 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5938 last line column 5.
59395 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5940 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5941 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5942 (Stanislav Sitar)
5943
5944
5945Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059468 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59477 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59488 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5949 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5950 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005951- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5952- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5953 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5954- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5955- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5956
5957
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005958Argument list:
59596 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5960 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5961 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59626 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5963
5964
5965Registers:
59668 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059678 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5968 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5969 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005970- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5971 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5972- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5973 leader when line wraps?
5974- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5975 line in the range.
5976- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5977 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59788 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5979 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005980
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005981
5982Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059838 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059848 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059857 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59867 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5987
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005988Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059897 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5990 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5991 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5992 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5993 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5994 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5995 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005996 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059977 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5998 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059997 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6000 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060018 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6002 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060037 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6004 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6005 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006006- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006007 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060087 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6009 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60108 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060117 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6012 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60138 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6014 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060156 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060168 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6017 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6018 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6019 in this Vim.
60208 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006021 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060228 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6023 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6024 have it apply to the following command.
60258 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6026 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6027 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6028 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060297 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6030 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060317 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6032 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6033 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6034 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060356 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60368 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60379 Support ACLs on more systems.
60387 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6039 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060407 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6041 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6042 (truncated to fit in the space).
60437 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60448 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60458 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6046 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060477 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006048 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60497 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6050 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060517 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060527 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60537 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060548 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60558 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6056 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6057 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6058 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60598 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060608 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060618 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6062 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6063 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6064 does something like this. (Shah)
60657 Use growarray for replace stack.
60667 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6067 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60683 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060697 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6070 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060717 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6072 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006073- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6074- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6075- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6076- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60777 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6078 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6079- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6080 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006081- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006082- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6083 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6084- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6085 call "play newbeep.au").
6086- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6087 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6088 (Bhatt).
6089- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6090 blockwise registers).
6091- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6092 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6093- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6094 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6095 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6096 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060987 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6099 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6100- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6101 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6102 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6103 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6104 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061058 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6106 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061078 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6108 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6109 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6110 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6111 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6112- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006113- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061147 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6115 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6116- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6117 not in column 1.
61186 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6119 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61207 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6121- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006122- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006123 :redir #> bufname
6124 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006125- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6126 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006127- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6128 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6129 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61306 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6131 console? (Klaus Hast)
6132- Add :delcr command:
6133 *:delcr*
6134 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6135 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6136 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6137 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6138 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006139 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006140- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6141- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6142 characters from 'isprint'.
6143- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6144- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6145 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6146- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6147 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6148 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6149- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6150- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6151 Nvi).
6152- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6153 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61547 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6155- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6156 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61576 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6158- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6159 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6160 macro).
6161- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006162- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6163 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6164- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61658 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006166- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6167- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6168- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6169 if it is not the first or last window.
6170- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6171 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61727 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6173 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6174 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6175- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6176- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006177 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006178 many percent down the windows).
6179- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6180 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6181 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006182 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006183- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6184 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6185- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6186 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6187- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6188- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6189- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6190 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061918 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6192 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6193 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6194 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6195 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006196- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6197 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6198- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006199 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6200- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006201 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6202 (Webb).
6203- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006204 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006205- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6206 hex codes like 0xff).
6207- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6208 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6209 the last TYPED command.
6210- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6211- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6212- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6213 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006214- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062158 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6216 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6217 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006218- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006219 trailing '.'.
6220- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6221 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6222 find_file_in_path().
6223- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6224 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6225- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6226- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6227 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6228- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006229 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6231 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6232 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006233- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6234- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6235- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6236 to the minimal size.
6237- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6238- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6239- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6240- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6241- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006242- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6243 entered)?
6244- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6245 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006246- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006247- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6248- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6249- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6250- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6251- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6252 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006253- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062548 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6255 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6256 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6257 or in octal.
62587 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6259 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006260- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006261 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6262- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6263- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6264 insert line command).
6265- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6266- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6267- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6268- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6269- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6270 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006271- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006272 yet.
6273- Implement 'redraw' option.
6274- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6275 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062767 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6277 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006278 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6279 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062808 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6281 do it.
6282- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6283- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6284 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6285- Add text justification option.
6286- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6287- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6288 off".
6289- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6290- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6291- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006292 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006293- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006294- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006295- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6296 commands.
6297- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6298- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6299- :table command (Webb)
6300- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006301- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6302- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6303- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6304- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6305- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6306 (Demirel).
6307- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6308- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6309 for use in macro's and the like.
6310- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006311 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006312- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006313 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006314- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006315 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006316 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6317- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6318 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006319- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006320 mkopttab to make option table?
6321- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6322 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6323- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6324 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006325- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006326 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6327- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6328 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006329- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063308 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6331 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6332 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6333 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6334 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063358 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6336 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6337 (Netherton)
63386 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6339 space after "(", for example.
63405 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6341 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6342 (Servatius Brandt)
6343
6344
6345From Elvis:
6346- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6347- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006348- Search patterns:
6349 \@ match word under cursor.
6350 but do:
6351 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6352 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63538 ":window" command:
6354 :win + next window (up)
6355 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6356 :win - previous window (down)
6357 :win -- idem, wrapping
6358 :win nr to window number "nr"
6359 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63607 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6361 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6362
6363
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006364From xvi:
6365- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6366- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6367
6368
6369From vile:
6370- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6371- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6372 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6373
6374
6375Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006376- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6377 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006378 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006379 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6380 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006381- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6382 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6383- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6384 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6385 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6386 current layout mirrored.
6387- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6388- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6389 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6390- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6391- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6392 font in each top-level window.
6393- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6394- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6395- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6396- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6397 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006398- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6399 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6400- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6401 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64024 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6403 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6404 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6405 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006406 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006407 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6408 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6409- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6410 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6411 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6412
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006413vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006414vim: set fo+=n :